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

Benjamin Bruckman

Body Therapist

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

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

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. Working directly with the vagus nerve lets the body 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.

His work borders on magic and gets your body and soul back to a state of wholeness.
Karina
CEO, World Upstart
I've noticed a marked shift in my capacity to feel, regulate, and stay present with myself.
Hera
After years of conventional treatment, I've been amazed by how much more effective I have found my work with Ben to be.
Anna
Associate Dean, Warren Wilson College
Ben is a thoughtful and gentle healer. Working with him has helped me find hope again.
Rachel
Art Therapist
Often what shows up in the present moment becomes a doorway to understanding deeper patterns.
Danling
Founder, Digital Reco
Hands down the best body worker I have found.
Lina
Senior Associate Director, University of Pennsylvania
Life changing and transformative in understanding yourself and, more importantly, trusting your body.
Caitlin
Deep shifts in held tensions, and incredible resolution to the lower back pain I arrived with.
Sara
Finding Ben is like finding the pot of gold.
Leisa
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
He imparts a knowledge of how to help oneself at home for continued wellness.
Jeff
Chef
He guides transformation while holding an incredibly safe, grounded, and powerful space.
Mahalia
An amazing Somatic Experiencing practitioner. Could not recommend him more highly.
Nadine
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.
David
The best healing experience ever. A heartfelt thank you Ben.
Yaeli
The level of care and presence was such a gift.
Vidya

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Genuine healing often involves cycles of disintegration and reintegration. We need to allow that which is old and locked in place to release and reorganise, before we can come back together more whole.

Genuine healing often involves cycles of disintegration and reintegration.

We need to allow that which is old and locked in place to release and reorganise, before we can come back together more whole.

B.A. Social Psychology, UC Berkeley

M.S. Nonprofit Leadership, University of Pennsylvania

Remedial Massage Therapist

Classical Chinese Medicine

Dry Needling Certified

Somatic Therapy Practitioner

Australian Coordinator, PNE

My path to this work wasn't a straight line. I studied social psychology at U.C. Berkeley and organisational dynamics through Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania, which taught me to see how systems hold patterns, resist change, and have the potential to reorganise into something more alive. Before clinical practice I worked across military special operations, eco-village management, documentary filmmaking, and complex systems analysis.

Each of those worlds showed me something about how human beings carry tension and how to return to our our innate state of balance. That thread runs through everything I do in the treatment room.

I trained in Classical Chinese Medicine, Dry Needling, Myofascial Release, Trigger Point Therapy, and Somatic Therapy. I'm also the Australian Coordinator for Psycho-Neuro Energetics, a modality that works directly with the vagus nerve to help the autonomic nervous system release what it's been holding.

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.

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