What should I ask?
Learn focused, respectful questions that clarify the client’s priorities, comfort needs, and relevant context.
Seven Cycles | TCM Foundations for Bodyworkers
You Want to Help Women More. Build the Knowledge to Guide Your Hands.
Learn a TCM-informed framework that connects women’s-health context with purposeful bodywork.
Understand your choices. Adapt your sessions. Practice what you learn with greater intention and clearer professional boundaries.
16 instructional hours
Online
2 live Q&A sessions
Apply for the Founding Cohort →
10 founding seats at $97 • Regular enrollment $295
Developed through Petree Institute’s working partnership with
Hanbit University.
When She Shares More Than Muscle Tension, How Do You Respond?
Your clients may share menstrual concerns, fertility journeys, disrupted sleep, or changes during menopause. You want to listen thoughtfully—but you also need to decide what that information means for today’s bodywork.
How should I adapt?
Consider how the client’s goals and feedback influence your positioning, pressure, sequence, and session focus.
What should I reassess?
Choose a meaningful session goal, evaluate the response, and document what changed—or what did not.
A deeper framework for bodywork
Learn a Whole New Way to Think Through the Session.
Seven Cycles introduces foundational TCM concepts—including yin and yang, the Five Elements, traditional organ systems, channels, and palpation—as a framework for considering the whole person.
This is more than collecting another technique. You will practice connecting the client’s story, your observations, and what you feel beneath your hands with an intentional bodywork plan.
Traditional TCM frameworks are taught as traditional frameworks
and are distinguished from biomedical diagnosis. This program
does not qualify massage therapists to diagnose or medically treat
gynecologic, reproductive, or hormonal conditions.
01
Listen with direction
Clarify the client’s priorities and the information relevant to
today’s session.
02
Palpate with intention
Bring channel awareness and guided palpation into the bodywork
skills you already use.
03
Plan with purpose
Explain why you chose your session focus, sequence, positioning,
and pressure.
04
Reassess the response
Use client feedback and an agreed session goal to guide what
happens next.
Your instructor and guide
Meet Kimberly Petree
Founder of Petree Institute and creator of the Seven Cycles certification pathway.
A perspective built over three decades
Drawing on AMMA training, 30 years of experience in holistic
gynecologic and fertility work, and ongoing acupuncture and
Traditional Chinese Medicine training.
I created Seven Cycles because massage therapists often hear important pieces of a woman’s story but are not always given a structured framework for deciding how that information should influence their bodywork.
I want you to understand what you notice, why you choose an approach, how you adapt your touch, and how you assess the response. The lessons, demonstrations, workbook, guided practice, live Q&A, and final practical case are designed to connect knowledge with application.
Learn This Weekend. Practice With Purpose on Monday.
Each module moves from understanding a concept to practicing how it influences your reasoning and bodywork decisions.
Understand
Study foundational TCM concepts through clear lessons and women’s-health learning scenarios.
Watch and practice
Study demonstrations and practice the taught skills with a consenting adult partner.
Apply and reflect
Complete a session-planning assignment and assess how the framework influenced your choices.
Listen → Observe → Palpate → Plan → Apply → Reassess → Document
Six Modules That Connect Knowledge With Application.
Each module includes foundational instruction and a practical assignment designed to help you connect the learning with appropriate bodywork practice.
The TCM Worldview
Explore qi, yin and yang, and traditional pattern thinking. Learn how these concepts inform the program’s whole-person approach while remaining distinct from biomedical explanations.
Application: Clarify the client’s priorities and write an intentional session goal.Five Elements & Traditional Systems
Study the Five Elements and the traditional Kidney, Liver, Spleen, and Heart systems through relevant women’s-health scenarios.
Application: Organize observations without assigning a medical diagnosis.Meridians & Palpation
Study the pathways of the 14 major channels through maps, demonstrations, and guided palpation practice.
Application: Practice channel tracing and a taught introductory sequence.TCM-Informed Intake
Practice sensitive questioning relevant to menstrual cycles, fertility journeys, and menopause while identifying client priorities and comfort needs.
Application: Use a focused intake guide to inform session planning.Bridging East & West
Connect traditional concepts with familiar massage skills, realistic goals, reassessment, documentation, and professional communication.
Application: Record the client’s goal, your approach, and the response assessed.Ethics & Scope of Practice
Complete a three-hour ethics block covering consent, privacy, cultural respect, professional boundaries, appropriate claims, and referral decisions.
Application: Explain your role and recognize when to adapt, defer, or refer.Your Pathway to Deeper Women’s-Health Bodywork.
Begin with foundational understanding, advance into applied women’s-health practice, and finish by demonstrating integrated competency.
Seven Cycles Foundations
TCM concepts, traditional systems, channels, palpation, intake, ethics, and introductory application.
Applied Women’s-Health Bodywork
Individualized application for menstrual-cycle, fertility-journey, and menopause scenarios.
Integrated Practice & Competency
Practical demonstration, case reasoning, reassessment, professional communication, and documentation.
Successful completion of Level 1 earns a Petree Institute
Certificate of Achievement. Full certification requires all three
levels and the final assessment requirements. Petree Institute and
Hanbit University have a working partnership; the written agreement,
final credential wording, and university issuing arrangements are
being finalized as the required program-development items are
completed.
10 founding seats
Become a Founding Student.
$97 Regular enrollment: $295 Apply for the Founding Cohort →
Your Level 1 enrollment includes
- Six modules totaling 16 instructional hours
- Self-paced online lessons and demonstrations
- Student workbook and meridian atlas
- Two live instructor Q&A sessions
- Practical application assignments
- Instructor feedback on your final practical case
- Petree Institute Certificate of Achievement after successful completion
- Lifetime access to Level 1 materials and course updates
Completion timeline: Eight-week learning window.
The final practical case is due within four weeks after the last
live session. Detailed assessment instructions will be provided
before the course begins.
Your Questions, Answered.
The founding cohort is intended for actively licensed massage therapists interested in TCM-informed women’s-health bodywork.
No. Level 1 begins with foundational concepts and connects them with bodywork practice.
The course combines video demonstrations, guided practice, application assignments, live Q&A, and an assessed final practical case. Students practice with a consenting adult partner before applying new hands-on skills with clients.
Level 1 includes 16 instructional hours across an eight-week learning window. Guided practice, assignments, and the final case require additional time.
Students who successfully complete Level 1 receive a Petree Institute Certificate of Achievement. This is different from completing the full three-level certification pathway.
Hanbit University is Petree Institute’s working partner in developing the certification pathway. The written agreement, final credential wording, and issuing arrangements are being finalized as the necessary program-development requirements are completed.
Continuing education approval has not yet been confirmed. Eligibility and any applicable approval information will be communicated when verified. Do not rely on this enrollment for CE credit unless approval is confirmed.
No. Seven Cycles teaches TCM-informed supportive bodywork within massage-therapy scope. It does not confer medical diagnostic or reproductive-treatment qualifications.
The $97 founding price covers Level 1 only. Level 2 and Level 3 tuition and schedules will be published separately.
Begin with the foundation
Build the Knowledge to Guide Your Hands.
Develop a deeper framework, practice intentional application, and begin your pathway toward integrated women’s-health bodywork.
Apply for the Founding Cohort →