Welcome to Sirichan Thai Healing Center

Sirichan Thai Healing Center sits inside Green Oasis Resort in Chiang Mai, and the easiest way to describe it is also the truest one: the clinic, the classrooms, the guest rooms, and daily life all share the same garden. There's no separate wing for "wellness." You walk past the treatment rooms on your way to breakfast.

At the center of it is Dr. Sirichan, known to almost everyone here as Nooy.

A doctor who learned before she studied

Nooy started at eight years old, standing next to her grandmother Wissim, a working midwife and herbal healer, watching her treat people. That's where this began, decades before any diploma. She went on to train in temples across Thailand, eventually earned a doctorate in Traditional Thai Medicine, and has now spent more than thirty years in clinical practice, treating real patients rather than case studies.

Ask her about energy lines and she'll shrug. Every massage school teaches them, and most students stop listening the moment they hear the phrase. What she teaches instead is harder to put on a certificate: how to feel a body instead of diagnosing it from memory, how to trust what your hands find over what a textbook says, how to stay present with someone in pain instead of running a routine on them.

The Thai word for that kind of attention is sati, a steady, non-judging presence with whatever's actually in front of you. It's not something you can memorize your way into. It takes years of repetition and correction, on real bodies, which is part of why a treatment, a course, or a retreat at Sirichan is hard to explain in advance. You mostly have to be in the room for it.

None of this makes the place solemn, though. Sanuk sanan, a Thai sense of lively, easy enjoyment, runs underneath the clinical rigor here, not against it. Healing is serious work. It doesn't have to be heavy.

Three ways in

There's more than one reason someone walks through the gate at Sirichan, so there's more than one path once you're here.

If you're carrying pain, tension, or a restriction you haven't been able to shake, that's Heal: a locked lower back, sciatica, months of desk work finally catching up with someone. Nooy reads the body first, the same exam that's opened every treatment here for thirty years: visual inspection, palpation, pulse-reading. Then she works the area that hurts and everything connected to it, drawing on more than a dozen Thai modalities, from acupressure and Tok Sen to abdominal massage and spinal balancing. There's no fixed sequence. The treatment follows what she finds.

Therapists and bodyworkers who want more than a weekend certificate come for Learn. Classes are small, eight students at most, built on the idea that real skill comes from doing rather than memorizing. Students practice on each other first, then eventually on real clients, under direct supervision. The program runs five weeks, foundations through clinical integration, though any single week also works as a standalone course. As the saying goes around here, it's not a holiday camp. It's enjoyable, but expect correction, and expect to be wrong before you're right.

And when one treatment isn't enough, there's Restore. Over several days, treatment, food, movement, and rest get set up together, so the body has the strongest possible conditions to recover, not just feel better for an afternoon. It isn't a schedule of activities. It's the removal of everything that usually gets in the way of healing.

You can read more about the treatments, courses, and retreats on this site. And we'd like to hear from you: which of these three paths are you drawn to right now?