Learn the Traditional Art of Abdominal Manual Therapy
Learn a traditional Japanese approach to hands-on healing — a practice that’s rarely taught, yet deeply effective. Whether you’re an acupuncturist, massage therapist, midwife, or other healing professional, this is a skill you can integrate immediately into your work
Why Learn Abdominal Manual Therapy?
Integrate with Ease
Works seamlessly with acupuncture, massage, bodywork, and energy-based modalities. You can easily blend this technique into your current practice and offer deeper healing support to your clients.
See More Clearly
The abdomen reflects the whole body — gain diagnostic insight and a deeper connection to your client’s condition. This allows you to understand underlying issues and treat them more effectively.
Support More Clients
From digestive, hormonal, or post-surgical issues, to prolapse and pain, AMT provides a grounded approach that complements your existing treatments and increases your client success rate.
Be the Only Practitioner
Practitioners trained in any style of Abdominal Manual Therapy are very rare. Clients need this kind of help. You could be their trusted Go-To Practitioner in your local area.
Ed Antkowiak
Rooted in Japanese Medicine. Refined in Practice
I was trained in Japanese medicine, where abdominal work — Ampuku and related methods — was taught to me from the very beginning as part of a complete bodywork and medical system.
Over decades of practice, I’ve refined this approach alongside acupuncture, moxibustion, compresses, and manual therapy — developing insights I’m now ready to share.
This course brings forward the abdominal work as a standalone practice — something you can integrate into any system of care, or make a specialty of its own.
Watch Introduction to Abdominal Manual Therapy
What exactly is Abdominal Manual Therapy (AMT)? Abdominal Manual Therapy (AMT) is a gentle, hands-on approach that focuses on the abdomen to support healthy organ function, structure and position of the organs, free movement, circulation, and balance in the body. It draws on principles from traditional East Asian medicine and Japanese bodywork, where abdominal assessment and treatment are considered essential to understanding the whole person. AMT can be integrated with many systems of care — from acupuncture and massage to midwifery, nursing, and physical therapy.
How does this course fit into my existing practice? This AMT program is designed to complement your current work, not replace it. Many practitioners find that adding abdominal work helps them get better results with chronic or complex cases, deepen their diagnostic understanding, and offer clients a new dimension of care. You can integrate these methods into bodywork sessions, acupuncture treatments, or as a specialty service on its own. I have found that practitioners who develop this therapy skill as a specialty can grow their practices by offering it as a stand-alone session - once clients experience it, they will often request it.
Do I need prior experience to benefit from this training? No special background is required — This is an introductory course, designed for both licensed professionals (like acupuncturists, massage therapists, and midwives) and students or dedicated laypeople who want to learn safe, effective techniques to support themselves or their families. The lessons progress step-by-step, so you can start where you are and build confidence as you go. It is designed to bring a new learner from the basics to the level of being able to do a powerful, effective treatment to a client, and develop skills and sensitivities that will allow you to progress to the next level - Module Two of this program that will be coming out in a few months.
How long will I have access to the materials? You’ll have lifetime access to all course videos, readings, and updates — so you can learn at your own pace and revisit the material anytime. This also includes any future refinements or additional resources added to the course, at no extra cost. You will have access to special insider pricing on future modules, which are in the development stage tight now - about treating specific conditions that you might encounter in the abdomen, and a separate program about working structurally, on the Illiopsoas muscle complex, after clearing other issues in the abdomen.