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 (1000 baht) or Womb-lifting (1300 baht) you need to discuss your condition with Maw Homprang who can suggest a specific course of treatment and 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 live here with us -- home-stay in a Thai family, in other words. 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,. In addition we offer One Month Training Programs for professionals and teachers, and serious amateurs are welcome to join them as well. Finally, we offer courses on Herbs and Herbal Therapies -- if you don't find what you want on our Training Page or Calendar, ask us.

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 look at our Calendar Page to see what we've been doing as well as what's coming up next.

DATES:

There is still room to study with us starting Sunday, May 20th.

            For June the best starting dates would be Monday, June 4th or Saturday, June 9th as there are
            certificate students booked in on both those dates in all three categories: 60 hours (10 days), 80
            hours (14 days), and 150 hours (full month). We would particularly like one more student for the
            full month to make an even number.

Other starting dates in June will be organized as the need arises -- and we always welcome students
for shorter periods as well.

If you are confused, go to HOW WE WORK on our Training Courses page for more information.

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, one
Thai, one English; leading the Rasidaton (Thai Yoga) at 7am.

Introducing her students to Acharn Suwan, a Buddhist philosopher & herbalist, at his garden retreat in Chiang Dao; demonstrating
'Womb-lifting' at an International Health Exhibition; with her colleagues at The Association of Thai Traditional Healers, Chiang Mai.

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 an important dimension in all her training courses.