This course is wonderful to get warmed up as we head into winter. You’ll learn to make, steam and use these aromatic and healing massage balls. It’s a fun and rewarding!
Thai Hot Herbal Compress Massage (Luk Pra Kob) is a wonderfully warming treatment, perfect for this time of year. Unlike some of the commercial training courses which use manufactured compresses, we will be making our own from selected herbs and roots of Thailand. You’ll learn about the properties of the herbs. This knowledge gives you the skill to tailor the contents to the needs of the individual. You’ll also learn how to wrap them into a healing compress. Once your compress is made you’ll learn how to get them steaming hot, and give a warming and healing full body compress massage.
This course is suitable for beginners and professionals alike. It is a 2 day course that teaches you skills that will make your friends or clients very happy this winter! You’ll be practising the techniques on each another in class.
Next 2 day certificate course Sat 28th and Sun 29th Nov ’26
This course taught by Lucy Trend at Mango Studio, home of Shiatsu and Thai Massage Training at 72 Berkely Street, Charing Cross, G3 7DS
ONLINE OPTION: THIS COURSE IS AVAILABLE TO ATTEND REMOTELY PLEASE INDICATE WHEN BOOKING
Early Bird booking price £225 finishes 17th Oct, £250 full price thereafter. Cost includes materials and herbs for making two hot compresses in class to take away with you. Class numbers are limited to ensure individual attention.
50% discount if you have done the course before and wish to repeat for revision purposes.
Entry Requirements: No previous qualification is required. This course is for anyone interested in learning about delicious smelling healing herbs, and the art of applying Luk Pra Kob compress massage. You can use it to help yourselves, friends, and family. For professional certification to practise on the public in the UK you should have a recognised level 3 qualification in massage or reflexology, including Anatomy & Physiology.
More about Compresses:
Thai Hot Herbal Compress Massage (Luk Pra Kob) is a wonderfully warming treatment, perfect for this time of year. You will learn techniques to benefit every part of the body. This year we will have an emphasis on using the compress on the abdomen, for digestive and reproductive health.
Hand made herbal compresses are steam heated to release the aroma and properties of the herbs, such as lemongrass and lime leaf, white ginger root, frankincense resin and borneo camphor. Then they are patted, pressed, pounded and pummelled on the body. A very tonifying and restoring treatment, adaptable for everyone, relieves muscular tension, deep bruising or torn muscles, good for respiratory ailments, water retention, fatigue, fertility, you name it! Just close your eyes, relax, and melt into a warming Thai reverie.
In the case of muscle or tendon injury, hot herbal compress works by allowing the body’s immune and anti inflammatory process to do it’s own work, whilst the combination of the heat, and the anti inflammatory herbs, enhances this process and prevents energy and blood flow stagnation from setting in.
