Noam Tyroler

In 1989, I took my first Thai massage course in the school of the Old Traditional Hospital in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. After several years of training, including five additional courses in Thailand, I became a Thai massage practitioner in 1992. Three years later, I opened the Thai massage department at the Reidman international college. This is the largest college for holistic medicine in Israel and one of the largest in the world. Since 1998, I also teach Thai acupressure and have trained hundreds of students in this Thai art. For many years, I have been searching for a book on Thai acupressure. I could not find such a book, and finally decided to write one on my own. I worked full time for two wonderful years writing this book. Writing a course textbook based on an ancient oral teaching is an exciting challenge. I hope it will make many practitioners of manual therapies fall in love with Thai acupressure and use it in their practice as I have done. I live in Israel with my wife and two sweet young daughters, and I teach Thai massage and acupressure.