Background
& training.
Twenty-three years of practice, which is long enough to know how much is still unknown. I graduated in Aix-en-Provence in 2003, have practiced in France and British Columbia since, and am currently completing a Master's in Helsinki. The full arc is below — first as prose, then as a map you can explore by clicking.
Training
Five and a half years of full-time study at the Institut Supérieur d'Ostéopathie, Aix-en-Provence, under Christian Defrance de Tersant — more than 5,000 clinical hours, 340 hours of traditional cranial training. My honours thesis, supervised by Pierre Tricot DO, was on complexity in osteopathy: what it looks like to think carefully about a system that doesn't reduce to simple cause-and-effect. I began teaching as an assistant and started volunteering monthly with children with disabilities through EHEO (Enfants Handicapés Espoir Ostéopathique) in Marseille.
First practice
First years of independent practice in the south of France, alongside assistant teaching in visceral, reflex connective, and soft tissue techniques at ISO. The post-graduate work began in earnest: three years with Henri Louwette DO in a small group, exploring the Sutherland alumni lineage — Becker, Wales, Fulford, Fryman. That study planted the biodynamic thread I have followed since. René Zweedijk brought neuro-endocrine-immune perspectives; Pierre Tricot, the tissular approach.
Teaching and leadership
Private practice in the 5th arrondissement. Five years teaching visceral techniques at CEESO Paris; three years as guest lecturer in applied anatomy at the University of Versailles. From 2012 to 2015 I served as President of the Académie d'Ostéopathie de France — an experience in institutional leadership I didn't entirely seek, but learned from. From 2008 to 2011, I provided on-demand postnatal Osteopathic care at Clinique Léonard de Vinci alongside the Groupe Naissance physiological birth team. I also trained as a professional flower essence practitioner through the Flower Essence Society of California — a thread I still hold.
Vancouver — biodynamics
The move west. A practice in North Vancouver and a deep immersion in biodynamic Osteopathy with James Jealous DO and Elizabeth Caron DO — their Anatomy 101–102 courses changed how I listen to bodies. I studied embryology with Jaap Van der Waal, the endocranium and CNS with Geneviève Forget and Philippe Druelle, and completed a 120-hour course in pulse and tongue diagnosis with herbalists Matthew Wood and Sean Donahue. That last one grounded a broader understanding of constitutional patterns I hadn't expected to find useful.
Saisons
Saisons Osteopathy opened in 2018 at B–1834 Oak Bay Avenue. The years since have been the most formative of my practice — not in accumulating techniques, but in slowing down. The trauma-informed work with Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell (over 250 hours across Transforming Touch, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists) has changed how I sit with a patient before I've touched them. Biodynamics Phase 4 with Elizabeth Caron. Pediatric training with Olinx Adams and Steve Kiesel, including a clinical module at the Tokyo Osteopathic Center for Children. And since 2023, a Master's in Osteopathy at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, working with Thomson, Esteves, and Sposato.
Twenty-three years of study.
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