Celebrating the Femur
In an excerpt from a new book from David Lauterstein and Jeff Rockwell, the authors explore the connection between the bones, the massage therapist, and the client's whole being.
David Lauterstein
David Lauterstein, LMT, is co-owner of the Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, Texas, founder of Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method, and a Zero Balancing faculty member. He is the author of Putting the Soul Back in the Body, The Deep Massage Book, and Life in the Bones: A Biography of Dr. Fritz Smith and Zero Balancing.
ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
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Zero Balancing
In bodywork, some practitioners focus on physical structure and others focus on energy. Zero Balancing is unique in that it focuses on both simultaneously and consciously. At 90 years old, the founder of Zero Balancing, Fritz Smith, MD, is still teaching us all about it.
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Life in the Bones
It's easy to see our work through a tissue and fascia-focused lens. This realization led me to study (and later teach) zero balancing, a form of bodywork that focuses on the skeletal side of the musculoskeletal equation and emphasizes contacting energy as well as structure.