Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267669 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 440 pages

From the Author
Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to somatics.
Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifies an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts.

"When I hold this text, I feel as though I am holding one of the more important documents of our time--an extremely comprehensive and extraordinary map of our subtle anatomy.... Bruce has mindfully woven insights from the wisdom of ancient India to create a unique approach for understanding and working with life force, the healing presence of the soul." "The first section of this book, "Loving Hands Are Healing Hands," contains a series of energy-balancing sessions based upon Polarity Therapy. While quite simple and easy to learn,.. [theyl are profoundly effective. Then, through a holistic approach to healing, Bruce presents a system of somatic psychology for cleaning trauma from the cellular memory of the body. " --Richard Gordon, Author of Your Healing Hands

"Esoteric Anatomy is a thorough and scholarly exploration of "Energy in the Healing Arts." Bruce Burger's long experience in the field and sincere dedication to integrating spirit with physical and emotional health are reflected on every page. This book is a significant addition to holistic-health literature, and the Polarity Therapy community. " --John Chitty, R.PP, President, American Polarity Therapy Association

"With Esoteric Anatomy, Bruce Burger integrates profound levels of Oriental wisdom and Ayurvedic theories of creation and transformation in a new and convincing way. The implications are completely transforming for every type of body therapy as well as the healing arts in general." --Paul Pitchford, author of Healing with Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition

426 8x 10 pages, Bruce Burger, M.A., R.P.P, is the founder of Heartwood Institute, one of the world's leading centers for professional training in massage and somatic psychology. Located on 240 acres outside Garberville, California, Heartwood is now in its twentieth year as both a utopian community and self actualizing educational institution.

Customer Reviews

Esoteric Anatomy is both mind expanding and practical.
I came across a biography of Dr. Randolph Stone, the developer of Polarity Therapy, and knew I had to learn more about his work. This led me to a three week Intensive course at Hartwood Institute where I studied under Bruce Burger. The first copies of "Esoteric Anatomy" arrived the first day of our classes and I had an opportunity to both read it and incorporate the techniques,ideas and philosophy in everyday living. Part I, Loving Hands Are Healing Hands, provides a good background on Polarity Therapy and very adequately describes how to perform eleven hands-on energy balancing protocols. I feel that any adept student could learn to perform these protocols from the step-by-step descriptions given in the book. Part II, Essays on Esoteric Anatomy, provides a wide variety of ideas and philosophies of the kind that went into Dr. Stone's experience in developing Polarity Therapy. I feel that through reading these essays I was able to capture some of the essence of Dr. Stone's experience. Part III, The Practice of Somatic Psychology, provides a theoretical and practical approach to the practice of somatic psychology in a very simple way that produces profound results. Every student in the class could apply these techniques effectively ... and the process is all in the book. I am extremely grateful to Bruce Burger for the many years of love, time and effort that went into making "Esoteric Anatomy" available to me ... and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the healing arts.