Deep Massage Society

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.

02/11/2026

Always love Gil Hedley and the programs he sponsors or hosts. A short one's coming up with the great Benny Vaughn. Plus announcement of a new program for yogis!

Integral Anatomy for Yogis starts next week! This 6-month program is for yoga teachers and movement professionals seeking curated and systematic exploration through the whole human body. Includes monthly live meetings with me and my partner in all things, Rachel! Find out more here.

02/10/2026

My book, "The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork" is published by Redwing Book Company. They have been a great publisher and distributor of healing literature since the early 1970's.
I see they are having a sale - check it out and the vast array of books they carry. Let's honor and support a pioneer in the field of wholistic health!

02/06/2026

I'll be teaching a special workshop this summer in England. It'll be "Deep Massage - The Lauterstein Method" (covering the entire protocol in this one class), adding in Zero Balancing integrations. August 6-9. This might be my last time to go to the UK to teach, so I invite you most enthusiastically! Book early!

Advanced CPD workshops in Bristol, designed for massage therapists to expand skills, experience and creative possibilities. Open to practitioners of massage and other bodywork disciplines. Join the BCMB massage and bodywork community. 1hr of any workshop accumulates 1 CPD point. Participating in one...

02/02/2026

Just dropped some more of the "Deep Massage Book" and "The Memory Palace of Bones" to Bookpeople here in Austin. I love these books and I hope you will too!

02/02/2026

Doing ZB with someone last week, she said something I think is quite beautiful (if you know ZB it makes even more sense):
She said as she stood after the session - "I feel more weighty without feeling heavy."

12/29/2025

Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill” – in The Moment and Other Essays

"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the waters of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of angels and the harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s armchair and confuse his “rinse the mouth – rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are so frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature."

12/28/2025

Bones are the densest and deep living tissue within us. How could we not want to show them love and respect?

12/28/2025

In Zero Balancing we allow and facilitate a infintely deep relationship to the bones - that is captured in a different wonderful way by Georgia O'Keefe and her work.

Here is a lovely video of Georgia O'Keefe on her "barrel of bones" and more. I don't think any painter has given us a better sense of the majesty, the power, the illuminating power of bones - and the love for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71awD38Qy4

12/14/2025

My new newsletter devoted to Zero Balancing will be sent next week to all new subscribers and to people who hadn't yet opened it. I hope you subscribe if you haven't yet and open at least a few of the gifts given to you through the texts there in.
Happy Holidays,
David Lauterstein

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12/09/2025

OK - the December newsletter is ready to go on Wednesday at noon. Today added 5 new poems to it. DO SUBSCRIBE!
Happy Holidays, everyone. May we be safe, may we be happy, may we contribute to the cessation of all unnecessary suffering.

A bi-monthly newsletter with insights and resources that help us all shine a bit more brightly. Plus a little news, if I have any.