David Lauterstein

David Lauterstein, LMT, MTI, Cert. ZB, co-founder, The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School in Austin, has been in massage and bodywork practice since 1977 and has become one of the most highly respected international educators in the massage therapy realm – inducted in 2011 into the Massage Therapy Hall of Fame, honored as the 2012 recipient of AMTA’s Teacher of the Year Award, and in 2013 by the Alliance for Massage Therapy Education as “Educator of the Year.” David regularly teaches in England, Costa Rica, and throughout the U.S since 1982. He is the author of the books, "Putting the Soul Back in the Body," "The Deep Massage Book: How to Combine Structure and Energy in Bodywork," "The Art of Massage: Ways of Touching" (on-line), "Life in the Bones: A Biography of Dr. Fritz Smith and Zero Balancing," and as of March 2023, "The Memory Palace of Bones: Exploring Embodiment through the Skeletal System." He is certified in Structural Bodywork and Zero Balancing and is a faculty member of the Zero Balancing Health Association. His background prior to massage therapy was in philosophy and music composition (BA, U of Illinois, 1972).