Maria Jarkova

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Maria is passionate about health-care. She believes that staying active, be it playing sports, practicing yoga or simply going for a daily walk, is an important aspect of everyone’s health and well-being.

After working for 10 years in the corporate world as a CPA, Maria decided to change her career and become an RMT. She completed a diploma in massage therapy at Vancouver College of Massage Therapy and graduated with Honors in August of 2022. Maria understands the pains and aches one might feel working a desk job. She believes that massage therapy can help manage aches from muscle tension, referral pain from trigger points, headaches, stress, signs of nerve impingement or other conditions.

Maria is an avid hiker and loves doing sports such as skiing, rock climbing, swimming, biking, and kayaking. She has learnt through her own experiences with injuries how important massage therapy can be in injury healing and rehabilitation. Conditions such as strains, sprains, surgical scars, post injury muscle atrophy, tendinopathy, can all benefit from massage treatments.

Maria also enjoys working with clients who have central nervous system conditions such as Parkinson’s, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, brain injuries and other conditions. While applying various relaxation massage techniques, she aims to bring a positive impact to one’s body.

“I begin therapeutic relationship with honesty and open communication. I offer a customized treatment plan that I build together with my client because only they truly know their body. My goal is to address my client’s concerns in a safe and effective manner. I think that massage treatment does not end at the clinic, thus I like to promote long-term care with homecare stretches, exercises and hydrotherapy”. – Maria