Cold Water Therapy Diploma Practitioner Course

Who is this qualification for?

This diploma is for anyone in the wellness and holistic industry wishing to deepen their understanding of the benefits of cold water therapy and/or formalize their knowledge so that they can use it with clients.  It’s also for people who are keen to practice cold water exposure for their own personal gain.  It’s for people who are curiously minded and who like to balance the science with the anecdotes.  

Course Description

This Cold Water Therapy Diploma Practitioner Course is a distance learning accredited course designed to fit around your current lifestyle.  It is a must for anyone working in the wellness or holistic professions including: beauty therapists, reiki practitioners, nutritional therapists, counsellors, business coaches, life coaches, crystal healers, psychotherapists and acupuncturists to name a few.  It is also recommended for people with no background in wellness but who want to improve their understanding of cold water therapy for themselves, friends or family.  The popularity of cold water therapy is on the rise as people look for alternative ways to manage pain and inflammation, boost their immunity, lose weight and keep themselves adapted to stress.  This course will give you an understanding of what happens to the body during cold exposure, the benefits of cold water exposure and how you can best approach the cold water exposure.  You will gain a wide understanding of the changes that occur during cold exposure and why cold exposure is so important for our bodies.  

 

The Diploma in Cold Water Therapy Includes:

 

  • My personal story with cold water.

  • What is cold water therapy?

  • The History of cold water therapy.

  • Facts about cold water.  

  • Physiological and mental changes during cold water exposure. 

  • Acclimatisation and Afterdrop. 

  • The benefits of cold water therapy.

  • How to do cold water therapy safely and effectively. 

  • How to use cold water therapy with clients in a controlled environment and in a body of water.

 

Why get a diploma in Cold Water Therapy?

  • You can tie in your new knowledge with knowledge that you already have.

  • You will find it extremely rewarding to show people why cold water therapy might work for them and how to do it. 

  • You will become very motivated to try it yourself and to keep it up.  

  • You can continue your learning.  

 

Course Material

On the learning platform you will find all your course material, including:

 

  • Course Manual 

  • Course Videos - excellent tool for visual learners

  • Supplementary Reading List. 

  • Study Guide - an easy to follow guide on how to complete your course.

 

This course will be yours to start in your own time and remember if you have any questions your tutor can be contacted for help.

 

Course Aims

To provide the student with knowledge on how and why to advise cold water therapy to their clients or friends. 

To provide the student with inspiration and motivation to do cold water therapy themselves.

To provide the student with knowledge and facts about safety when exposing themselves to cold.  

To provide the student with the correct mental and emotional set up for cold water exposure. 

To provide the student with knowledge about all the different benefits of cold water exposure.

To provide the student with knowledge about how to integrate cold water therapy in their practices.

 

Course Timeline:
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Module One - Aims and Objectives To be able to define what cold water therapy is. To be aware of how it is experienced.  To gain an understanding of my personal relationship to cold water therapy.  To understand the history of cold water therapy. To understand how cold water therapy is used today.  To understand how cold water therapy is applied.  To understand how wetsuits work. To understand the benefits of wild swimming. 
Module Two - Aims and Objectives To know at what temperature cold water therapy begins.  To understand why cold water feels different to cold air.  To understand why running water feels different to still water. To understand the stages of hypothermia. To understand how cold water affects women compared to men.  To know what happens to the heart rate, circulation, blood pressure and nervous system during cold shock. To know what happens to the hormones during cold water exposure. 
Module Three - Aims and Objectives To understand how we acclimatise to cold water. To understand how we generate heat during cold water exposure.  To understand how brown adipose tissues causes non shivering thermogenesis. To learn what afterdrop is. To learn how we should re-warm after cold exposure
Module Four - Aims and Objectives To know the benefits of cold water therapy.  To understand the effects of cold water on our resilience to stress. To understand what cross adaptation is.  To understand the effects of cold water on the autonomic nervous system. To understand the basics of poly vagal theory.  To understand the effects of cold water on the immune system.  To understand the effects of cold water on inflammation. To understand the effects of cold water on insulin.  To understand how cold therapy could be indicated for weight loss.  To understand how cold therapy could be used to help hypothyroid.  To learn the effects of cold therapy on circulation.  To learn the effects of cold therapy on pain relief.  To know the effects of cold water therapy on depression and stress. The know the effects of cold water therapy on sleep. 
Module Five - Aims and Objectives To understand how breathwork plays an important part in cold water therapy.  To learn 2 styles of breathwork that can help with cold water exposure.  To understand what contrast therapy is.  To learn how to take a cold shower easily and effectively.  To learn how to access a body of cold water safely and effectively.  To understand the safety protocol for entering cold water.  How to get past the discomfort of cold water exposure. 
Module Six - Aims and Objectives To learn how to implement cold water therapy within 1:2:1 coaching sessions, beauty therapy sessions, within Spas. To consider the benefits and implications of taking beginners out into a cold body of water without going out of their depth. 
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