Deep Massage Society

04/14/2026

Then a side piece slides and reveals a drawer that has tiny pieces of black licorice as if death could be sweet but now you are crying

04/10/2026

For any of you who've enjoyed my past newsletters, I've been so busy and preoccupied with the Masters in Fine Arts program through Pacific University, studying poetry, that I haven't felt the space to do a new newsletter in months! Rest assured, it'll get another done one of these days, though it'll be more likely to have as much to do with poetry as with bodywork. But music - the body - poetry - they're all soul expressions. Maybe that will be the theme!

04/08/2026

Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method combines a focus on the muscles, fascia, and the nervous system with insights from Zero Balancing regarding how to cultivate the highest quality of touch.

In this special 4-day workshop, David Lauterstein the founder of The Lauterstein - Conway Massage School in the U.S. and of this special method of bodymind work will instruct you in all the techniques (aka “fulcrums”), covered in his classic, “The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork”.

The benefits for your clients will be:

relief from chronic pain and tension
experience of greater freedom in the joints
more balanced and graceful movement
a sense of greater wholeness and peace
enhanced compassion for oneself and others
experiencing spiritual as well as physical benefits
You will learn new ways to relieve tension and pain from the:

calves, knees, thighs and hips
pelvis, including the iliopsoas
abdomen, affecting the vagus nerve
chest (opening up the heart and shoulders)
low, mid, and upper back
the rotator cuff and arm
neck and head (including the jaw and the suboccipital muscles)
We need to work with the whole person not only to solve problems but also to facilitate their experience of the body mind as the source of pleasure and grace.

You will learn new observation skills as well, as modelled by Ida Rolf, Feldenkrais, Trager, and Dr. Fritz Smith (Zero Balancing’s founder) to use your eyes as a kind of third hand. All these new skills will deepen your ability to help the clients let go from “inside out”, not with more pressure but with greater sensitivity, kindness, and knowledge.

In this workshop Deep Massage will be integrated with some techniques/fulcrums drawn from Zero Balancing. This will facilitate the release of tension from the skeletal side of the musculo - skeletal system. When we help the clients to let go on the level of the joints, the periosteum, and the bone itself, the therapeutic effects will be more profound and longer-lasting.

David Lauterstein has been teaching Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method since 1984, first at the Chicago School of Massage Therapy, then at The Lauterstein - Conway Massage School in Austin, Texas and in workshops for 40 years throughout the U.S., Costa Rica and the UK. He has also been a certified teacher of Zero Balancing since 1996.

He is the author of five books including: Putting the Soul Back in the Body, The Deep Massage Book, Life in the Bones and The Memory Palace of Bones (co-authored with Dr. Jeff Rockwell). He is known as perhaps the foremost proponent for the integration of the art and science in bodywork, with a prior degree in music composition (see YouTube for his recording of “Roots and Branches”).

This year marks his 10th anniversary of teaching at the Bristol College of Massage and Bodywork.

Book through this link: https://www.bristolmassage.co.uk/calendar

04/06/2026

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.