Baan Hom Samunphrai A small Herbal Health Centre

A QUICK INTRODUCTION (if you're in a rush you can click on what interests you most below)

We're located in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, and we practice Thai Traditional Medicine, Thai Traditional Massage (Nuad Boran) and Thai Yoga (Rasidaton) combined with Herbal Steam Baths, Herbal Compresses, and Herbal Medicine in general. What's really different about us is that we offer Full Room & Board Accommodations as well as daily massage and health services--our treatments all improve with patience and familiarity and we encourage both our students and 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, and from 5 days to 20 days or more (10 days is a good start for beginners). 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 along with our constantly updated Thailand Travel Advisory -- our next courses that are still open begin on Wednesday, February 3rd and Monday, February 15th.

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

Baan Hom Samunphrai ("The House of Sweet Smelling Herbs") is the home of Maw Samunphrai ("Herbal Medicine Doctor") Homprang Chaleekanha, 50, a specialist in (Nuad Boran) and Thai Yoga (Rasidaton) and who teaches Traditional Thai Massage, Thai Therapeutic Massage 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 Teacher of Thai Traditional Massage. Indeed, she is one of the first teachers in Thailand to have received the 'Nuad Boran' government accreditation. She has also travelled widely in Europe and North America, and is fluent in English as well as Thai, a rare attribute among genuine traditional healers.

Maw Hom comparing notes with a Canadian Botanist; Enjoying her friends by the pool; Working with two professional practitioners; Leading Rasidaton at 7am

All the above roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruit have medicinal value, and Maw Hom will show you all of them if not in her own herb garden then in
her local community or earth market. Herbal preparations are also an important ingredient in all her training courses.