Nuad Thai

SomaVeda® Nuad Boran-Northern Thai Massage: Level Three Brooksville Florida USA

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Dr. Anthony B. James, Nuad Boran, Akha Village, 1988

August, SomaVeda® Nuad Boran-Northern Thai Massage: Level Three Brooksville Florida USA

SomaVeda® Nuad Boran Northern Style Thai Yoga Therapy: Level Three:  Approved CEU NAIC, AAPNA, NCBTMB, FSBMT, SMOKH

NAIC Sanctuary: Thai Yoga Center: Brooksville, Florida: August, Level Three:

August 11th. To August 17th. 2023 (10 am -10 pm each day, with breaks)(64 CE Hours over seven days) SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Nuad Boran: Level Three (Advanced)

NCBTMB Massage Board Approved Provider

We are continuing the work begun in SomaVeda® CTP1. A strict prerequisite on the CTP1 or higher SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Practitioner Certification is required. This Advanced SomaVeda® Program is offered as a Seminary of the NAIC and suitable for all NAIC Authorized Ministers, Practitioners, and Teachers. During this Level Three Certification Program, we will offer NAIC Ceremony, Sacred Sweat Lodge Purification/Healing Instruction, and practice.

Explore in detail the “Lanna Thai” or Northern Style Chinese and Hill tribe influence on hands-on healing by learning the eight basic flows of the SomaVeda® Northern method. These flow (Traditional Vinyasa), although similar to those of the ITM, Old Medicine Hospital, and Mama Lek Chaiya style Traditions, are taught in a manner and context with supplemental information unique to the SomaVeda® program. Typically taught in Thailand in ten days, we have cultivated the “Express” version for Western students and presented the same and more information in only seven days! This course is an Indigenous Traditional Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy training and certification program. It is recommended for Thai Yoga Therapy Practitioner and Thai Yoga Therapy Teacher certification.

Achan Sintorn Chaichagun with Ajahn Dr. Anthony B. James, Old Medicine Hospital, Chiangmai, Thailand 1986

I have been teaching and offering professional courses in Nuad Boran, Northern or “Lanna” style Traditional Thai Medical Massage (Thai Marmachikitsa-YogaTherapy) since becoming a recognized teacher in the Northern Style under several different Lanna schools and traditions as listed above. We temporarily suspended this Nuad Boran instruction due to the pandemic. However, we are excited to offer LIVE, in-person certificate courses again. As a recognized Ajahn and Master of this regional Style of Thai Traditional Medicine, I look forward to bringing Nuad Boran, Northern Style Thai Yoga: SomaVeda® Level Three, to you and your practice and clients, friends, and family. This is an Advanced SomaVeda® Certificate course which means there are prerequisites required for attendance. Please email or call the office if you’re uncertain whether you qualify to attend.

Nuat Boran Thai Northern Style Traditional Thai Yoga Therapy

 

Understanding the Energetic Anatomy and Physiology, the Ten Principles of Sen, Nadis, and Chakras are deepened. Basic Western anatomy and physiology as it applies to the SomaVeda® Nuad Boran (Chiang Mai style) are introduced now. The role of the breath in partnership within the therapeutic encounter is discussed and practiced more intently. The course is predominately hands-on, with a thorough introduction to the underlying philosophy and energy theory. This course focuses on using Puja or intentional affirmations and mantras in healing. This course originates from the Shivago lineage; we will learn and practice the Om Namo Mantra daily. This class is “hands-on” and quite intensive. It is designed to take your SomaVeda® Thai Yoga therapy experience to a higher level.

Dr. Anthony B. James with Mama Lek Chaiya and Kruu Pikul 1991

·      During this course, the student establishes contact with a genuine lineage and learns how to facilitate the healing energy of the ancient masters through the practice of Puja, Wai Khruu, and healing affirmations.

Dr. Anthony B. James, Nuad Boran, Akha Village, 1988

·      After completing this course, students will: the student can perform the Nuad Boran beginner Vinyasa or Catalog flow with a partner. Students can incorporate the SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Nuad Boran catalog into their existing SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Practice.

·      Understand the essential elements and theory of Classical Thai & Classical Indian Ayurveda anatomy and physiology.

Buddhai Sawan LogoIntroduction to Martial Arts Traditions: SomaVeda® origins! We will discuss and explore the role of lineage and traditions, philosophy, and actual technical applications of the traditional martial arts, which are the birthplace of Nuad Thai and the SomaVeda Integrated Traditional Therapies® Thai Yoga system: Buddhai Sawan Krabi Krabong & Muay Boran, Inosanto Mahapolindo, Lee Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Pekiti Tersia, Kali, Pencak Silat, Wing Chun Kung Fu and so much more!

For detailed information and a description of course content for this Level Three SomaVeda® Thai Yoga certificate course, click here! SomaVeda® Thai Yoga: Nuad Boran: Level Three

SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Therapy is based on Traditional Thai Medicine and Ayurveda. It is an indigenous traditional healing style of Yoga Therapy, bringing health and wellness to Spirit, Mind, and Body. All Certified Teachers are Authorized NAIC Tribal Organization, Indian Health Care Ministers, and Providers.

Certified Teacher: Ajahn, Dr. Anthony B. James, and Staff

Where?

Thai Yoga Center, Brooksville, FL

Cost? No cost of tuition if you are actively enrolled in or a graduate of  S.C.N.M. (Does not apply to D.S.T.I.M.): SomaVeda College of Natural Medicine College Degree Pathway! Not including housing and kitchen fee + $75.29 book fee.

Book Ahead to Secure: Call Admin Office at (706) 358-9705

Early registration will be on the “Sliding scale.”

 Register by: April 3rd. And April 8th.
  $450.00 *
 Register Between: April 9th and  May 9th.  $550.00 *
May 10th. to June 10th  $650.00
June 11th. To July 11th.  $775.00 *
July 12th. To August 4th.  $900.00 *
 At the door…  $1020.00 *

*does not include a textbook fee of $75.29 (The required textbooks may be purchased in advance. No extra fee if you already have the four required textbooks. Nuad Boran The Northern Style Thai Massage, Krabi Krabong, The Tiger Sword of Thailand, Recovering Health Post Covid, Amazing Thai Yoga for the Hands) All four required textbooks are to be ordered ahead of the class at BeardedMedia.Com. Don’t forget to bring the required text with you to class! The office will NOT be fulfilling book orders for attending students and teachers.

Attention! Special offer for SomaVeda® Thai Yoga TCP Graduates and Certified Teachers!

Call or contact the office directly for consideration.

Learn SomaVeda® Thai Yoga in Thailand With Ajahn, Dr. Anthony B. James, and Indigenous Thai Medicine Masters!

Thailand December 2023

 

 

UNESCO heritage: Traditional Thai massage added to ‘cultural heritage’ list

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Wat Po, Thai Traditional Massage, Thai Yoga Center USA

The Amazing and beneficial traditional Thai massage (Thai Yoga Therapy- Thai Traditional Medicine Ayurveda) has been added to a prestigious UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE list.

Somaveda® Thai Yoga Massage Therapy Facilitated Cobra yoga posture

After bringing the Traditional Thai Healing Arts to the US in 1984 and then writing and publishing the first textbook in English on Nuad Thai, Traditional Thai Medicine Massage also in 1984, I feel this is one more vindication of just how important and significant Thai Traditional Healing arts are for the modern world.

NUAD THAI: The Thai Yoga Center’s SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Practitioner Certification program is the oldest continuous Traditional Thai Massage program in the US!

According to the BBC Post December 13th. 2019

“Nuad Thai” is now part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which features traditions and practices passed across the generations.

By being part of the list, Thai massage has been officially recognized as something to be preserved for future generations.

UNESCO is the United Nations’ agency for education, culture, and science.

The intangible cultural heritage list is separate from the world heritage list, which recognizes buildings and sites of prominence.

There are 550 items on the cultural heritage list – split into three categories – from 127 countries.

Items are added every year, with this year’s committee meeting in Bogota, Colombia.

Ayurvedic Thai Table Class

Unlike conventional massages, Thai Traditional massage is actually a spiritually based science of traditional medicine based on classical Buddhist Ayurveda. It focuses on the practical expression of loving kindness as the root of healing all diseases. As a form of traditional Yoga Therapy is incorporates sequences of You Asana or therapeutic postures to bring energy, attention, consciousness, breath and pressure to the client. Adjunct practices incorporate Diet, Vedic Nutrition, Lifestyle and teachings for emotional and mental health.

Description according to UNESCO:

“Nuad Thai, traditional Thai massage is regarded as part of the art, science and culture of traditional Thai healthcare. As a non-medicinal remedy and manual therapy, it involves bodily manipulation in which the practitioner helps rebalance the patient’s body, energy and structure to treat illnesses believed to be caused by the obstruction of energy flow along ‘sen’, lines understood to crisscross the human body. This manipulation is intended to normalize the four body elements: earth, water, wind and fire. To open up blocked routes, Nuad Thai therapists perform a combination of manipulations using their hands, elbows, knees and feet, together with herbal hot compresses to reduce inflammation. Presently, Nuad Thai is classified into two main types: Nuad Thai therapy and Nuad Thai for health promotion.”

Dive DEEPER into “What is Thai Traditional Massage”?

Therapists use not only their hands but sometimes their forearms and knees to apply pressure.

According to Unesco, the practice has its “roots in self-care in Thai peasant society of the past, [where] every village had massage healers whom villagers would turn to when they had muscle aches from working the field”. However, UNESCO in this brief summary does not address the ancient roots of Ayurveda Medicine which the “Thai Peasants” knew and practiced for millennium.

According to Unesco, the intangible culture heritage list seeks to recognize things that are “important to preserve for future generations… [like] songs sung and stories told”.

It adds that these things “form part of a heritage and this requires active effort to safeguard it”.

NAIC is a UN WHO, DESA Registered IPO and supports the recognition’s of indigenous traditional peoples medicine and culture!