Tolly Burkan

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Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan, (born May 17, 1948 in New York City) is the creator of the international firewalking movement. (Harpers Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience) Burkan’s approach to firewalking has resulted in a global phenomenon of over three million people attending firewalking classes. As a result of his pioneering strategies, firewalking seminars are now offered on six continents.

During the 1970s, Burkan gained his reputation by creating innovative, cutting-edge methods for developing human potential. In that decade, he also created the world’s first firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public. In the 1980s, he founded the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education, started working with large corporations and began training instructors. The nineties and firewalking.com[1] transformed his work into a mushrooming corporate trend. Even companies such as Microsoft, American Express and Met-Life now routinely include firewalking in their executive empowerment seminars.

Burkan has taught firewalking to many celebrities, including Andrew Weil, MD, Geraldo Rivera and Anthony Robbins. His public seminars have such a broad range of appeal that they draw attendees from across the country and around the world. Burkan recently demonstrated mind over matter on national television by influencing slot machines in Nevada casinos during one of his peak performance trainings covered by Inside Edition.

In addition to authoring six books that are available in many languages, Tolly Burkan has been featured in over 50 books, hundreds of magazines and newspapers, and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. He regularly appears on all major television networks and has been a guest on The Phil Donahue Show, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee and Geraldo.