SANTIAGO, CHILE, November 28, 2008: The year was 1976. A Hindu woman called Shantala caressed and massaged her newborn while the French doctor Frederick Leboyer and recorded a video. She performed a technique which has been passed from generation to generation in India, but to the doctor, it was entirely new.
Such was his amazement that he wrote a book on the subject and spread the technique he named “Shantala massage” in honor of that mother. Today, more than 30 years after their “discovery,” these techniques are being used daily here in Chile, specifically in the kindergartens in the region of Valparaiso.