Jean-Marie Legé, osteopath since 1979

Name: International Symposium on the Voice: Singing, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, second edition
Start: 2023-09-22
End: 2023-09-24
Location: Villa Medici Giulini

An osteopath in Paris 18th, Jean-Marie Legé treats babies, children and adults, among them dancers, elite athletes, professional singers and musicians, and actors. He speaks fluent English.

Portrait of Jean-Marie Legé wearing a headset microphone during his talk at the International Symposium on the Voice — Jean-Marie Legé at the International Symposium on the Voice, Paris, 2022.

From the Notre-Dame choir school to osteopathy

Early 1960s	A boarder at the Notre-Dame de Paris choir school (maîtrise de Notre-Dame de Paris), he learns singing and music there.
July 1979	He begins practising osteopathy, with the first cohort of osteopaths in France.
1988	He goes to the school of osteopathy in Montreal, where he defends his thesis in osteopathy.
Early 2000s	He joins the Cranial Academy’s biodynamic osteopathy working group, in the United States.
18 September 2022	He gives the talk “L’ostéopathe, l’horloger du corps” (“the osteopath, watchmaker of the body”) at the first International Symposium on the Voice, in Paris.
September 2023	He speaks at the second edition of the symposium, near Milan.
2024	Anatomie du Chant (The Anatomy of Singing), Adeline Toniutti’s book (Marabout), includes eleven boxed texts signed by him; the book’s diagrams were developed with him (his explanations of the vocal gesture).
2025	La Bonne Voix (The Right Voice, Leduc) quotes his advice on speaking and tone.
2026	Анатомия пения, the Russian edition of Anatomie du Chant, is published by Bombora.
Today	He treats patients at the practice on rue Lamarck. Away from the practice, he does a lot of cycling.

He is one of those whose talent ought to be shared with the whole world […]

Adeline Toniutti, La Bonne Voix (Leduc, 2025), p. 84 Translated from the French.

Training the next generation of osteopaths

Jean-Marie Legé trained in biodynamic osteopathy under James Jealous. With fellow osteopaths, he founded GERMOB, the groupe d’étude et de recherche sur le modèle d’ostéopathie biodynamique (study and research group on the biodynamic model of osteopathy), which today teaches through seminars in France.

He is also a co-founder of SOFA, the Société d’ostéopathie franco-américaine (Franco-American Society of Osteopathy), which invites American osteopaths to give courses and training seminars. He is writing a course in osteopathy.

The five speakers at the symposium take a bow hand in hand, Jean-Marie Legé in the centre — The five speakers take a bow in Paris on 18 September 2022. From left to right: Dr Jean Charmoille, Adeline Toniutti, Jean-Marie Legé, Dr Romain Pérouse and Dr Bruno Coulombeau.

The International Symposium on the Voice, Paris 2022

The first edition of the International Symposium on the Voice, “Singing, Medicine, Psychoanalysis”, took place on Sunday 18 September 2022 at the Hôtel Normandy Le Chantier in Paris. Jean-Marie Legé gave the talk “L’ostéopathe, l’horloger du corps” (“the osteopath, watchmaker of the body”) there, after the one given by an ENT surgeon and a phoniatrician. In the afternoon, a psychiatrist and Adeline Toniutti took the floor.

Poster for the International Symposium on the Voice, 22 to 24 September 2023, Villa Medici Giulini, listing the speakers, including Jean-Marie Legé — The poster for the 2023 symposium.

The second edition, near Milan in 2023

The second edition took place from 22 to 24 September 2023 at the Villa Medici Giulini in Briosco, near Milan. The Paris speakers were joined by Dr Orietta Calcinoni, phoniatrician and ENT specialist at the Teatro alla Scala, and Marie Zheng, a tai chi chuan master.