Clean air, silent nights and immersion in
Mother Nature's
sylvan beauty can be a part of healing your life.
Your day begins witnessing the splendor of the sunrise over Island
Mountain.
You walk through forests of oak and madrone surrounded by wild turkeys
and deer to meditation, yoga and exercise therapy classes.
Breakfast is in our picturesque log cabin lodge or river-rock patio.
Mornings are spent giving and receiving love and nurturance
in bodywork classes.
Afternoons offer a full curriculum in Counseling, Anatomy and
Professional Practices.
After class you may take a dip in the pool, work in the garden or
dive into the mystery in our straw bale temple.
Evenings might include a dance class, music in the garden gazebo,
a sauna or walking in the woods of our 200 acre campus.
Heartwood's Health Building diet includes garden fresh vegetables,
homemade bread from our wood-fired brick oven and food prepared with
the highest standard of knowledge, integrity and love.
Our wilderness setting and nurturing community life offer precious
qualities of safety and support for your healing and personal growth.
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Somatic Emotional Healing Intensive Sept. 2002
Heartwood's
Unique Health Building Program.
Your personal experience of enhanced vitality, mental and emotional
clarity and well-being will prepare you to work professionally in a
career as a Polarity Therapist. Heartwood Institute offers a
sophisticated curriculum for professional training in Somatic Therapy.
Earn American Polarity Therapy Association approved Associate Polarity
Practitioner (APP) certification at Heartwood.
Heartwood's Programs qualifie you for the National Certification Board
for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) Certification . Heartwood
offers American Massage Therapy Association and American Oriental
Bodywork Association approved professional training programs.
Certificate programs meet massage licensing requirements in most parts
of California and the US and are approved for veterans and foreign
students. Heartwood Institute is fully accredited by ACCET.
Heartwood Lodge- Community Center
Heartwood's professional training program in Polarity Therapy is now in
its twentieth-fifth year of evolution. In our unique Health Building
Program you learn a series of energy balancing bodywork sessions: This
structured approach facilitates an accelerated learning process to
rapidly actualize competence and confidence. Heartwood offers a unique
approach to Polarity with a focus on emotional clearing through
spiritual psychology. Developed by Bruce Burger, MA, RPP, Heartwood's
founder, the Polarity Therapy training is a synthesis which represents
his lifelong dedication to self-actualizing education, esoteric
research and compassionate service.
Your Polarity Therapy Instructor
Bruce Burger,MA, RPP, CPE, Heartwood's
Founder
Polarity Therapy:
Energy Medicine:
Healing Science of the Future
Polarity Energy Balancing offers a sophisticated system for working
with life force energy in natural healing. We use a blend of bodywork
and counseling techniques which cleanse the body's cellular memory of
trauma, promote mental and emotional clarity, physical healing and
personal
growth.
Our approach is holistic, working with clients on many levels:
physical, emotional, spiritual and life style. We offer a conscious
approach to somatic psychology. Our approach is based on respect,
presence and vulnerability as attitudes which support a safe space in
which the client has permission to heal.
Polarity Therapy facilitates a profound attunement with the Soul-
the animating force of the body. Polarity energy balancing principles
and techniques can be used alone or integrated into other bodywork and
forms of therapy.
Consciously accelerate your healing and personal evolution.
Expand your capacity to give and receive love and nurturing.
Working With Fire