Charles Wiltsie is a Connecticut State Licensed Massage Therapist, Department of Health Number 000254, is a member of the AMTA, The Day Spa Association, The Medical Spa Association and an Approved Continuing Education Provider for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB).  His also the first Program Director for Branford Hall Career Institutes Massage Therapy Program and is on the Advisor Board to the same Program as well as an Instructor for that school.  He has also been in business since 1988 and has extensive experience working with Performing Artists in Connecticut and on Broadway as well as with Film Actors and Professional Athletes.  He is often quoted in articles on the Ethics of Men in Health Services, Spa Etiquette for the Massage Therapist and Customer and is recognized in the Spa Industry as one of the top five developers of the Anti-Aging, Body Contouring markets in the world.  He has also been trained in esthetics and body treatments by Aveda in Massachusetts and at the Phytoceane Institute of Spa Innovation in Salt Lake City Utah.

            In 1998 Charles Wiltsie began devoting most of his time training massage therapists, estheticians, professors , doctors and others in the United States and around the world in the massage treatment he invented called Lypossage™, a massage therapy treatment and trademark he invented to help women lose dimension without losing weight and to help them smooth the look of cellulite.  The Lypossage™ treatment is widely used as an adjunct to liposuction pre and post surgery.  He is also developer of another massage used to improve the professional singer’s capacity to sing.  This massage is called “Wiltsie’s Zangers Massage”.  At the end of 2004 Mr. Wiltsie finished his world wide teaching as a featured guest speaker at the Cidsco International Congress in Amsterdam, Holland where he spoke to plastic surgeons, physical therapists and estheticians about the application of Lypossage™ in cosmetic surgery.  Recently he has spoken on the same topic as a guest speaker at “The Spa & Resort Shows” along with “the Medical Spa Shows” in New York and Los Angeles and the American Spa Show (2006) on the "History of Lypossage".  He finished 2005 with an invitation to teach at the University of Gent in Belgium where he taught Lypossage™ to Flemish physiotherapists and University Researchers.  Their research on Lypossage was completed in 2006.  They will complete their research in February of 2006 with results indicating that Lypossage stood up to scrutiny for claims made on the reduction of the "look of cellulite" and "dimension loss".   Charles Wiltsie was also extensively covered in Estheticienne Magazine, a European Publication, as well as Day Spa Magazine, les nouvelles esthetique Magazine, Massage Magazine, American Spa Magazine, the Day Spa Bible, Massage & Bodywork Magazine, Hers Muscle& Fitness Magazine, Good Medicine (Australia) and Body Sense Magazine.  Wiltsie has also been extensively excerpted for the books The Four Seasons of Inner and Outer Beauty  and The Educated Heart.  He rounded out the past couple of years with seven consecutive issues of Estheticienne Magazine devoted to Lypossage™, Zangers Massage and American Ethics in Massage Therapy and the Spa Industry.

            Now after training more than 20 new Lypossage™ Master Trainers and 5 Star Lypossage Educators in the Untied States and Europe-  and more than 6000 new practitioners worldwide, Mr. Wiltsie is pleased to be back home at his Essex, Connecticut Training and Consulting Business, Pro-Actif Spa Systems International, LLC with his wife Katherine and managing partner in their joint business.

            Katherine is not only a managing partner but also a trainer for Lypossage™ and approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as an instructor.  She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a degree in French and International Business.  She has also been trained in Esthetics at the Phytoceane Institute of Spa Innovation in Salt Lake City, Utah with further training in the Art of Aesthetics by industry leader Douglas Preston of the Award Winning Preston Wynne Spa in Saratoga, California.  Because French is the language of the spa products world, Kate has been the primary mover in the rapid growth for Lypossage™.  Her additional  knowledge of international business has resulted in Pro-Actif Spa Systems International, LLC and Lypossage™ to more than double it's size and growth in the past two years.