Learn how to use Colombian Wood Therapy to help your clients reduce cellulite and melt fat. Our training covers everything you need to know to perform the treatment.
Wood therapy is a vigorous massage technique that utilizes wooden, handheld tools, such as rolling pins and vacuum-suction cups. Purportedly, wood therapy is centuries old and originated in Asia.
The technique of wood therapy has seen a surge in popularity, primarily in South America, where people call it maderoterapia. Madera is Spanish for wood.
Wood therapy or ‘Maderoterapia” is a body sculpting technique that employs sculpted wooden implements to improve the body’s size and proportions. It is a non-invasive treatment designed to mold the figure utilizing wood instruments designed anatomically to stimulate each body without causing lesions in their tissues.
This massage/technique is a superior alternative to a regular massage for patients with disproportionate, localized pockets of stubborn fat and cellulite. Wood sculpting tools are made specifically to manipulate and restructure fatty tissue, loosen tight and tired muscles and smooth out cellulite.
What you’ll learn in this Colombian Wood Therapy certification course:
What is wood therapy
How wood therapy works
3 categories of wood therapy tools
Detailed run through of the 3 types of tools
Oils and wood therapy lubricants
Base oils and essential oils plus oil absorption rates
Types of fat: fat theory, skin anatomy & cellulite
Areas that can be treated
Contraindications
Hygiene, infection control & tool maintenance
Client consultation
Treatment design
Draping techniques
4 application techniques
Step by step treatment protocols – including detailed ‘How-To’ videos
Free Downloadable Forms & Guides:
Business Marketing Guide
Treatment Consent Form
Detailed Training Guide
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
Treatment Area Diagrams
Client Consultation Model
Printable Body Measurement Chart
Printable Before and Aftercare sheet
Printable Handwashing Guide
Because of its great draining effect, it achieves the best and most perfect highly visible results from the first session on body treatments, can also be used for facials. This treatment activates circulation, combating cellulite and, helping to eliminate toxins and break down the adipose tissue. This technique employs repetitive movements using more than a dozen different wooden implements to manipulate targeted areas of muscle, fat cellulite, stimulating the lymphatic drainage system to rid the body of stored toxins.
