Danis Bois is Professor at the Fernando Pessoa University. He created a mestrado in perceptual psychoeducation and is coordinating a doctoral program.
see his personal page : http://danis.bois.free.fr/
In 2004, Danis Bois was appointed Director of the Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Appliquée en Psychopédagogie Perceptive (CERAP).
Danis Bois is the author of several books and articles published in the fields of health, education and philosophy of the ‘Sensible’.
In 1983, he founded a school of Fasciatherapy, a manual therapy originally inspired by his experience of osteopathy. In the following years, this therapy spread across several countries in Europe and North America : France, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, Germany and Canada. More recently this work has been introduced in the US and in Brazil.
Medically trained as a physiotherapist and osteopath, and inspired by the founders of osteopathy, Danis Bois developed fasciatherapy in the 80’s. He is the author of a range of publications on fasciatherapy and pulsolgy : "Concepts fondamentaux de fasciathérapie et de pulsologie profonde" (Éd. Maloine), "Fascia, sang, ryhtmes, complices dans les pathologies fonctionnelles" (SPEK), "La vie entre les mains", "Une thérapie manuelle de la profondeur" (Éd. Trédaniel). From the experience of his practice he has elaborated original and innovative concepts around the manual therapy, movement re-education and body-mind unity. He gave fasciatherapy its dimension as a holistic patient-centered manual therapy. Today his work on fasciatherapy is recognised as significant in the field of health .
Danis Bois is also the founder of Somatic-Psychoeducation. He has developed this approach over the last 10 years et modelised its concept in a seminal book : The Wild Region of Lived Experience (North Atlantic Books) published in French under the title Le Moi Renouvelé (ed Point d’Appui).
Having completed his PhD in Sciences of Education in 2007, he obtained a full professorship at the University Fernando Pessoa and the directorship of the Centre for Applied Research and Study in Perceptual Psychoeducation (CERAP). Today he devotes most of his time to research and university teaching. He is regularly invited to international scientific conferences to present his work and its application in the field of health and education.
Biographical note
Danis Bois was born in France in 1949., he was head of the re-education centre of Vendôme’s hospital (France) for four years.
In 2000 his career took him back to university, where he completed a university diploma in “Développement Cognitif et Social du Nourrisson” (Cognitive and Social Development of the Newborn) at the Université Paris V, then a “Licenciatura de Psicopedagogia Curativa” (Masters in Curative Psychoeducation) at the Modern University in Lisbon, and finally in November 2005, he completed a doctoral program in Education Sciences at the University of Seville, on “Didactics and the Organisation of Educational Institutions”. The subject of his PhD dissertation is : “The ‘Sensible’ Body and the Transformation of Adult Representations – Proposals for a Perceptual-cognitive Model in Adult Education.”
Concurrently, he became Visiting Professor at the Modern University in Lisbon in 2003, where he created a post-graduate program in somatic- psychoeducation and a mestrado in perceptual psychoeducation. Both courses are attended by students from eleven different nationalities.
In 2004, Danis Bois was appointed Director of the Centre d’Étude et de Recherche Appliquée en Psychopédagogie Perceptive (CERAP) in the same university. Finally, in 2005, the Scientific Council of the Modern University in Lisbon appointed him Guest Chair.
Danis Bois is the author of several books and articles published in the fields of health, education and philosophy of the ‘sensible’.