Possible Clues:

• Japanese massage practice
• Japanese therapy involving gentle massage
• Japanese hands-on healing practice
• International winter sportsman perhaps heading off back for massage
• Healing technique involving touching kicks in regularly
• Japanese therapy involving the laying on of hands
• Treatment partially helping Andrei Kirillovich
• International winter sportsman, topless, that's taken up manual therapy
• Energy-channeling healing technique
• Form of alternative medicine, devised by Mikao Usui