About Louis

I've been fascinated by how the body works all my life: through martial arts, Argentine tango, and my first career as a circus artist. I trained at the National Circus School in Montréal and toured from India to North America with shows such as Cavalia's Odysseo.

After a motorcycle accident ended that career, I was inspired by the skilled osteopaths who helped me recover, and I trained at the Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques in Montréal: over 3,100 hours covering musculoskeletal, cranial and visceral osteopathy, with specialised classes from paediatrics to the lymphatic system.

I take great joy in helping athletes, dancers and performers move past the physical limits that get in the way of their work, especially when the foot is involved. I also love working with babies and their mothers in the time after childbirth.

My work draws on classical osteopathy in the tradition of A. T. Still and W. G. Sutherland, on embryology, on classical Chinese medicine and on Tai Chi. After years of practice in Barcelona, I now live on Aegina and work on the island and in Athens. I work in English, French and Spanish, and I'm learning Greek.

Teachers and influences

• David Tircuit, my internal arts teacher, himself a student of Peter Ralston and Wong Jack Man. He taught me how to think, how to move, and how to take things down to their essence.

• Françoise Desrosiers, D.O., biodoosteo.com. My teacher in biodynamic osteopathy.

• Dr Edward Neal, The Apricot Grove. His reading of the Huang Di Nei Jing showed me the body as an ecology: channels as rivers, health as the free flow of a living landscape.

• Gary Ward, Anatomy in Motion. His map of what every joint does in a single step gives my movement work its precise biomechanics.

• Bruno Caverna, Formless Arts. My GFP teacher: gravity as support, the art of falling, and Play-Fight.

• And the osteopathic lineage of A. T. Still and W. G. Sutherland.