Zero Balancing®

Developed by Fritz Smith, MD in the early 1970s, Zero Balancing is a powerful body-mind therapy that uses skilled touch to address the relationship between energy and structures of the body. Following a protocol that typically lasts 30 to 45 minutes, the practitioner uses finger pressure and gentle traction on areas of tension in the bones, joints and soft tissue to create fulcrums, or points of balance, around which the body can relax and reorganize.

Zero Balancing focuses primarily on key joints of our skeleton that conduct and balance forces of gravity, posture and movement. By addressing the deepest and densest tissues of the body along with soft tissue and energy fields, Zero Balancing helps to clear blocks in the body’s energy flow, amplify vitality and contribute to better postural alignment. A Zero Balancing session leaves you with a wonderful feeling of inner harmony and organization.

How can Zero Balancing help you?

Zero Balancing can help relieve body aches and pain, release restrictions in movement, and provide lasting relief from emotional distress to improve overall quality of life. Zero Balancing can also be helpful with specific goals such as relief from back pain, improving concentration or sleep, releasing unwanted stress, eliminating old behavior patterns, or boosting well-being. Zero Balancing works in conjunction with medical therapy and is not a substitute for it.

What should you expect during a Zero Balancing Session?

After an intitial discussion to share information about your current state of health and reasons for seeking Zero Balancing, you will receive a seated evaluation.  Then you will lie on your back, fully clothed, on a massage table.  Your body will be assessed for tension, particularly tension held in the bones, joints and skeletal structure.

The session proceeds with gentle finger pressure (fulcrums) into the foundational areas including the spine, hips, feet and neck to release held tension.  By aligning the densest tissues – the bones and the joints – with the energy moving through them, Zero Balancing facilitates dissolution of limiting and uncomfortable patterns of all kinds thereby releasing the client’s own energy back into them.

A typical session is refreshing and deeply relaxing, and reestablishes one’s sense of comfort with life.