About
Janeck Olczyk, D.O.
Osteopath D.O. · Therapeutic yoga teacher · Breathwork coach · Holistic health coach
A practice that meets the whole person, from hands-on work with the body to nervous system regulation, their emotions and their lived experience, with a broad understanding of health and of human experience: movement, sleep, optimal nutrition and the breath.
Twenty years spent exploring the human experience
More than twenty years exploring holistic health and manual therapies. It did not start in a classroom: it started in Bali in 2001, learning meditation. It carried on with raw food the following year and with a journey into the heart of the Amazonian jungle, which changed how I look at the body and at living things as a whole.
Since then I have trained in a range of hands-on approaches to the body, starting with shiatsu and moving later towards osteopathic approaches, with training at the Académie Sutherland d'ostéopathie du Québec under Guy Voyer, D.O.
In 2010 I completed my therapeutic yoga training in Montreal under Hart Lazer, one of the most respected yoga educators anywhere and a leading figure in Iyengar-based therapeutic yoga.
That training gave me an anatomy-informed reading of how posture, breath and guided movement reach the places in a body that have quietly stopped moving over the years.
Biohacking, the search for optimal nutrition, herbalism and the secrets of longevity have inspired me greatly since 2010. Today I bring together a holistic understanding of the body, the heart and the mind to offer osteopathy sessions that gather these twenty years of experience into a single approach, to give movement and vitality back to your body as a whole.
The body as a whole
In a session, I look at how your body moves as a whole, find where mobility is restricted, then harmonise what is tight or held. Osteo-articular, cranial, visceral, fascial and deep tissue techniques. On your side, you breathe, you feel and you release. It is a shared effort, the two of us working as a team.
A holistic approach. A listening touch, sensitive and precise, not just techniques, attentive to the body and the heart of each client.
Holistic osteopathy
A holistic osteopathy session in Montreal, a complete one, that does not touch only the body and its biomechanics. What happens on the table is shaped by everything else: how you sleep, what you eat, how you move through your day, what you feel and live through, what you carry inside.
The human experience as a whole, that is why I have spent twenty years interested in fields that go well beyond manual body therapy. This is the ground of coaching and support that facilitates a much faster recovery of the body's function and mobility.
The body
Mobility, posture, the movement practices that carry a daily life. Therapeutic yoga as a tool, fitted to the person in front of me.
Sleep
Probably the most underrated lever there is. Rhythm, environment, evening breathing and other biohacking practices to support optimal sleep.
Food
Optimal nutrition, adapted to each person, to support life, following what longevity research actually establishes.
The breath
The breath is the most accessible and most powerful tool to reharmonise the body, its energy, its emotions and its functions. That is why I created Pranafy, a modern breathwork app, built for everyone.
The inner world
Habits of thought, buried emotions and beliefs quietly shape how a life is perceived. An inner world to explore and rediscover, to give the body its full vitality.
These four areas belong to coaching and support. They are discussed outside the manual therapy session, at your pace and only if you want to. Write to me to talk about it.
Ten years of breathwork
I have practised breathwork daily for ten years. It has become the peak of my morning practice: breathing is the most direct door into elevated states of consciousness, reprogramming the subconscious, releasing the nervous system at depth, and shifting how you perceive life. That is why I built an app to guide you along that path.
I coach people in breathwork, one on one and in groups. Ask me for more, or visit the Pranafy website.
An app built to teach you breathwork and to create deep change in the body and the mind.
Guided sessions in English and French, from cardiac coherence to the deepest practices. Free to start.
Explore Pranafy ↗OptimumOsteo, Montreal
The clinic I founded in 2018, on the Plateau Mont-Royal, two minutes from Métro Laurier. It is a solo practice: I am the one who sees you, every session.
4388 rue Saint-Denis #200
Montréal, QC H2J 2L1
For a first session, the online calendar is fastest. For a question, write to me and I answer myself, as quickly as I can.