2 Massage Therapists and a Microphone

Tyleen is a 4 time guest who started hanging out with us when she was just a newbie in the massage therapy profession. Today she’s a successful therapist with many modalities up her sleeve and a massage therapy instructor at a very prestigious school. Tyleen could not love her life more and she’s bringing creative new learning tools into her classes by combining her love for massage with her love...

Magnus is a LMT and Structural Integrator in Mississippi who teaches other therapists to incorporate fascial therapy into their practice. His training began with some of the pioneers of this work and through training and clinical experience he developed a method of treatment that incorporates fascial work and stretching that is easier on the therapists body and achieves amazing clinical results. C...

Noelle is a Registered Massage Therapist from Alberta who has been bringing her Ashiatsu training to the Canadian Massage Conference for the last couple of years. She started her healthcare career as a nurse and moved into massage therapy when that career wasn’t serving her anymore. Little did she know, a life altering accident would have her pivot immediately into learning Ashiatsu or barefoot ma...

Jessica is a massage therapist and business owner that wears many hats. She’s a med spa owner, sells products, has a busy post op and Brazilian Lymphatic Drainage practice, is an instructor and a business coach. How does she do it all? Listen to Jessica talk about how she’s always looking for what’s next and how that has led her to start helping other therapists reach their goals, be busy, and not...

David is a Massage Therapist in Toronto, Ontario and he is about to embark on the wonderful world of entrepreneurship after 8 years working in a clinic as a busy therapist. We discussed why he would want to make such a leap considering he likes where he works and has a busy practice, what his support system had to say about this new venture, what lessons he will take with him to his new brick and...

Holly is a Massage Therapist in Ontario who dove into Matrix Repatterning early in her career and has found a way of practicing that she believes in and gets her patients results. Since she is a listener and knows we have had trouble in the past grasping the concept, she offered to come speak about her experience with this modality. We will see Holly at the Canadian Massage Conference offering dem...

Rebecca is a 5 time guest who has taken us on a ride. She has been a successful clinic owner, a badass business coach, lifestyle coach, mentor, mother, and overall cool massage therapist. Our last meeting with Rebecca had her telling us the story of her exit from her thriving massage therapist academy to focus on herself and figure out her next move. In this incredibly vulnerable episode, she expl...

Trigger warning: this episode recounts a very serious incident involving a Registered Massage Therapist being SA’d and later accused by the same person as being the culprit. Bodhi has experienced tremendous trauma and is very courageous for telling his story. All of us hope this situation will shed some light on what does happen in our profession and start conversations about increasing awareness...

Cathy is a Massage Practitioner and the founder and CEO of Massage Training Academy and On The Spot Massage. She contracts both Massage Practitioners as well as Registered Massage Therapists to do chair massage at parties and gatherings, corporate functions, athletic events, and anywhere she can set up her chair! In this episode Cathy teaches us about chair massage. You can learn more about Cathy...

Heather is one of our favourite guests and collaborators and she’s back to tell us everything we have missed since we last hung out. Aside from being fully immersed into massage therapy after taking a hiatus from the profession years ago, she has become a business owner, co-founder of the Oshawa Wellness Collective, an educator for other therapists, and most recently- THE massage therapist for the...

A few weeks back, we released an episode where Sam spoke about certain frameworks within healthcare, namely evidence based practice and patient centred care, and how there are flaws within these frameworks. Bodhi is a first time guest and felt Sam’s analysis required further discussion. For the first time ever, we brought in two guests with very different views and had them discuss these topics fr...

Elizabeth started her bodywork career with an interest in helping pregnant people. She holds a midwifery license in the United States and even did some training here before ultimately deciding to take another route. Her search for a meaningful career led her to learn Maya Abdominal massage, an ancient abdominal massage supporting the muscles, fascia, organs, circulation, and lymphatic system. This...

Mark is halfway through school to become a Massage Therapist. His decision to make a career change and go to Massage School was heavily motivated by his desire to truly help people and when he was starting student clinic, he asked for help via Facebook and landed in our office practicing techniques. Listen to a conversation with a lot of tangents about Mark’s student journey so far and where he ho...

Michael is the owner of EversonCE, a professional continuing education brand focused on practical, evidence-informed massage and manual therapy education. This online platform was a career shift that Michael made during the pandemic to provide continuing education to manual therapists who no longer had access to in-person learning. We learned about how this RMT and Manual Osteopath got into the wo...

Katie @stillpointmassagebodywork has over 20 years experience as a Massage Therapist here in Ontario and as a neurodivergent therapist and patient, she has shifted her focus to ensuring a safe space for all clients. We discuss what a safe space is, how therapists can improve their communication with their patients to make them feel fully seen and safe in the clinic, and what steps we should all ta...

Loy is a massage therapist in Toronto who learned through trial and error how to obtain clients through the internet. She started using her knowledge to help other therapists fix their websites to reflect who they actually are and to speak directly to their clients. This patient pathway that Loy has created ensures that when someone lands on your website, they will become a patient. Due to an unfo...

Sam is back in our office to discuss some hot topics that appear in social media chats and give us his opinions on these topics. We discuss evidence based medicine, patient centred care, education, regulation, and other hot topics. Sam is often quoted as saying “the work is good, the stories are bad” and we get into that in terms of manual therapy. Sam is the founder of Osteopathic Lyceum, an oste...

Len has done many things in his life and being in the right place at the right time led to him becoming a Thai massage practitioner. But not just any Thai massage practitioner. Len has won medal after medal in Thai massage championships as well as overall championships competing against massage therapists from around the globe. Listen to Len’s journey from being somebody’s cheese guy to becoming a...

Tyleen is a massage therapist in Ontario and a third time guest. We hung out with her to talk about how she’s moving forward in her career and stepping into a teaching role. Tyleen loves education, loves massage therapy, and loves being a part of helping the next generation of therapists fall in love with their career path. The A-ha moments excite her and make her want to show up the best she can...

Lauriann is a musician turned LMT, turned researcher and author. She left the performance world after many years of working up to a hundred hours a week and being shoulder to shoulder with musical greats to find a tactile career that would bring more balance to her life. She went to a great massage school in Seattle, graduated, passed her exams, and never practiced as a massage therapist. Due to a...

Monica and Scott are One Concept Group who have been bringing us the Canadian and American Massage Conferences for 18 years. Recently Scott started hosting a podcast bringing on some of the greatest therapists in our profession. The two of them have made so many connections over the last 18 years that you won’t want to miss out on this podcast. We are lucky enough to be part of their tribe now and...

Travis is a former writer and photographer turned massage therapist in California. After a decade in practice, he realized that the last three years of his career were the most enjoyable of the entire decade which got him thinking about what changed. Why did work seem less daunting and more rewarding now than it had in the past? This inspired him to bring back his passion for writing and publish h...

Rebekah spoke to us last spring when she had just finished her massage therapy education and was working to build her brand online. She brought her followers on TikTok along for her school journey and created an online community showing massage therapy in a positive light. Fast forward a year and a half and we had Rebekah back to talk to us about where she is now, what her online community looks l...

Darren is a massage therapist from up north with very interesting backstory which he shared on his last visit here. This time he came in to talk to us about his month in Peru where he took part in eight ceremonies involving ayahuasca and san pedro. Listen to Darren’s story and what he learned in the jungle. 2rmtsandamic.com

Enzo is a Canadian trained massage therapist from Italy. He has had a successful practice in Italy for the last seven years but this country keeps calling him back. Enzo returned to Canada to get licensed here and found a clinic to work at. Listen to his story about becoming an international student, practicing in Italy, and his current goal of permanently relocating here to follow his dream and c...