Deep Massage Society

04/06/2026

ZERO BALANCING CAN HELP!

Zero Balancing is a fantastic hands-on therapy that helps dramatically with deeper tensions in the musculoskeletal system and psyche.

04/05/2026

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LOVE TO TOM GENTILE, HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Tom Gentile, Rolfer, acupuncturist, inspired ZB practitioner and teacher passed away yesterday, April 4. He is already deeply missed. Tom Gentile's family has asked the Zero Balancing Health Association to create a Scholarship Fund for donations to be set up in Tom's name. It will be used for scholarships for Zero Balancing students.
1) Payments can be made by credit card using the following link: https://donate.stripe.com/00w7sMdWmdhD55VaEj8so0c
2) Through PayPal to zbhaboard@zerobalancing.com
3) Checks can be made out to the ZBHA and sent to ZBHA Scholarship Fund c/o Megan Lavery, 2762 Forest Ridge Rd., Fernandina Beach, FL 32034
Please note as donation in Tom’s name

What you don't know is
infinite
What you don't know
will always be infinite.
Stand in what you know,
open to what you don't know.

- Tom

04/04/2026

The extraordinary person, Tom Gentile, has passed. He was a Rolfer, 5-element Chinese medicine practitioner, student, practitioner and teacher of Zero Balancing.
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03/20/2026

The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment through the Skeletal System Paperback

by Jeff Rockwell (Author), David Lauterstein (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars (22)

The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment Through the Skeletal System is an unprecedented exploration of the anatomy of the bones of the body, and a unique set of reflections on the role each individual bone plays in our lives, looking at both its physical and energetic contributions.

Written and presented in an imaginative and highly readable style, the book describes each individual bone and, where appropriate, the surrounding joints. It combines the anatomical expertise of the authors with their appreciation for the beauty of the body, presenting a unique perspective that values extensive clinical expertise as well as imagination as a source of wisdom and depth.

Seeing and discussing bones as a wisdom source is a topic that until now has never been systematically covered. The Memory Palace of Bones will be read and treasured by practitioners and students of massage therapy, bodywork, movement professionals, Zero Balancers, chiropractors, osteopaths, Rolfers, body-centered psychotherapists, students and teachers of yoga, performing artists and other health professionals as well as by laymen wanting a greater understanding of and connection to their bodies' wisdom and poetry.

The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment through the Skeletal System

03/14/2026

May we work collectively and individually to root out the origins of our long history of human beings being rigid and cruel to themselves and each other.

Martin Luther King - "There must be a rhythmic alteration between attacking the causes and healing the effects.”

03/11/2026

ZERO BALANCING I and II - July 17-19 and 24-26 AT THE LAUTERSTEIN-CONWAY MASSAGE SCHOOL

I just had the most wonderful, big group for a workshop on the Iliopsoas. The next class I'm teaching is a combination of Zero Balancing I and II in Austin in mid-July. ZB I and II are the core 50 of the 100 hours required for certification in Zero Balancing.

Zero Balancing is, for me, the most advanced and interesting form of advanced bodywork. It works with a deep faith in the client's ability to let go from inside-out. It focuses on the connective tissues of the muscles, joints and bones. It refines your touch and awareness of both energy and structure in ways that will vastly benefit your work and your life!

The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School offers informative and enriching workshops to complete your massage therapy continuing education hours.

03/02/2026

Democracy means "strength of the common people." This poem by Lucille Clifton reminds us of this - born from her strength and the bones whose common form we share.
Another way that Zero Balancing speaks to the deepest, important level of our being.

02/22/2026

Great ida Rolf quotes:
“This is the gospel of Rolfing: When the body gets working appropriately, the force of gravity can flow through. Then, spontaneously, the body heals itself.”

“Go around the problem; get the system sufficiently resilient so that it is able to change, and it will change, It doesn’t have to be forced. It’s that forcing that you have to avoid at all costs.”

and a quote that presaged Zero Balancing -
“When the pelvis is not balanced, we do not have the upward thrust that creates zero balance, the sense of weightlessness that can be experienced in the body. When the pelvis is aberrated, it does not allow this equipoise, this tranquillity in experience that a balanced pelvis shows. The combined forces acting on a balanced pelvis are in a moment of inertia near zero. It is always in dynamic action, but the forces balance out to near zero.”

02/18/2026

ROOTS AND BRANCHES

was recorded live in the studio and accompanied three of my favorite graduated therapists doing massage in the studio simultaneously. So, as far as I know, it is the only recording actually made while accompanying massage. Because of that it works incredibly well to be played while doing massage or bodywork or just for relaxing.
I called it "Roots and Branches", among other reasons, because it gently draws on all my roots in my life and in music: blues, Indian music, classical, and the "experimental folk music" done particularly by Robbie Basho and John Fahey.

Reminding you all that my recording is free on youtube and spotify.

Provided to YouTube by CDBabyRoots and Branches · David LautersteinRoots and Branches℗ 2011 David LautersteinReleased on: 2011-02-15Auto-generated by YouTube.

02/18/2026

Lynette Brannon (1947-2026)

The Austin massage and bodywork community has lost a long-time pioneer and advocate. Lynette Brannon was, among other things, an early Trager practitioner and a deep soul. I'm lucky to have known her and respected her work and her self since the late 1980's!
Lynette, thank you so much for making the world a better place!

View Lynette Brannon's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.