I discovered a gem. An emerald that has a healing heart. Baan Hom was created by Homprang and Christopher, two lovely, heart-centered giants whose presence energizes this home away from home. In reality it is a temple of power gifts. Yes, I loved it and slept there eight nights filled with deep dreams that dropped me into my own pond like the koi pond outside my window.
Baan Hom is a traditional Thai healing center located outside Chiang Mai. The grass heals you in this place. My days were a path I couldn’t get off and wouldn’t want to if I could. The center held me and healed old wounds.
I stayed nine days, during which i received massages and enjoyed delicious homestyle Thai meals at a table filled with interesting and congenial conversation between lovely people while little angel dogs curled up under the table or smiled hopefully. (I know this is a VERY long sentence!)
I awoke to the sounds of birds rustling and calling in the trees, koi splashing in the pond and roosters crowing their morning awakening. Holly, Katya, Jody and others studied Thai massage with Homprang during the day. Staff worked in the yard, in the kitchen, gave massages, washed dishes and drove us into town, to appointments, to markets, and to the airport.
We took walks among rice fields and through nearby hospital grounds, visited temples and Jody and i had our hair done at a local Thai salon. We shopped for celadon ceramics with Homprang during a 50% sale (and bought!). Yet there was always time and space to be held in a warm spiritual embrace initiated with Thai yoga practiced at 7:00 each morning.
Christopher, a longtime sailor, poet and Homprang’s husband, spun sailing stories and I read his articles published in sailing magazines, saw old sailing photos of him and his three daughters in the Med and recounted some of my own sailing adventures and missteps.
For information about this lovely place: www.Homprang.com
Homprang and Holly, an intern and massage student
My room was on the second floor of this traditional Thai-style house at Baan Hom.
The koi pond outside my room.
A beautiful tree within the hospital grounds.
