About Bodyflo

B.Sc, D.O. Founder of Bodyflo.  Jennie completed her Physiology degree at McGill University. She worked in ischemic exercise research in the  MRI department at the Montreal Neurologic Institute. She later trained as a Pilates Instructor, focusing on rehabilitation with Polestar Education.    She completed her D.O in 2009 at ASOQ.  She has been trained in ELDOA, Freediving, Aquatic Craniosacral, Dolphin Dance, AquaHara, AquaVie Aquamassage, Embryology, Soul-Level Therapy, Lithotherapy and Sound Healing.  She has been teaching movement practices for several decades and supervising students in osteopathy and aquatic bodywork since 2015.  In addition to her private practice based in Montreal, she organizes classes, workshops, conferences and retreats to share the benefits of osteopathy with the public.

Michel Dufresne, B.A., D.O., is a graduate osteopath from the Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques (C.E.O.) in Montreal, Canada, and also holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada.

He practises traditional and aquatic osteopathy and teaches our Therapeutic Aquatic Bodywork Course.  He co-authored a research dissertation with Marie Panier : Adapting the Therapeutic Principles of Osteopathy to the Aquatic Environment. He is a member of the teaching faculty of the Aquatic Therapy & Rehab Institute in the United States (ATRI). He teaches a practical approach to osteoarticular, visceral and cranial osteopathy. Michel is also a professor at the Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques de Montréal.

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Marie Panier, D.O. began her career working with pregnant women and babies as a physiotherapist in the delivery room.  Her training includes various approaches to birth (haptonomy, perineal re-education, aquatics for the perinatal period, sacred birth  & rebirth) setting up "La Magie de l'eau" school in Brussels. She graduated from the CEO in osteopathy in 1999, co-authoring a research dissertation on Adapting the Therapeutic Principles of Osteopathy to the Aquatic Environment.  In 2005, she founded l'Odyssée, a family resource centre, where therapists work together in an interdisciplinary approach to childbirth.  For almost 35 years, Marie has been developing aquatic approaches inspired by the training she has received in Watsu, aquayoga, aquamouvance, aquamassage and infant development in aquatic environments.  

Since 1973 while presenting an educational project in physical education as a primary school teacher, Carole has been creating motor development programs in water.   For 50 years, she has been researching human movement and the flow of water in nature.  She created the Aquamouvance (Aquayoga),  AquaVie Aquamassage and Water Babies training programs and continues to train practitioners in these fields.  Her work is inspired by the spiralling nature of life, new somatic wave patterns, aquadance and the liberation of the self within the body.  Her work is unique and in her programs, you will learn to structurally align yourself and others and elevate your awareness.

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Christine teaches Yoga, Pilates, Aquamouvance and Aquavie massage.  She is also a gifted practioner of Polarity Therapy and Reiki. She runs courses and retreats on land and in the water several times a year.  She teachers the Aquamouvance course: the first step of the full Aquavie Aquamassage program.  This course cultivates undulation in the body in order to create space, develop mobility, promote flexibility, release physical tension and relieve stress.  She also teaches AquaVie 1, so if a date on the Bodyflo calendar doesn't work for you, reach out to her and she may be able to create another course date for you!