The Baan Hom Samunphrai School Chiangmai, Thailand |
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Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai 93/2a Moo 12 Tawangtan, Saraphi, Chiang Mai 50140, THAILAND
tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai 93/2a Moo 12 Tawangtan, Saraphi, Chiang Mai 50140, THAILAND
tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai 93/2a Moo 12 Tawangtan, Saraphi, Chiang Mai 50140, THAILAND
tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) )e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
Address: Baan Hom Samunphrai tel. 053-817-362 (English & Thai) tel. 081.885.1429 (Homprang direct) e-mail: baanhom@homprang.com
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"The House of Sweet Smelling Herbs" : GENERAL INTRODUCTION. A Thai Massage School & Herbal Health Centre. We are a Thai Ministry of Education school offering courses in the following (you can click on what interests you). Womblifting & Post-Partum Care; Traditional Herbal Compresses & Health Care. All our classes are taught by our director, Homprang Chaleekanha. They are in English, last from 10 to 25 days, and have a maximum of 12 students in a class. We are unique in that we are a Live-in School -- almost all our students live here with us. But we also welcome guests and non-studying partners, and a few students even come with children. Everybody enjoys eating together around our big table, and of course sitting in a chair like this on the porch of one of our old wooden farmhouses.
We are also well-known for our Massage Treatments and Herbal Steam Baths, but it's essential to phone a few days ahead -- tel. 053.817.362. We have just reopened after being closed for 2 1/2 years and don't yet have our full staff of therapists, so you may have to be patient. But do try -- we're doing our best!. And finally, this is the home of Homprang's family which includes her husband, the poet Christopher Woodman, who has been assisting her for almost 30 years. He is the one who writes all this, and may even answer the phone.
Introducing --'BAAN ROM YEN -- Cool & Purified! Having only just survived the hottest Dry Season on record from March to July, 2023, and realizing this is likely to be the norm for years to come, we have now completed our new Training Sala which can be air-conditioned when it's simply too hot to work in our much loved, beautiful but entirely open Baan Rusi. Baan Rom Yen (in Thai 'rom yen' means 'cool' in every sense of the word!) also has a built-in air purifier so we can filter out the smoke and dust which comes with the seasonal heat. The space is 20% bigger than the old one as well, so there will be even more space between the mats as well, important as most of our classes are full these days, and of course there will be more room for Homprang, Bang, & Ann to work with you in between the mats. And we've also installed a special Ventilator System which brings in fresh filtered air from the outside whenever we need it, and that means whether the air-conditioning is on or not. Homprang likes Baan Rom Yen so much she has decided to use it now for all her Massage classes regardless of the weather, and to reserve Baan Rusi for the Rasidaton each morning, and for Massage Treatments, Yoga, and of course special events and pujas. Those of you who were here in May & June 2023 will remember the high-pressure water spray system which we installed at the time -- which kept us cool in so far as anything could have ("a cool mist from heaven!!!"). And that blessing will always be there as well.
NEW 2024 COURSE FEES As announced, we have raised our Course Fees by 10%. The new Course Fee is now Bt 2,400 per Study Day, and Bt 1,200 for Days-off & Extra Days. The Course Fee covers all of the following: 1.) 1 hour of Rasidaton (Thai Yoga) at 7am; 2.) 6 hrs of Teaching & Supervised Practice -- 9am to 4pm; 3.) a Private Room with 3 meals a day (Full Pension); 4.) Herbal Steam Baths everyday at 5.30pm. 5.) The use of all our Facilities including our Pool, Bicycles and Wifi. To reserve a place in a class there is a 25% Deposit -- the PayPal Buttons are to the right of each course on our Calendar Page: https://www.homprang.com/courses_forming.htm We now charge Bt 1,200 per day for Partners and Guests for Full Room & Board. There is also a 10% increase in our charges for Treatments & Steam Baths. [Today's Exchange Rate (March 17th, 2024): $1.00 = Bt 35.83; €1.00 = Bt39.05]
March 10th to 22nd, 2024
March 27th to
April 5th, 2024
April 23rd to May 2nd, 2024
May 8th to June 1st, 2024
June 6th to
18th, 2024
September 19th to October
1st, 2024
October 7th to 15th, 2024
October 21st to 30th, 2024
January 3rd to 27th, 2025
January 30th to February 5th, 2025 You can visit our Calendar Page for more information.
HOW TO GET HERE from CHIANG MAI CITY: You can go to our Where We Are page for maps and instructions. It takes 15-20 minutes from the Chiang Mai city centre in a tuk tuk, song taew or blue & yellow taxi -- they all cost about 200 baht. Our phone number is there too so when the driver gets lost he can phone us.
(Click on the Photo to see other things she does!) Baan Hom Samunphrai is the home of Maw Samunphrai ("Herbal Medicine Doctor") Homprang Chaleekanha, 64, a specialist in Traditional Thai Massage (Nuad Boran) and Thai Yoga (Rasidaton) who also practices Thai Therapeutic Massage, Midwifery and Herbal Medicine. In the photo above she is making a compress with fresh herbs, one of the favourite activities of her students from all over the world. (If you click on the Photo you can see some of the other beautiful and mysterious things she does with her students.) 'Maw Hom' grew up in a small village on the Burmese border with no road or electricity, the only 'doctor' being her rice-farming grandmother who doubled as the local midwife and herbalist -- there's more about her grandmother here. Homprang is now not only licensed by the Thai Ministry of Public Health as a Traditional Doctor but as a Herbal Pharmacologist, a Traditional Midwife, and a Massage Teacher, and her school is approved by the Thai Ministry of Education. She has also travelled widely in Europe and North America, and is fluent in English as well as Thai, a very rare facility among genuine traditional healers. And finally, Homprang has for years been very active in the local Thai community, and has volunteered her time and expertise to Thai patients as well as to the growing number of Thai students who are rediscovering their roots.
Maw Hom comparing notes with a Canadian Botanist; enjoying her friends by the pool; working with two professional colleagues, one Thai, one English; leading the Rasidaton (Thai Yoga) at 7am.
Introducing her western students to Acharn Suwan, a Buddhist philosopher & herbalist, at his simple garden retreat in Chiang Dao; demonstrating 'Womb-lifting' at an International Health Exhibition; with her colleagues at The Association of Thai Traditional Healers -- as a group they are heavily involved with teaching young Thai students old medicine!
All the above roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruit have medicinal value, and Maw Hom will show you them if not in her own herb garden then in her community or earth market. In the final photo, Maw Hom is showing Thai children from an International School how medicines were made when she was a child. The students all left with a little bottle of Tiger Balm made by themselves. This, she feels, is some of her most influential work. . An appreciation of us by Brie Jacobs. "Thailand for me was such a beautiful, eye opening, majestic experience. I took over 4,000 photos in an effort to preserve the impressions as much as possible for when I got back home. Its something I want to relive over and over ."
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