BOOK REVIEW
ESOTERIC ANATOMY
By Bruce Burger
I first met Bruce at an American Polarity
Therapy Conference in 1990. He is the founder of the Heartwood Institute in California and
a respected member of the Polarity Therapy teaching fraternity. His primary emphasis as a
teacher and practitioner of Polarity Therapy is that Polarity Therapy is a form of Bhakti
yoga. Bhakti yoga is one of the eight branches of classical yoga and relates to
compassionate service as a yogic practise. Esoteric Anatomy is infused with Bruces
deep commitment to Polarity as spiritual practise. The book is a credit to both Polarity
Therapy and him. It is an extraordinary body of work that displays not only his deep
understanding of the art of Polarity therapy but also reflects his spiritual studies in
India and Asia and so covers an array of material on all the differing aspects of Polarity
theory and practice as well as detail on an esoteric approach to somatic psychology. The
philosophical underpinning of the book is derived from Sanatana Dharma which is an
expression of the teachings of the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the teachings of the
Indian sage Shankara. Simply put this teaching offers a profound vision of the unity and
sacredness of all life and how "
.the living conscious, or self, of each
being is unified with the one universal Being."
The main theme of the book is the body as a manifestation of Consciousness. Threaded
through this matrix are sections on fundamental Polarity energy balancing techniques
entitled "loving hands are healing hands" followed by chapters on the breath,
the Golden Mean, the mystic spiral in relation to the body and astrology and somatic
psychology to name but a few. There is in depth look at harmonic patterns of growth in the
physical and energy bodies illustrated with some beautiful diagrams that have not appeared
in any other Polarity book all of which combines to give a rich tapestry of over 300 pages
of information and insight that is invaluable to every student and teacher of Polarity.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
Philip Young RPP
MasterWorks International
ESOTERIC ANATOMY
By Bruce Burger
Published by North Atlantic Books, USA
ISBN 1 55643 224 0
$22.50
£17.99
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