Brian Berneman

Most people don't just come to Brian because they're curious about energy work or ancestral patterns. They come because something in their life keeps repeating (the same argument, the same exhaustion, the same relationship patterns, the success they sabotage right before it lands, the anxiety that spikes around a certain person, place or time of year, with no clear reason why) and they've already tried the obvious fixes.

Brian's approach sits at the intersection of two things that don't usually share a room: neuroscience and lineage. He trained and lived in a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center with the teachings of Tibetan Lama Tarthang Tulku during two years, and he draws on Bert Hellinger's work on family systems, Bessel van der Kolk and Peter Levine on trauma and the body, and Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory on the nervous system. He doesn't treat these as competing frameworks. He treats them as different instruments measuring the same thing.

He's originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has been working with clients for the last 17 years in both English and Spanish. Since 2019 he's been faculty at Auckland University of Technology, he hosts The Conscious Action Podcast (200+ episodes and counting), co-owns Good Magazine NZ, and teaches on the Spanish-language wellness app Pura Mente. His workplace wellness work has taken him into organisations including TVNZ, Greenpeace, Foodstuffs, AUT, Heart Kids NZ and MediaWorks.

At The Life Centre, Brian offers Family Constellations, sound healing, somatic healing, energy healing, meditation mentoring, and 1:1 holistic therapy. He's candid about the limits of his own field: He's not interested in enlightenment claims or quick fixes, and he'll tell you so directly. What he's interested in is the gap between knowing something and living differently because of it. That gap is where the actual work happens, and it's rarely a single session. It's integration, insight, practised into the body, until it becomes how you actually move through your life.

Brian’s mission is to inspire individuals to achieve well-being by treating the mind, body and spirit through personalised and integrative therapies that foster self-awareness, self-care and self-compassion. Providing access to a diverse range of resources and opportunities that empower personal growth, development and balance, ultimately leading to a more meaningful life.