Hi Studio Monkey
I trained at the 300 hr teacher training course in chiangmai, at the thai massage school of chiangmai, they also have a 150hr practitioner course, its full time 9am to 4pm or something similar every weekday, its quite a strict course, they do teach some A & P but its not recognised in the uk, you can also visit a cadaver lab as part of the course should you wish and i think they've added some more stuff since i did the course check out tmc school on google.
However I was able to get insured by IPTI before I did my swedish massage and uk A & P qualifications.
If your in chiangmai, there are a lot of other schools such as the school of massage for health, ITM school, Namo amongst others, some have teachers which have left other schools for various reasons.
The TMC school has probably the best course book on offer in thailand mainly as the two heads of the school are quite into their marketing one of them has a degree in it, ITM uses a sort of colouring book which you fill in yourself which im sure is good for memory retention.
Chilled out wise the school of massage for health is a nice school in a great walled off garden with lots of water features, in this school they also do hot stones, fire therapy, traditional thai massage, thai oil massage
i did all these courses at that school as well .. and it has the best family type atmosphere as tmc is quite regimented but thats probably a good idea on your first course.
ITM just around the corner from massage for health also has an area called spa mantra, where they do tong sen and oil massage etc as well.
There is also the famous sunshine school previously run by the famous akosananda (hope i spelt that right) they have a 12 day total immersion course in a village outside of chiangmai , i wish id done this course as his books are excellent (he wrote the first western book on thai massage), the sunshine school do courses worldwide in places like greece as well i believe.
I didnt go south at all during my stay there as chiangmai is a very studenty type place, loads of therapists wandering about, ive got friends i met there for life and we chat all the time on facebook
hope that helps
Desi girl .... i had a friend who did a one day or two course with jing .. on thai massage, they are a really good school, if I was going to do thai massage (in the uk) id do it with them, I believe it delivered a good basic routine for you to follow .. thai massage can be a risky business unless you know what your doing if you try to do anything to mad without the proper training
PS studio monkey you dont normally live in the school, they have a recommdended list of places to stay in the area, which are generally quite good !!! i met some great people in all my guesthouses, if you study for 6 days a week there wouldnt be time for all that hectic socialising ... 5 is enough ...