The Book
A true story about stroke told through the eyes of an eldest child that tracks my clinical experience and my real life.
The Teaching, Workshops & Retreats
My mission to revolutionize the way we teach anatomy by giving people a new way to understand what a body is, what it does and how it works.
The Clinical Work
Hands-on Osteopathic care in the West End of Toronto. My private practice is the anchor of my career and the lab for my body based research.
What’s Happening Now?
Since the release of "Loved Into Being," in December of 2022, Jill has been speaking, teaching and writing about what it means to be well. The book topped the best sellers list on Amazon for three weeks in a row and has been used to fuel speaking engagements at the intersection of wellness and mortality ever since. Making appearances in newspapers, on podcasts, on radio shows and even on the Ted Rogers Theatre stage, Jill has been using her voice to start conversations that include our mortality as an ingredient in our wellness practices. Her upcoming workshops and retreats look to teach people how to feel their way into an understanding of their own body and how to Microdose Mortality as a way to access our aliveness. These concepts- mortality, wellness, movement, feeling, breath and sound all come together through speaking engagements and consulting packages where Jill is teaching people, businesses, studios and brands how to re-imagine what it means to be well. 
Jill Bodak is a Manual Osteopath, Writer, Speaker and Anatomy Educator in Toronto, Ontario. Her debut non-fiction work, "Loved Into Being" is a brave and honest depiction of life after stroke through the eyes of a daughter. In it we learn about the ways that the sharp and clinical elements of her personality bump up against her softer, feeling self. Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Bodak is a lover of northern forests, cold lakes, and clear skies. Life beyond her hometown has brought her to the study of the human body, movement, sound, and meditation. Her writing navigates these hard and soft spots in her own interior and invites the reader into this private landscape that includes joy, terror, grief and unshakeable love. Jill has a Kinesiology degree from Lakehead University and a Master's degree in Osteopathic Manual Therapy from The Canadian Academy of Osteopathy. She was a varsity athlete and an avid competitor of all types in her youth. Now, she studies the Emotionally Integrated Voice pedagogy of Fides Krucker and has a ten-year history in the tradition of Zen meditation. She has taught wellness retreats across the country. Since the onset of her father's stroke in 2020, Jill has been reading, writing, teaching, and helping him heal. She has used the things she learned on his behalf to help countless others with brain injury, cognitive delay, motor deficits and grief. She continues to run a clinical practice that she loves, helping people find a felt sense of their own bodies that lets them move through the world with more ease.She is a force of nature. She lives in the West-End of Toronto with her partner, her son, and her dog.