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 in-person hours, 340 hours of traditional cranial training. My honours Mémoire, 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, Frymann. That study initiated the biodynamic thread I have been both curious and skeptical about. René Zweedijk brought neuro-endocrine-immune perspectives; Pierre Tricot, his tissular approach.
Teaching and leadership
Private practice in the 5th arrondissement. I spent five years teaching visceral techniques at CEESO Paris; also three years as guest lecturer in applied anatomy at the University of Versailles. I served as President of the Académie d'Ostéopathie de France from 2012 to 2015 — 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 in Nevada City, California — a thread I still hold.
Vancouver — perceptual enrichment
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 validated and enriched how I listen to bodies. I took some Canadian courses like 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 transversal understanding of constitutional patterns from a somatic point of view.
Saisons
I arrived in Victoria in 2018, and Saisons Osteopathy — my first independent clinic — opened in 2019 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 300 hours across Transforming Touch, Somatic Resilience and Regulation, and Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists) has changed how I sit with a patient before I've touched them. Biodynamics Phases/Steps with Elizabeth Caron. Pediatric training with Steve Kiesel and Olinx Adams, 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, Helsinki, learning from Thomson, Esteves, and Sposato.
Twenty-three years of study.
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