LUANG PRABANG, LAOS 2010

TRAINING GENERAL DESCRIPTION

• When ? From February 15th to March 12th 2010
• Where ? Circus in LUANG PRABANG, LAOS. In a spacious teacher training school situated 2.5 km north of Luang Prabang along the banks of the Nam Khan river.
• For Whom ? Anybody who has previous experience in Thaï massage (training, practice). Thai Massage Circus is not a beginner class.
• How long ? One month course. 6h30 Thaï massage class
  per day. 6 days a week.
• With whom ? : Five highly experience Thai massage and Yoga teachers
• How many students ? : Circus capacity is maximum 34 students
• How much ? : 1490 euros in rooms. Cost includes food, accommodation, course fee, yoga sessions, and circus manual.

TRAINING PROGRAM

• Major Thai massage principles :
  - The message of Master Pichet

• The « Focus intention » concept in Zen Thaï :
  - how to develop concentration in our practice from moment
  to moment (meditation in motion)

• Anatomy :
  - Palpatory anatomy workshop
  - Applied anatomy to Thaï massage practice

• Biomechanics :
  - Types and classification of joints in the body
  - Axes and movements of the major joints of the body.
  - Spine particularities

• Clinical approach :
  - Indications and limits of Thaï massage practice
  - Case studies in small groups

• Therapeutics points
  - Contribution from Thaï massage, Shiatsu and Traditionnal
  Chinese Medecine (TCM)

• Thaï massage classical routine : a blessing or a curse ?
  - Basic technics improvement
  - Free your hands and create your own Thaï massage

• Thai massage and pregnancy :
  - benefits and contraindication during pregnancy
  - specifics ailments (sciatica, circulatory problems, etc.)

• What can we learn from osteopathy ?
  - Concept of general osteopatic treatment
  - Internal organs routine
  - Cracking or not cracking ?

• For fun : acrobatic pratice and flying Circus

SCHEDULE

The schedule for this one-month course includes 1 day and a half off each week (Wednesday afternoon and Saturday). The following schedule may slightly vary from week to week.

• a sample daily schedule

- « Bell wake up ! »......... 6h30 am
- meditation.................... 6 :45 to 7 :30 am
- yoga class..................... 7 :30 to 8 : 45 am
- Breakfast...................... 8 :45 to 10 am
- Course......................... 10 am to 1 pm
- Lunch and rest............ 1 to 3 pm
- Course......................... 3 to 6 :30 pm
- Dinner.......................... 7 pm