Purchased this book on a friend's recommendation. The amount of information included in this amazing book is mind blowing. I will refer to this for years to come. If you have even the slightest interest in energy and how the body works...you need to purchase this one. Well written and researched.

This book is a very good introduction on the subtle bodies and their energy centre etc. There is so much being covered in this book, however they are all in a summury like format. If you are new or just learning about energy healing/medicine, then this book is highly recommended. The pictures are really lovely, great value for a huge book.

THE SUBTLE BODY covers a smattering of information on most every topic that someone interested in healing could hope to see. Just enough of an overview of necessary material is provided along with stunning full color illustrations on most every page, so readers will feel inspired to seek further details through sources mentioned in the index.

Author Cyndi Dale does a truly marvelous job of covering a subject so vast that no other single book has yet attempted to squeeze into one volume, and she succeeds brilliantly. The book is clearly organized into six sections, starting with an overview of physiology and anatomy, so readers who are starting from scratch with very little prior knowledge of the human body can come up to speed. The sections covering energy work do a very nice job of covering both ancient and more modern day systems, without delving too far into some of the more esoteric avenues.

THE SUBTLE BODY is highly recommended for nurses, energy healers, lightworkers and martial artists who are interested in a reference book with great height and length, and not as much depth. Intermediate and advanced energy healers will likely love the gorgeous design and layout of this book, while not necessarily feeling all areas they are interested in covered to their full satisfaction.

I love the concept of this book, and my main issue with it is that it is not nearly big enough. Perhaps in future printings, this book can be expanded to cover topics more comprehensively in order to satisfy even the curiosity of intermediate and advanced level energy workers. Since the scientific aspects mentioned in this edition will tend to go out of date with time, I hope my wish will be granted, and the second edition will include many more of the details I desire.

This book is comprehensive, well documented, and highly readable. Author Dale presents a balanced view of the current knowledge of subtle energy. It is an excellent book for the student of energy based healing. It provides one with in-depth information about the three energy systems: meridians, chakras and fields. The graphics are extremely well-done. Towards the end of the book are thumb-nail sketches of every imaginable energy healing system available.

This book marks a substantial milestone in the merging of science and esoteric healing traditions. Truly an encyclopedia of subtle energy anatomy, mechanism and mysticism find common ground in this extraordinary compendium of whole being healing consciousness. The Subtle Body grounds holistic healing in a new subset of science, research and tradition, revealing a viable and contemporary healing resource for anyone who is alive--or who seeks to understand the self and the reality of the energetic structures behind the material world, in relation to our physical well-being. This book is a wealth of information, and yet, advises that there is much more to learn; in the end, we must each become our own "authority" on subtle energy knowledge and awareness that is pertinent to our circumstance or practice.

This is a beautifully presented book. The illustrations are second to none and the first part on human anatomy just couldn't be done any better. But as for the last two thirds of the book, this stuff about energy, ying, yang, new age and the like, it's all too much for me. I shouldn't have agreed to review this book. But that being said, if you're willing to look past traditional thinking, then there's a lot here for you investigate. I've had the book for almost three months and I've gone back to it several times, just to check out this stuff I don't believe in and won't believe in. It's all very interesting and there is a lot of stuff to think about here, that's for sure.

Cyndi Dale says on the first page of her introduction that this book will make good healers into great ones. I don't know about that. Great healers are great healers, they don't need this book. That being said there is a lot of info here about different kinds of "healing methods", most of which are interesting as all get out, but I'm not a believer.

The illustrations are excellent and even though I disagree with about eighty percent of the stuff between these pages, the book is very well written, very interesting and done with a ton of class. I've had the book for a couple months now, have peaked at every single page, read most of it and just because I don't agree with it is no reason for me not to give it five stars, because this is certainly a five star effort, no matter what you believe in. This is a worthy addition to any library.

Reviewed by Captain Katie Osborne

If you're itching to learn all of the various spiritual ways of healing, look no further. The book starts out as kind of a primer on Energy and Healing then in Part II it turns into a primer on Human anatomy. Then with excellent writing and better than excellent illustrations, we get into the meat of the book in Parts III, IV, V and VI, which all deal with energy in healing, from Auric Fields to Acupuncture Points to Chakra, it's all here and so much more. This is a book that'll take awhile to digest, but it's a learning experience. It's exciting and fun too.