The details of this Thai Massage course

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In general

This is a 3-week course, 3 x 5 days, (around 90 hours)
with 2 teachers and no more than 4 students
A new course starts on the first Monday of the month in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
It happens from Monday to Friday, from 8:30 to 16:30

For lunch break, ususally from 12:00 to 13:30, we will be happy to show you the restaurants in our neighborhood: vegetarian, noodle soup shops, curries,... Sometimes, if we are lucky, Nooy will cook for us ;-P.

In the afternoon, and until 18:30, the house stays open for optional further practice and meeting more practitioners, among them students both from our course and from other places. Reading or watching dedicated material is also possible, as we try to gather and make available as much interesting literature and movies we can.

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More specifically

1st Week:
Theory, Postures and Perception

This is our signature (former) 5-day foundation course, but less intense on the theory, since we will have time to go slower and deeper into it during the full 3 weeks. Therefore, these five days will allow for more (hands-on) practice, giving you the opportunity to develop tools and supportive habits. We will go through a short massage sequence. This
will serve as a pretext for application of basic principles and indentification of key sensations, as well as a backbone for the rest of the course.

2nd week,
Development of Techniques and practice  

Based on the sequence learned the first week, we will learn different techniques among those we prefer. We have selected those techniques more especially because they leave open possibilities for adaptation / improvisation depending on the receiver. We will not force you to follow a particular sequence but rather give you the occasion to practice observation, concentration and intuition. As usual we will adapt to your needs, requests and pace.

3rd week:
Massages, Games and Exercises !

To practice is not to repeat the sequence of a book _ not really _ but rather to give a massage. To help you in that direction, as a beginner as well as a professional practitioner we'll come up with a series of exercices and games !
For example, we will experiment with giving a massage blind folded, or using only specific techniques for an entire massage (elbow, feet, rocking), or using only one hand, or having 2 or more practitioners on one receiver... Tracking by touch a meridian line on its course through the body, following the path of tensions or stiff points... should help the development of your intuition again, but also your creativity meeting specific tensions.

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between us

In 3 weeks, we could stuff you with material for a 8-hour massage ! ;-)
It is not our point here. Our objective with this journey is to observe in depth each and every movement, paying as much attention to our own body posture as to the receiver's.
We would like you to develop a special attention to what is to be felt, the breath, the rhythm, the quality of your concentration and the clarity of your intention.

We believe those are the means to help you build strong and useful foundations for your practice and/or your future studies.

It is clear also, that we adapt the course to the students, not the opposite. Therefore, we are happy to welcome that some students need more practice, others more techniques or more theory, depending on their qualities and progression. As a fact, the course is different every time, because you are different, and we love it that way.

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You can come any week you like,

But priority is given to those who start the 3 weeks cursus on the first week.
if you have already done the first week with us (as we used to teach it as a stand alone program), and if for any reason you don't want to do it again, feel free to ask for droping in on the second or the third, we will be happy to accomodate you.
For those who never studied with us, we recommend that you start your journey from the begining, but again, feel free to contact us.