Zero Balancing
What is Zero Balancing?
Zero Balancing is a powerful touch therapy that releases tension patterns rooted in the skeleton, and brings the body back into a state of balance. Everything about ZB feels good or hurts good. ZB releases held energy/vibration at the bone level, and runs a clearer, stronger, more organized field through the body. It works directly with the skeleton by using fulcrums, which allow the body to reorganize around a point or field of stillness.
Developed by Dr. Fritz Smith in 1973, Zero Balancing is based on principles of nature, and views the body through the lenses of Structure and Energy. Like a sailboat harnessing the wind, when structure and energy are aligned and balanced, the boat catches the wind, and movement flows freely.
Zero Balancing engenders happiness, wellness, and wholeness. It also can promote self-actualization and expanded states of consciousness. From an expanded state, old beliefs and patterns are less well held, and can be released more easily.
What are the benefits?
Zero Balancing is designed to enhance health and vitality on all levels. It can:
Relieve tension and pain
Improve balance and mobility
Alleviate stress
Amplify calm
Quiet your mind
Expand your awareness
How does it work?
Bone energy holds the deepest currents in the body. It transmits energy, and is designed to be resilient to the stresses and accidents in life. However, key joints in the body, known as semi-foundation and foundation joints, can become restricted from various traumas. When this happens, the body tends to compensate around these joints and imbalances form.
Zero Balancing uses fulcrums to release held energy in these key joints, and the patterns that have formed around them. This energy then becomes available to be directed by the body’s own innate wisdom and self-correcting reflexes. This creates more harmony between a person’s structural body and energy body.
Zero Balancing Rates
Treatment sessions are $125 and generally last 75-90 minutes
More about Zero Balancing (ZB) sessions
Who should try ZB?
Adults and children who want to feel calmer and happier.
People who have sustained trauma.
Those living with pain.
Anyone in the midst of a life change.
People who imagine a better “normal”.
What are some reasons to get a ZB?
You want to feel your best self.
You don't feel like yourself, or grounded, or in touch with your body.
You’ve been in an accident, hit your head, or fell on your tailbone.
Everyone around you is grouchy or takes you for granted.
You are stressed and can’t remember what it feels like to be happy.
You’ve lost your equanimity or are feeling overwhelmed.
You’re bored, spaced out, absent-minded, or worried.
You have too much to do.
What does a session look like?
We start a session by creating a frame. How are you wanting to feel? Are there any issues that you would like clarity, release, or resolve around in some way? By placing your intention into the field of the session, the changes you desire are amplified.
Then, you sit fully clothed on the massage table for my initial evaluation of your shoulder girdle and sacroiliac joints. Afterward, you lie on the table face up for the remainder of the session.
The ZB protocol addresses the whole skeleton, starting with your feet and lower body. I evaluate and place fulcrums into the mid and low back, the pelvis, hips, ankles, and feet. This serves to provide the grounding that supports the work on your upper body where, once again, I evaluate and place fulcrums into the ribs, shoulder girdle, neck, head, arms, and hands. I also add in fulcrums that release restrictions held within your skull bones and organs if the need arises.
Are there any precautions?
ZB is generally safe for adults and children of all ages. However, certain conditions, such as broken bones, joint replacements, recent surgeries, acute injuries, or illnesses, will need adequate time to heal prior to receiving a ZB. It is recommended to abstain from ZB during the first trimester of pregnancy.
For other serious health conditions, such as cancer, some modifications may need to be made, but it can be a nurturing and comforting touch for those in declining health.
“Whenever you put your hands on somebody, it’s a privilege. It’s a privilege for them. It’s a privilege for you. And it’s one you take with high respect and high regard. It’s an honor that people will allow you to touch them and to offer them an opportunity for change.”
- Fritz Smith MD
Testimonials
Phoenisis—through her Zero Balancing work—has been instrumental in helping me move through the most difficult time in my life. My nervous system, body, and mind are soothed and brought into balance by her expertise. After a session, I often find that my entire outlook on the world feels wider, more connected and resilient. This work blurs the lines between mental health, trauma resolution, and physiological wellbeing in a way that is so special and unique. I am so grateful to have been one of the beneficiaries of Phoenisis's practice.
- Rob F.
I like Zero Balancing because I feel very happy and elated after my treatment. For me, the physical feeling and the mental state don't perfectly coincide. But after ZB, I'm more in touch with my body, so I'm able to understand it better.
- Clara G
This is powerful, powerful work! I always walk out of sessions with Phoenisis feeling transformed. She is wildly intuitive, and sessions are like questions, and the body responds with answers that she's able to track and address. The work lasts way beyond the session, and I find myself feeling unburdened by pain and discomfort. Phoenisis is a healer of healers!
- Jill S.
I am interested in getting to the root cause of issues and optimizing my health through methods that work. I’ve been deeply grateful to meet Phoenisis and have her work on my body through her zero balancing sessions. I’ve been learning about the electrical signals that flow through our bones. They have such a large influence on everything else in our bodies! It has been very exciting to learn how our bones and their electrical signals can be worked on and moved toward health through the work of Phoenisis. In one of my sessions, I became aware of the location in my body that was the root cause of one of my longterm health struggles. I’m so grateful for that moment and all the work she’s done with me!
- Stephanie R
Zero Balancing is relaxing. Everything is calm, and I have time to stop. It makes me feel relaxed.
- Marcus, 8 yrs
Every treatment brings me balance and strength in ways that I need but could never put into words. After I step down from the treatment table, I am aware of the boundaries of my body and my connection to the earth, sky, and stars above. When I leave, I stand a bit taller, breathe a bit easier, walk a bit more surefooted, and feel more aware of the present and my place in the world. Zero Balancing with Phoenisis is among the greatest gifts I have ever received.
- Chris S