Become a Certified Connective Tissue Therapist
– RAB Approved Body Therapy and Massage Training
This is Katrine Wennerwald’s signature training. A body therapy that embraces the whole person with techniques from both the new scientific and alternative worlds.
The connective tissue therapist training is based on a unique combination of several effective techniques:
- Rolf Method/Structural Integration: Working to bring the body into balance through correction of body posture.
- Elements from physiotherapy: Focus on identifying the causes of the body’s challenges, applied with a holistic perspective.
- Stanley Rosenberg’s gentle connective tissue technique: A gentle and effective approach to improving connective tissue function.
- Connective tissue massage with oil, supplemented with specially developed techniques based on Katrine Wennerwald’s over 25 years of experience as a therapist.
This massage training is ideal for you who want a solid foundation as a professional body therapist, regardless of whether you have experience in treatment or not.
What is Connective Tissue Therapy?
Connective tissue therapy is built on a holistic approach to treating the body’s symptoms. Both physical imbalances and emotional tensions can be taken into consideration.
What’s special about this therapy is the ability to model the body back into balance by working with the connective tissue. This can reduce stress on joints and muscles, relieve pain and provide more flexibility in the body. The treatment can also release our emotional tensions that can be “frozen” in the connective tissue. The client thereby gains renewed energy and a stronger foundation – both physically, mentally and emotionally.
The connective tissue is released with gentle and precise techniques that go under the body’s defenses and de-stress the nervous system, which activates the body’s natural ability to release tensions.
With this method, one can – without manipulating the body – work deeply in the tissue. A process that can feel like immediate relief both with a local effect and simultaneously affect the entire body. The treatment is often experienced as providing more lasting or permanent changes.
What Do You Personally get out of it?
The training gives you the opportunity to become a skilled and empathetic therapist, so you can help clients, your loved ones and yourself. Through the training you will experience greater body awareness, become sharpened intuitively and sensitively. You will gain new knowledge, awareness and presence around the body and mind.
The training can be used as a personal journey, or because you want to work with connective tissue therapy professionally.
What Kind of Therapist Will You Become?
With the connective tissue therapy training, you have a solid foundation for reading the body for possible causes of problems. And you will get unique tools to solve them.
You will be very precise and sensitive in your contact with the client’s tissue, and every treatment is like a journey of discovery into the tissue.
As a therapist, you can help your clients to a new and better version of themselves with your touch. With this body therapy, you never cross the line, but are the catalyst that gives the client the opportunity to heal themselves.
“A good therapist feels good”
The training is designed so that you take care of yourself as a therapist, and so you can work for many years without getting injured yourself.
In addition to the treatment form being gentle, you will be helped along the way to practice the correct working positions.
What Have our Clients Gained from the Treatment?
- I feel upright and light in my body.
- I can easily lift my arm without pain.
- I no longer have headaches.
- I have better bite function and more space in my mouth.
- I feel happier and fresher.
- The pain in my body is gone.
- I feel more grounded and present in the moment.
- My scar tissue problems have disappeared.
- My dowager’s hump is gone.
- I have better body awareness and can now feel when I’m making the wrong stresses.
- I’ve become much better at setting boundaries.
- This is the first time I feel that someone understands my symptoms and can explain how it can be connected.
A connective tissue session typically lasts 60-75 minutes and costs between 700 – 1,250 kr.
What You get in the Training
At Bindevævs-Akademiet, we place great emphasis on professionalism. You are taught the theory around connective tissue and the nervous system and get a thorough review of relevant anatomy, so you as a therapist have high professional insight and ballast.
We make a great effort to ensure you get a good 3D sense of the body’s anatomy. You learn where the different muscles are located, how they work and how they individually and through connective tissue chains can affect body posture, as well as the different typical pain patterns that tense muscles can cause. You also learn how you can release the muscles in relation to the different layers and treat them completely specifically and effectively.
Learning takes place primarily through practical work at the treatment table, where you alternately treat and receive treatment from one of your fellow students.
The changes you experience in your own body along the way, when you yourself are treated, are important learning for when you later have to treat your clients.
It is part of the course that between each module you must practice on at least 5 clients, whom we are happy to help you find. You earn the money yourself from your practice clients.
You Will also Learn:
- Massage techniques and examinations
- Trigger point treatment
- The internal organs’ anatomy, function and emotions
- The energy system
- Unwinding
- Scar tissue treatment – both physical and traumatic
- Fascia stretching exercises
- Cupping connective tissue massage
- Treatment for freer breathing
- The vagus nerve and stress-reducing techniques
- Body and mind connection
- Intuition and empathy
- Working positions and positioning
- Client conversations and record keeping
- Branding and client flow
Get Help and Courage to Start your Own Practice
Whether you want to work full-time or use it as a side occupation, we will help you reach your goal as an independent therapist.
This part includes:
- Teaching in branding and client flow
- Development of your own individual action plan
- Help finding practice clients
- Guidance and support for starting a practice
- Presentation on advertising and marketing as well as rules for data protection law, ethics and confidentiality
- Closed Facebook group where you can ask questions and share experiences
- Follow-up with supervision after completed training
Want to Hear more?
Then feel free to call for a non-committal conversation. It is also possible to arrange a short free trial treatment with your instructor. This offer only applies as long as there is space in the class.
What Can a Connective Tissue Therapist Offer Their Client?
Analysis and Solution Proposals
You can read the body for imbalances and possible causes of pain, treat the problem manually and give the client exercises to take home.
Better Body Posture
You can correct the client’s body posture and core muscles into balance, so the body thereby has better conditions for straightening up.
Tight tissue can pull on the bones so the body becomes crooked, and by working specifically with the connective tissue, the body’s natural balance can be restored and the elasticity of the tissue improved. The result can be seen immediately after a relaxation.
Free Mobility
You can give the client a feeling of freedom and lightness in the body by releasing the tight joints and muscles, so the body works better.
Gentle and Present Treatment
You will be very sensitive in your way of treating, so it feels like communication between your hands and the tissue. Even when you treat deep in the tissue.
Pain Treatment
You can treat clients with pain in the body, e.g. stiffness in the back and neck, tension headaches and sprained ankle. You will also be equipped to treat clients with problems such as whiplash, “sciatica pain”, disc prolapse and other injuries.
Preventive Treatment
You can prevent poor body posture, problems with inappropriate working positions, low energy and imbalances by ensuring that the body has the best conditions to function optimally.
Sports Injury Treatment
You can help athletes optimize muscle performance and work on their sports injuries.
Stress Treatment
You get techniques to alleviate physiological stress. You can help the client to better body contact and more peace in body and mind.
Face and Body Lift
By stimulating and relaxing the skin, muscles and surrounding connective tissue, the elasticity of the tissue is restored. Thereby the face and body are naturally lifted. When the connective tissue returns to its living and elastic form, the client experiences a tightening effect around the area you work on. You can therefore also use the technique to give the body or face a physical tightening lift, e.g. in face, chest, stomach and thighs.
After about an hour of treatment, your client will experience how effective connective tissue therapy can be. You can see and feel the treatment immediately and the process continues in depth and will work further until the client’s body has integrated its new form.
Body – Mind Connection
Body, thoughts and feelings are connected. The nervous system and the muscles in our face and body show our emotional expression before we ourselves register it. By giving the face more mimicry and the body more grounding, we get better contact with our feelings. The treatment can therefore also be used for psychological well-being and to create a free flow in body and mind.
Trauma Treatment
Connective tissue is also the memory of emotions, and when we release tensions, old traumas can be triggered. You learn how to resolve these, and how to handle a client with traumas.
Course Progression
The training runs over just over 1 year divided into 16 modules of three days approximately once a month.
In addition, after each module you must practice on at least five clients, which we follow up on in a common forum.
This is an important part of the training, so that you can become a skilled therapist. In addition to this giving you training in the professional and practical, you become familiar with client contact and meet real problems.
When you are fully trained, the biggest leap to your own practice has thus been taken.
You earn the money yourself from treating your practice clients, and we will help you find these practice clients if you cannot do so yourself.
The Training Consists of a Total of 370 RAB-approved Hours Distributed as Follows:
- 310 hours of basic training including 50 hours of client training.
- 50 hours of teaching in other alternative treatment
- 10 hours of clinic guidance
We always have only small classes with max 10 students, so we can provide thorough guidance and supervision during the training. It is structured so that you have good time to integrate what you have learned and have the opportunity to have work on the side.
Training Start and Duration
Three Weekdays per Month
The modules are Wednesday to Friday 9:30-15:30. A total of 18 hours per module. Practice time is planned between modules. At least 50 hours in total.
Dates for Course B9 2026/27
- module March 18-20, 2026
- module April 15-17
- module May 20-22
- module June 10-12
- module August 12-14
- module September 9-11
- module October 7-9
- module November 4-6
- module December 2-4
- module January 6-8, 2027
- module February 3-5
- module March 3-5
- module March 31 – April 2
- module May 12-14
- module June 9-11
- module June 24-25 exam and completion.
Then a supervision day approximately 4 months after completion.
Course B10 Begins March 17, 2027.
Price
The training costs 68,400 kr.
Included in the price you get:
- Everything you need for the teaching:
Compendium, anatomy book, massage oil, cup and exercise ball. - Teaching in Fascial Flow by external teacher.
- Final exam both written test and practical case.
- Coffee, tea and snacks during breaks.
You can either pay the full amount or pay 8,000 upon registration and then 16 installments of 3,850 each on the 1st of the month. Payment in installments includes a total fee of 1,200 kr.
You are registered for a place when you have paid and the registration is binding for the entire course.
Take the Training at Half Price with the Gross Salary Scheme
If you are an employee, you can agree with your employer that the connective tissue therapist training is paid as part of your salary. You can read more about the scheme at SKAT.
Earn Money while You Train
To become a skilled therapist, it is important that you practice. Therefore, you must have a minimum of 5 clients between each module, and we follow up on your treatments in a common forum.
The practice clients can sign up for a course with you for 15 times, so you follow the same ones all the way. We have created some guiding treatment packages, so you can ensure continuity in your treatments.
Your practice clients get to work through the entire body at a cheap price during the course, and in addition to becoming a well-trained therapist, you can also finance your training along the way.
We can help you if you cannot find the practice clients yourself.
The Academy’s guiding package price for practice treatments:
- 5 times for 1,000 kr.
- 5 times for 2,000 kr.
- 5 times for 3,000 kr.
The price increases in line with your experience.
Or offer a full package with 15 treatments for 5,550 kr. Here the price is 370 kr. per treatment of approximately one hour.
If you choose to practice on about 3 clients per week, you will have earned the training back when you are finished.
Instructor
Guest Teacher in the Training
Kristiane Korf, Fascial Flow facilitator.