Vicars Grad Shares His Second Chance
Mat Cardinal’s a bit obsessed with second chances. After all, he’s had two of his own: a second chance at a good career and a second chance at life itself. We talked to Mat in April 2024 just before he and his hit country music band…
How to Make the Most of Online Learning with Moodle
When our crack team of distance-learning experts went looking for the perfect platform for teaching our core sciences online, they chose Moodle, a virtual learning environment that’s open source, secure, and easy for students and instructors…
A successful RMT practice North of 60
Although Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, has only about 20,000 people, there are 15 or more massage therapists in town, and they are all busy. Vicars graduate Shirley Harrison was one of them until the pandemic nudged…
A Career Change That Changed A Life
It was a casual conversation at the doctor’s office where she worked that changed Diane Sheridan’s life. One day a colleague’s sister dropped by for a visit and mentioned that she had just finished school. Diane asked her what she had…
Blended Learning Success: 4 tips for massage therapy students
Massage is a hands-on career and, of course, you need plenty of hands-on training. But learning to be an effective therapist takes more than manual skills. Much more! An effective massage therapist knows the anatomy and physiology of the…
Accreditation for Massage Therapy Schools: Everything you wanted to know
Admissions staff at Vicars School of Massage Therapy are used to fielding inquiries about tuition, class sizes, or financial aid. But lately, admissions advisor Rhonda Watson has also been answering a lot of questions about another topic: CTMCA…
Massage Therapy Gave Her Confidence and Purpose
When Louise Drinnan started at Vicars School of Massage Therapy, she was a single mother with two young children, and she knew she would have to stay focused to make it work. She remembers telling her family that she was going to be married…
A dream job means a dream life for this Vicars RMT
For Lucie Bozdech, becoming a Registered Massage Therapist wasn’t just about starting a new career. It was about starting a new life. And she couldn’t be happier with the results. Lucie came to Canada as a little girl after fleeing Czechoslovakia,…
Vicars Grad Takes Centre Stage
What does a musical theatre actor and registered massage therapist do when she receives a major massage therapy award? When that person is April Cook, she makes sure all of the supporting cast shares the stage. For April, the 2022 Massage…
Janine Borger still loves being an RMT (And we still love her!)
When Janine Borger was hired as an instructor at Vicars back in 2002, she insisted on completing our second-year classes first. She says the extra work was “just to solidify what I knew and to understand the Vicars approach to curriculum…
Massage and Mental Health: Why regular massage benefits mind and body
For many of us, physical aches and pains are the trigger for making an appointment for massage. We know that massage therapy can speed our recovery from injury, and even help us live better with chronic pain. But did you know that massage…
Colleagues In Care: How RMTs work together with other health care professionals
Vicars School students have been going to see physical therapists, social workers, chiropractors, and psychologists a lot lately.
But don’t worry—they're fine!
What's going on is that this is the time of year that our second-year students…
Massage as a second career: More Vicars student success stories
This 3-part blog series is all about the advantages and challenges of starting a massage therapy career later in life. We’ll find out why it’s such an attractive career for people in their forties, fifties, and beyond, and the special skills…
Massage as a second career: Vicars student success stories
This 3-part blog series is all about the advantages and challenges of starting a massage therapy career later in life. We’ll find out why it’s such an attractive career for people in their forties, fifties, and beyond and the special skills…
Mature students equal mature therapists: Why older massage students thrive at Vicars School
This 3-part blog series is all about the advantages and challenges of starting a massage therapy career later in life. We’ll find out why it’s such an attractive career for people in their forties, fifties, and beyond and the special skills…
Crossing the Mountains for Massage School: Why BC students keep choosing Vicars
Did you know that over the past four years, one in every four students enrolled at Vicars School commuted each month from their homes and jobs in BC to Calgary or Edmonton for their massage therapy training? Vicars offers an exceptional…
Vicars School Earns CMTCA Accreditation
Note: This post was published in 2022. For more information about CMTCA Accreditation and what it will mean for your massage career, check out this post from summer 2023 or this page on our website! Vicars School of Massage Therapy is proud…
Faster, Higher, Stronger, Healthier: The importance of Sports Massage Therapy!
What is sports massage and how is it different from the type of massage therapy that most people are familiar with? Can someone who isn’t a professional athlete benefit from a sports massage? How does a massage therapist become a sports massage…
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