Since the start of last week, the Dunedin District Court trial has heard from 10 women who say they were groped by 65-year-old Sonny Hang Chin.
All described him touching their breasts and some told the jury he also put his hand in their pubic region.
Chin’s former offsider Fraser Lau, from the witness box yesterday, said he had never seen such acts.
Mr Lau would see clients but the defendant would occasionally take over to work on the psychological aspects of their treatment in another room, the court heard.
"Sonny was very good at helping the person ... bring the trauma to a better place mentally," he said.
Mr Lau demonstrated how pressure points in the upper body would be accessed.
The points along a person’s side, beneath the hollow of a person’s underarm, could be touched without contact with a woman’s breast, he said.
While the sternum plate was also a sensitive zone, Mr Lau said it was not one they targeted very often.
Similarly, the pubic bone — another pressure point — was not a focus for healers.
The majority of the complainants alleged Chin had put his hand beneath their clothing.
Mr Lau said "pretty much all the time" the work he had been taught to do was over the garments.
The final complainant to give evidence, who said Chin molested her several times over months of sessions, described an incident when she was involved in a filmed demonstration.
Chin, she said, commented on her rear while setting up the camera.
Mr Lau confirmed the defendant had said "that’s an arse" but they had laughed about the incident, and the woman had not seemed to take offence.
He had even posted it on Instagram because he had thought it was funny, he said.
The woman, who was cross-examined yesterday by Anne Stevens KC, said she was "ashamed" to have repeatedly gone back to Chin despite the alleged sexual assaults.
"I suggest you kept going back to him because it was a help, it made you feel more vibrant, more alive, more balanced," Mrs Stevens said.
The complainant denied that was the case and said she returned because she desperately wanted to believe in the power of qigong.
"I’m not denying he did helpful physical treatment ... that’s not why I’m here. It’s because the other stuff happened," she said.
Chin is expected to call witnesses in support of his case today.
The trial, before Judge David Robinson, is expected to conclude next week.
