Zero Balancing® Classes

About the Instructor - Jim McCormick, L. AC., began his Zero Balancing training in 1974 with ZB's founder, Dr. Fritz Smith, and became the first teacher of ZB after Dr. Smith, in 1979. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors and the on the Faculty of the Zero Balancing Health Association. He was one of the earliest Americans to study Five-Element Acupuncture, graduating in 1973 from studies with Dr. J.R. Worsley, in Kenilworth, England. Jim is known for creating a caring and creative learning environment, where participants feel safe to be their full selves, and to explore new ideas and skills. He presents information clearly, warmly, and with good humor and joy.

Zero Balancing (ZB) is a simple, yet powerful, bodywork system designed to align the energy body with the physical body in and elegant, efficient manner. Developed by Dr. Fritz Smith, in 1973, Zero Balancing focuses on the whole person, even when addressing specific needs. Zero Balancing is a mind-body system, with benefits, which range from helping specific symptoms to maintaining optimal health to self-actualization and discovery.

ZB is taught in a proficiency model, aimed at exploring and understanding the profound healing concepts necessary to balance the body's energy and structure.

Prerequisite: none, although class is mostly taught to licensed health-care providers.

In Core Zero Balancing I, you will learn the full Zero Balancing protocol; how to work with energy as a specific working tool; how to feel where energy is held at the bone level and to balance it; how to read the body's signs of energy movement; and how to work with states of expanded consciousness.

By the end of the four-day class, participants will have learned the beginning ZB protocol, and will be able to perform full Zero Balancing treatments, and begin to help people. Zero Balancing techniques or principles may also be incorporated into other bodywork.

COST: $595 ($495 if register before 30 days prior to the class.)

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Core Zero Balancing II extends and deepens the principles of Zero Balancing working with more of the core of the body. The class includes reviewing and deepening the fulcrums in Zero Balancing Core I.

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This class is an exciting opportunity to explore new ideas, fulcrums and strategies in Zero Balancing. It is designed for Zero Balancers with at least ZBI and II and one third class.

he aim of the class is development of participant's ability to feel the signature vibrations of emotions and feeling states found in the held energy in the bone and the energetic field, and to learn how to use this skill to benefit the client with ZB. We want to go beyond merely identifying an imbalance in a joint or bone to learning to identify and influence the quality of the energy held in the imbalance - including the client's emotions, self-image, concerns, etc.

Included will be topics: Connecting to the practitioner's own spirit; putting more of yourself in to your fulcrums (while still at interface); awareness of one's own signature.

I think Jim McCormick's class, "Touching the Whole Person," is one of the most important classes I've ever taken. It deepened my sensitivity and progressed my ZBs.   — Judith Sullivan, ZB Faculty

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This class looks at how we can use words in all aspects of Zero Balancing to deepen the effects of our ZB sessions. Learning how to feel comfortable and successful using verbal fulcrums within a session is of great value for the Zero Balancer. My experience is that certain held areas need verbal processing to fully let go.

The class will include theoretical presentations and practical exercises to help us in all areas of ZB where we use words - from establishing rapport with the client initially, to the framing process and using verbal fulcrums in a ZB session in a way that allows clients to stay in their right brains. We will also address using words after sessions - both in evaluating the work and helping the client become more aware of the learning that occurred, as well as creating "homework" which will energetically match their needs and saying the final goodbye which ends a session.

• Learn when (and when not) to use verbal processing in Zero Balancing sessions
• Learn how to create deeper rapport and deeper frames with clients, which allows for more change in ZB sessions
• Learn a "Short Processing Protocol" to use for verbal processing with appropriate clients
• Learn ways to help both practitioner and client dialog with the body

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This program is designed to provide skills and support to certified (or experienced) ZB practitioners who desire to deepen their work and their personal development. Our intention is to build a strong ZB community to use as a laboratory for exploration. We are committed to sharing knowledge and believe that we need to learn and grow together.

The next class will be a stand alone class and will be held in Truro, Massachusetts October 7 - 13, 2011. You may take this class even if you did not take one of the earlier ones, and you may take the class in Truro without any commitment to future classes. Our suggestion if you are interested in the class to talk with either Jim or Hau, or to contact some people who have taken the class and get a sense from them of how it went, and what was involved.

We know this involves great personal work as well as improved ZB technique and we want to work and share at all these levels. We are also looking at how to keep this connection and level of support going over time, so the group continues to function outside of class time, and to grow over time.

Some of the topics we addressed in the first classes:

• Mastery as a Zero Balancing practitioner
• Connecting to the spirit of the donkey
• Connecting to the practitioner's own spirit
• Putting more of yourself in to your fulcrums (while still at interface)
• Awareness of one's own signature
• We made major time for significant individual feedback from the instructors
• A premium was placed on individual personal growth
• Non-doing in ZB

PREREQUISITES: Certification in ZB or permission from instructors. Admission is upon faculty evaluation. For application/ registration, please call Hau Thi Long at 408-737-0668 or email at hauthilong [at] comcast [dot] net or Jim McCormick at 617-354-8360 x11 or email at jimmc5 [at] comcast [dot] net or download an application from www.1shinkodo.com

Course length: 6 days. Additional modules will be scheduled approximately every six months to give continued work together as a group.

CE Hours: 30/module

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