Core ZB I Friday- Sunday, November 7- 10 9am-4:30pm
I welcome you to a valuable course for your professional practice and great principles and tools for your everyday life. You will learn a simple and unique way to touch someone so that it feels safe, effective, comforting and with practice is easier on your body than most direct pressure methods.
Enjoy discovering how the body signals that it is making energetic and structural shifts that enhance an over all sense of well being and simultaneously addresses joint and muscular imbalances and calms the nervous system! Please see https://wholebody-wellbeing.com/zero-balancing-classes-and-events/
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I’m excited to share these two opportunities to learn Zero Balancing in a beautiful country setting just 20-30 minutes away from most of Charlottesville.
In just a few hours you can be introduced into the theory of ZB and practice a short sequence to use in an existing practice or as a quick but very effective stand alone treatment for family & friends.
One Day Introduction to Zero Balancing
Next class: Saturday, February 8th 10am-6pm Markwood Road, Charlottesville, VA22936
Interested in what Zero Balancing might provide your clients? Just need a few CE’s for re-certification? Want to help friends and family but don’t have a health care practice yet? This class gives you a great day of hands on learning and enough theory to familiarize yourself with the basic principles of Zero Balancing. You go home with a short protocol that can be used alone or easily integrated into any client treatment.
CE Hours: 6 NCBTMB/NCCAOM approve
Check with your state’s professional organizations if they have approved Zero Balancing courses for continuing education. We can provide forms for you to submit to receive CE credit. Your organization may charge a fee.
In late March I’m thrilled to teach my favorite class over 4 days. Freely Movable Joints is one of the advanced courses that Dr. Smith created to fulfill the requirements for Zero Balancing Certification. I often encourage students to choose it next after their Core ZB courses as it deepens the touch theory and expands techniques for the hip and shoulder girdles including extra fulcrums for the scapula, knees, lower arms and hands that aren’t specifically included in the Core protocol but can really help a recipients quality of life
Freely Movable Joints
Next class: Thursday-Sunday, March 20-23 9:30 am-5:30pm Markwood Road, Charlottesville, VA22936
Freely Movable Joints is an advanced level Zero Balancing course that expands the focus of Zero Balancing from the foundation and semi-foundation joints of the body to include the “freely movable joints” of the body. Zero Balancing principles and techniques are taken beyond the Core Zero Balancing protocol into other arenas. The freely movable joints present unique therapeutic challenges because of the variety of their anatomy and their great ranges of motion.
By the end of the program you will have the skills to evaluate and balance freely movable joints and the knowledge to devise your own fulcrums to meet the specific needs of a given situation. In Freely Movable Joints we will review basic ZB principles and highlight their application to a number of joints in light of their specific anatomy. The skills and education inherent in this course will broaden your Zero Balancing abilities and will improve your Zero Balancing sessions.
Gentle When I touch someone I do so with the intent to help them connect to themselves. Our founder, Dr.Fritz Smith’s philosophy is that everything should feel good or hurt good. When I touch a point that is tender my client will often say, “I didn’t know that was sore.” I may ask a question or say, “I’m sorry that hurts there. In my hands it feels “tense or buzzy or dense.” Just a word to let them know I recognize that area too and move my fingers to another point. After another minute or two going back to the same area there is rarely any sensation of discomfort and I can quietly move on.
Clear In our training we teach students of ZB (Zero Balancing) how to simultaneously notice where their own boundary of touch sensation ends and where it starts to be aware of the other person. We call it interface. We use simple exercises and descriptions based on the principals of nature. And every Advanced Zero Balancing class, after the first two four day Core ZB classes, teachers and mentors help students refine that skill and encourage them to let each other know whether the touch needs to have a little more structural or energetic feel for them as individuals.
Connected There are 2 qualities we ask students to pay attention to, the energetic presence and the tactile structure of the layers down to the bone. When both those aspects are present we have coined the term “donkey connection.” It came from an observation during an early Zero Balancing excursion. Donkeys with a heavy burden will lean into one another to keep a steady footing on a steep hill. Even the inside donkey presses it’s body toward the one on the dangerous downhill side. They work together to ease their burdens. To master interface touch takes a good bit of practice with many different people so we review it frequently. Students do quite well by the end of the first 4 day class. Learning how to keep it constantly fresh is a never ending practice. Core Zero Balancing is taught in 2 parts. During the second 4 day class there is review and practice and always, always helping one another refine the interface connection in conjunction with the new techniques added to the basic ZB protocol.
These three key aspects are essential to our clients developing trust and making gains in their life based on the reasons they chose to receive Zero Balancing. It feels safe, respectful and always our aim is to have the highest personal regard, a founding principal espoused by Dr. Smith.
My teacher training cohort for the advanced ZB class Freely Moveable Joints. Dr. Fritz Smith, M.D. is in the center in the pink t-shirt.
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