An American Osteopath and Acupuncturist, Fritz Smith, developed Zero Balancing (ZB) in 1975, and it is now commonly used by body-oriented therapists. ZB is a hands on bodywork system designed to align your subtle energy body with your physical structure. Considered at the leading edge of body/mind therapies, ZB moves beyond Western scientific approaches to "the body" by incorporating Eastern concepts of energy and healing. Simple yet powerful, it focuses on the whole person, even when addressing specific needs. The practitioner works simultaneously with your structural and energy bodies to bring balance. Your structural body is what you can see and touch—bones, soft tissue and all the body organs. The energy body is the seen and unseen movement, including muscular movements, movement of tissue fluids, cellular and molecular vibrations, movement within the body fields, and movement of the life force itself. Your energy body directly affects, and in large part is responsible for, your mood, emotions and vitality. Changes in body energy and its fields usually precede illness and have a causal relation to disease.
Gentle and non-invasive, Zero Balancing is 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's like "feeling balanced to zero." As with all other forms of somatic therapies, you do not have to be in a state of disease or distress to receive a Zero Balancing session.
