Faculty

The instructors

The Barral curriculum at our Madrid centre is delivered by instructors who remain in active clinical practice. None teaches only from theory.

Jean-Pierre Barral

DO · Founder of the Barral Method

Creator of Visceral Manipulation, Neural Manipulation and the Manual Approach to the Brain. Former Chairman of the International College of Osteopathy in Saint-Étienne and faculty at the Université Paris Nord, where he directed the first Visceral Manipulation department ever hosted within a faculty of medicine. Named by TIME Magazine as one of the "Healers of the 21st Century". Teaches selected advanced modules in person at our Madrid centre, most notably the MATB3 module of the Manual Approach to the Brain.

Mark Bloemberg

PT, DO, BI Diplomate, CST-D · International faculty

Physiotherapist, osteopath, BI Diplomate and CST-Diplomate. Recognised international faculty member who teaches Visceral Manipulation modules across the Barral Institute network. His clinical and pedagogical work integrates visceral manipulation with craniosacral therapy, and he is a long-time collaborator of Jean-Pierre Barral on several advanced teaching formats.

Rene Assink

Neural Manipulation specialist · International faculty

Specialist in Neural Manipulation and peripheral nerve dynamics. Teaches the advanced Neural Manipulation modules at our Madrid centre and within the Barral Institute international network. Collaborator of Alain Croibier and Jean-Pierre Barral on the development of the NM curriculum.

Nabil Lahlouh González

PT, DO, BI Diplomate · Director, Barral Institute España

Physiotherapist and osteopath, BI Diplomate in the Barral Method. Director of our Madrid training centre and in active clinical practice in Spain. Leads the core Visceral Manipulation series and coordinates the annual calendar of advanced modules. Trained directly within the Barral Institute international network and continues to participate in faculty development with Jean-Pierre Barral and the senior international instructors.

Clinical focus: chronic musculoskeletal pain with visceral or neural components, post-surgical adhesion, pelvic dysfunctions, and integration of visceral and manual articular approaches.

Active clinical practice. Every instructor on our faculty continues to work with patients. This is not incidental — the Barral Method's palpation skills are impossible to teach credibly from theory alone, and our faculty are clinicians first and teachers second.

Reciprocal international recognition. All teaching at our Madrid centre follows the official curriculum of Barral Institute International. Credits earned with us are reciprocally recognised across the Barral Institute network, and practitioners can combine modules taken at different centres as long as prerequisites are respected.

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