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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: 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 over twenty-five years. It may be him who answers the phone.
LIVE-IN COURSES Our Course Fee for all our courses is Bt 2,200 per study-day and includes 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 Bicycles and Wifi. We charge Bt 1,100 for Days-off (1 per study-week) and the same for Extra Days between classes. To reserve a place there is a 25% Deposit. The PayPal Buttons are to the right of each course on our Calendar Page. Today's Exchange Rate (April 29th, 2023): $1.00 = 34.1 Baht.
NON-LIVE-IN COURSES In normal times we do accept a few students who already have a place to live in Chiang Mai, but these are not ordinary times, and living here with us is added security for everybody. To enquire about the Non-Live-in option, please contact us by e-mail -- we are flexible as long as you really are a bona-fide resident in Chiang Mai, or have a very good reason for not living here with us.
2023 CALENDAR
September 4th to 16th, 2023
September 21st to 30th, 2023
October 6th to 15th, 2023
October 21st to November 14th, 2023
December 7th to 16th, 2023
December 22nd, 2023 to
January 15th, 2024 2024 CALENDAR
March 8th to 20th, 2024
March 25th to
April 4th, 2024
April 23rd to May 2nd, 2024
May 8th to June 1st, 2024 You can visit our Calendar Page for more information.
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. .
"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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