--- title: "Background of Jean-Marie Legé, osteopath since 1979" description: "Former boarder at the Notre-Dame choir school, osteopath since 1979; he trains the next generation of osteopaths and speaks at CALYP’s voice symposiums." url: https://jeanmarielege.com/en/about/ lang: en updated: 2026-10-18 --- # Jean-Marie Legé, osteopath since 1979 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. Mobile, calls and texts: +33 6 68 80 57 39. Practice: +33 1 42 57 31 59. 73 ter rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris. _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](https://jeanmarielege.com/en/explanations/)). - **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 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. _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 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. _The poster for the 2023 symposium._ ## Watch the Paris and Milan symposiums - Watch on YouTube: [International Symposium on the Voice, Paris 2022: the trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpJMtpgj_8w) - Watch on YouTube: [International Symposium on the Voice, Paris 2022: the long version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN8obpwWdPE) - Watch on YouTube: [International Symposium on the Voice, near Milan, 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4w8WJdeCxg) --- - Mobile, calls and texts: +33 6 68 80 57 39 - Practice: +33 1 42 57 31 59 - 73 ter rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris (48.890148, 2.336795) - By appointment, every day except during his seminars; no online booking. - 45-minute session: 90 euros, by cheque or in cash (no card payments). - Consultations in French; Jean-Marie Legé also sees English-speaking patients. - Access possible for people with reduced mobility - Jean-Marie Legé on calyp.fr: https://www.calyp.fr/en/team/jean-marie-lege/ - Site languages: [Français](https://jeanmarielege.com/a-propos/) · [English](https://jeanmarielege.com/en/about/) · [Русский](https://jeanmarielege.com/ru/about/) · [Español](https://jeanmarielege.com/es/about/) · [Italiano](https://jeanmarielege.com/it/about/) · [Português](https://jeanmarielege.com/pt/about/) · [Deutsch](https://jeanmarielege.com/de/about/) · [العربية](https://jeanmarielege.com/ar/about/) · [中文](https://jeanmarielege.com/zh/about/) · [한국어](https://jeanmarielege.com/ko/about/) - Sitemap: https://jeanmarielege.com/sitemap.xml · llms.txt: https://jeanmarielege.com/llms.txt Website created by the volunteers of the CALYP association to pay tribute to the unique and invaluable work of Mr Jean-Marie Legé. 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