Meet our Senior Faculty

Bruce Burger, M.A., R.P.P., C.P.E., is the founder of Heartwood Institute and the author of Esoteric Anatomy: The Body as Consciousness (North Atlantic Books). Bruce developed the Polarity Therapy training at Heartwood. It represents his life-long dedication to self-actualizing education, esoteric research and compassionate service. In the 1970's, Bruce 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 has also taught at several universities and served on the Board of Directors of the American Polarity Therapy Association.

For more information about Polarity Therapy and Bruce Burger, please see Bruce's personal Polarity Therapy web site.

Amy Glovin, C.M.T., T.B.T., has been teaching at Heartwood Institute since 1984. She has taught extensively with Drs. Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks as an authorized trainer of the Hendricks Method of Body Mind Integration. She has trained hundreds of massage and somatic therapists. With over 20 years experience in the holistic health field, Amy encourages playful inquiry in the therapeutic setting through the application of conscious touch, breath awareness, and movement therapy techniques. Amy’s BodyMind classes at Heartwood help students bring consciousness to the client-therapist relationship.

Cynthia Lenton, BA in Psychology, CMT, RPP, CPEis a teacher in both the residential and intensive programs. Cynthia's connection to the Healing Arts and Heartwood is over a decade strong and growing. After becoming a Certified Massage Therapist she dove even deeper into the esoteric study of energy medicine earning recognition as a Registered Polarity Practitioner. After several years of extensive training in Polarity Therapy she was awarded a Certified Polarity Educator and has been co-teaching the Polarity Therapy: Energy Medicine Intensive with Heartwood's founder Bruce Burger for several years. Her focus as a body worker is in weaving compassionate presence through Polarity Therapy, Energy Medicine, Cranial Sacral, Esoteric Anatomy, Chakra Counseling, Moon Astrology, Psychic Awareness, Somatic Emotional Clearing, Polarity Yoga and Movement Therapy. Cynthia considers teaching at Heartwood to be her joyful service and an extremely powerful experience in Soul Communion.

Paul Pitchford studied and apprenticed with masters of pre-Revolutionary* Traditional Chinese medicine, nutrition, and Tai Ji and Chan (Zen) meditation. His landmark book, Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (North Atlantic Books, soon to be available in 7 languages, including Chinese), forms the foundation of his unique dietary teachings, which unify Eastern and Western therapies.

Over the past 12 years Paul has been a key lecturer with the prestigious Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. His work has become a primary impetus behind the most fundamental, clinically effective and innovative dietary movement today, widely known as “whole foods nutrition.” He sees a universal shift to whole foods nutrition as essential for overcoming ecologic ravages to the Earth as well as quelling pervasive disease and degeneration among her peoples.

Paul has been teaching nutrition in the context of foundational healing for 38 years. This approach prioritizes three basic integrative steps in a person’s pathway to enduring health: a) awareness practices, b) mindful movement including yoga, Tai Ji and Qi Gong, and c) nutrition based on regional, unrefined (whole) foods. He has designed and taught programs at Heartwood Institute regularly for the last 25 years. He currently receives invitations to teach worldwide and has given seminars at colleges (including Harvard), schools of acupuncture, nutrition and various healing arts, and on major radio shows.

* Teachings developed prior to the Chinese Cultural Revolution incorporate an abun-dance of ancient methods and traditional values.

Michael Drew, CMT became a Massage Practitioner in 1988 after a short course of study in massage, shiatsu and Watsu at Harbin Hot Springs School of Massage led him to choose to deepen his studies. He then completed Heartwood's Certified Massage Therapist and Transformational Therapist programs, graduating in 1991 with over 1,000 hours of training in those two programs. Michael has practiced for nearly twenty years, continuing to study with the best in the field, taking hundreds of hours of continuing education, and teaching classes of his own since 1992. Michael utilizes his expertise with a varied range of modalities from deep tissue and orthopedic-oriented work to body/mind energy balancing and emotional release-oriented bodywork. Michael has also used his training in the subtler modalities such as lymphatic drainage, cranio sacral, Reiki and Polarity Energy Balancing for emotionally or physically fragile clients, such as those in hospice. Michael's skills and knowledge-based approach to teaching ensures that his students will leave with an understanding of the work that prepares them to continue learning long after the class is over.

Sage Hayes is a graduate from the Polarity Realization Institute in Portland, Maine where she studied massage and energy work. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Community Development from the University of New Hampshire. Combining the healing arts, conscious communication and community building is a passion that has been integrated into her work throughout the past 15 years. She works as a facilitator in a wide-array of venues and is passionate about designing interactive learning situations. Sage is currently studying Somatic Experiencing, a modality to assist releasing trauma from the body. Most important to Sage is her commitment to assist students in finding their truth and learning to express it from their heart.

Christien Real has been a student of energy healing for the last 16 years. He has trained in Reiki, Shiatsu, Tui Na, Accupressure, Western Massage modalities, and Medical Qigong. Christien has been teaching bodywork for the last 5 years, and Qigong for the last 10. Christien is certified to teach qigong and taijiquan through the Lohan School of Shaolin, is an Associate instructor in the Healing Tao system, and certified as a Medical Qigong Practitioner through the International Institute of Medical Qigong. He received teacher training in Shiatsu through the Boston Shiatsu School, and the Charles River School of Shiatsu.

Christien's teaching style is interactive and experiential. His personal and professional goal is to bring the sacred teachings of Asian medicine and energy cultivation into present day reality in a way that is intuitive, understandable, and clinically effective.

Margaret (Maya) Rosenau, BCST, RCST®, SEP, APP., Craniosacral Therapist and teacher.  Margaret’s journey to bodywork as a profession began nearly 20 years ago when she experienced something greater than herself moving her body from within. Her desire to come into greater relationship with this Intelligent presence has guided her ever since. Margaret has studied and practiced Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy since 1996, where she has found a medium in which to deepen her relationship to this Intelligence. She is a teacher for the Craniosacral Therapy Association of North America, and has taught in Canada and the U.S. Her love of teaching Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy is effusive and boundless. Her intention is to gift her students with the support, tools and inspiration to be more present and real in their relationships with themselves, their bodies and the world. In addition, she is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Polarity Therapist as well as a Prenatal and Birth Therapist and has maintained a private practice in Colorado since 1998 supporting a wide range of clients through their life experiences.

Daniel Moore has been drawn to nature since his youth, wandering out of the suburbs into abandoned fields, the rivers, and hills. Learning to live more simply, he found whole foods and wild plants sparked an interest in growing, harvesting, preparing and preserving them. In 2003, he began to learn horticulture with Lawrence Hershman and lead whole foods cooking classes.

Central to Daniel's lifestyle is the practice of Tai Chi, studying directly with Paul Pitchford for the past seven years and currently practicing Sheng Zhen (unconditional love) Qigong at workshops with Master Li Jun Feng. Daniel leads classes in Healing Movement and whole foods preparation and preservation, as well as taking plant walks with students of the Asian Healing Arts and Whole Foods Nutrition program.

Heatherlee S. Richerson, NCTMB, LMT, developed a passion for massage therapy at the age of eight, when she was successfully treated for a bone injury that otherwise would have required extensive medical treatment. She was so amazed by the healing power of therapeutic touch that she began studying holistic healing techniques almost exclusively from that point on. Heatherlee graduated with honors from the Therapeutic Massage program at Ashmead College in 2003. Shortly thereafter, she acquired her National Certification, and immediately began her private practice. She has practiced in a diverse array of environments in multiple states. In 2005 she began her career as an educator at Heartwood Institute as a Teaching Assistant for the Massage Therapy program. Heatherlee’s enthusiasm for the vast intricacies of the human body, with it’s incredible ability to adapt, is fanned by her belief that deeper understanding will empower us and facilitate our ability to help heal ourselves and others. In addition to Massage Therapy, Heatherlee practices Yoga, Dance, and Martial Arts as physical expression and further exploration of the truly limitless potential of the human body.