Zero Balancing and the Spirit of the 5 Elements: Why Touching the Spirit Matters

Zero Balancing and the Spirit of the 5 Elements (ZB5E) is a 2-day Advanced Program for those who want to access more of a clients’ spirit, essence, soul’s vibration, and hence more foundational healing potential. Through the lens of 5 Element theory we learn to appreciate the importance of the spirit of a person, and how it yearns to be touched.

If the Spirit is not regarded, attended, recognized, or honored, it may remain untouched in our sessions. If the spirit does not feel safe, invited, and welcomed, it may step back, hover around, witness from the periphery of a session, but shy away from full participation in soul-level healing.

The spirit is the aspect of a person’s existence that connects to universal intelligence, mystical insight, and ancestral healing. Spirit transcends time and space and holds parts of a person they may be unaware of. It is also the perspective from which we can be brought to tears by a string quartet, washed clean by a babbling brook, or unified with cosmic love through a child’s eyes.

In ZB5E we focus on building rapport: bringing the practitioner’s spirit to the table to invite the client’s spirit to reside in our sessions. We broaden our knowledge base by considering the magic available when we know we are touching ‘the neighborhoods of spirit” in the chest, back, and neck.

We explore the unique spirit of each of the 5 Elements and how to meet that spirit when and where it is poised for healing. In doing so, we learn to facilitate personal and professional alchemical transformation. We deepen our ability to understand and affect our client’s essential underlying imbalances and processes.

There are exciting new fulcrums for the chest, spine, neck, feet, and head. The practice of ZB takes on new dimensions as we open to the wisdom and medicine that has been waiting for us to touch it.

2025 ZB5E class: May 3-4 at Eden in Wilmington VT

Eden has become a beloved ZB destination for many. Over the years, the field has become amplified and enriched with all that ZB has to offer; learning, discovery, connection, transformation, vitality, friendship, awakening, and healing. The rich and fertile Vermont landscape welcomes you and reflects the principles of nature upon which ZB is built. Peaceful meadows, quiet wooded trails, mountain views, streams and lakes, and starry skies are all here to receive and reciprocate with your spirit.

What ZB5E students have to say

After taking ZB and the Spirit of the 5 Elements, I am deeply appreciative of how much more profound our ZB fulcrums can be when consciously embraced by spirit and holding that intention. Michele is a beautiful role model of one who touches the spirit as a practitioner, teacher and as she connects and relates with others. It is wonderful to experience one who so beautifully “walks her talk” in such a profound way. — Veronica Quarry, PT CZB, ZB teacher

Michele is brilliant in her synthesis and conveyance of 5 element theory into the ZB protocol , making the integration of this work practical, expansive and more whole for the recipient. This class goes above and beyond stated objectives. I will be taking this experience into my field and to the table for some time now…to integrate and deepen my self- practice
—Paula Mara Lyons, MT CZB

I really enjoyed this class! The explanations of spirit and the fulcrums taught helped me connect into my own spirit which helped me become more open to the clients’ spirit. Learning about the collagen matrix and how it allows communication to travel throughout the body was very thought provoking to me and I feel I will be able to utilize this as a tool in my ZBs. — Colleen Baker, CZB

This class helped me connect to myself and find the purpose I had lost. Going deeper and connecting with the spirit really resonates with me. Finding my spirit with the help of Michele and other ZBers was supportive and comforting. This class was great! — Barbara Kelly-Kinney, PT

This class hits to the core of how the expansive universe of ZB can be contained in such simplicity.
To take Touching the Spirit is to dive head first into the vessel of ZB, and Michele’s perspective and curiosity of this subject should not be missed. In one weekend of discovery in the context of ZB, I start to grasp and trust, in a much deeper and visceral way, why the ZB protocol is so powerful. It allows our deeper creativity, experience, and knowledge to expand and flower into expanded states without ever losing track of the safely and anchoring of ZB itself. —Michelle Leichti, CZB, Violin Teacher

Michele teaches in a way that my body can hear. — Megan Shewe, OT

ZB and the Spirit of the 5 Elements opened up more doors to deeper work on my self and others. I am open to more of what my hands are telling me as I engage the body, the bones.
— Maida Bachman, OT