Katherine Dessert

Katherine Dessert is a Chi Nei Tsang practitioner trained through the Universal Healing Tao under the guidance of Mantak Chia. She works with the belly as a gateway to deep healing and transformation, integrating abdominal massage with somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and emotional release. Her sessions support clients in softening long-held tension, restoring energetic flow, and reconnecting to the wisdom of the tan tien.

In addition to her body-based healing work, Katherine is a lifelong artist who has spent years exploring the intersection of creativity, the body, and the earth. Her artistic path deepened through a personal journey to fully devote herself to her craft—culminating in the writing and publication of her first book, In a World I Cannot See: Poems From the Ground. This process transformed her relationship to creative resilience and continues to inform how she supports others in nurturing their own visions.

She lives with her partner and children in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California, on Nisenan land, where the rhythms of the natural world shape her work and devotion.

Katehrine Dessert will be teaching Mapping the Belly: self healing through the Organs.