🇫🇷 France · Contemporary
Visceral Manipulation内臓マニピュレーション
Systematised by osteopath Jean-Pierre Barral: gentle manual restoration of the mobility of the organs and their surrounding membranes.
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Fact sheet
- Origin
- 🇫🇷 France · 🇺🇸 United States
- Era
- Contemporary
- Classification
- Modern bodywork / Related therapy
- Techniques
- Abdomen
- Practitioner body parts
- Finger / Palm
- Medium
- None
- Clothing
- Clothed
- Setting
- Table
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