page_title: Zero balancing
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: Zero balancing / Training
caption_attribution_description: English: Tutorial image used to show common element with Zero Balancing's work on the bones of the feet. Taken in a Zero Balancing class taught by Frederick Fritz Smith in Ellicott City, MD.
context_page_description: Zero balancing is a type of manual therapy devised by Frederick "Fritz" Smith in the 1970s. Smith proposed that a kind of energy field within the human body could be affected by bodily manipulations, so bringing health benefits. The practice teaches that currents of energy are stored within the human skeleton, and that these affect both physical and mental wellbeing.
  Zero balancing is pseudoscientific and its practice has been characterized as quackery.
context_section_description: Zero Balancing Certification takes about two years.  The Zero Balancing Certification Program is a professional continuing education program that provides recognition for high-level skills and experience in working with body structure and energy through touch. Students are required to complete 100 course hours with options to choose one-on-one touch feedback and mentoring activities. ZB  Certification  The path to learning Zero Balancing includes: class study of information regarding energy and structure, instruction in energetic anatomy and physiology, learning to work directly with energy through touch, and learning the protocol for performing a Zero Balancing session. It also includes giving and receiving Zero Balancing sessions, obtaining feedback from experienced practitioners, and (if in the Certification program) having a personal mentor to help guide one’s study. 
  As of 2009 there were about 700 practitioners.
caption: Tutorial image showing common element with zero balancing's work on the bones of the feet
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