The use of bamboo has a long history in China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia and other Asian countries.
In the far past, thin sheets of bamboo were used as paper by monks in Buddhist Temples, and young bamboo is still used as food. The list is long – from making tools, decorations and mats to building houses, from artifacts in creative, healing and spiritual expressions to massage.
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Today, we see Bamboo Massage increasingly offered on Spa menus, both in the East and in the West. Polished, hollow bamboo rods and sticks of different sizes and diameters are used — warm or cold — to roll or glide on muscles to soften, relax and stretch them.
Some therapists prefer to apply the rods by heating the bamboo believing that with heat the work will be more therapeutic because of being able to penetrate deeper into tissue and muscle layers. In fact, a bit the same idea as using hot herbal compresses in Thai Herbal Ball Massage.
Although the bamboo rods can be used on every part of the body, they are specifically excellent for working on the legs (thighs and calves), neck and shoulders, and arms.
Bamboo Massage can be used stand-alone to do a complete, full body massage, but it’s more likely applied as an extra tool and complementary method being part of a detoxification and/or weight loss program, or to attack persistent blockages, tensions, knots, tangles and muscle contractions, and the like.
There are also benefits for the therapist, because using bamboo sticks reduces over-straining the arms, wrists, hands and fingers, while still allowing for deep penetrating work.
Bamboo Massage training courses in Thailand are rarely offered. Below we’ve listed the Thai Massage or Spa Massage schools across the country we’ve spotted.
Bellezza Skin Care Center & Spa
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Bangkok
Chiang Mai Spa Academy (CMSA) | Chiang Mai Spa School
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Chiang Mai
The Chiang Mai Spa Academy (also called the Chiang Mai Spa School) is a massage and bodywork school focused on the education and training of beauty and spa therapists. The academy in Chiang Mai offers a vast range of Thai Healing Arts and Western style Spa courses.
Ong’s Thai Massage School
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Chiang Mai
Ong's Thai Massage School offers a broad diversity of massage courses with a duration generally from 1 up to 5 days.
Training modalities range from Thai Massage, Herbal Compress Massage, Reusi Dat Ton (Thai Yoga), Chi Nei Tsang Abdominal Massage, Foot Massage, and so on, to Western Spa training modalities such as Lymphatic Drainage Massage, Nail Painting, and Waxing, and more.
Si Goet
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Chiang Mai
Spa Mantra
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Chiang Mai
Spa Mantra is a Thai Spa and Wellness center and a branch from the ITM Chiang Mai Thai Massage school. Connected to the Spa treatment center is a Thai Massage and Bodywork academy with both Western, Thai style, and Lanna Folk Healing training courses and workshops mostly focused on the spa industry.
Thai Healing Arts Association
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Chiang Mai
Yokthip Southern Massage & Spa School | Samui Spa School
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Koh Samui
