Zero Balancing I & II
with David Lauterstein LMT, ZB faculty, co-founder, Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin
October 6-12, 2025
Monday-Sunday 9:00am - 5:00pm each day
Oct 6-9 - ZB I
Oct. 9-12 - ZB II
50 CE Hours
Early Registration: $1,227
(with $300 nonrefundable deposit no later than Aug. 6th)
Late Registration: $1327
(with $400 nonrefundable deposit later than Aug. 6th)
Cash/Check Discount Early Reg: $1190
(with $300 nonrefundable deposit no later than Aug. 6th)
Cash/Check Discount Late Reg: $1290
(with $400 nonrefundable deposit later than Aug. 6th)
Please note the following guidelines for ZB I or II only:
Registration by Sept. 6 - $717 or $695 (CCD)
after Sept. 6 - $820 or $795 (CCD)
$350 for each class if you are repeating ZB I and you have taken any other ZB course in the past 5 years.
Participants with previous ZB I study can register for just ZB II
(Oct. 9: 1-5, Oct. 10-12: 9-5)
Course Description:
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. You will learn specific techniques for working with the “foundational” bones, joints and soft tissues of the body, amplifying the health of the musculo-skeletal and nervous systems through:
- the foot
- hips
- pelvis
- sacro-iliac joints
- all the ribs and vertebrae
- sternum
- clavicles
- shoulders
- arms
- neck
- cranium
You Will Learn:
To create “fulcrums” that systematically empower every touch to have optimum effect. You will learn observation skills to add effectiveness and confidence to your work. You will learn a protocol that can be done in as little as 30 minutes or as many as 60 – allowing you to provide whole ZB sessions and/or to integrate Zero Balancing with whatever other work you do whether it be structural or energetic or both. Most importantly, you will learn how to address the deepest structure and energy that underlies our posture and every movement that we make. You will learn how to work with the fascinating, deepest part of the person understood by Eastern thinking as “ancestral chi” – what we know and feel in our “very bones”.
Required Text – to be read prior to the class – “Inner Bridges” by Dr. Fritz Smith
All participants will receive free with this class the superb and detailed “Core Zero
Balancing Study Guide, 5th edition”
“ZERO BALANCING has been called “the most revolutionary development in bodywork today.”
Benefits of Zero Balancing may include:
- Resolution of musculoskeletal pain and tension not responding fully to soft tissue work
- Enhanced postural alignment
- Heightened sense of connection, peace, balance, and harmony
- Helping release "tissue-held" memory
- Centering oneself
- Reducing stress and promoting better flow of energy in our bodies
- Relieving problems arising from excessively stimulated sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight)
- Heightened sense of spiritual and emotional wellness - easing anxiety, chronic anger, depression, etc.
- Specific benefits from techniques addressing pain in the back, hips, feet, torso, shoulders, arms, neck, and head
David Lauterstein, LMT, MTI, Cert. ZB, is co-founder of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, TX, has taught Zero Balancing since 1996 and Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method, throughout England, Costa Rica and the U.S. since 1982. He is one of the most highly respected educators in the massage therapy realm. He is the author of five books, among them “Putting the Soul Back in the Body”, “The Deep Massage Book”, “Life in the Bones (the biography of Zero Balancing and Dr. Fritz Smith)”, and, most recently, with Dr. Jeff Rockwell, “The Memory Palace of Bones.” His background prior to massage therapy was in philosophy and music composition. He is known as the foremost educator in the bodywork realm who emphasizes the integration of art and science in our work.
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