นวดไทย (nuad Thai)
Thai bodywork in which practitioners use hands, elbows, knees and feet to work along the sen — lines understood to cross the body — aiming to rebalance body and energy and the four elements. It grew from village self-care and became a formal body of knowledge, revitalized through a national project from 1985 and inscribed by UNESCO in 2019. A body-practice record (no object is made), included at CRAFT’s decision of October 2026.
Risk level: Thriving · Inscribed 2019 (14.COM) on the Representative List — "Nuad Thai, traditional Thai massage" (file 01384)
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