Zero Balancing

In 1983 I began studying Zero Balancing with Fritz Smith. I was impressed with my clients responses and improvements. So were they. Everything in a ZB session is designed to promote maximum relaxation and a sense of well-being. The process is distinguished by a form of touch known as interface. Gentle and noninvasive, it’s pleasant for both the ZB practitioner to give and the client to receive. Some people describe experiencing “expanded awareness,” others “tension melting away,” and still others say it is like “feeling balanced to zero.”

Zero Balancing is designed to align your physical structure with your energy body. Simple yet powerful, it focuses on your whole person, even when addressing specific needs. ZB moves beyond Western scientific approaches to body structure by incorporating Eastern concepts of energy and healing. This enables a practitioner to work simultaneously with your structural and energy bodies to bring balance.

Here I think we need to define energy. Energy is movement. We can feel gross movement— an arm moving, or subtle movement— our breath, the pulse, and even finer movements within the body as our awareness becomes more subtle. I am speaking mainly of these subtle movements. You experience subtle movement when your “hair stands up on end,” or if you feel a change in your body due to emotion such as a wave of love, or anger. You feel the “wave.” That is a type of energy.

A Zero Balancing takes between 30 and 40 minutes and is performed with you fully clothed. Using touch, the ZB practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow and balances the structures as needed. We may focus on the body, mind, spirit or all three, depending on where the fields are disturbed or the energy is blocked. Throughout the Zero Balancing session, attention is given to the skeleton, in particular, because it contains the deepest and strongest currents.

In my practice, Zero Balancing is the core work that I do to connect with both the physical and energetic. From there I fold in any of the other work that I do that is appropriate. I may do CranioSacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Bone Massage, and some Acupressure Points.

Zero Balancing is for anyone with stress in their lives, or for anyone who wants to feel better.