Things are going well for me in Madison as I take the Core Zero Balancing I class. I thought I’d share a video with you, made by Certified Zero Balancing Practitioner, Jenny Chapin.

According to this system, our bones are the most dense carriers of the body’s energy. A practitioner works by lifting up the body at “hinge points” and creating “fulcrums” which allow the body to release. I’m finding this technique to be both profound and simple, and a little bit of a departure from other bodywork methods I’ve learned. While working with the skeletal structure is new to me, I’m finding that a lot of the built up tensions that we all carry are also stored in our bony tissue. By allowing the bony tissue the ability to release, this tends to have a ripple effect on the rest of the body – muscles, tendons, ligaments – as well as the mind and spirit.

It snowed on Thursday evening in Madison too. Not much, but enough to see folks shoveling their walks once again. One person was adding snow from their walk to a 7-foot mountain pile! It may be cold in Minnesota, but Wisconsin certainly received it’s lot of snow!

I’m enjoying my time, and I’ll try to update you all once more before the end of the class!