December 5-8 2024
ZB I is a 25-hour professional, hands-on, body-mind therapy training, taught by Michele Doucette DC at Vermont Acupuncture and Wellness – 161 North Street in Burlington Vermont.
25 CEUs for MT, PT, OT, DC (VT), LAc
Register before Oct 5 at $595, Nov 5 at $695, $795 thereafter
What is more fun than feeling vital life force moving through your bones? How does the skeleton relate to the deepest flow of energy and information in the body? What happens in a patient’s life when they become grounded in the feeling of their unique embodied essence and and begin to live life with presence, ease, and grace? How do tension patterns in the body form filters trough which people relate to themselves and others? What are the mechanisms of held trauma and how is it released from the body? How can skilled, conscious touch reach all levels of a person; physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual? How does transformative touch contribute to the evolution of humanity? Join this joyful, creative, theoretically expansive, and clinically essential class and set things in serious motion in your personal and professional life. Read More
Zero Balancing is a unique, hands-on, bodywork system of healing. It combines the Western view of medicine and science from the field of osteopathy with Eastern concepts of energy and healing from the field of acupuncture. ZB affects the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) by providing both structural therapy and energy medicine simultaneously.
Practitioners learn to engage, evaluate, and balance the deepest currents of movement through bones, joints, ligaments, and other soft tissue. Through touch we learn to access the body’s “interoceptive” mechanism of conscious awareness, self-referencing, and physical, as well as psycho-emotional, resilience. ZB facilitates deep relaxation that relieves musculoskeletal tension patterns caused by stress, injury, illness, suboptimal posture, etc.
ZB offers the opportunity to work with expanded states of consciousness and to address imbalances in energy fields that precede pathology (illness). It promotes an expansive meditative state that is grounded in the body and often allows clients to experience greater self-awareness, mindfulness, and insight into their personal health and wellness. ZB is effective for pain relief, improved joint function, and ease of movement. Side effects may include peace, happiness, clarity, and personal growth as ZB brings a person closer to his or her true nature.
It changes lives.
After 30 years of practicing ZB and 20 years of teaching it, I am still amazed and delighted at how profound, how relevant, how essential this work is for the world. ZB facilitates innate healing by creating the opportunity for people to feel their essential, true self and release tension patterns and subconscious programming that do not serve their highest good. It is effective for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness simultaneously because we learn to access the whole person through touch. It is my honor and my great delight to continue to share this work here in Vermont and internationally.
Michele Doucette DC
Zero Balancing Faculty
ZBHA Board of Directors, chair
| 25 CEUs for MT, PT, OT, DC (VT), LAc Register before Oct 5 at $595, Nov 5 at $695, $795 thereafter Class will be held at Vermont Acupuncture and Wellness – 161 North Street in Burlington, VT. Hours are 9-5. Note: this will be a small class with lots of one on one instruction. In the likely event it stays small, it will be condensed into three days December 6-8 (Fri-Sun) To learn more visit zerobalancing.com and drmicheledoucette.com (check out the blog section for essays and videos about ZB)For more information contact Dr. Doucette at bones@sover.net 802-258-0459 |
| Michele teaches in a way that my body can hear. — Megan Shewe, OT Getting a ZB session is like walking through a garden path…to myself. — Diane L, client I was not expecting to learn so many new things. I thought the class would just deepen my previous knowledge. Nice surprise! When I first took a class with Michele, a dozen years ago, I thought her to be an intelligent, professional, and highly knowledgeable teacher of ZB. Now, I see her as a wise woman; all that she was, and now so much more. She just KNEW what we needed as a class. — Mary D’Amico PT Zero Balancing compliments and augments the effectiveness of all my chiropractic care. It’s respect and attention to the whole person amplifies effective adjusting, regardless of technique, and allows magnified expression of a healthy nervous system — Sean Lynch DC ”When I am in a Zero Balancing session, i am in awe of my own body…that I could feel so much joy in my own body.” — E. Stewart, client Each fulcrum we practiced clearly touched both practitioner and person on the table deeply. — Chris Allen, LMT I find that simple ZB techniques to the spine really helps to integrate the chiropractic adjustment. Patients feel the difference, a sense of calm in the nervous system as it releases tension and tissue-held information — Cindy Marcus DC I’ve had a quantum leap forward in “knowing” what I am feeling in my hands and body. This work addresses the body in a way that supports, but goes well beyond basic protocols. — Mary Bradley, PT |