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TMC - Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai

Thai massage training class in Thailand

Chiang Mai

About the school

This school has permanently closed. See the schools that are still open →

TMC was for two decades one of the two or three most important schools in Thailand for foreign students, and it is included here because it is still widely recommended in out-of-date guides and its website remains live - which misleads people into planning trips around a school that no longer teaches. Founded in 2001 by Jan Chaithavuthi and Kanchanoo Muangsiri to preserve and standardise Thai massage teaching, it was inaugurated by the Deputy Governor of Chiang Mai, became in 2005 the first Thai massage school to receive a royal award, and reached Excellent Education status across all twelve required Ministry of Education categories in 2013. It taught roughly 20,000 students from more than 100 countries between 2002 and 2018 and trained over 3,000 teachers through its Government Certified Teacher affiliation programme. The pandemic ended it: TMC School Thailand closed officially in April 2022 after 21 years. Its curriculum survives only through affiliated GCT teachers worldwide and through its published textbooks.

Courses

  • Formerly offered: Basic Thai Massage (18 hrs)
  • Foundation of Thai Massage Level 1 (30 hrs)
  • Thai Massage Enhancement Level 2 (30 hrs)
  • Therapeutic Thai Massage Level 3 (30 hrs)
  • Comprehensive Thai Massage Levels 1-3 (90 hrs)
  • Intensive Professional Thai Massage (150 hrs, 5 weeks)
  • Teacher Training Levels 1-5
  • GCT teacher affiliation (300 and 600 hrs)
  • Thai Infant Massage (30 hrs)
  • Thai Table Massage (12 hrs)
  • Thai Foot Reflexology (12 hrs)
  • Thai Facial Massage (6 hrs)
  • Thai Chair Massage (6 hrs)
  • Thai Herbal Ball Making and Application (6 hrs)
  • Yogi Exercise Lue Sri Dadton self-care (6 hrs)
  • Tok Sen (2 days). NONE of these are currently taught in Thailand.

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Accreditation

Formerly held: Thai Ministry of Education Excellent Education status across all twelve required categories (2013); Ministry of Public Health and Ministry of Labour curriculum approval for professional massage therapists; a royal award in 2005 as the first Thai massage school so recognised; international recognition from NCBTMB, AMTA, the California nursing board, NHPC Canada and Massage and Myotherapy Australia. These accreditations attached to an institution that has ceased teaching and cannot be earned from it today.

Address

Formerly on the banks of the Mae Khao canal, on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thailand

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