The lore of the Chinese lute gives us an unparalleled window into touch technique.The descriptions and imagery of the kinds of touch used for lute-playing show us that we in the West have a highly under-developed vocabulary and imagery for the vast range of gestures, shapes and spirit conveyed through the infinite and different ways we touch.
Read MoreI’ve been planning my first out-of-the-U.S. workshop in 2022, in Costa Rica, and for this one, I prepared for travel and the class with more anxiety than usual…
Read MorePectoralis major is, in many respects for therapists, our first and most important encounter with spirit and structure of the heart area.
Read MorePalpate – how can you love if you don’t know what’s there?
Read MoreFrom the nerve cell, to turbulent particles, to self-growth, to evolution itself, saltation represents a kind of saving grace enabling the transmission of change over chasms in time and space as we move through natural, historical and individual life.
Read MoreUnderneath our skin are second “skins”, deeper layers of body and mind. Underneath the surface of our consciousness there is the subconscious mind. Underneath the first layer of feelings and sensations, live deeper emotions and sensations.
Read MoreThe graphic forms of the circle and the letter “O” have remained fairly constant from Phoenician times until the present day. The name of the letter for “O” was ʿeyn, meaning "eye"; the letter (and possibly the shape of a circle and the numeral for Zero) - all may have originated as a drawings of a human eye….
Read MoreMuch joy can be attributed to gastrocnemius and soleus, the primary muscles utilized in leaping up toward the sky and moving forward on the earth.
Read MoreZero Balancing is a bodywork practice and theory grounded in Western anatomy and Eastern philosophy and therapeutics. It addresses the musculo-skeletal system and the whole person from the vantage point of the structure and energy of the bones underlying all we do.
Read MoreThe scalenes, according to some anatomy texts, are possibly the second most important muscles in respiration….
Read MoreDuring recent days, with mask-wearing and most of us living with a restricted ‘range of motion’ in our social lives, in our bodies, and a layer of anxiety this unusual time evokes, we often find ourselves not breathing fully. Here’s a technique that can help….the re-inspiration fulcrum.
Read MoreIf you hold anything for long, it will begin to speak to you. Every part of the body has a story to tell. You might think that toes, for instance, don’t have a lot to say, but you’d be wrong…
Read MoreThe Half-Moon Vector - A fulcrum for the whole field of the person’s structure and energy…
Read MoreSukha Yoga in Austin is one of the many vast resources for meditation, yoga and psycho-spiritual support that we luckily have available to us today….
Read MoreThe scapula, a floating bone? and the roots of wings…
Read MoreFrom Diocles of Carystus, 4th Century B.C. in Athens - Prescription for One's Morning…
Read MoreThe muscle perhaps most reflecting thought lies on top of the cranium with a central tendon, the galea aponeurotica….
Read MoreIn the trapezius, the vertical energy flowing through the body intersects with a horizontal flow through the arms and the hands, reaching out to the world around us. This may be seen as an axis of love…
Read MoreThe Zero Balancing Touch Foundation has generously given every one of us free access (until June 30th) to a very special meditation recorded by Dr. Fritz Smith, Zero Balancing’s founder, that has been circulated only in the Zero Balancing community for years.
Read MoreZero Balancing provides answers and fascinating new questions in the search for bodywork’s holy grail, the unified approach to mind\body healing. Its theory reconciles the rigorous demands of Western science with the cosmological radiance of Eastern models of health…
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