Benjamin was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1973.

He graduated from the University of Melbourne with an honors degree in architecture.

After graduation he started his own business, diGiMite, doing CG architectural visualization and also worked as a photographer.

In late 2000 he came to Japan and began teaching English.

Around the same time he became interesting in health and started to explore fasting and subsequently became a vegetarian.

He started researching natural therapies and began an intensive program of fasting with colon cleansing at HPS-online guided cleansing. This program was instrumental in changing Benjamin’s approach to health and subsequently produced the vision of starting his own healing center. After 2 years of solid detoxification he embarked on trips to Thailand and Australia to study Thai massage and Reiki.

From June-October 2009 Benjamin operated Curatio on the Shonan coast in Tsujido, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

In December 2009 Benjamin returned to Thailand for 3 months of further intensive study where he received his Reiki Master and Teacher qualification, became a Universal Healing Tao Instructor (Inner Smile, Healing Sounds, Microcosmic Orbit, Iron Shirt Chi Gong and Tao Yin) at the Tao Garden, attended 2 meditation retreats and furthered his Thai massage skills.

Benjamin also works as a freelance photographer in and around Tokyo. View his photography web-site www.minimalized.net.