Meet the movement monk

Hey, I'm Benjamyn

Founder of Neuro Somatic School

Nervous system nerd with a big heart

Started the first 'movement gym' in Melbourne

Has a wine named after him, 'Benjamyn Cabernet'

I’m a student of the body, a guide for the soul, and a fellow traveler on the path of remembering what it means to be fully human.

What’s shaped me most hasn’t been the trainings or the titles—but the willingness to sit in the fire of my own healing.

To turn toward what hurts, stay present, and listen deeply until something true emerges. That’s what this work is rooted in.

Not perfection. Not performance. But honest, embodied presence. A return to self that’s real, felt, and alive.

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In over two decades of working with the nervous system, movement, and mind-body integration. While my haircuts may have changed, one question has quietly shaped everything I do:

“Why doesn’t change last—even after a breakthrough, release, or powerful session?”

How to exercise with chronic pain - Movement Monk

So, I explored every healing path I could find:

Strength & Conditioning? Clients got stronger—but still felt disconnected.

Mindset & Psychology? Created insight—but patterns stayed stuck.

Bodywork? Gave relief on the table—but not in life.

Taoist Arts? Powerful—but too abstract for many to integrate.

Breathwork? Deep catharsis—but the same loops returned.

Every method held a piece of the puzzle.
But none explained why—beneath all the effort—something still held on.

Over the years, I’ve heard it all.

“Fix your posture.”
“Just stretch more.”
“Try this one weird trick.”

Most of it is noise, disconnecting you from what's actually happening within you.

Because after more than a decade working with bodies—real ones, with history and heartbreak—I’ve seen the same truth again and again:

There’s no single method. No magic formula.
There’s just what works for you, in your body, in this moment...

That said… while our journeys are wildly individual, there are threads we all seem to follow.

Like realizing pain isn’t always about tight muscles—it’s often about old patterns, trauma and self-protection.

Like the moment you notice stress lives in your spine, or heartbreak in your hips.

Or when you discover that your feet (yep, your feet) are quietly affecting everything upstream.

Or the wild moment you clear a forgotten injury… and a decade of tension disappears with it.

The deeper I go, the more I trust this:

Healing lives where the personal meets the universal—where your body’s story is honored, and its wisdom finally heard.

A Word From Benjamyn

You are the expert of your own body. No technique, practitioner, or protocol will ever know your system more intimately than you do.

The truth is, most of our pain and patterns don’t come from one big trauma—they’re the sum of a thousand moments when our body had to protect, adapt, and survive.

Healing starts when we stop outsourcing authority—and begin listening to what’s already inside. This work isn’t about fixing you. It’s about giving your body the conditions it needs to remember who you are.

That’s what I teach now.

Not more tools.
Not another modality.

But a way of being with the body—where healing becomes a felt, integrated experience.

Through the 4 Neuro Somatic Pathways, the team at Movement Monk and I help practitioners and self-healers:

Understand trauma & how to work with somatic imprints

Build capacity instead of chasing catharsis

Stay grounded in sessions—not drained

Help others heal through embodying what they teach

How to exercise with chronic pain - Movement Monk
How to exercise with chronic pain - Movement Monk

This work has been taught in over 50 countries.

Through our online programs, workshops, and membership community, we've supported thousands of clients, coaches, therapists, and health pros. And trained the teachers other teachers turn to when nothing else works.

But this work isn’t about me.
It’s about you—coming home to your body, your power, your practice.

My job isn’t to fix you. It’s to walk beside you—to help you remember how to feel, trust, and follow what’s true in your body.

To become the practitioner, the healer, or the fully human being you already are underneath the noise.

Let’s walk that path—together.

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