Zero Balancing® at Crossings Healingworks
Zero Balancing® is the art and skill of balancing body energy with body structure through touch. When we experience trauma – personally or secondarily; physically, emotionally or mentally – residue from that experience lives as a vibration in our energy field. Zero Balancing® helps a person access a stronger, clearer force field that assists them in releasing these traumatic experiences. It was used successfully for first-responders after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. It has also been used to help amputees cope with the loss of a limb and achieve an internal sense of “wholeness” in their energy body.
Zero Balancing® is a gentle, hands-on bodywork system whose goal is to balance the structural body and the energy body through touch. It was developed in the 1970’s by Fritz Smith, MD, an osteopath and acupuncturist who strove to integrate Western concepts of anatomy and osteopathic medicine with the Eastern principles of energy and healing in the treatment of chronic pain. Designed to enhance physical and emotional well-being, Zero Balancing® focuses on the relationship of energy and structure in the body. Structure refers to the musculo-skeletal system, specifically bone and key joints in the body, while energy is not visible, but is palpable and perceptible as temperature changes, tissue softening or movement of tissue beneath the physiotherapist’s fingers.
Zero Balancing® has been used in many countries by massage therapists, physical therapists, osteopaths, nurses, acupuncturists, emergency department physicians and other practitioners. A variety of patients have been treated with Zero Balancing, including those in both acute and chronic states of imbalance or disease, as well as with patients who are physically well, but in emotional states of transition, stress or post-trauma. Just as imbalances in bone can have widespread effects, positive touch to these same areas can produce profoundly positive effects. (“Touching Trauma: Combining Hypnotic Ego Strengthening and Zero Balancing”, Contemporary Hypnosis, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2003, pp. 215-220.)
The Zero Balancing® Practitioners at Crossings Healingworks are Massage Therapists, licensed by the State of Maryland, State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and/or the DC Board of Health. They have all graduated from fully accredited massage therapy schools and have done, or are now doing, advanced training in working with people suffering from primary or secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Contact us:
301 565-4924, x335
healingworks@crossingshealing.com
Crossings Healingworks
8505 Fenton Street, Suite 202
Silver Spring, MD 20910
