Bruce Burger
Bruce Burger, MA,RPP,CPE, is the founder of Heartwood Institute (1978) and the Heartwood Community (1981). Heartwood is a center for professional training in holistic healing. Located on 200 acres in Northern California, Heartwood is now in its thirtieth year of evolution as a eco-village, utopian community and one of the world's leading centers for professional training for careers in massage, somatics, asian healing arts, personal growth facilitation and spiritual healing.
Bruce's background includes a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from The New School for Social Research. Bruce has been a member of the faculty of the University of Nevada, Newark State College and Rutgers University. In 1972, he left academia and spent a number of years traveling and studying in Asia and India in search of a deeper understanding of the human condition. He was guided to Polarity Therapy and has been teaching spiritual healing and transformational bodywork through Polarity Energy Balancing on a daily basis since 1977.
Bruce served on the Board of Directors of The American Polarity Therapy Association for five years. He is the author of Esoteric Anatomy:The Body as Consciousness.
Bruce enjoys: grandparenting, photography, graphic design, chanting,
gardening, is an incessent reader of spiritual books,
and is growing in his electrical. plumbing & carpentry skills.
Joey, Chela, Bruce
Melissa, Demitre, Alethiea & Koree'
