Resolving pain and restoring ease through structure, sensation and attention.

Benjamin Bruckman

Body Therapist

Somatic Therapy

A stressful or traumatic event that doesn't fully resolve leaves a charge in the nervous system, held as tension, fatigue or pain long after the story is forgotten. Neuro-somatic work meets it where it's held, through the vagus nerve and the body's own sensation, so the body can finally complete what it never got to finish.

Structural Bodywork

An injury that isn't fully resolved rarely stays where it started. The body compensates around it, pulling other muscles and joints out of alignment long after the injury itself has healed. Working directly with that whole tensional pattern lets the body move the way it was built to again.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction.

When we resist this, we experience pain. As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction. When we resist this, we experience pain.

As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

The level of care and presence was such a gift.
Vidya Shah
His work borders on magic and gets your body and soul back to a state of wholeness.
Karina Sotnik
CEO, World Upstart
I have had life changing sessions, and feel deeply healed at a cellular level.
Anna Kellerman
Art Therapist (MA) and Founder, Mama Creatives
I've noticed a marked shift in my capacity to feel, regulate, and stay present with myself.
Hera Suganthy
After years of lower back pain and conventional treatment, I've been amazed by how much more effective my work with Ben has been.
Anna Welton
Associate Dean, Warren Wilson College
Ben is a thoughtful and gentle healer. Working with him has helped me find hope again.
Rachel Gucwa
Art Therapist
Often what shows up in the present moment becomes a doorway to understanding deeper patterns.
Danling Xiao
Founder, Digital Reco
Hands down the best body worker I have found.
Lina Axanova
Senior Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Life changing and transformative in understanding yourself and, more importantly, trusting your body.
C. R.
Deep shifts in held tensions, and incredible resolution to the lower back pain I arrived with.
Sara Bold
Finding Ben is like finding the pot of gold.
Leisa Trestour
Strategic HR Leader
I walked away feeling like there was a new flow in my body, and the next day felt almost completely healed.
Lauren Visser
He imparts a knowledge of how to help oneself at home for continued wellness.
Jeff Carr
Pastry Chef
He guides transformation while holding an incredibly safe, grounded, and powerful space.
Mahalia Taal
Fashion Designer and Founder, MereMere Diaries
An amazing Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Could not recommend him more highly.
Nadine Richardson
Founder, She Births
An incredible natural therapist, with an amazing understanding of the complexities of the body.
Monique
When I arrived I was in pain and unable to walk comfortably. After, I feel like new. Incredible.
David Bold
The best healing experience ever. A heartfelt thank you Ben.
Yaeli Ohana
The level of care and presence was such a gift.
Vidya Shah
His work borders on magic and gets your body and soul back to a state of wholeness.
Karina Sotnik
CEO, World Upstart

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Much of what I know about the body, I learned slowly and by hand.

My teachers have included Chinese medicine doctors, bodyworkers, somatic therapists and internal martial artists. I've had a decade of training and mentorship with Judith Johnson in Psycho-Neuro Energetics, and now coordinate PNE in Australia. I also completed a two-year apprenticeship with Andrew Nugent-Head in a busy Chinese medicine teaching clinic in Asheville. In a session I draw on all of it, following what your body needs rather than a set routine.

Before clinical practice I studied social psychology at UC Berkeley and organisational leadership at the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton. I served in military special operations, managed an eco-village, and lived in India, studying Advaita Vedanta in traditional ashrams.

I regularly practice the internal arts, including qi gong and taiji, and integrate this into sessions. I'm an avid beach volleyball player, and I enjoy cooking food for friends without following recipes. I live with my wife in Maroubra Beach.

Psycho-Neuro Energeticstraining and mentorship with Judith Johnson
Classical Chinese medicineapprenticeship at The Alternative Clinic, Asheville
Remedial massageAsheville School of Massage & Yoga
Myofascial and trigger pointapprenticeship with Cat Matlock
Dry needlingbuilt on advanced orthopaedic needle technique with Andrew Nugent-Head
Polyvagal-informed vagus nerve therapy with Stanley Rosenberg
Touch for Health kinesiology with Charlie Wright

Resolving pain and restoring ease through structure, sensation and attention.

Somatic Therapy

Structural Bodywork

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction. When we resist this, we experience pain. As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction. When we resist this, we experience pain. As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction. When we resist this, we experience pain. As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction.

When we resist this, we experience pain. As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.

Everything in the natural world is in a constant state of change, expansion and contraction. When we resist this, we experience pain.

As we remember how to move with life, we return to our inborn state of ease.