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David Lauterstein is Co-director of The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, TX. He has taught, for over 35 years, Deep Massage: The Lauterstein Method and Zero Balancing in England, Costa Rica, and throughout the U.S. He is one of the most highly respected educators in the massage therapy realm, inducted in 2011 into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame, and awarded \\u201cTeacher of the Year\\u201d by the American Massage Therapy Association in 2013 and the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education in 2014. He is the author of the three books: \\u201cPutting the Soul Back in the Body\\u201d, \\u201cThe Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork\\u201d, and \\u201cLife in the Bones: A Biography of Dr. Fritz Smith and Zero Balancing.\\u201d He has been faculty member of the Zero Balancing Health Association since 1996. His background prior to massage therapy was in philosophy and music composition. He is the composer of the massage CD, \\u201cRoots and Branches.\\u201d He embodies in his practice, teachings and writings the essential unity of art and science in massage and bodywork.

• David studied music composition and philosophy and was influenced by the Human Potential Movement in the 60s
• He received bodywork and learned that the body and emotions imparted a lot of wisdom
• David explored massage, structural bodywork and zero balancing
• When David first met Dr Fritz Smith, the founder of Zero Balancing, he was endeared by his short stature and his humble way with his peers and students
• The importance of an energy exchange and right livelihood
• Fritz talked about the layers of anatomy corresponding with the layers of energy in the body: wei chi/ qi under the skin, muscles and organs depicted by meridians and the bone being the deepest, densest tissue, carrying the largest energy charge
• Working with bone brought about more depth and sensitivity
• David has studied with Fritz at least once a year since 1986
• \\u201cYou just need to meet the person, you don\\u2019t need to perforate or penetrate their tension\\u201d
• If your mind, heart and body are clear when you\\u2019re working, you don\\u2019t experience pain or burnout\\xa0
• \\u201cThe right simple touch at the right moment can change everything\\u201d, David Lauterstein
• The renaissance of touch. Touch connects us.\\xa0
• There\\u2019s nothing else in the world that connects structure and energy except touch. Touch connects the physical body, but also more than the physical
• Touch is the first sense to develop in the embryo
• In a world dominated by virtuality, there\\u2019s a desperate need for actual reality, and touch is a way of this
• The increasing fear around touch, when we need human connection
• People heal from inside out
• The best bodyworker has full respect for the other person
• Healing comes from the same place as \\u2018whole\\u2019\\xa0
• The sickness of the health insurance system
• Dr Fritz Smith was the son of a chiropractor and was raised with conscious, loving touch - nurturing makes a difference to our wholeness as human beings
• Fascia - \\u2018liquid crystal\\u2019. It\\u2019s responsive and thixotropic, which when pressure, energy or temperature is increased, becomes more fluid
• Accessing altered states whilst grounded by touch during bodywork
• In \\u2018The Poetics of Reverie\\u2019 by Gastron Bachelard, there\\u2019s a fatigue that comes from just living in one reality - it\\u2019s an important expansion of consciousness to experience various states
• In \\u2018Ecstasy: Understanding The Psychology of Joy\\u2019 by Robert Johnson, every person has a deep need for ecstatic experience eg religious experiences, watching a beautiful sports game etc
• ZB recognises that the bones are a repository for spirit
• Optimal health is the goal
• Humberto Maturana wrote about the \\u2018Biology of Cognition\\u2019, and described human beings as autopoetic, which requires art, science, and making
• Influence on Fritz by Swami Muktunanda\\xa0
• \\u201cThere are a million ways to touch people\\u201d