A CLASS PORTRAIT (80 Hour Thai Massage)
Screened on all sides, our Training Sala has 3 sets of double mats along each wall, and Homprang and her assistants, in this case her sister-in-law, Ajarn Bang, and her French Intern, Jamtsho, work from the center aisle, enabling all of the students to keep in contact with everything that’s happening.
There are 12 students in the class – Bang is top-center in green, Jamtsho is bottom-right, and Homprang has just stood up from the tan cushion on the left to take the photo. The 2nd photo shows you how Bang helps Inga (Latvian) with her hand position (her model is Nuala from Ireland). (It’s a bit chilly in the morning at this time of year in Chiang Mai, hence the green blanket — but no sweaters on the workers!)
The class begins with the students chanting a Pali invocation asking for help and protection from the Buddha and his personal doctor, Maw Chiwok–the latter sits garlanded with jasmine just below the Buddha on the shrine in our training space. This invocation is followed by one hour of Rasidaton, a Thai Yoga developed by another disciple of the Buddha, the forest hermit, Rusi–he usually sits next to Maw Chiwok in Thai medical shrines.
Having looked at these photos you might like to compare the mood and body language you see in Homprang’s western students above with the photos of her Thai students working with her at a much larger class in town. Click Here, and I think you’ll agree that Homprang manages to create the same sense of ease, pleasure and well-being in both worlds.
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