Zero Balancing Certification: Advancing Skills Day

Core ZB Advancing Skills day gives attendees deeper embodiment of Zero Balancing principles and theory   Supervised Practicing the ZB session protocol with greater awareness ● Improves your use of the three types of ZB fulcrums ● Fine-tunes evaluations and fulcrums for the lower and upper parts of the body ● Reviews of creating a session framework with the client.

This Advancing Skills Day, June 30th is unexpectedly special as it is the first opportunity for our Texas ZB community to meet in tribute to Dr. Fritz Smith who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, on May 7th.  Please join with us in celebrating this amazing man and the legacy he has left us with.

We will dedicate a special pyramid to Fritz. We will have time to share with each other. We will review key fulcrums in light of new information shared this week in an Art o f ZB class during which, the day before he passed, Fritz shared with each of the participants through Zoom.

The opportunity now to give and receive Zero Balancing sessions is even more empowered in light of these recent developments. The framing for each and every one of us is particularly auspicious at this time.

This class is open to anyone who’s had at least Zero Balancing I. Advanced students will gain immeasurably from the practice as well as touch feedback from the teacher and other students. We will explore what makes Zero Balancing both a scientifically-based modality as well as an art. We will explore how ZB inspiration comes from a similar place as music, poetry and zone-informed movement arts. This will be beneficial to all students at all levels.

Founder, Fritz Smith

Integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Fritz Smith's observations and experiences with both anatomy and energy led him to develop the manual therapy system we know as Zero Balancing (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 until his passing this year.

Faculty Member, David Lauterstein

David Lauterstein is the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School's Co-Director and has been in massage and bodywork practice since 1977. He is certified in Structural Bodywork and Zero Balancing and has been a teaching faculty member of the Zero Balancing Health Association for over 20 years.

He was inducted in 2011 into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame, honored as the 2012 recipient of AMTA’s Jerome Perlinski Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2013 by the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education as “Educator of the Year.”

David is the author of many articles and books, among them, "The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork", and "Life in the Bones: A Biography of Dr. Fritz Smith and Zero Balancing."