Calendar of Courses & Events

1. Similarly colored titles (LIKE THIS) can be taken one after the other. The skills taught are incremental -- there is continual development based on supervised practice but no meaningless repetition. (The three Thai Massage courses from August to December 2017 are designed as a series.)

2. You can click on THE FULL TITLE of each course to see a description of what it offers.

3. The shorter 'Herbal Therapies,' 'Food as Medicine,' 'Foot Reflexology' & 'Womblifting'workshops can be combined with any of the longer courses.

 

Date	Course	Status	Booking
May 16th to May 29th, 2017	且往清邁，且行且珍惜 HERBAL THERAPIES WITH WOMBLIFTING         A Workshop in Mandarin & English		click here for information in Mandarin
May 30th to June 6th, 2017	且歌且舞，且行清邁 THE ART OF THE BODY:  a Dance/Meditation Workshop in Mandarin.		click here for information in Mandarin
June 7th to June 20th, 2017	且往清邁，且行且珍惜 HERBAL THERAPIES WITH WOMBLIFTING         A Second Workshop in Mandarin & English		click here for information in Mandarin
	CLOSED FOR THE MONTH OF JULY
Aug 7th to 9th, 2017	A THAI MEDICINE SEMINAR with NEPHYR JACOBSEN	closed
Aug 14th to 18th, 2017	35hr FOOD as MEDICINE -  Homprang in the Kitchen	open
Aug 21st to 30th, 2017	タイ式子宮バランスセラピー　チェンマイ研修ツアー   WOMBLIFTING & RELATED HERBAL THERAPIES Includes Herbal Compresses, Traditional Steam Treatments, Postpartum Care, & Food as Medicine.  In Japanese & English.	open	click here for information in Japanese
Sept 4th to 8th, 2017	35hr HERBAL THERAPIES for HERBALISTS.  Plant identification, preparation and application of some of  the special balms, sprays & compresses made and  used at Baan Hom Samunphrai.	open	25% Deposit
Sept 11th to Oct 5th, 2017	150hr THAI MASSAGE COURSE   (Live-in:  22 study days + 3 days off = 51,700 baht. Non-live-in: 22 study days = 35,200 baht.) At the beginning  this course concentrates on the fundamental parts of the Thai Traditional Massage, the legs, arms and trunk along with the different positions.  The second part of the course introduces the acupressure elements (energy points and sen lines) and moves on to the shoulders, head and abdomen.  There is a written as well as a practical exam at the end. Homprang is assisted by her sisters-in-law, Ajarn Bang as well as by her Intern, so everybody gets the practical attention they need -- but there is a lot to memorize as well,  and students practice a lot out of class as well during the course hours.	open	25% Deposit
Oct 8th to 15th, 2017	'SEMINAIRE HOLISTIQUE' with JUDITH MORLET (in French)	open	click here for information
Oct 17th to 29th, 2017 (N.B. students arrive on Monday afternoon, Oct 16th. Class begins on Tuesday at 7am and finishes on Sunday afternoon, Oct 29th. Sunday, Oct.22nd, is the only day off.)	80 hr 'TECHNIQUE' for Advanced Students & Professionals  (Live-in: 12 study days + 1 day off = 27,500 baht. Non-live-in:  12 study days = 14,200 baht) Topic: Thai Traditional Massage Technique for Professionals. This is a course for practitioners with a lot of experience who want to extend and/or renew themselves by deepening what they have been doing for years. The focus will be on touch, balance & fluency with  a special emphasis on how to protect oneself and lengthen one's professional life, enhance one's pleasure in the work and of course one's effectiveness with the client or patient. The course also qualifies any therapist to join Homprang's 150 Hour Special Therapeutic Course which is open only to ex-students -- indeed, that is one of it's most important objectives. (You can CLICK HERE for more on this course and it's relationship to the Special Therapeutic Massage Course that follows.	open	25% Deposit
Nov 1st to 14th, 2017	Annual JANET PEACOCK 80hr THAI MASSAGE -  Advanced Study Group   The students in this group have already done a whole Thai Massage training course with Janet Peacock, and after this course will be eligible for the 150hr Special Therapeutic course starting on Nov 20th as well.	full
Nov 20th to Dec 14th, 2017	150 hr SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE COURSE   (for ex-students only.)  (Live-in:  22 study days + 3 days off = 51,700 baht. Non-live-in: 22 study days = 35,200 baht.) Open to ex-students only, this course introduces special acupressure techniques that can be used to treat special conditions including migraine, numbness, stroke effects, serious back conditions, and many other ailments not usually part of Thai Massage. Extremely intense, Homprang makes no exceptions to those who qualify -- you must be comfortable with her techniques and movements as there is not enough time to teach the fundamentals of Thai Massage. By application only, even for ex-students.     (You can click here for more on the course requirements.)	limited places	25% Deposit
Dec 18th to 22nd, 2017	35hr FOOD as MEDICINE -  Homprang in the Kitchen	open

     

   FAQs About Course Registration

DEPOSITS. Our classes are closed at 12 and often fully booked. For this reason we must ask for a 25% Deposit to reserve a place, insuring that nobody is turned away when there is still space remaining. We refund deposits but only if a cancelled place can be filled again before the beginning of the class. Indeed, we keep a Waiting List just for this purpose, though cancellations happen rarely.

You can click on the PayPal Button in the right hand column above to pay the deposit -- (the Logo is in Thai but the instructions are in English). The Deposit includes a 4.5% fee to cover the PayPal Transfer and Currency Conversion charges. To pay with your credit card you must first click on the PayPal Button and then click on Pay with my credit or debit card at the bottom of the PayPal pop-up window.

SETTING UP A PAYPAL ACCOUNT OF YOUR OWN. If you have a PayPal account of your own you can  make the payment without using the Button -- ask us for instructions before you choose this option.  We credit students for whatever sum arrives in our account, so nothing is ever lost, for you or for us. Indeed, more and more students are using this option to pay their final bill as well.

LIVE-IN STUDENTS. Most of our students live here with us -- the place is beautiful. the food delicious, the company good, and above all the students get to spend a whole lot more time with Homprang and her family. Traditional medicine differs widely from region to region all over the world, and those differences have arisen not out of ignorance but out of the enormous variety in the cultural patterns, religious beliefs, family structures, diets, and climates of each region. We strongly recommend you immerse yourself in this training as deeply as you can by living here with us, and in the end we're cheaper than living in a guesthouse in town anyway.

NON-LIVE-IN STUDENTS Of course we understand that some students already have a place of their own in Chiang Mai and/or a significant-other who works in town, or whatever.  And we'll look after you well anyway, don't worry. (Non-live-in students must pay the same deposit as live-in students, but, everybody is credited for the whole sum that we receive on their final bill, so nothing is wasted or lost.)

For more on BOOKING & PAYMENT you can click here.

For some advice on  VISAS click here.

 

 

LINKS TO A FEW SITES THAT 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.

For an intimate glimpse into the Baan Hom Samunphrai experience,  try Revitalized in Paradise from the magic pen of  Kundan Ewan. Just as he was leaving Baan Hom, Kundan handed Christopher a little book called My Friend Nasruddin. As it turns out,  the book was written by Kundan Ewan himself, and now everybody at Baan Hom reads his stories voraciously and does all sorts of crazy little things as if they were saints. That's what Kundan did to us here.

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.