My Thai Massage book is now in the hands of the editor at Elsevier. The drafts look great and I’ll let you know when I have the release date. I have a few smaller writing projects to complete but my time is freed up for teaching again.

I am putting together a modular structure for my courses starting with Thai Massage part one and progressing through to my own particular approach to emotional bodywork. I’ll publish details here little by little but if you would like advanced notification do send me an email.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home

Friday 2nd May and Saturday 3rd May 2008. Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London.

I will be giving a talk entitled ‘Locating a place of wellness in the midst of trauma’.

‘Many health professionals spend much of their working lives as direct or vicarious witness to human suffering. A slow process of traumatisation may occur, often referred to as burnout. In craniosacral work our first aim is to re-establish the patient’s connection with their inherent health. This is not an idea but a perceptual state modelled by the therapist. It offers both patient and therapist a place of wellness around which to organise the chaos of trauma. This presentation will illustrate this process and how a sense of inherent health is available to us all.’

http://www.confer.uk.com/080502practitionerbody.html

Thai Massage Training– Part 1

Alaro, Mallorca
Six day (30 hour) course

11, 18, 25 May, 8, 15, 22 June 2008
Hours: from 9am until 2pm
More information: 971 51 85 79 or mail@howardevans.co.uk

Traditional Thai medicine is based on the concept of an energy system comprising 72,000 ’sen’ lines through which energy is transformed and distributed in the human body. In Thailand much of the theory of this system has been lost. All that remains is a series of simple diagrams outlining the 10 major sen lines used in Traditional Thai Massage.

There are some similarities with the system of nadis identified in Hatha Yoga and with the meridians used in Chinese Medicine and Shiatsu. This course in Thai Massage interprets the sen lines from a myofascial perspective. This makes for an easily learned yet highly effective form of massage.

The course combines the best techniques from Traditional Thai Massage with myofascial and craniosacral influences to create a flowing, dynamic and meditative form of bodywork. This is not the painful and bruising work that many people have experienced with Traditional Thai Massage.