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ZERO BALANCING
Hands-on bodywork system designed to align your energy body with your physical structure. It focuses on your whole person, even though it is still addressing specific needs. It is considered to be the leading edge of body/mind therapies.
When structure and energy are balanced, dysfunctional habits, such as emotional patterns and imprints from past traumas, tend to release. In addition, the person functions with relative ease, efficiency and comfort, cope with things better.
The process generally takes between 30 and 40 minutes and is performed with you fully clothed. The ZB practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow and balances the structures as needed. He or she may focus on body, mind, spirit, or all three, depending on where the energetic fields are disturbed or blocked. Throughout the Zero Balancing session, attention is given to the skeleton (bones) in particular because it contains the deepest and strongest currents.
It is designed to promote maximum relaxation and a sense of well-being. Gentle and noninvasive, it's pleasant for both the ZB practitioner to give and the client to receive. ZB creates a point of stillness where the mind quiets, the energy fields organize and internal reorientation occurs
Dr. Smith received his doctors of osteopathy in 1955 and his doctor of medicine in 1961. During the '60s and '70s he went in pursuit of a deeper understanding of illness and health, becoming a student of Rolfing, yoga, meditation and Eastern philosophies. Dr. Smith became a licensed acupuncturist in 1972 and later studied with J.R. Worsley of the Chinese College of Acupuncture in England, earning both bachelors and master's degrees in acupuncture. It was during this time that he also experienced intense personal revelations under the teaching of Swami Muktananda. These latter two experiences became the catalysts for his ultimate creation in 1975 of Zero Balancing.