Thailand Yoga Study Tours
Welcome to the N.A.I.C. Thai Yoga Center, Thai Massage and Indigenous Traditional Medicine Study Tours, where you can travel to Thailand and receive certification in traditional SomaVeda® Thai Yoga (Traditional Thai Massage/ Thai Yoga Massage and Spiritually based Religious Therapeutics). N.A.I.C. has developed comprehensive programs approved for CEUs toward certification for Certified SomaVeda® Thai Yoga Practitioner and Certified Teacher.
For 2023, we are excited to see a reduction and outright elimination of restrictions relating to the pandemic, allowing us to return to our training in Thailand. Although sadly, some of the previous programs, schools, clinics, and teachers are no longer available as they once were. However, it is now possible to continue sharing and building our relationships with Royal Thai Government-approved and authorized clinical programs.
Considering the more than 39 years of experience guiding our teachers, students, and SomaVeda® Thai Yoga and Ayurveda Practitioners for intensive training and cultural immersion, we are well equipped to join in and return to Thailand.
2023 Guided Training and Cultural Immersion Experience
December 7th. To December 19th. 2023
We have the experience and commitment to having your experience in the kingdom of Thailand be the very best.
The type of traditional Thai therapy that most people will be directly exposed to is ráksãa thaang nûat (healing massage treatment). This is more commonly known as the Nuat Thai or Nuad Boran styles of Thai Yoga therapy or Thailand’s religious therapeutics/ spiritual massage and healing work. Please note: for clarity, although we use the word “massage” in everyday English, we do not mean it in the same context as the typical Western usage. In the West, “Massage” means something like a “Rub Down” for money and primarily refers to Swedish Massage and Massage Therapy systems. “Thai Yoga and or Traditional Thai Massage” (Phaen Boran Ráksãa Thaang Nûat) is entirely unrelated! It is a religious therapeutic and healing art derivative of Theravada Buddhism, Buddhist medicine, Classical Indian and Tibetan Indigenous Ayurveda, and Yoga Vedanta. It is not required to become a practicing Buddhist to practice this healing art. As Native Americans, we have successfully and fully integrated Thai Traditional Medicine into our Native American Indigenous Medicine practice as an example (N.A.I.C.). Although it would be more accurate to call this medicine either by its traditional name or “Ancient, Anachronistic or Old Thai Way of Healing with The Hands,” the slang form of “Thai Massage” is in use. As long as this is so, there will be some understandable confusion. For more information and details on What is Indigenous Traditional Thai Yoga and Thai Massage, you can learn more at 
Thailand is the world’s 50th largest country in terms of total area (slightly smaller than Yemen and slightly larger than Spain), with a surface area of approximately 513,000 km2 (198,000 sq mi), and the 21st most-populous country, with about 64 million people. About 75% of the population is ethnically Thai, 14% is of Chinese origin, and 3% is ethnically Malay; the rest belong to minority groups, including Mons, Khmers, and various hill tribes. There are an estimated 2.2 million legal and illegal migrants in Thailand. Thailand has also attracted many expatriates from developed countries in the West. The country’s official language is Thai.
