Events

Zero Balancing Level I/II (Hybrid)
August 1-5, 2025

Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork,

This 35-hour class incorporates what is normally taught as “ZB I and II” – it is a hybrid course open to people taking ZB for the first time and anyone who has had previous Zero Balancing study.

Unlike many other bodywork techniques that focus on soft tissues like muscles and fascia, ZB practitioners work more directly with the bones and joints. Dr. Smith believed that bones hold deep energy patterns, and by releasing tension in the bones, one could affect deeper energy systems in the body.
Zero Balancing is often described as a non-verbal, meditative practice. While receiving the treatment, the client lies fully clothed on a massage table, and the practitioner applies pressure or traction to certain parts of the body in a very specific manner. The goal is to clear energy blockages and allow the body’s natural healing processes to occur.

Zero Balancing Level I/II (Hybrid)
August 11-15, 2025

Esoterra, Amsterdam

This 35-hour class incorporates what is normally taught as “ZB I and II” – it is a hybrid course open to people taking ZB for the first time and anyone who has had previous Zero Balancing study.

Unlike many other bodywork techniques that focus on soft tissues like muscles and fascia, ZB practitioners work more directly with the bones and joints. Dr. Smith believed that bones hold deep energy patterns, and by releasing tension in the bones, one could affect deeper energy systems in the body.
Zero Balancing is often described as a non-verbal, meditative practice. While receiving the treatment, the client lies fully clothed on a massage table, and the practitioner applies pressure or traction to certain parts of the body in a very specific manner. The goal is to clear energy blockages and allow the body’s natural healing processes to occur.

Freely Movable Joints
September 18-21, 2025

The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School, TX

Freely Moveable Joints is an advanced level Zero Balancing course that expands the focus of Zero Balancing from the foundation and semi-foundation joints of the body to include the “freely moveable joints” of the body. Zero Balancing principles and techniques are taken beyond the Core Zero Balancing protocol into other arenas. The freely moveable joints present unique therapeutic challenges because of the variety of their anatomy and their great ranges of motion. By the end of the program, you will have the skills to evaluate and balance freely moveable joints and the knowledge to devise your own fulcrums to meet the specific needs of a given situation.

ZERO BALANCING I & II
October 6-12, 2025

Downeast School of Massage, ME

This special class at the Downeast School of Massage combines the two Core classes of Zero Balancing. This 7-day class will give you all you need to perform full Zero Balancing sessions. David Lauterstein is a faculty member of the Zero Balancing Health Association and has been teaching ZB since 1996. Zero Balancing is a path-breaking therapy that will add an essential and new dimension to your bodywork. Founded by Dr. Fritz Smith, osteopathic MD, it is derived from ideas and techniques of Rolfing, cranio-sacral work, acupuncture, Eastern and Western understandings of energy and anatomy. Zero Balancing I and II, offered uniquely in this hybrid course, will give you the entire Core Zero Balancing protocol.

Zero Balancing I
October 23-26, 2025

The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School, TX

We are musculoskeletal beings, yet most therapists focus only on the muscular side of that equation. That addresses only half of that system! Zero Balancing (ZB) – adding a mindful focus on the bones, key joints, and the energy flowing through them, as well as on the soft tissues associated with them – gives you access to the deepest layer of the person, who they are in their bones. Zero Balancing adds wholeness to your work and your client’s experience and is the missing piece in the world of bodywork and bodymind therapies.