Thai Massage Advanced Training in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Thai Massage Beyond the Beginners Course

Sunshine Massage School in Chiang Mai is famous for the quality of its Thai Yoga Massage Beginner's course. This is the foundation for further studies and also a perquisite for the Advanced Thai Massage courses proposed on this site.

Advanced Thai Massage Courses

See our chronological list of Advanced Thai Massage Courses and Workshops. We are always happy to answer your questions, so feel free to get in touch with us.

Featured Upcoming Courses:

Advanced Thai Massage: Side Position

Welcome to Our Advanced Side Position Course

Next class : July 14–18, 2025

This special course teaches you how to give a complete Thai massage while your client lies on their side. Side position massage is a treasured part of Thai massage tradition.

Advanced Thai Massage: Stretches

Our experienced teachers are here to help you get deeper in your Thai massage practice.

Next Training: July 21–25, 2025

This course helps you understand the reasons behind some techniques and how to apply them more precisely. You will gain a broader perspective of your whole massage treatments. In this course you will learn a variety of specific stretching techniques and alternative approaches.

Topics:

• Solidifying techniques taught in our primary courses (Beginners' Courses).

• Expanding techniques to a wide range of body types and health conditions.

• Focusing on correct posture and precise energy line work.

• Learning more techniques and stretches.

• Using feet, elbows, knees with precision specific to your body type.

Stretch in side position

3 weeks special Advanced Thai Massage

Itzhak Helman, one of Sunshine Network's most experienced Teachers, shares his life's work in this 3-week workshop.

From November 17th until December 5th, 2025.

Using the general structure of our Beginner's program as a starting point, this workshop features extensive revisions drawn from the instructor's 25 years of treatment, teaching, and continuous education.

This course offers a valuable opportunity for serious practitioners to enrich their Thai Massage therapist toolbox, addressing classic problems while mindfully practicing fundamental principles.

Assess through the structure

Throughout these three transformative weeks, you'll explore the skills of diagnosis and observation - learning to visually interpret body language, assess muscular balance, and identify tension patterns.

This advanced course guides you in materializing a clear pathway of elements and events that will inform and enhance your massage practice, allowing you to create more personalized, effective treatments for each recipient. Many techniques taught or deepened here are particularly well-adapted for less flexible and aging clients.

Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha, also known as Shivago Komarpaj, is considered the father of Thai traditional medicine.

Customised programs for extended and intensive Thai Massage studies are available:

We understand that students coming to Sunshine Massage School are here for serious studies.

Often students have a limited amount of time in Chiang Mai and would like to maximize their study by combining courses into one longer, more comprehensive program.

Each of our courses can be taken individually, or as part of a larger curriculum comprised of multiple courses.

Immersive Thai Massage Learning Journeys

The historical patron of Thai massage : Jivaka Kumar Bhaccha

Deepen Your Practice with Our Extended Programs

Our immersive programs combine multiple courses into comprehensive learning journeys designed for serious practitioners. Each program follows Asokananda's teaching philosophy of strengthening foundations through mindful repetition before advancing to more complex techniques.

You can also visit the 2 other websites from Sunshine:

As you may know, Sunshine is renowned for its Beginners Course:

These courses run for 2 weeks and start on Monday of every week. Click this link to visit the Beginners Thai Massage Course website.

Sunshine also presents bodyworkers dedicated workshops:

These workshops are not exactly about Thai Massage but we host them because we believe that they can be useful for Thai massage practitioners.

Click here to visit the Sunshine's Workshops dedicated to bodyworkers.

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Sunshine Massage School

School for Traditional Thai Massage in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Accredited by the Thai Ministry of Education and Thai Ministry of Health.

Accredited by:

The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB)