About Bruce

About me

Bruce has over 35 years experience in the field of therapeutic bodywork and as a Practitioner and Advanced Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy.  Bruce maintains a busy clinic and teaching schedule with a private practice at clinics in Rozelle and Woollahra and teaching Ortho-Bionomy in Sydney and extensively throughout Australia and New Zealand.  Prior to moving to Sydney in 2001 he was on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin – Madison Medical School for 12 years where he taught medical interviewing and physical examination skills.  He also worked for seven years in the fitness industry as a fitness instructor and personal trainer.

Bruce is an accomplished and sought-after speaker and has presented at many national and international conferences including the American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA), Massage and Myotherapy Australia, Australasian Lymphology Association and many regional conferences for massage, bodywork and complementary health organisations. He has been a trainer with the Somatics College of Body Oriented Psychotherapy in Sydney and the Somatic Psychotherapy Institute of Australia.  Bruce also supervises bodywork, somatic and trauma therapists worldwide.

Bruce’s approach to working with the body is to support and facilitate the natural healing processes that we all possess.  Caring and embodied contact assists the innate balancing and regulating capacity of the body and the focus of his work is to remind the body of these regulating mechanisms.  Through facilitating the impulses for change the body is more likely to embrace new and more functional postures and alignment.  This is the ultimate form of self-empowerment:  experiencing the power of greater structural support and ease, accessing an embodied sense of confidence and living our lives from the foundation of a deep experience of wellbeing.

Bruce C Stark, BMus, BA, ROBP, CMT