We look at the body as a whole, not just the troubled parts.
Klein began dancing at 5 years old, studying Graham and German Modern Dance. She suffered a serious knee injury at 19, just as she was beginning her professional career. Klein Technique™ emerged from her personal struggle and physical and intellectual learning. It became a revolutionary technique that has affected the study and practice of post modern dance throughout the world.
Mentors/ Influenced by:
Steffi Nossen
Martha Graham
May O’Donnell
Gertrude Shure
Don Farnworth
Colette Barry
Barbara Mahler
Dr. Barbara Vedder, D.C.
Irmgard Bartenieff,
Dr. Fritz Smith, M.D.
Dr. J. R. Worsley, D. Ac
1952: Susan Klein is born
1957: Began dancing
1971: Suffers serious knee injury
1972: Began teaching professionally in NYC
1975: Opened her own studio
1977: Began a private practice in Movement Therapy
Barbara Mahler started studying with Klein
1982: Became fourth to be certified in Zero Balancing
1985: Graduated from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, Maryland
1988: Received a Bachelor of Acupuncture from the College of Traditional Chinese
Acupuncture in UK
1990: Master of Acupuncture from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute
Klein Technique™
created by dancers, specifically for dancers (although it is applicable to other movement practices)
seeks to improve and to further movement potential through analyzing and understanding the body. It is based in anatomical realities and strives an internal knowing, an understanding which is integrated into the body.
works at the level of the bones, to align the bones using the muscles of deep postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor.
The process:
~Awakening of pelvic floor muscles
~Sacrum moving in a figure of eight motion
~In sagittal movement (walking, running), weight transfers side-side from the sacrum through the pelvis out to the greater
trochanters
~Freeing the shoulder blades from the ribs in order to allow the shoulder girdle to sit on the torso
~Work to integrate upper and lower halves through the diagonals and spirals of the body
~Bridge thrust and counter thrust actions, dynamics between mobility and stability, lightness and strength, soaring upward and
being rooted
Famous choreographers who have studied with Klein:
Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Bebe Miller, Wally Cardona, Jeremy Nelson and members of their companies
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An intro to Zero-Balancing from zerobalancing.com
The mission of the Zero Balancing Health Association is to help people experience health, well-being and higher consciousness by facilitating the study, practice and development of Zero Balancing. The Association was founded in 1991 to promote and support the teaching and practice of Zero-Balancing, a hands-on body/mind system designed by Dr Fritz Smith in 1973 to align body energy with the body's physical structure.
Zero Balancing process generally takes between 30 and 40 minutes and is performed with you fully clothed. Using touch, the ZB practitioner evaluates your energy fields and energy flow in these two positions and balances the structures as needed. He or she may focus on body, mind, spirit, or all three, depending on where the fields are disturbed or the energy is blocked. Throughout the Zero Balancing session, attention is given to the skeleton in particular because it contains the deepest and strongest currents.
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