Zero Balancing – I

Zero Balancing focuses primarily on key joints of our skeleton that conduct and balance forces of gravity, posture, and movement. By addressing the deepest and densest tissues of the body, Zero Balancing helps to restore the body's natural senses and vitality and contribute to better postural alignment. A Zero Balancing session leaves you with a wonderful feeling of inner harmony and organization.
Why Study Zero Balancing
Engage your clients on a deeper level.
Learn how to address deep patterns in the musculoskeletal system by handling energy and structure simultaneously. ZB will add energetic engagement to your structural work or structural engagement to your energy work. Either way, you will find that you achieve powerful and lasting effects.
Work with greater clarity and ease
Learn Interface Touch that brings clear awareness of both your own and your client’s physical and energetic boundaries. Working at Interface protects you and your client, so you can practice any healing art more easily without becoming drained.
Offer an effective session after ZB I, then expand your skills
Learn a treatment protocol that is effective for clients of all ages and that addresses physical, emotional and mental issues simultaneously. ZB offers your clients bone-deep relaxation similar to meditation that allows them to release old patterns, including stress and pain.
Learn touch, techniques and principles that will enhance your healing work
Zero Balancing is taught as a stand-alone system of body mind therapy. However, it is easy to incorporate into other modalities, including massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care, and craniosacral therapy, allowing you to work on multiple levels in one session.
How can Zero Balancing help your clients?
Zero Balancing can help relieve body aches and pain, release restrictions in movement, and provide lasting relief from emotional distress to improve the overall quality of life. Zero Balancing can also be helpful with specific goals such as relief from back pain, improving concentration or sleep, releasing unwanted stress, eliminating old behavior patterns, or boosting well-being.
The People and History of ZB
In the 1960's, Dr. Smith, already an Osteopathic M.D., studied at the Esalen Institute in Northern California and became a certified Rolfer®. During this time, he began to explore yoga, meditation, Eastern energy medicine and quantum physics.
Beginning in 1972, Dr. Smith traveled to the UK to become a licensed acupuncturist, earning a bachelor's and master's degree in acupuncture. He also studied with the famous teacher, Swami Muktananda. Zero Balancing consciously works with body, mind and spirit.
Dr. Smith has practiced and taught Zero Balancing throughout the world for more than 45 years and continues to teach to this day.
Dr. Smith is the author of many articles and two books, Inner Bridges: A Guide to Energy Movement and Body Structure and Alchemy of Touch: Moving Towards Mastery Through the Lens of Zero Balancing.