Education
He attended Belmont Boys Intermediate School and Saint Mary"s College, Portuguese of Spain. Lassalle attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from January 1965 to December 1966.
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He is a former lieutenant in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment who, together with Raffique Shah led a mutiny by the Regiment on April 21, 1970 (see Black Power Revolution). After returning to Trinidad he served as a second lieutenant and then a lieutenant. Following the mutiny he was charged with over fifty offenses including treason and mutiny.
Although he was never actually tried for treason he was court martialed in March 1971 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
In total he served 27 months in prison. The impact of this is reflected in his 1999 book on 9 Star Ki or Chinese astrology, Lassalle"s in-depth personal treatment of the subject.
His grounding in 9 Star Ki came through Michio Kushi the well known macrobiotics educator. He went on to study Osteopathy at the College of Osteopaths in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England and qualified in 1974.
Another profound influence on his work at this time was that of Doctor Major Bertrand DeJarnette the renowned American engineer, inventor, osteopath and chiropractor.
Around this time (late 1970s) he became involved with martial arts and studied under Kanetsuka Sensei of the British Aikido Federation and also Chiba Sensei where he picked up many techniques concerning the breath which he then applied, along with his knowledge of acupuncture, to develop his own style of Shiatsu. In recent years his work has been in providing services to the Spa industry during the course of which (2009) he wrote a book on spa massage. He continues to develop new methods in this area.
