IONS Austin

UPDATE:
Click here for podcast of September 22 program.
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Our first speaker in 1993, David Lauterstein returns to present what his 50 years in healing art and science have taught him about human structure, energy, and their role in conscious evolution. There will be a talk, slide-show, discussion, free handouts, and copies of David’s new CD and other items from the school. Four therapists will be in attendance with their massage tables to give free hands-on sessions of Zero Balancing at the end of the presentation.

Live interview with Chuck and Karen Robison of  What If It Really Works?
Final video and audio transcript available here.

A Life in Healing

Until the last 30 years, academic learning concentrated exclusively on education through words, particularly aimed at the left-brain and the logical mind.

However, massage therapy and bodywork have dramatically revealed that the next step in our learning is an education that goes deeper than words, learning that is significant on the level of the right brain, the autonomic nervous and endocrine systems. Through its psychological and physical impact on these systems, massage therapy and bodywork dramatically stimulate learning on the level of the heart, the whole body, emotions, and spirit.

Bodywork has revealed the “technology” for making progress is not just with machines and in virtual reality. It reveals how we can make progress in our experience and creation of actual reality. Wholistic learning supports health for the whole individual and for the community and ecosystem in which we participate.

Lauterstein will present insights drawn from over 25 years of teaching therapists world-wide and 15 years of experience as a musician and composer. You will learn about the “fulcrum” as utilized in Zero Balancing and Deep Massage as a tool for engaging the whole system. We will also look at the body’s connective tissues as carriers of physical stress and also as psycho-spiritual sources of stress or, on the other hand, balance.

In the words of Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, ” The body is not only a temple for the soul, it’s also a sage in the temple.”

Biography

David Lauterstein has been a massage and bodywork practitioner since 1977. He is Co-Director of  The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, Texas which he co-founded with John Conway in 1989. He is the former editor of the Massage Therapy Journal, author of Putting the Soul Back in the Body, the monographs, “What is Zero Balancing?,” “The Seven Dimensions of Touch”, and dozens of articles on the philosophy and practice of bodywork. He is certified in massage therapy (Chicago School of Massage Therapy, 1979), Structural Bodywork (through Rolfer, Daniel Blake, 1982), and as a Zero Balancing practitioner and teacher (Zero Balancing Health Association, 1993). Prior to bodywork, his studies were primarily in music composition and philosophy (B.A., Universityof Illinois, 1972). Mr. Lauterstein has presented trainings throughout the US since 1984 and in England since 1996. He is internationally known as an advocate for the art as well as the science of massage therapy and bodywork.

Lauterstein’s school was named “2009 School of the Year” at the World Message Festival, and he will be inducted into the Message Therapy Hall of Fame in 2011.

Related Links:

Extended Bio

Essays and Articles

Lauterstein-Conway Massage School

Advanced Zero Balancing w/ ZB founder Fritz Smith, M.D. – 09/24-27/09

Book:  Putting the Soul Back in the Body

Music:  \”Roots & Branches\” by David Lauterstein