Baan Hom Samunphrai School, Herbal Health, Thai Traditional Massage, Herbal Steam Baths, Traditional Thai Massage Training Courses, Live-in Accommodations, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Conferences, Therapeutic Massage, Rasidaton.

It's better to phone ahead as we have only a few therapists -- tel. 053.817.362 or 081.885.1429. It takes 15-20 minutes to get here by motorcycle, tuk tuk or song taew -- click here for maps.

A Full Massage takes about two hours and costs 600 baht -- a Foot Massage is 300 baht and takes about one hour.

Either can be combined with a Herbal Steam Bath (200 baht) which can take up to an hour and includes dips in our cooling pool along with home-grown herb tea.

A Full Massage with Herbal Compresses takes about 3 hours and costs 900 baht.

If you think you might benefit from a special Therapeutic Massage you need to discuss your condition with Maw Homprang who can suggest a treatment and a therapist to work with you.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION. You can click on what interests you below.

We're a Traditional Thai Massage School and a Herbal Medicine Centre. But what's really different about us is that we offer Live-in Accommodations as well as traditional health services, and encourage our students as well as our guests to stay here with us. We offer live-in Traditional Thai Massage Training Courses at all levels, from novice to professional, from one-on-one intensives to a maximum of 8 students -- 5 days, 10 days, 20 days or more (10 days is a good start for beginners). In addition we offer One Month Training Programs for professionals and teachers, and serious amateurs are welcome to join them as well.

Our Director is licensed by the Thai Ministry of Public Health and our Certificates recognized by The Thai Ministry of Education. In addition, we host Groups, Conferences and Seminars (up to 20 participants) for those who want to come here with their own teachers and/or special interests--from yurts to yours truly and yoga. Long Stay is possible as well --we're not right for everyone but very right for some, and have had guests in full or partial Retreat for up to 6 months--writers, thinkers, bodies and minds in recovery, lives being rebuilt. Finally, this is also the home of the poet, Christopher Woodman, and we welcome writers, artists, musicians and indeed anyone who is troubled by the muse!

Do have a look at our Calendar Page which also includes a constantly updated Thailand Travel Advisory.

Our next classes begin on Thursday, January 5th, 2012 and Thursday, January 12th, 2012

All our therapies and services are as simple as this open floor with its hand-glazed tiles.

Baan Hom Samunphrai is the home of Maw Samunphrai ("Herbal Medicine Doctor") Homprang Chaleekanha, 54, a specialist in Traditional Thai Massage (Nuad Boran) and Thai Yoga (Rasidaton) who also practices Thai Therapeutic Massage, Midwifery and Herbal Medicine.'Maw Hom,' as she is called, 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. Maw Hom 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 Ministry of Educatio n. She has also travelled widely in Europe and North America, and is fluent in English as well as Thai, a rare facility among genuine traditional healers.

Maw Hom comparing notes with a Canadian Botanist; Enjoying her friends by the pool; Working with two professional colleagues;
Leading the Rasidaton (Thai Yoga) at 7am

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. Herbal preparations are also an important ingredient in all her training courses.