Hoffman Massage Teachers/Practitioners
Bronson Bertschinger founder of Australian School of Body Therapies and developer of Hoffman Massage, Intuitive Bodywork and Energetic Healing
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 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
Bronson is currently continuing his training and is enrolled in a Bowen Therapy course, Cert IV of Personal training and an Advanced Diploma of Remedial Massage and is training to be a Yang Mian System Kung Fu practitioner.
Mitchell Connelly. Head Teacher of Hoffman Massage, Intuitive Bodywork and Energetic Healing
Mitchell Connelly's former life is quite a contrast to the healing path he is on now. Mitchell was born in Manly and has grown up surfing in Avalon Beach on the northern beaches of Sydney.
The last 10 years has seen Mitchell as the touring and recording drummer for internationally renowned artists "The Beautiful Girls" and "Angus and Julia Stone". Mitchell's music career was turned upside down with a health scare. He found himself back in Australia and in hospital. He was diagnosed with MS and lost use and control of the left hand side of his body. This was beginning of Mitchell's passion for health and healing. Doctors advised that he would need to be medicated throughout his life. Unsatisfied with the idea of a lifetime of medication he ventured over to India where he began pancha karma, an ayurvedic treatment designed to give the body and mind a clean start. After regaining feeling in his body, he decided to stay on and study ayurveda with Doctor Vijith Sasidhar, a master in the ancient Indian science. After intensive study, he came home and threw himself into many different courses to understand the nature of subtle energy and the physical body.
Through yoga, meditation, martial arts, reiki and massage he continues to expand his understanding and work on the holistic well being of himself and the world around him.
