CHIANG MAI, 9 June 2014, – The Office of Labor Skill Development in Chiang Mai is currently promoting traditional Thai massage spas, offering free courses on the practice to the province’s unemployed workforce.
According to officials, the class is 180 hours long, providing both theoretical and hands-on workshops, revealing further that the office’s goals are to improve the quality of traditional Thai masseurs, and to give opportunity to the unemployed. The Labor Skill Office pointed out that skilled massage therapists are currently in great demand in Russia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and European countries, adding that experienced practitioners in Thailand’s northern region could earn as much as 12,000 a month, around 20,000 baht in the South, and as high as 30,000 baht aboard.
Officials also urged practitioners looking to work abroad to be extremely thorough and careful about choosing employment agencies.
Major benefits of traditional Thai massage include soothing the symptoms of asthma and migraines, sprains, bruises, and anxiety. Further benefits include easing physical and emotional tensions, ameliorating sleeplessness, improving flexibility, creating greater awareness of the body and the mind, and releasing blocked energy.
