Womblifting
Womblifting is an ancient Thai healing art that involves hot clay pots like the one Homprang is preparing here for the client visible just behind the screen door. She is holding a pot packed with sea salt which has already been heated up until the salt crystals pop, and then tightly wrapped in the green medicinal leaves just in front of her. Used as a giant compress, the process also involves the activization of special acupressure points, and the uterus is manipulated directly with the hands on the abdomen — there is no internal work. The procedure is used both for post-natal health and for fertility problems, but most of all for overall feminine as well as male health and well-being.
Womblifting is one of Homprang’s special interests, and women come from all over Thailand and abroad for treatments as well as for training. Similar techniques are taught for prostate problems in men, who can also join the class, indeed, there are many health benefits from such abdominal work for everybody, the energy points and the sen lines being the same for both sexes. Furthermore, every Womblifting Course is different, dependent as each one is on the needs, culture, age, health and life experience of the real-life participants.
Needless to say, Homprang chooses her male students carefully for their tact and sensitivity, and the few who join the course are very much welcomed by everybody. Indeed, it’s a welcoming experience altogether, life-affirming, indeed life-changing, so much so that many students take the class more than once.