Anxiety Relief Coach, Integrative Massage Therapist Helping Relieve Anxiety and Pain
Hello, I’m Tina Tongen. I offer body-based therapy and coaching to ease anxiety and reduce pain. Integrative Clinical Massage Therapy, Somatic Coaching, and Positive Intelligence® Coaching rewire anxiety and pain patterns so my clients reclaim the joy of being in a happy and healthy body.
My mission is to empower people to relate with themselves and their families in ways that create good! I truly believe that we create better things together when we slow down to take care of ourselves.
As a Somatic Coach and massage therapist, I work with my clients’ body wisdom through listening to nervous system cues. This relieves mental and physical stress, and effectively reduces anxiety and pain.
As a Positive Intelligence® Coach, I train my clients in a simple mental fitness practice that rewires the faulty patterns of thinking that cause anxiety and pain. Like growing strength through physical fitness, regular mental fitness practice grows new mental muscle that improves decision-making and overall health. 💪🧠
I Love Supporting Parents and Kids with Anxiety
I especially love supporting parents with kids who have anxiety or a heightened stress response. My peer coaches and I have noticed that when parents learn the skills of Positive Intelligence®, it helps their kids to relax and relate better, too.
My clients learn skills to be calm and confident as they relate with their families. This helps our kids regulate as they feel safe, and learn calm and confident relational patterns. I’m grateful to help clients stretch into new skills that decrease anxiety and pain by communicating in ways that contribute to quality of life everyday.
Transformative Mind-Body Services:
• Tongen Touch™ Integrative Massage Therapy: 60-minute, 90-minute, and 2-hour sessions
• Somatic Coaching: 6-week series
• Positive Intelligence® Coaching: 8-week or 12-week training and coaching
Life is good when you feel at home in your body
Body-based coaching is the path to holistic well-being. Connecting mind and body helps my clients to experience the joy of everyday life.
Connect with me for a unique journey toward mind-body health with heart.
Read more about my philosophy to provide gentle, effective care here.
Credentials and Experience:
• 1000-hr Massage Therapy Certification from the Boulder College of Massage Therapy
• 500-hr Associate Degree in Occupational Studies (AOS) from BCMT
• 200-hr Certified Yoga Teacher (CYT) and 7-month residence at the ShambhavAnanda Yoga™ Ashram
• 600-hr Master Practitioner in Phenomenal Touch Massage (MPPTM)
• 32 years practicing Hatha Yoga
• 16+ years of experience offering massage therapy, yoga, and other wellness modalities
• 16+ years of experience with embodied meditation as a practitioner and coach
• Positive Intelligence® Coaching trained
• Authentic Relating trained with ART International
• Nonviolent Communication trained with the Rocky Mountain Center for Compassionate Communication
• 3-Day Immersion in Conscious Dying Support with the Conscious Dying Institute
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What is Tongen Touch™?
Tongen Touch™ is my holistic approach to healing and well-being that combines massage therapy with yoga, breath awareness, and other modalities. I created Tongen Touch™ after years of experience working with clients from all walks of life. I found that a holistic mind-body approach was the most effective way to help my clients achieve their wellness goals. I help my clients to reduce stress and anxiety, improve sleep quality, boost energy levels, relieve pain and tension, and experience self-love and connection.
I’m truly grateful to be able to help people return home to their bodies and relieve pain as I provide a listening ear, compassionate heart, and a skillful mind that works in service to healing!
Devotion to Listening Makes My Life a Pilgrimage…
I learn so much when I listen! I love the process of healing that happens when I listen in service to reconnecting heart + mind + body.
I moved to Colorado in 2008 to live in a yoga ashram for 7 months, where I learned the value of working within community, singing, and meditating everyday. Ayurvedic health practices were my introduction to working with people 1-1 and I was hooked! I earned my 200-hr Yoga Teacher Certification at the Shambhava School of Yoga.
I officially moved to Boulder to study at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy for 2 years, where I earned my 1000-hr Certification in Massage Therapy and 500-hr Associate Degree in Occupational Studies. Manual Therapy and Integrative Massage Sessions are based on this work.
After studying Orthopedic Massage, I entered a community intent on healing not just the body, but the spirit. I studied with the Institute for Phenomenal Touch for 4 years, earning a Master Practitioner Certification in Phenomenal Touch Massage. Within this community I was blessed to experience the kind of compassion that is truly rare, and I’m a *much* happier person for it! The Ocean Session is inspired by this work.
I’m incredibly grateful also to the Ridhwan School in Boulder, where I practiced The Diamond Approach for 6 years. The capacity to slow down and sense the present moment allows me to provide space for your mind-body-spirit integration. All of my sessions are deepened by this work.
Since 2016, I’ve been in deep relationship with a partner, and in 2021 I returned home to Florida to reunite with my birth family. Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, and practicing Positive Intelligence® everyday has become invaluable! And I’m grateful to offer these same applied practices to you!
Tongen Touch™ is a blend of all of these and more, from my studies over the past 30+ years.
Being in community with massage therapists, yoga practitioners, acupuncturists, talk therapists, movement and meditation teachers allows me to experience the real joy of connecting within responsive environments where we practice being present with ourselves and others, and I’m so grateful for this life.
💜 Embodied Blessings, Tina
-> Are you experiencing chronic pain and wonder if it’s from patterns of habitual strain?
-> Do you want simple tools to relax, let go of stress, and feel awesome in your body?
I’d love to welcome you as a new client.
Tongen Touch™ Massage Therapy and Coaching helps to unwind patterns of strain so you feel your best.
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