Understand yourself through your body.

So clarity comes earlier and effort becomes lighter.

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Understand yourself through your body - and apply it to life

I work with driven people who feel that something deeper is available to them.

Not a next technique.
Not another layer of optimisation protocols.

But a clearer internal logic — felt, rooted, and applicable in real life.

This work uses the body as a thinking partner.

Not to fix you, but to help you sense how you actually function - under pressure, in movement, in decisions, and in relationships.

When that becomes clear, performance becomes more sustainable.
Life becomes easier to navigate. Growth stops feeling forced.

This work helps people recognise how they organise themselves under pressure - and adjust from the inside out.

The result is clearer decisions, less wasted effort, and insight that carries into work, performance, and relationships without constant external guidance.

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What I help people do

Develop refined body awareness and self-knowledge

  • Recognise unconscious patterns that shape behaviour

  • Translate embodied insight into work, sport, leadership, and creative practice

  • Move through transitions while keeping integrity

  • Build performance that doesn’t cost you your nervous system

This is not symptom management.

It’s learning how you operate - so you can work with yourself instead of against yourself.

Often the difficulty isn’t what you’re doing - but how much internal effort it takes to do it.

Decisions linger. Internal pressure accumulates. The same reactive patterns loop under stress.

This work helps make unconscious patterns visible - so clarity comes earlier, effort becomes lighter, and insight carries into work, performance, and relationships without needing constant guidance.

Who this tends to resonate with

Entrepreneurs, creators, athletes, and teams who:

  • Care about performance, but not at any cost

  • Are curious about themselves

  • Can sit with uncertainty long enough to learn from it

  • Want insight they can apply independently

Many come for better performance. Most stay for deepening self-understanding.

A note on approach

My work blends somatic intelligence, movement, attention training, and philosophical inquiry.

Sessions are flexible, relational, sometimes playful, sometimes precise - always shaped by what’s alive right now.

Although there are myriad tools, there is no fixed protocol. There is a strong emphasis on clarity, application, and long-term integration.

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Ways to explore this work

There are different ways to engage with this work, depending on where you are and how deeply you want to go.

Individual Coaching

One-on-one work for people who want to understand how they function — and translate that understanding into real-life decisions, performance, and relationships.

This is the most direct and personalised way to work together, and where longer-term clarity and integration tend to happen.

→ Explore coaching

Day Games

Single-day, movement-based sessions using simple games to reveal patterns around effort, perception and coordination.

For some, Day Games are a stand-alone resculpting.

For others, they’re a first contact with the work before going deeper.

→ Explore Day Games

Reheats

Half to multi-day immersions designed to slow things down, reset attention, and reconnect with what matters - through movement, stillness, shared practice, and conversation.

Often chosen by people who want to step out of daily context for a moment and let insight reorganise itself.

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    What clients say

    • "I started with a meniscus tear and now I can do close to everything - almost forgetting it was torn. Olivier helped me with mental and physical struggles and transformed practice to an act that supports my life."

      Erez Pliscov, Painter (Israel - Online Move Coaching)

    • "Olivier taught me how to slow my life down on and off of the court. The moment I stopped trying to control everything was when I finally had the breakthrough in my game."

      Codi Miller, Professional Athlete (USA - Online Release Coaching)

    • "I discovered new ways of moving, being and thinking. I wanted to include somatic practices in order to grow professionally and personally. Olivier allowed me to playfully explore what the body has to tell me."

      Cedric Arijs, Psychologist (Belgium - In-Person Coaching for Coaches)

    • "I often felt exhausted, constantly battling with pain, always anxious and stressed. Now I'm practicing stillness, motivated to do mobility, take a days off to relax and train for longevity."

      Simmonette Tan, Health Coach (Malaysia - Online Move Coaching)

    • "I think and communicate more clearly, gave up old status positions and embraced new challenges close to my heart. One by one this work unpeels layers that had wrapped around my identity."

      Luc Ailliet, Chiropractor (Belgium - Online Release Coaching)

    • "I was trapped in old patterns, unable to overwrite childhood 'programming'. In our sessions new possibilities opened up without me ever feeling in danger. Olivier’s unique and effective approach allowed me to experience an inner freedom that is felt mentally and physically."

      Antoinette Weitnauer, Non-Violent Communication Coach (Switzerland - Online Releasr Coaching)

    • “I’m feeling more vulnerable and strong at the same time.”

      Marta Arguelles, Writer (Spain - Reheat weekend)

    • "My practice wasn't internally stimulating me. Olivier transformed the way I see my body physically: how my body reacts to a certain situations and where am I holding stress."

      Guy Yechezkel, Movement Coach (Israel - Online Move Coaching)

    • "The suppressed hatred in me was too immense. Since our sessions I’ve known am both light and darkness. Confronting this duality enabled me to make more conscious choices in my life."

      Thomas D’havé, Osteopath & Founder kPNI Belgium (Belgium - In-Person Release Coaching)

    • "My life is becoming a playground with unlimited opportunities as Olivier supported me to open up, share my doubts and fears. I made progress in mobility, strength, coordination and mindset. You get tools that transform your business and your personal life."

      Simon Schmid, Manager (Switzerland - Online Release-Move-Perform Coaching)

    • “It was a safe space and a beginning of a journey within myself that took me to bewildering and mysterious places. It left me yearning to look for answers to difficult questions.”

      Ozana Marginean, Movement Coach (Spain - Reheat weekend)

    • Olivier maps both your inner and outer landscape. The coaching brought forth a clear mirror that - without judgment - confronted me with routines & habits, both physical and mental, but also showed new unknown possibilities to escape my swamp of efficiency & perfection with less struggle. A breath of fresh air in a culture focused on fixing the individual.

      Matthias Debusschere, Musician & Music Teacher (Belgium - Release/Move Coaching)

    • "I wanted to get more in touch with myself. Through play and movement I felt how my body and mind are connected. Through these practices there's much you can prevent and heal."

      Wout Geysen, Performance Coach (Belgium - In-Person Coaching for Coaches)

    • "His coaching changed me from an exerciser to an explorer. I see less regimentation in myself, more creativity, more joy and a breakdown of the wall separating my training from the rest of my life."

      Scott Grieve, Teacher (USA - Online Move Coaching)

    • "I had been struggling with a painful knee for a couple of months. I tried EVERYTHING in order to fix it, but it didn't really help... a session with Olivier changed everything for my perspective of the body. The next day: I couldn't feel anything in my knee AT ALL."

      Mads Valentin Taersbol, Professional Athlete & Running Coach (Denmark - Online Release Coaching)

    • "I wanted to learn how the wisdom of my body could help me to find more freedom and ease. I’ve learnt to access the courage to allow myself to be more authentic, to find a healthy and dynamic balance of openness and strength. I feel utterly safe being honest and vulnerable with him and feel echoes of what we do more and more in my daily life."

      Mark Steinberg, Professional Musician (USA - Online Release Coaching)

    • "I always suffering from some health problems. After my first session I felt alive for the first time in my life. I feel stronger and calmer (as if it was a side effect of not pushing). I am slowly learning that my body is wiser than my mind. He teaches me to allow my breath, not to do it - not to force myself to perform my life as perfectly as our civilization (and my thinking) would like me to do."

      Ewa Nartowska, Academic Teacher (Poland - Online Release Coaching)

    • "I found deep hidden tensions no other therapist would have found. Through Olivier I found a potent tool to tap into self healing and self regulation of my own body."

      Thomas Pretsch, Physiotherapist (Denmark - Online Release Coaching)

    • "Olivier uses movement as a medium, not an end goal. I see deep parallels between the body, movement and entrepreneurship. He filled in a missing dimension in my practice as a business coach."

      Jan Adins, Business Coach (Belgium - In-Person Release-Move-Perform Coaching)

    • “It’s always been hard to open myself and let other people see me. In the last months I feel like I’m opening myself again, slowly, it’s scary but it feels amazing at the same time. The sessions help me a lot because I don’t feel judged, and I feel like I’m being seen with clean eyes.”

      Cristina Otero Páramo, Teacher (Spain - Online Release Coaching & Reheat weekend)

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