Integral Body Therapies is a family massage, private yoga and health studio run by Bronson Bertschinger in Newport on the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Our therapies include Hoffman Holisitc Massage and Intuitive Energetic Healing, Quantum Touch, Dorn Spinal Therapy, Myofascial release, cupping therapy, massage courses and workshops, yin-yoga courses, and guided relaxation. We also provide a mobile massage service on the northern beaches servicing Palm Beach, Whale Beach, Avalon, Bilgola Plateau, Newport, Bungan, Mona Vale and Warriewood.

Our main goal is at helping people maintain a healthy pain free lifestyle. Due to Bronson's extensive training in the healing arts he understands the complexity of the body making his treatments very holisitc. The treatments we give are not like the routine massage that is generally done. Our treatments are intuitive and focused on the individuals needs instead of applying the treatment the same for every person.
"We are all very unique individuals, come in all shapes and sizes, have our own pains, problems, stresses, likes and dislikes. Therefore the treatment I do adapts to you and what your body needs that at the time. Treatments vary from deep tissue massage to very subtle energetic work, it is totally dependant on the individual."

Bronson's qualifications, training & experience includes:

• Founder of Hoffman Massage System
• Founder and principal of Australian School of Body Therapies
• Former general manager/head teacher/teacher trainer of international massage school Brandon Raynor's School of Natural Therapies.
• Holistic Bowen Therapy
• The Dorn Method
• Cert Thai Massage
• Cert Eastern Cupping
• Cert Western Cupping
• Cert Contemporary Cupping
• Sport Yoga Instructor
• Adv Diploma, Diploma Raynor Massage
• Myofascial Release
• 14 Years of Yoga and Meditation
• 4 Years of Qi Gong and 2 years of Yang Mian System Kung Fu

Bronson Bertschinger is the founder of Australian School of Body Therapies (A.S.B.T) and the developer of Hoffman Intuitive Bodywork and Energetic Healing. He has has been trained by all of the schools he is promoting on the A.S.B.T website and more. He continues to study and develop his knowledge every day.

Bronson is former general manager, head teacher and teacher trainer of Brandon Raynor's School of Natural Therapies. He is still proud to say he still teaches Raynor Massage Certificates and Diplomas under his massage school A.S.B.T.

Bronson was born in South Africa in 1974 and his journey in the healing arts began when Bronson was chosen to be a healer by a Shaman in Africa when he was 3 years old. In 1984, when he was 10 years old he was taught how to massage by his now deceased African Grandmother Nadia Florence Hoffman and he has been massaging and learning about healing since that day.

Bronson has grown up in Avalon Beach in the northern beaches of Sydney and has a successful healing practice there. Bronson's interests include yoga, meditation, health, surfing, traveling, snowboarding, martial arts and is very passionate to continue to develop his healing skills for the rest of his life.

Bronson's qualifications and experience include:

• Advanced Diploma Raynor Massage and advanced training: Due to Bronson's close personal relationship with Brandon Raynor he has learned much more than Brandon Raynor teaches even in his Advanced Raynor Massage Diploma Courses, of which Bronson has completed 2.
• 25 years of massage experience
• 13 Years of Yoga and Meditation
• 3 years of Yang Mian System Kung Fu
• 2 years teaching Raynor Massage
• Cert Myofascial Release
• Cert Dorn Spinal Therapy
• Cert Sport Yoga
• Cert Thai Massage
• Cert Eastern Cupping
• Cert Western Cupping
• Cert Contemporary Cupping
• Gua-sha

The Development of the Hoffman Massage System

The development of Hoffman massage is Bronson Bertschinger's lifetime of experiencing and learning manual, natural and medical therapies. Bronson was born in South Africa in 1974 and his journey in the healing arts began when Bronson was chosen to be a healer by a Shaman when he lived in Africa at the age of 3. In 1984, when he was 10 years old he was taught how to massage by his now deceased African Grandmother Helene Florence Hoffman and he has been massaging and learning about healing since that day.

Yoga and Meditation and their influence on Hoffman System

In 1998 Bronson got introduced to Yoga, meditation and ancient Vedic philosophy. These have been the most grounding aspect of what Bronson has learned.

Bronson has been very analytical in the development of Hoffman massage. One of his favourite expressions from John R Cross is, "We can have our heads in the clouds when exploring these phenomena, but we must have our feet on the ground." The techniques and forms of healing Hoffman Massage teaches has been very carefully analysed with a very skeptical mind with the backbone of ancient vedic information.

Influence of Kung Fu on Hoffman System of  Massage

Yang Mian System, an explosive, internal power based martial art from China, continues to have a large influence on the development of Hoffman massage. Bronson started training Yang Mian System in 1991. The Yang Mian™System is a unique martial arts system that teaches and promotes the use of internal energy(chi). Being an internal martial art, students learn how to generate chi based on the natural movement of the body, and express it as a combat application in a living way. The system conditions the body to be flexible like rubber, allowing explosive internal power to be transferred.

Unlike most martial arts Yang Mian System is not restricted by kartas or patterns that one has to perfect. Its based on a system called free movement, where you learn to move your body in a very fluid way releasing your chi whenever you choose to in a very powerful way. This system of martial art understands that kartas and patterns may limit you. Bronson incorporated this idea when treating a person with massage, bodywork and energetic healing. If you go into every healing situation with one set massage routine, you are very limited in what you can do. Bronson believes learning many techniques, learning how to touch, and learning how to be more intuitive is a much powerful way to heal people with massage and bodywork.

Acute lower back pain for 10 years !

In 1999 Bronson started suffering from acute back pain. His attempt to fix it has lead him through many forms of healing of both eastern and western influence. Bronson always felt that the treatments he received were never comprehensive enough. Most therapies usually only focus on one system of the body such as the skeletal system, the muscular, the lymphatic system, mental or the internal energetic systems and the external energetic systems. Even though these are connected the intention in many therapies is not to balance all of them. The idea behind Hoffman massage is that all of the above can be the cause of a symptom of disease (dis-ease) in a person. So when you are treating a person we have to try and bring balance to as many of these systems as we can.

Bronson learns Thai Massage

Around 2002 Bronson was taught Thai Massage by Sean Stocker, a TCM Practitioner and Thai Massage Therapist. This was the beginning of Bronson's formal training in the healing arts of bodywork. He has since been trained in Thai massage with Bruce Bentley.

Influence of Brandon Raynor and Raynor Massage

One of the most significant influences on Bronson's respect for massage and bodywork was Raynor Massage. Bronson's training in Raynor massage started in January 2008. It was the turning point in Bronson's opinion of massage as a therapy. Previously to learning from Brandon Raynor, Bronson had given up on massage being able to help him with his pain, due to the lack of quality of massage being taught in the world today.

Bronson went on to work for Brandon Raynor and became General Manager, Head Teacher and Teacher Trainer of Brandon Raynor's School of Natural Therapies and they still work together today as great friends. Bronson has had over 400 hours of training from Brandon Raynor and is one of the world's most highly trained and qualified Raynor Massage Therapists.

Since his experiences with Raynor Massage, Bronson has embraced many other forms of healing and continues to develop his skills and knowledge constantly.

Dorn Spinal Therapy and Hoffman Massage

In mid 2008, Bronson was trained in Dorn Spinal Therapy by Barbara Simon, founder of Dorn Spinal Therapy in Australia. Bronson's understanding that the spine is strongly linked to the muscular, nervous, lymphatic, endocrine, energetic and mental systems of the body, drove him to learn a therapy that can effectively treat spinal misalignment's. Dorn Spinal Therapy is a great alternative to Osteopathy and Chiropractic. It is an effective, safe and Non-Manipulative Therapy to correct misalignment's in the spine and joints.

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Cupping Therapy

In 2008 and 2009 Bronson trained with Bruce Bentley from Health Traditions. Bruce Bentley is a TCM practitioner who was trained in China and has 35 years of experience. Bruce is one of the worlds most renowned cupping therapists, has traveled the world to research cupping therapy and was handed down the Buddhist traveling monk medicine system. Apart from learning Eastern, Western and Modern cupping techniques from Bruce, Bronson also learnt aspects of TCM and subtle ways of treating the body.

Conclusion

Bronson is constantly learning, studying and developing his skills not letting himself get caught up in one school of medicine or healing. When massaging the body you can be effecting Chinese Meridians, Marma Points acupressure points, Thai Sen Meridians, chakras, emotions, Reflexology points, myofascial meridians, anatomical systems of the body, the points of Bowen therapy, the subtle energy system and the list goes on. Bronson believes the body is too intricate to put the factor that is causing disease, down to one system of the body being in a state of imbalance. Therefore he treats the body in a comprehensive way, trying to bring balance to the entire body not just one aspect of it and being open minded to the existence of greater energies than himself.