Jodie Duplisea
For over 30 years, I’ve guided people through restorative practices designed to help them reconnect with their bodies, slow down, and return to a greater sense of balance, vitality, and presence.
My work brings together bodywork, movement, water therapy, meditation, sound, and nature-based experiences in a way that is deeply personalized for each individual. Rather than focusing on quick fixes, I believe in creating space for deep rest, restoration, and meaningful connection — with ourselves, with nature, and with the rhythms that support true wellbeing.
Over the years, my path has included yoga, naturopathy, osteopathic techniques, traditional healing practices, therapeutic massage, and wellness retreats in both Canada and Mexico. Each session is guided intuitively and adapted to the unique needs of the person in front of me.
I currently offer private wellness sessions, yoga, massage, water therapy, retreats, and restorative experiences in Val-David, Quebec and select locations internationally.
Whether through private sessions, movement, retreats, or quiet moments in nature, my intention is simple:
to help people feel more at home in themselves.
To rest more deeply.
To reconnect.
To feel fabulous — naturally.
My Story
A Life Woven Through Healing
Jodie’s path into holistic wellness began not in textbooks, but through her own healing journey. Injuries became invitations inward. Yoga became her first teacher. Curiosity became her compass.
From early recovery to decades of global study, she immersed herself in practices that spoke not only to the body, but to the deeper relationship between wellbeing, presence, and vitality.
Her work today is a reflection of what has most deeply transformed her own life — shaped through years of exploration, mentorship, clinical experience, and travel. Along the way, she has studied with respected teachers from many traditions while also sharing her knowledge generously, helping empower women in underserved communities through yoga and massage training programs that supported both healing and financial independence.
With over 30 years of experience in the wellness field, Jodie’s journey began as a teenage hospital volunteer before eventually leading her into public health research and policy work in Montreal. Yet despite the value of that work, her heart longed for something more human, hands-on, and connected. She ultimately left the institutional world behind to dedicate herself fully to direct care, therapeutic practice, and restorative wellness experiences.
That same devotion later inspired the creation of Fondation Ambaa, Quebec’s first non-profit wellness centre offering therapeutic movement classes for individuals living with chronic illness on a free or pay-what-you-can basis. Her breast cancer recovery yoga program went on to support thousands of women and was later referenced alongside Cedars Breast Clinic in medical publications.
But beyond the training and accomplishments, Jodie is someone who deeply understands the complexity of being human. A mother, caregiver, practitioner, and lifelong student of healing, she has walked alongside both personal and family challenges that have continually deepened her compassion and perspective.
Her mission remains simple:
to help people reconnect with themselves, restore their vitality, and remember that healing and transformation are always possible.
Her clients feel this — not only in her work, but in her presence.
Our Clients Say
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I'm floating. My heart is light.​ I have just finished an Aqua therapy session with the caring Jodie Duplisea.
I have been afraid of water since I was a child. This winter in Mexico, I realized, once again, how much this fear has deprived me of the pleasure of water. This reflection led me to look for a resource that could help me free myself from this fear. I am looking for an approach that directly works the physical body. This is how I discovered Jodie’s services in Val-David. This therapist truly embodies feminine gentleness. I quickly felt safe with her, which allowed me to let myself be lulled by her arms and by the water. A liberating session that allowed me to travel internally into various personal, transgenerational and karmic traumas. In such a gentle and natural way, I contacted my cellular memories to release a host of things to create space for safety and pleasure.
Jodie made me realize that to be safe on Earth 🌎 you also need to be safe in water, because everything is made of water...