Hi, I'm Janel, Creator of the OpekaFit Method. I'm all about fitness, adventure, memorable travel experiences, support, and your success.
As a former elite athlete, Ironman triathlete, fitness professional, and luxury lifestyle travel guide, I know that the key to living a life full of extraordinary experiences is by pursuing fitness, adventure, and community.
I’m a former Division 1 athlete and had the opportunity to train under the world’s leading coaches and trainers. I played soccer on Olympic development teams throughout my adolescence and went on to play Division I soccer at the University of Colorado.
I discovered triathlon in adulthood and went on to finish an Ironman. As an Ironman triathlete, I know that conditioning the mind and managing the breath are the keys to conditioning your body.
I’m an avid traveler and I’ve taught yoga and fitness all over the world, leading groups on pre-dawn runs through the streets of Cartagena and lead camel rides on the shimmering beaches of Morocco .
Now, I help busy, driven people just like you achieve your overall wellness goals in the time that you have.
Here’s what I know to be true: if your fitness regimen doesn’t challenge you, or if you’re merely going through the motions to “put your time in” at the gym, you’ll never achieve the physical and mental transformation you deeply desire.
When you train with me, I’m bringing my life experiences to every session. I’m thinking about your unique physical and mental challenges, your overall wellness goals, and how I can help you be better, do better and feel better as you take on the day.
I expertly guide you through physical exercise, breathing techniques, and mindset work because your overall wellness impacts every facet of your life and the lives of those around you. When you can optimize your health, you can reap all the rewards and feel confident knowing you’re learning, growing, and getting stronger.
It’s time to feel happy, peaceful, and at ease. And look your damn best.
The transformative power of the OpekaFit Method lies in the combination of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and the targeted muscle conditioning and centering practice of yoga.
OpekaFit combines the toning, fat-burning, and strengthening benefits of HIIT with stress relief, muscle conditioning, and enhanced focus of yoga to effectively guide you to your physical and mental peak performance level.
Vigorous high intensity interval training will raise your heart rate and activate your anaerobic threshold, allowing your body to burn calories and fat. Lower intensity intervals and vinyasa flows increase your aerobic capacity and endurance. It’s balanced out by incorporating yoga poses to improve range of motion, flexibility, strength, focus and breath, and stress management.
My goal is to make you more functional, flexible, and fit. I want you to bask in the pride and confidence that comes with feeling better, thinking clearer, and looking your best.
I stand for peak fitness, balance, vitality, mobility, and expansion.
“Working with Janel was incredibly enjoyable and productive for our entire team. Her yoga sessions were huge performance-enhancers for our athletes, increasing range-of-motion and mobility, reducing injuries, and improving athlete’s mind-body connection. The team always looked forward to the sessions and enjoyed every opportunity to work with Janel ”
OpekaFit curated the most amazing retreat in Catalonia, Spain. A beautiful estate, wonderful women and Janel Opeka was the perfect host. We had the best blend of chill and adventure. I've made amazing connections and can't wait to see what OpekaFit adventure awaits me!
“Janel has the unique ability to create a great deal of variety from class to class. She provides very detailed instruction and modifications on continual refinement of the key foundations of yoga. A particularly impressive quality of Janel’s instruction is the individual attention and support she gives to each of her students. Janel’s teaching methods are invaluable and she has helped me enjoy and grow my yoga practice. In my 10 years of practice she is without question one of the best and most talented teachers I have ever had. It is with great pleasure that I highly recommend Janel.”
My peers in high school thought I was crazy for choosing to run 8 miles at 7am every morning before class! Early morning jogs build neurons in the brain, impart diaphragmatic breathing to spark the parasympathetic system and calm nerves - I hope they figured it out!
I completed an Ironman in Louisville, KY in 2010
I started my lifelong love affair with travel at the ripe old age of 9! My favorite childhood memories are those of our family going to Europe, Africa and the Middle East on TWA vacation getaways. I even had a “travel wardrobe!”
I led a group of retreat guests through the streets of Cartagena before dawn. It was at that moment I discovered the life-changing effects of connecting to your body, connecting to culture and connecting to others on a shared journey.
I’ve used fitness,well-being, travel and yoga as a way of finding my purpose and continuing on the path of personal and spiritual growth in order to live my best life. And I am passionate about sharing that ability with others as a means to living life to your true potential.
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