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09/26/2025

Hi Everyone, I'm happy to know that already we have 11 people for the ZB I that I'm teaching in Austin, Oct. 23-26. I love to have one table-assistant! It's always a great learning and community experience!
I'll take names and decide on this by end of next week, before I go to Maine (on Oct. 4).
Comment below or email me at hello@david-lauterstein.com

09/23/2025

CORE ZERO BALANCING IN MAINE - COMING RIGHT UP!

The next Zero Balancing class I'll be teaching is in Maine - at the Downeast School of Massage. This is the fundamental Core ZB course - all in just 7 days - ZB I and II - Oct. 6-12. We're about half full with room for more.

ZB is an incredible therapeutic tool, but also studying it and the groups that form make it an initiatory experience. This comes from the humble but deep spiritual source of ZB, Dr. Fritz Smith, and from the focus of ZB, which is the core of the body, mind, and spirit - the wisdom that lives in our very bones.

https://www.downeastschoolofmassage.net/continuing-education

09/21/2025

WHAT "FREELY MOVABLE JOINTS" TELLS ME

Each movement in Mahler's 3rd Symphony's has a wonderful title: 1. Pan Awakens, Summer Marches In; 2. What the Flowers in the Meadow Tell Me; 3. What the Animals in the Forest Tell Me; 4. What Man Tells Me; 5. What the Angels Tell Me; and 6. What Love Tells Me.

The class I am teaching, "Freely Movable Joints," seems to have infinite potential titles for our movements:
for example:
1. What the feet and ankles tell me about walking on earth
2. What the knees tell me - you use me all the time, but don't love me enough
3. What hips tell me about dancing.
4. What the shoulders tell me about reaching out.
5. What the elbow shares with the knees.
6. What the wrist and hands tell me about writing the truth.
7. What the jaw tells me about the songs I sing.

Each of us has many things each joint tells us. When we listen to what they have to say, our lives are that much richer.

09/06/2025

09/06/2025

FREELY MOVABLE JOINTS - SEPT. 18-21

Each joint in our body is like a holograph. In a hologram, if you shine a light through even a small fragment of it, you will see the whole picture. Freely Movable Joints shines a light through each joint, through each of our inner bridges. This illuminates the whole person.

Integrated into the basic ZB Protocol it will give your work an unprecedented completeness as well as very specific ways to address symptomatic issues in the feet, ankles, elbow, hip, SI, shoulder girdle, arms, wrists, hands and head.

If you've had ZB I and II, FMJ is a must!

08/20/2025

I highly recommend this Zero Balancing I class in California 9/12-15!

It will be a small class so the individual attention you will receive ,with two people teaching, will be incredible!

Zero Balancing I, with Karen Senffner & Jim Lundeen, CA

Start Date: 9/12/2025 9:00 AM PDT
End Date: 9/15/2025 3:00 PM PDT
Venue Name: private residence
Location:
24105 Red Cedar Street
Twain Harte, CA United States 95383
Organization Name: Zero Balancing Health Association

Contact:
Jim Lundeen
Email: lundeenpt@hotmail.com
Phone: (209) 396-0829

Sponsor: Kathy Kenna

COURSE TITLE: ZERO BALANCING I
COURSE LENGTH: 4 days
EDUCATIONAL CREDIT: 25
PRE-REQUISITES: none
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
This is the first course of the Core Zero Balancing curriculum and introduces the intellectual and practical framework of the art and science of Zero Balancing. Instructors provide a detailed study guide, clear presentations, and demonstrations of Zero Balancing. In practice sessions, students experience both how to perform Zero Balancing and how Zero Balancing feels to receive.
You will learn:
The basic Zero Balancing protocol
Theory and principles of ZB
To distinguish body energy and body structure through touch
The skill of using energy as a working tool
The energetic anatomy of the skeleton
The theory and application of fulcrums
How to give a ZB session

COURSE TITLE: ZERO BALANCING I ABBREVIATION:ZBI COURSE LENGTH: 4 days EDUCATIONAL CREDIT: 25 PRE-REQUISITES: none   CLASS DESCRIPTION: This is the first course of the Core Zero Balancing curriculum and introduces the intellectual and practical framework of the art and science of Zero Balancing....

08/17/2025

Interesting piece on the 10th session of Rolfing. It makes me think, of course, that in a way, Zero Balancing starts where Rolfing ends.

Claude Hutchins

The Tenth Hour of Structural Integration: Finding "The Line"
The tenth session represents the culmination of the classic Structural Integration "Ten Series" - the moment where all previous work integrates around the central organizing principle that Dr. Ida Rolf called "the Line."
The Central Theme: The Rolf "Line"
At the core of Dr. Rolf's teachings is the organization of the body around a central vertical axis - "the Line" - that runs along the front of the body, extending into the earth and spanning above the head towards the heavens. In Structural Integration practice, the human body is seen as designed to thrive when oriented around this central vertical axis in alignment with Earth's gravitational field.
"The Line" is more than just physical alignment - it's an invisible relationship between oneself and the environment. As Dr. Rolf described it: vertical awareness is key. Being at peace within oneself and with one's environment simultaneously is what we mean when we say "the Line." This represents the union of human energy with the energy of the world.
This is why it's called "Finding the Line" - it's not just about structural alignment, but about discovering a way of being in the world that is both grounded and uplifted, stable yet dynamic. During the ten-session series, the body is integrated around "the Line," and perception of "the Line" becomes something that can be practiced and cultivated in daily life.
The tenth hour is ultimately about allowing natural, effortless movement to emerge from proper structural organization - the union Dr. Rolf strove for between human energy and the energy of the world.
get the rest of the story https://drive.google.com/.../1bCV33svHjRGkbyJZsGo.../view...

08/15/2025

DON'T MISS "FREELY MOVABLE JOINTS" - ZB CLASS - SEPT. 18-21 IN AUSTIN!

FREELY MOVABLE JOINTS has again captured my imagination. How do you evoke freedom and delight in all your joints is the question it answers. Freedom and light in your every movement?

Your ability to interact not only with foundation and semi-foundation joints is fundamental. We all need to experience the joy of enhancing the energy flow and spaciousness between every key joint of the body. Freely Movable Joints will add completeness to your work and life and to every ZB. I am so looking forward to teaching this course (gratefully with the assistance of Sheila Palmer).

I look forward to seeing you there in Austin for this rare opportunity to learn, reconnect, and add these enormously useful and fascinating fulcrums to your work.

(this does require having previously taken at least ZB I and II)

https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/main_enroll.asp?studioid=493685&tg=28&vt=8&lvl&stype=-8&view=day&trn=100000078&page&catid&prodid&date=8%2F15%2F2025&classid=0&prodGroupId&sSU&optForwardingLink&qParam&justloggedin&nLgIn&pMode=0&loc=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawML-d1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoQY9QsfJ_GwHySm71td24P28i0nmcWt_ZrjbH2OPmA4K_w2cBOsCuR-GnG3_aem_jh8A79wL4tyXKyvaimFS3g

08/15/2025

“We are great fools. “He has passed over his life in idleness,” say we: “I have done nothing today.”

What? Have you not lives? This is not only the fundamental, but the most illustrious of all your occupations.

“Had I been put to the management of great affairs, I should have made it seen what I could do.”

Have you known how to meditate and manage your life, you have performed the greatest work of all. For a man to show and set out himself, nature has no need of fortune; she equally manifests herself in all stages, and behind a curtain as well as without one. Have you known how to regulate your conduct, you have done a great deal more than he who has composed books.

Have you known how to take repose, you have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.”

~ Michel de Montaigne

08/12/2025

How you end beautifully is as important as how you begin.

A clip from 96-year-old pianist Seymour Bernstein's new tonebase lesson on Brahms's Intermezzo op. 118 no. 2.---tonebase gives you instant access to knowledg...

07/19/2025

Off to the UK next week!
There're just a few places left in the Bristol Zero Balancing I and 2 hybrid class, Aug. 1-5.
Feel free to join in to gain inspiration, experience exciting new ideas and techniques, and receive enlightening, rejuvenating bodywork.

Advanced CPD workshops in Bristol and Worcester designed for massage therapists to expand skills, experience and creative possibilities. Open to practitioners of massage and other bodywork disciplines. Join the BCMB massage and bodywork community. 1hr of any workshop accumulates 1 CPD point. Partici...

06/10/2025

Bones were certainly among the first musical instruments and vital to certain forms of prayer, ritual, community and celebration, for example, the ram’s horn, “shofar” in the Jewish tradition. The ribcage was the first xylophone. And the beating of drums on taut skins likely made acoustic accompaniment to the cave painters and the singers of tales. Hollowed out clavicles became the first flutes.