Mechelsesteenweg 73
2018 Antwerp
Tel.: 03 292 33 33 / Campus Ghent
Elf Julistraat 39a
9000 Ghent
Tel.: 09 363 24 36 / Campus Hasselt
Simpernelstraat 27
3511 Kuringen
Tel.: 011 74 83 81
Dear Wellness enthusiast
Thank you for your interest in our specialized sports massage course. This intensive course prepares you for a fascinating career in the sports industry. You’ll be able to lead sportspeople to the top with your professional care and intervention. We’d like to introduce this course to you.
The sports massage course focuses on practice. First, however, we’ll teach you the anatomy and physiology of the human body in order to fully understand how the body works. You’ll be taught everything there is to know about oxygen uptake and transport with performances, respiratory regulation and energy supply. For example, you’ll learn how to treat sportspeople with joint or bone trauma. Your goal will be the structural revival of the sports performance.
After you’ve been submerged in theory, you’ll learn about various massage techniques, which are in this case:
§ Intermittent pressure
Using this massage technique, you’ll get an idea of the tissue you’ll have to treat.
§ Effleurages
These brushes over the skin have a relaxing effect. Furthermore, this massage technique aims at blood circulation in the muscles, human waste transport and to remove scales from the skin.
§ Petrissages
Petrissages or kneading has both a relaxing and a stimulating effect. It enhances blood circulation and normalises the pulse.
§ Frictions
Frictions treat periosteum conditions, the transition from the muscles to the tendons, ligaments and muscles. All of your fingers are put to good use with this massage technique!
§ Tapotement
The technique of tapotement is used with the evacuation of sputum. Using short touches of the skin at a high pace you’ll get the hyperaemic effect of the tissue.
§ Vibration
By moving the muscles up and down at a high pace, you’ll release sportspeople’s tension an ease their pain.
§ Shaking
Shaking the arms and legs will mobilise the muscles and release tension. This massage technique consists of the complete amplitude of the muscle.
Sports treatment focus on information and coaching of the sportspeople. That’s why manual lymph drainage, pressure point massage and Cyriax therapy are part of this interesting training. The help the sportspeople not only physically, but also mentally, you’ll learn some relaxation techniques. We’ll also discuss taping and bandaging techniques in this course. Your massage techniques will help prevent or cure injuries and allow sportspeople to recover more quickly from their performances.
The sports massage course will take 12 classes of 3 hours each. Classes take place once a week. You’ll practice the various techniques on your fellow students. This way you can take turns in learning and relaxing.
On 8 February 2012 a course starts. Classes are taught in English and take place from 6.30 pm to 9.30 pm. The next classes take place on: 8, 15, 22 and 29 February, 7, 14, 21 and 28 March, 4, 11, 18 an 25 April. The training will take place at Mechelsesteenweg 73, 2018 Antwerp, massagelokaal (massage room, 2nd floor).
Our beautiful school building is the perfect setting for this training. The best accommodation and hygienic study environment ensure a relaxed atmosphere in which you can get to grips with the massage techniques. The calm of the building rubs off on you. Under these ideal circumstances you can fully focus on the course contents and, at the same time, enjoy the wonderful massages. Our teachers are the best, due to years of experience in their own business.
During this training you’ll be treating the entire body; you’ll literally treat your customers from head to foot. Since this is a specialised course, you need some previous knowledge: you have to have the basic body massage degree or massage therapist degree to take part in this course.
Following our motto ‘we take your training very personally’, the beauty school would like to make your studies as pleasant as possible. That’s why we keep school holidays into account and aim at maximum flexibility. For example, you can choose to take our courses at three different campuses: Antwerp, Hasselt or Ghent. At www.beautyschool.be/start-updates.htm you’ll find the course start-up dates per campus.
This course costs only € 490. We try to keep the financial threshold as low as possible. The school is recognised by the Flemish government, which makes it possible for some employees and self-employed people to use subsidies (‘opleidingscheques’ and ‘KMO-portefeuille’) to pay the enrolment fee. This can save up to 125 Euros, if you’re an employee, and 50% of the enrolment fee, if you’re self-employed. For more information, go to: www.vdab.be/opleidingscheques and www.kmo-portefeuille.be .
If you take the sports massage course, you’ll get a bottle of massage oil for free. I you’d like to buy other material, you can do so at wholesale prices at our student shop. You can consult a list of their products on www.studentenpakketten.be. On our website www.beautyschool.be , you’ll find other advantages when enrolled in our beauty school.
Since you’re a student at our beauty school, you’ll get free access to our renewed wellness sciences course. This free course (worth 750 Euros) can be taken voluntarily. It teaches you everything there is to know about the newest developments in the wellness industry.
- Lesson 1: modern dietetics and food supplements
- Lesson 2: wellness marketing and starting-up advice
- Lesson 3: skin treatments and conditions
- Lesson 4: plastic surgery and aesthetic advice
- Lesson 5: new technologies and equipment within the wellness industry
When you’ve completed all five free lessons successfully, you’ll obtain the wellness sciences certificate.
Do you see yourself working as a sports masseur? All you have to do is enrol! This can be done easily and quickly, following the next three steps:
1. Fill in the enrolment form for the sports massage course, which you’ll find enclosed with this letter.
2. Send us the filled-in document, together with a copy of your ID to our office: Schoonheidsschool vzw, Mechelsesteenweg 73, 2018 Antwerpen.
3. The enrolment fee is € 500. This includes coaching, location and a course book. Wire this amount to account number: 001-5361411-06. Don’t forget to add the following information: name + ‘sports massage’ + start-up date. Please also mention your address, if it varies from the address that goes with your account number.
When you’ve gone through these three steps, we’ll be glad to welcome you as a student at our school. Warning: the amount of enrolments for this course is limited. Classes take place in small groups. You’re only enrolled when we’ve received the enrolment fee. Then we’ll send you a confirmation letter, which ensures your enrolment.
If you have any questions or remarks, you can contact us during working hours via telephone at the number 03/292.33.33. If you make an appointment, you’re welcome to have an informal talk and a tour of the school.
We wish you good luck with the training and welcome you to one of our campuses.
Yours sincerely,
Benjamin Ruyters
President of the Beauty school
Why choose for our beauty school?
The Beauty school is a certified school
§ The Beauty school is recognised by the Flemish government. This way we can insure quality and it is possible for you to pay with subsidies.
§ The Beauty school has got the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) 9001-2000 certificate. This is an independent quality label that has been assigned to our school after a thorough audit. All of our course material, teachers, classrooms and office got a positive evaluation. Regular check-ups insure the quality according to the latest standards.
§ The Beauty school is recognised by unions of professionals and by joint committee 314.
The Beauty school stands for professionalism and quality
§ All of our teachers are self-employed specialists with years of experience.
§ Our classes take place in beautiful classrooms, which are modernly equipped.
§ Hygiene is one of our top priorities.
§ Classes are taught to small groups. This way we can insure maximum personal coaching.
§ The Beauty school wants to help your career along as much as possible. That’s why we help you find internships and assignments.
§ Our students have free access to the wellness sciences course, worth €750. With this, we want to provide our students with good theoretical basics. Participating in the course is completely voluntary.
The Beauty school stands for customer friendliness and flexibility
§ You get to choose when and where you work on your new future. It’s possible to take the courses at our campuses in Hasselt, Ghent and Antwerp. Courses are taught at different times of day. School holidays are kept into account.
§ You can download the first unit for free on our website. This will help you get a better image of the course. These first units help you make your mind up which course to choose.
§ If you have any doubts or questions, you are welcome to come round to our office for advice or a tour of the school. It’s also possible to leaf through the courses.
The Beauty school keeps the financial threshold as low as possible
§ Since our school is recognised by the Flemish government, you can, if you’re an employee, pay with subsidies (‘opleidingscheques’), worth 250 Euros every year. If you’re self-employed, you can get other subsidies (‘KMO-portefeuille’), which give you a 50% discount on the enrolment fee.
§ There’s no extra cost for the exam. Furthermore, you can retry as many times as you like, if you don’t pass the first time. When you retry, you don’t have to pay either!
§ Thanks to an exclusive cooperation with an independent wholesale business, all our students can buy their material at wholesale prices, even after their studies. A great benefit!
The Beauty school has got a strong reputation
§ Our school has built up a strong reputation within the wellness industry. Our degrees open doors with your customers or future employers.
§ The Beauty school is a founding member of the wellness union
§ Many of the students who graduate, have started up their own successful business. Ask around in your neighbourhood. You’re sure to find beauticians who studied at the Beauty school.
§ The Beauty school is part of the business school
ENROLMENT FORM SPORTS MASSAGE COURSECompany name and VAT number
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Please wire the course fee (490 Euros) to account number 001-5361411-06 of beauty school, Mechelsesteenweg 71, 2018 Antwerp, mentioning your last name + first name + course + start-up date. Your enrolment is only valid if you wire the enrolment fee with the right information. If you wish to annul or stop the training, the enrolment fee is not reimbursed. For more information, you can reach us at: 03/292.33.33, or via email at or on our website www.beautyschool.be .
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General conditions of the Beauty school
The Beauty school organises professional trainings when it comes to beauty, wellness and fashion. The student declares to be of age at the time of the enrolment. By filling in the enrolment form or by sending the electronic enrolment form on the website, the student declares to agree to the general conditions. Also when the student pays an advance or the entire enrolment fee, he/she declares to agree to the general conditions. These conditions apply to all courses, workshops, internships, events and other activities organised by the non-profit organisation Beauty school. Enrolments are limited in a course.
An enrolment is only final after payment of the course fee or the determined advance to account number 001-5361411-06. Whoever pays first, enters the course first; no matter who sent the enrolment forms first. After payment, the student receives a confirmation letter or confirmation email. If a student cannot participate in the course, he/she can postpone participation to the next start-up date (if the course isn’t fully booked). This has to be done by means of registered post to the non-profit organisation Beauty school. If the participation is annulled or postponed 4 weeks or earlier before the start of the course that he/she enrolled in, an administrative fee of 25% of the total enrolment fee will be charged. If the participation is annulled or postponed after 4 weeks before the start of the course, a fee of 50% of the total enrolment fee will be charged. The total enrolment fee consists of the normal price of the course, without keeping into account any temporary discounts or local promotions. In other words, temporary discounts do not require an equal reduction of the compensation. If we do not receive a registered letter saying that he/she annuls the participation before the start of the course, the student owes the entire enrolment fee.
Some courses can be paid in instalments. The advance then has to be paid at the enrolment. The first instalment has to be paid before the start of the first class. Afterwards, every other instalment is paid monthly until the entire enrolment fee is paid. If the payment is late or if there is no payment, the student automatically and legally owes a compensation of 10% calculated on the amount left to be paid, with a minimum of 50 Euros. Furthermore, the student automatically, legally and without proof of default owes an interest of 1 percent per each month that has started, calculated on the amount left to be paid. Deregistration or stopping the course, for whatever (medical) reason, does not discharge the student of his/her obligation to pay the full amount of the enrolment fee.
Any discounts cannot be combined, with the exceptions of subsidies, being ‘opleidingscheques’ and ‘KMO-portefeuille’. The discounts need to be deducted before the start of the first class. Afterwards, no refunds are possible. If the fee is paid in instalments, any discounts can only be deducted when paying the advance.