What if the struggles you’ve carried aren’t setbacks, but stepping stones to the person you’re meant to become? In this powerful episode of the Vessel mini-series, Eli and Bruchi Ekstein share their journey of transforming trauma, navigating growth as a couple, and discovering how self-development rooted in Torah can reshape not only their marriage but their entire family.

Discussion Points:

• Bruchi’s search for grounding and how Vessel became her entry point into deeper growth.
• Eli’s perspective as a business consultant and how emotional clarity is inseparable from financial success.
• Trauma as not “what happened to us” but how we choose to carry it forward.
• The role of ego in relationships and how to move past feeling “left behind” when one partner grows faster.
• Embodied Torah: bringing teachings from the head into lived experience through breathwork and practice.

Eli and Bruchi open up about their personal and shared experiences with Vessel, highlighting Module Six on transforming trauma. They discuss how acknowledging pain—without staying stuck in it—creates space for freedom, growth, and authentic living. Bruchi describes her journey from searching for “something more” to finding her language in Vessel and eventually becoming a breathwork facilitator. Eli shares the challenges and breakthroughs of watching his wife’s growth and later stepping into his own, reframing trauma and ego in the process. Together, they reflect on the integration of Torah with self-development and how this work ripples out into their marriage, parenting, and business.

About the Guests:

Eli and Bruchi Ekstein live in Monroe, NY. Eli is a business consultant who helps leaders gain clarity by addressing both strategy and the emotions behind decision-making. Bruchi is a wife, mother, and certified breathwork facilitator, passionate about bringing embodied Torah and healing practices to her community. Together, they also offer couples’ sessions that integrate growth, breathwork, and Torah-based values.

Time Stamps:

00:00 Transforming Trauma

02:35 How Bruchi discovered Vessel and her search for more

05:10 Eli’s “yes/no/yes” journey into breathwork training

07:56 The role of workshops like Anayuchi in men’s growth

11:19 Searching for truth and finding “your language” in Vessel

15:43 Yosef HaTzadik as a model for trauma transformation

23:46 Owning trauma and responsibility without bypassing pain

28:41 Business consulting and the link between money, clarity, and inner work

35:28 Working within Hasidic and diverse communities

39:42 Navigating growth as a couple when one partner starts first

47:52 Parenting teenagers differently through grounded responses

54:45 Embodied Torah: bringing learning into the body through breathwork

59:46 Couples’ sessions and the power of shared growth

01:01:10 Who Vessel is really for

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