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Vicars Grads at Work: Vicki East

Since she graduated from the Edmonton campus in 2013, Vicki East has been collecting additional credentials and skills. She is a Certified Lymphedema Therapist, and regularly incorporates therapeutic hot and cold stone therapy and myofascial…

Alumni, Community

Vicars Grads at Work: Oksana Pellerine

Oksana Pellerine has been practicing massage since 2014, and now runs Art of Healing Pains out of her home. She specializes in fascial work, and also offers raw honey massage, shiatsu techniques, and several types of myofascial cupping to…

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Alumni, Business, Career Information, School Events

Networking for RMTs: Why Does It Matter?

As an RMT, you’ve chosen to dedicate your career to helping and connecting with others. So, networking should come as second nature. But too many massage therapists write off the idea entirely without realizing its value. Maybe the term brings…

Alumni, Community

Vicars Grads at Work: Terri Polowick

Since graduating from the Edmonton campus in 2015, Terri Polowick has set up Intuitive Therapeutic Massage, a thriving home-based clinic in St Albert. In addition to her Vicars diploma, Terri has Myofascial Cupping Levels 1 and 2 certification.…

Alumni, Community

Vicars Grads at Work: Kirsty MacIntosh

Kirsty graduated from the Edmonton campus in 2012. She owns Purple Lotus Therapeutic Massage & Esthetics in St Albert. She and her team of RMTs and estheticians, which includes a fellow MH Vicars grad, refer to Purple Lotus as a “splinic":…

Alumni, Community

Vicars Grads at Work: Christine Huget

Christine has been working as an RMT since she graduated from Vicars in 2014, and last year she took the exciting step of starting her own practice. She works out of her home and does mobile massage, specializing in pregnancy and therapeutic…

Alumni, Community

Vicars Grads at Work: Henriette Smith

Henriette graduated from our Edmonton campus in 2015. She now owns her own clinic - System Health Centre in Morinville, Alberta – where she provides relaxation and therapeutic massage as well as Contemporary Cupping and foot reflexology treatments. What…

Career Information, Education, News

Research Funding Opportunity!

Applications are now being accepted for the 2016 Massage Therapy Research Fund. This is a wonderful opportunity for students and alumni to exercise their research muscles! The MTRF funds academic research into many aspects of massage therapy…

Business, Education, School Events

Earn MTAA Continuing Education Credits at Vicars!

We got a very exciting letter in the mail today! Our first exclusive continuing education course has been approved for continuing education credits by the Massage Therapist Association of Alberta! When you take Building Your Business (Level…

Career Information, Education, News

Accreditation is coming – and MH Vicars is leading the way!

We are about to devote many hours and quite a bit of money to earn a piece of paper that some other Alberta massage schools don’t even want. And we couldn’t be more delighted! MH Vicars School has been chosen as a pilot school by the Canadian…

Community

Vicars School Donates April Clinic Proceeds to Red Cross

Like all Albertans, we have been watching the news out of Fort McMurray and Lac Ste Anne County this week with horror and concern. Our hearts go out to all of our fellow Albertans who have had to evacuate their homes, and especially those who…

Alumni, Business, Career Information

Alumni profile: Joanne Robertson

Alumni, Business, Career Information

Graduate Profile: Escape Massage and Wellness

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Welcome to the new school year!

Finally, after all of your anticipation and preparation, the new school year is here! We're so excited to have you on campus (and for our second-year students, to have you on campus again). Our Executive Director Denise Currie has written…

Business, Career Information

How To Find the Perfect Massage Job, part 2: Interviews and Contracts

Welcome to the second half of our job search guide for massage therapists. In Part 1 of this guide, we covered how to determine what that perfect position will look like for you, and how to start finding opportunities that fit those goals.…

Business, Career Information

How To Find the Perfect Massage Job, part 1: Preparing and Applying

It’s that time of year again—job search time! Every spring, second-year Vicars students look beyond their upcoming final exams and begin securing RMT positions in their communities. And those efforts pay off! Last year, 65% of our graduating…

School Events

A massage therapist’s holiday wish list

Christmas is a week away, and Hanukkah's already begun... have you and your family completed your shopping? If you - or someone who'll be shopping for you - need some last-minute gift inspiration, look no further. The Vicars School elves have…

Business

How to survive cold and flu season as an RMT

Ah, cold and flu season. All across the country, people are stocking up on hand sanitizer, tissues, and chicken soup in anticipation of that first traitorous sneeze. Most of us are extra careful about germs this time of year, but it’s especially…

Alumni, Education, Videos

Blast from the past: alumni profiles

One of my favourite things about working here is getting to know our students so well. Even as the school has grown, we've been able to maintain a really warm, open relationship between students and staff and instructors. I think it comes from…

Vicars School Blog

Vicars Grads at Work: Vicki East

Vicars Grads at Work: Oksana Pellerine

Networking for RMTs: Why Does It Matter?

Vicars Grads at Work: Terri Polowick

Vicars Grads at Work: Kirsty MacIntosh

Vicars Grads at Work: Christine Huget

Vicars Grads at Work: Henriette Smith

Research Funding Opportunity!

Earn MTAA Continuing Education Credits at Vicars!

Accreditation is coming – and MH Vicars is leading the way!

Vicars School Donates April Clinic Proceeds to Red Cross

Alumni profile: Joanne Robertson

Graduate Profile: Escape Massage and Wellness

Welcome to the new school year!

How To Find the Perfect Massage Job, part 2: Interviews and Contracts

How To Find the Perfect Massage Job, part 1: Preparing and Applying

A massage therapist’s holiday wish list

How to survive cold and flu season as an RMT

Blast from the past: alumni profiles

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