Category: Workshops and Clinics

  • Zero Balancing I

    11-14 December 2025

    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 October 11 at $595, November 11 at $695, and $795 thereafter. Email Michele directly to get the promo code for early registration.

    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.

    (more…)
  • Zero Balancing I

    3-6 April 2025

    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 February 3 at $595, March 3 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.

    (more…)
  • FREELY MOVEABLE JOINTS

    7-10 December 2023 in Burlington VT

    Advanced Zero Balancing class taught by Michele Doucette JUST ADDED, by popular demand:  FREELY MOVEABLE JOINTS

    What is more fun than a freely moveable skeleton? Join this joyful, creative and clinically essential class and set things in serious motion in your ZB practice!  We will explore all the non-foundational joints like knees, ankles, toes, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, tmj, and more. We will learn to use ZB principles to come up with unique fulcrums as needed in a session. This one is always a blast.

    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.

    One of my favorite classes – so practical, useful, effective. I’m excited to be hosting and assisting this one!

    25 CEUs for MT, PT, OT, DC (VT), LAc
    Register before Nov 7 at $695, $795 thereafter

    This is an advanced Zero Balancing class – ZB I and ZB II are prerequisites.

    Note: Zero Balancing I is happening the weekend after this. Read about it here: ZB I Dec 15-17. [read more]

    Already taken FMJ?  There is so much to learn the second time around!  Use promo code ZBHARepeat (if you’ve taken that ZB class in the last 6 years) for 1/2 price tuition

    More Advanced ZERO BALANCING CLASSES WITH MICHELE DOUCETTE

    (register 2 months in advance of class date for supersaver discount!)

    2023

    Nov 3-4  Silver Spring , MD ZB and the Spirit of the 5 Elements

    Nov 30-Dec 3  San Clemente CA   Alchemy of Touch

    Dec 7-10  Burlington VT  FMJ

    2024

    April 27-28  Wilmington VT  ZB and the Spirit of 5 Elements

    May 16-19  Wilmington VT  Geometry of Healing

    October 24-27  Wilmington VT  Alchemy of Touch [/read]

  • Zero Balancing I

    14-17 December 2023 in Burlington Vermont

    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 14 at $595, Nov 14 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 Nov 14 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 Oct 15-17 (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

    The week before this class, 7-10 December one of my favorite advanced ZB classes is happening at my office – and I get to assist – Freely Moveable Joints. [/read]

  • Zero Balancing II November 17-20

     

    zba

     Zero Balancing II

    A 25-hour professional, hands-on, body-mind therapy training

    with Michele Doucette DC

    ZB II November 17 – 20, 2022

    ZB I March 17-20, 2023

    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.

    ZB I is approved for 25 hrs. Continuing Education credit (through VT Board of Chiropractic, NCBTMB, NCCAOM, PT/OT boards and agencies and 30.5 hrs. for RN, NP, by American Holistic Nurses Assoc.

    To register contact Dr. Doucette at 802-464-2361  bones@sover.net  or register online at    www.zerobalancing.com   Course Fee:  $595 If pd 2 mo. Advance, $695 if pd 1 mo. advance, $795 thereafter           Read testimonials from students at www.drmicheledoucette.com

  • Zero Balancing I in Burlington, Vermont 22-25 March 2018

     zba

    Zero Balancing I      March 22-25, 2018

    A 25 hour professional bodymind therapy training for health professionals with Michele Doucette DC

    Zero Balancing is a leading-edge, hands-on, body-mind therapy. 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. It promotes a deeply meditative state in which sub-optimal tension patterns are easily released. Like adjusting the tension on a guitar string, ZB leaves a person more in tune with their essential being, more resonant with their true self…more relaxed, comfortable, resilient, awake, self-aware, grounded, and expanded. (more…)

  • Zero Balancing intro Thursday 18 May 2017 and ZB I in September 2017

    free Intro to Zero Balancingzba

    with Michele Doucette DC

    Thurs 18 May, 6:30-8:00 pm
    Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness
    161 North Street Burlington, VT
     

    Please join us for a free talk and demonstration about Zero Balancing (ZB). Come if you are interested in learning about energy, receiving ZB, or studying Zero Balancing.

    Zero Balancing I

    A 25 hour professional bodymind therapy training for health professionals
    with Michele Doucette DC
     
    September 21-24, 2017
    Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness
    161 North Street Burlington, VT
      (more…)
  • RESTART Sugar Detox starts January 24th and January 26th

    11390041_917211258339869_1258854875189158698_n
    Nutritional Therapist and Transformational Coach, Lisa Lord, is running a 5-week program called RESTART.  3 weeks of the program is a Sugar Detox, with one week on each end to ease in and out of the detox.

    There are two sessions beginning next week:

    The evening session begins Tuesday, January 24th, from 6:45-8pm, and the morning session begins Thursday, January 26th, from 8:30am-9:45am.

    It is being held at my office, 161 North Street, Burlington, Vermont.

     

    Lisa is also setting up an online class as well, so if the above time doesn’t work for you, perhaps the online class will be for you. Contact Lisa at 802-310-8084 or hello@lisalordntp.com

    view flier here:

    RESTART

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

  • Zero Balancing I class September 21-24, 2017 25 CEUs

    zba

    UPCOMING ZERO BALANCING CLASSES

    IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT

    Introduction to Zero Balancing

    Thursday September 21, 2017 6:30-8:30 pm

    Zero Balancing (ZB) is a leading edge body-mind therapy. This
    introductory class describes and demonstrates how ZB facilitates an
    expanded state of consciousness while releasing subconscious tensions
    patterns in body, mind, and spirit. A great addition to any
    healthcare/bodywork practice and accessible to the general public
    interested in energy work and wellness.

    Zero Balancing I

    September 21-24, 2017

    A 25 hour professional bodymind therapy training for health professionals with Michele Doucette DC

    Zero Balancing is a leading-edge, hands-on, body-mind therapy. 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. It promotes a deeply meditative state in which sub-optimal tension patterns are easily released. Like adjusting the tension on a guitar string, ZB leaves a person more in tune with their essential being, more resonant with their true self…more relaxed, comfortable, resilient, awake, self-aware, grounded, and expanded.

    ZB I is approved for 25 hrs. Continuing Education credit (through VT Board of Chiropractic, NCBTMB, NCCAOM, and several other accrediting agencies.  Accepted for VT/NH PT/OT credits)

    The instructor:  Michele Doucette DC, practicing/teaching ZB for over 20 years in Wilmington, VT.  To register contact Dr. Doucette at 802-464-2361  bones@sover.net  www.zerobalancing.com   Course Fee:  $795, $695 if pd 1 mo. advance, $595 2 mo. advance.

    Hosted by Kelly Kaeding MS LAc at the Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness

    other classes:

    Michele Doucette DC is offering another ZB I class this spring at her beautiful office and home in southern Vermont:

    Zero Balancing  I

    June 1-4, 2017  Wilmington VT

    Kelly will be hosting ZB II class with Michele Doucette DC here this spring:

    Zero Balancing II

    May 18-21, 2017 Burlington VT

    Prerequisite ZB I.

    for more information about Zero Balancing visit: http://zerobalancing.com/

    If you are interested in taking more classes or getting certified in Zero Balancing, check out the Core-Pak

     

    Look for more Zero Balancing classes at Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness in the future.

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

    Save

  • Zero Balancing I Oct 20-23, 2016 in Burlington

    zba

    I am excited to host one of my Zero Balancing teachers here at my office for a four-day Zero Balancing I class. If you or someone you know may be interested, please check this out.

    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.

    Health care practitioners incorporating ZB into their practices find themselves able to serve their patients more completely, work with less effort, feel greater satisfaction and provide effective therapy for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual imbalances simultaneously.  ZB I is approved for 25 hrs. Continuing Education credit (through VT Board of Chiropractic, NCBTMB, NCCAOM, and several other accrediting agencies)

    The instructor:  Michele Doucette has been practicing chiropractic for 26 years and ZB for 20 years. She is a member of the ZB faculty and teaches nationally.  Students describe her teaching style as clear, insightful, respectful, lively, passionate, fun and creative.

    for more information or to register, please open this flyer:

    ZB 1 Oct 20-23 flyer