Description
Thai Herbal Compress Massage
16-Hour Live, Hands-On Workshop
Learn the ancient Thai healing art of “Luk Pra Kob”—a soothing massage using steamed herbal compress balls to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and restore balance to the body.
What You’ll Learn
This hands-on workshop teaches you traditional Thai herbal compress massage, combining heated medicinal herbs, energy line work, oil massage, and Thai stretches. You’ll learn the history and philosophy behind this healing practice and how to create customized treatments for your clients.
Key Skills:
- Map out the 10 major energy lines (sen) of the body in Thai bodywork
- Learn about the 3 Doshas (body types) and how to customize treatments based on client constitution
- Work with pressure points that address specific ailments
- View, give and experience a full-body herbal compress massage service
- Understand how to safely heat and use herbal compresses
- Assess client needs and make your own herbal compress balls with traditional formulas
- Incorporate metta meditation into your massage practice
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How This Benefits Your Practice
- Healing aromatherapy – Medicinal herbs provide therapeutic benefits while creating a relaxing sensory experience
- Customizable treatments – Learn to tailor sessions based on your client’s unique body type and needs
- Hands-on practice – You’ll both give and receive treatments, so you can feel what your clients experience and get real-time feedback on your technique
- Complete toolkit – Leave knowing how to make herbal compresses and perform full body services
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What to Expect
Over two days, you’ll dive deep into Thai healing traditions. This class covers the history of Thai massage, the Dosha system, energy line mapping, and a complete protocol demonstration. You’ll practice working with self-heating compresses and learn metta meditation. Students will focus on hands-on mastery—you’ll make custom herbal compresses, consult with your partner to assess their needs, and perform personalized treatments.
Perfect for massage therapists who want to offer unique healing services, work with energy and aromatherapy, and provide deeply therapeutic treatments rooted in ancient tradition.
Required Course Materials & Lab Fee
To maintain clinical standards and ensure all participants achieve the specific therapeutic outcomes of this modality, a standardized Personal Lab Kit is required for the hands-on portion of this course.
- Clinical Consistency: For the safety of the participants and to ensure uniform heating and herbal application, all students will work with the same professional-grade materials.
- Hygiene & Safety: For sanitary reasons, these materials may be reused by an individual student; communal supplies are not permitted.
- Cost & Payment: An additional $45.00 Lab Material Fee is payable directly to the instructor via Cash or Venmo at the start of the session. (Instructions will be provided via email.)
- Kit Includes: Two (2) self-heating units and all specific herbal components required for the clinical application.
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Limited spots available. Register today!
