Courses Already Formed or Forming

GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATES are awarded for 60, 80 and 150 hour courses only. You may study for shorter periods if there is
room, but only a testimonial of attendance can be given.  Classes are closed at a maximum of 8 students -- 6 for Foot Reflexology.

SIMILARLY COLORED COURSES are most suited to be taken one after the other -- there will be no repetition between them.
On the other hand, there will be on-going practice of the techniques and diagnoses of each  spread over both courses.

DATE	COURSE	STATUS
January 2nd to Jan. 26th, 2013	80/150 hr Thai Massage Course	completed
January 24th to Feb. 6th, 2013  You can also sign up for specific days.	80 hr Herbal Therapies for Thai Massage                CLICK for schedule.)	completed
February 12th to Feb. 21st, 2013	Soaring Crane 80 hr. Thai Massage Course	completed
February 25th  to March 21st, 2013	80/150 hr. Thai Massage Course*	completed
March 27th to April 4th, 2013	WOMEN'S WORK: Womblifting, Pregnancy, Postnatal,   Menopause, Four Elements for Health, Food as Medicine.	completed
April 6th to April 16th, 2013	CLOSED for the Songkarn Festival	closed
April 17th to May 11th, 2013	150 hr Thai Massage Course	completed
April 23rd to April 29th, 2013	Institute for Women's Empowerment (IWE): Initiatives   for Wellness, self-care and integrated security in SEA	completed
May 20th to May 29th, 2013              Maximum 6 students	60 hr Foot Reflexology & Related Topics: Herbal             Preparations, Diagnosis, Sen Points & Lines	in progress
June 3rd to June 29th, 2013	150 hr Thai Massage & Related Herbal Therapies                This will be a special combined course.	open
Month of July	Open for Massage and Therapeutic services only.
August 19th to August 31st, 2013	80 hr Thai Massage Course	open
September 2nd to Sept. 12th, 2013	60 hr Foot Reflexology & Related Topics: Herbal             Preparations, Diagnosis, Sen Points & Lines	open
September 23rd to Oct. 17th, 2013	80/150 hr Thai Massage Course	open
October 21st to Nov. 2nd, 2013	80 hr Thai Massage Related Therapies Including             Womblifting, Compresses & Heat Treatments	open
November 6th to Nov. 19th, 2013	80 hr Thai Massage Course	open
November 21st to Nov. 30th, 2013	60 hr Foot Reflexology & Related Topics: Herbal                Preparations, Diagnosis, Sen Points & Lines	open
December 4th to Dec. 17th, 2013	80 hr Thai Massage Course	limited places
December 19th to Dec. 28th, 2013	60 hr Foot Reflexology & Related Topics: Herbal                 Preparations, Diagnosis, Sen Points & Lines	limited places
January 1st to January 14th, 2014	80 hr Womblifting and Related Herbal Therapies	limited places
January 20th to February 6th, 2014	Open Block (get in touch with us if you're interested!)
February 9th to Feb. 22nd, 2014	Soaring Crane Massage and Acupuncture Training Group	closed
March 3rd to March 27th, 2014	80/150 hr Thai Massage Course	open
	(Let us know what you'd like to follow!)

'REGULAR COURSE' RATES:

All Live-In Students in our Regular Courses are charged Bt 2100 per day -- and that includes everything: a private room of your own with 3 delicious meals, 1 hour of Thai yoga plus 6 hrs of teaching, the illustrated Baan Hom Practitioner's Notebook, steam baths, bicycles, internet, and transportation to Chiang Mai when you need it. The only additional cost is for wine or beer with your evening meal  if you wish. There is also an extra charge for our 3 Training DVDs of 300 baht each.
 

Non-live-in students are also welcome at 1200 baht per day. Includes lunch and steam bath.
 

Discounts for Thai Healing Alliance Members. We are pleased to offer a 10% discount to THAI members, but please be sure you really need it.

Baan Hom Samunphrai is not a ‘business’ in the usual sense of the word, but a self-sustaining community -- our objective is to break even each year if we can. Of course, if we make a profit we can develop the place a bit and even hope that at some point we may be able to add a few more bicycles to the fleet, and even replace our beloved old song taew.

Most of our students choose our Live-in option, which is naturally more expensive than what Non-live-in schools charge for their 9 to 5 days. But even with full room & board, a Baan Hom Samunphrai course costs just a few hundred baht more per day than equivalent Non-live-in courses. Yet our fee covers, in addition to the teaching hours, a private room, 3 meals a day, herbal steam baths, transportation, and all that extra time with Homprang.

We keep our prices down not to be more competitive but to attract the kind of students we really like, most of whom share our values. If you're a THAI Member coming to Thailand specifically to study with us, and need some help on that, we'd be very pleased to offer the discount. Needless to say, if you can afford to study here without asking for it we'd be very grateful.

2013 Soaring Crane Massage and Acupuncture Training Group

Eric Spivack. Acupuncturist, Thai Massage Therapist and much respected Lecturer on both subjects  from Seattle, Washington brought his Soaring Crane Massage and Acupuncture Training Group to Baan Hom Samunphrai from February 11th to the 21st, 2013. (You can click on the logo to find out more about Soaring Crane and its charismatic leader.)

In addition to further advanced study in Thai Traditional Massage, Homprang led the 12 students in Rasidaton every morning at 7am and, as she always does, introduced some of her own special therapies and healing techniques. In addition, a great variety of more-or-less massage related activities took place for the whole group of 16 including professional shopping from cushions to sarongs, Thai cooking, down on your hands and knees in a sacred cave, elephant-washing, talking with monks, star-gazing and, for those with a bit of energy left after all the studying, walking, bicycling and talking, high-energy aerobics with the locals in the village graveyard!

Click here for a whole gallery of photos taken during this tour by Soaring Crane's photographer extraordinaire, Tobie Stevens (don't miss his 'Thai Motorcycles' Gallery either, and his '2013 Thailand' Gallery of professional photos is unique in its intensity, diversity and insight!).

                                       Rasidaton (the 'Thai Yoga' of the forest hermit, Rusi) at 7am

                                      Advanced details, points and strategies

 An inspired group brought to Homprang for further study by their own inspired and nurturing teacher --
 Eric Spivack is sitting behind her left shoulder. A most fruitful and joyous collaboration.

  
                            And much to think about too -- even when there was nothing going on.

 The group also visited this Rusi shrine deep under the holy mountain of Chiang Dao (Homprang on the left).

 And chatted in English with monks at the Wat Suan Dok Buddhist University (Eric Spivack is on the left).

 

Thaitherapeautics 'THAI MASSAGE TOUR'

The first annual Thai Therapeutics Massage Tour was organized by the well-known Therapist and Thai Massage Teacher, D'vorah Swarzman, four years ago.  Such Tours can include intensive study courses at Baan Hom Samunphrai during which qualified students can earn Thai Government Certificates. Homprang can also arrange visits to other local Thai healers, herbalists, teachers and philosophers in the Chiang Mai area right on up to the Burmese border. Other activities have included meditation, temple visits, bicycling, trekking, white water rafting, Thai cooking, and visits to both rice growing and 'hill tribe' communities.

Here are a few photos taken at Baan Hom Samunphrai on the final day of that first Tour way back in January 2009 -- we're so fond of them we can't bear to take them down!.

   It was chilly on the final morning!

  But everybody was warmed up by the exam--

  ...and was duly admitted to Club Hom

...and that meant to Party, of course-- with Pimon 'Ot' Singhasin (click for a sample), who plays the wonderful music on both our Nuad Boran and Foot Relexology DVDs. (The visiting guitarist is Skye Darkness McCloud of Breitenbush, Oregon--the one who just received his certificate from Maw Hom in the previous photo!)

This is a special Thai-Yoga Massage Reise (Tour Group) for German speakers. Organized by our good friend, the Swiss therapist and painter, Elizabeth Zollinger, the session will include a full course in Thai Traditional Massage with Homprang Chaleekanha as well as health related activities and outings in the Chiang Mai area. A high-point will be a 2 day trip to Chiang Dao on the Burmese border including the holy mountain, the caves, the medicinal market, meditation center, waterfalls and hot-springs.

For those who wish to stay on Elizabeth Zollinger will also organize a sojourn on the beautiful island of Koh Tao in the Andaman Sea.--and you don't have to be Swiss what is more German speaking to join. Elizabeth is fluent in English and lives in the Aran Islands in Ireland, and Homprang, after all, is Thai!

LINKS TO A FEW SITES THAT PHOTOGRAPH AND TALK ABOUT US: 

You can visit this site to read a recent article, "Le massage Nuad Boran avec Maitre Homprang," in the June 2009 issue of the French magazine, Les Nouvelles Esthetiques. By the well-known therapist and health journalist, Guy Dumont, the article has beautiful photographs too. Click here to find a PDF file you can download from the magazine. Or try here: http://www.guydumont.com/pdf/versionFull/5.2/177.pdf

You can visit this site for some recent photos by a French student--and a fascinating commentary on Thailand en français!www.ericeloethugo.blogspot.com  . And here's another page from the same site with a much fuller account of Baan Hom--also in French, of course. Click Here and scroll down to "samedi 1 novembre 2008." 

Visual commentary of a very striking sort from Gonga and Tara on www.universalfellowshipoflight.com--we feel fortunate to be photographed by visitors with such sensitivity for the Buddhist as well as folk traditions of Thailand!  

Expert assessment from Robert Byrnes of Phoenix, Arizona on his Synchronicity Massage Newsletter. He writes some of the most informative and on-moving Massage Therapy commentary that we've seen.

More earth-y commentary on  w.w.w.realtravel.com, this time by the well-known L.A. environmentalist, Andy Lipkis, founder of Tree People: Click Here as well  for a more specific review with more photos & lots of stars.

Photos and personal statements from members of The Chicago Thai Massage School Thailand Adventure that came to Chiang Mai in February 2011 and, among many other activities, studied with Homprang at Baan Hom Samunphrai.

If you missed our film, Baan Hom Samunphrai, you can click on it here. It was made by Sam Kalayanee -- at the same time he was co-producing  'Burma VJ,' a documentary on the Saffron Revolution' that was nominated for an Oscar in 2010. See the bottom of our Where We Are page for a little more information on how the film was made.

For something really hot off the press, try Revitalized in Paradise --you can scroll down to the bottom of our Home Page. for an account of our encounter with the author, Kundan Ewan.