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Shamanic Expansion Retreats that integrate Andean healing wisdom, shamanic medicine, yoga, breathwork, meditation and energy healing grounded with life changing integration processes around the world led by Johnson Chong TedX Speaker, Shaman & Author.

08/10/2026

👇 Comment MOUNTAINS below and I’ll DM you all the info to apply for the March 12-15, 2027 Shamanic Medicine Journey in the Blue Mts.

There is something extraordinary that happens when we gather with the shared intention to let go. ✨

This past weekend in the Blue Mountains was a beautiful reminder of the magic that unfolds when we create a space for deep surrender, connection and transformation.

In her books The Field and The Power of Eight, Lynne McTaggart explores the power of collective intention and the resonance that emerges when people come together.

And this weekend, we felt something profound in that collective space.

We witnessed people shedding old identities, releasing ancestral grief, mourning versions of themselves they had outgrown, and reclaiming parts of their power that had been buried beneath years of stories and conditioning.

Not through intellectual understanding, but through a deep, visceral knowing in the body.

Because sometimes healing isn’t about figuring out one more thing. It’s about finally feeling safe enough to put down what you’ve been carrying.

And there is something incredibly beautiful about witnessing strangers become mirrors, teachers and allies for one another. ❤️

These intimate shamanic medicine retreats are about opening the heart, remembering who we are beneath our stories, and discovering what becomes possible when we surrender.

Our last retreat was completely full, and unfortunately, we couldn’t accommodate everyone who wanted to join us.

🌿 Our next Blue Mountains Shamanic Medicine Retreat is March 12–15, 2027.

It might sound far away, but spaces are already filling.

If something in you is calling for a deeper journey of self-discovery, surrender and reconnection, perhaps this is your invitation.

31/08/2026

✨ Early bird ends today, August 31.
👉comment ‘journey’ for workshop info

August cracked things open.

September is asking a different question:

What do you do with what has been revealed?

This is a month for refinement. For clearer choices. For releasing what no longer belongs and creating space for the direction you’re actually ready to move toward.

On September 27th, join me for a Shamanic Breathwork Journey through the Medicine Wheel with live music with Phil Barlow — an immersive space to breathe, release, integrate and reconnect with what feels true now.

If you’ve been feeling the call, this is your invitation.

08/08/2026

🏋️What if exhaustion isn’t coming from doing too much…

…but from carrying too much that was never yours to hold?

We spend years upgrading our careers, our homes, our relationships and our bodies.

Yet very few of us ever learn how to increase our energetic capacity.

Capacity isn’t how much you can endure.

It’s how much life can move through you without becoming trapped inside you.

Grief.
Conflict.
Disappointment.
Loss.
Joy.
Love.

A healthy nervous system doesn’t avoid these experiences.

It allows them to move.

The body was never designed to become a storage unit for unfinished emotion.

Just like a car needs regular servicing every 6–12 months, your nervous system also needs maintenance. Otherwise, what was meant to move through you begins to settle into your muscles, your breath, your jaw, your sleep, your relationships and your vitality.

Ask yourself honestly:

• Do you wake up feeling exhausted even after sleeping?
• Do you clench your jaw without noticing?
• Are you always “holding it together” for everyone else?
• Does the same injury or pain keep returning?
• Do you feel emotionally flat or disconnected from joy?
• Do you find yourself attracting the same relationship patterns?
• Do you feel like you’re surviving life instead of fully living it?

These aren’t signs you’re broken.

They’re often signs your body has been carrying more than it was designed to hold.

The goal of this work isn’t to create dramatic releases.

It’s to create a body, a nervous system and an energetic field that can meet life with more presence, more truth and more love.

Because healing isn’t about becoming lighter.

It’s about becoming larger.

Large enough to carry life with grace.

If this resonates, comment “Shamanic Spinal” below and I’ll send you more information about my 1:1 sessions.

27/05/2026

Comment “Shaman” and I’ll DM you the link to my new course.

and I are doing a Breathwork track that integrates a dance for Mother Earth.

It features 432 Hz healing music composed by maestro with the shamanic vocal alchemy of

Get access to the course before the early bird ends June 1st

14/05/2026

💙Heart opening is not just an emotional concept.
It is a physiological event.

The body changes shape when the heart truly begins to trust life again.

The chest rises.
The breath deepens.
The spine reorganizes itself around openness instead of protection.

And when energy is finally allowed to move freely, it moves the way nature moves…
in waves.

The pelvis, the heart, and the head begin communicating again instead of operating in fragmentation.

This is what coherence looks like when it’s renegotiating itself in the body.

So much of healing is not about becoming something new.

It is about remembering the intelligence that was already there beneath the armor.

The body already knows how to return to wholeness when it feels safe enough to soften.

⚡️In town for 10 more days before I’m away til August. A few sessions available, comment “spinal” for more info.

04/05/2026

👊Muscular Tension = Emotional Suppression if it’s chronic.

⚡️Last 3 weeks of bookings before traveling for a few months.

✨Comment ‘Shamanic Spinal’ for more info.

01/05/2026

🪶Comment ‘JOURNEY’ to get more registration details.

Last Shamanic Breathwork Journey of the quarter before I travel. Sat May 16th 2 pm in BONDI

Early Bird ends May 3.

This is not your typical breathwork process. This is a sacred ceremony to connect deeper into all the layers of you.

Early bird ends Nov 1st.

Space is limited.

14/04/2026

This is what trauma release can look like.

Not calm.
Not pretty.

The body shaking.
The nervous system completing what it couldn’t before.

Trauma isn’t just a memory.
It’s a loop in the body.

And when it finally releases…
it can look like this.

Science calls it discharge.
Shamanic traditions call it the soul remembering itself.

Same truth.

Not everything you carry is yours.
Some of it is ancestral.
Some of it is survival.

And when the body feels safe enough…
it lets go.

This is what it looks like
when the past leaves the body.

👉 Comment “shamanic spinal” to learn more

⚠️ I’m only taking clients for the next 6 weeks before I travel.

10/04/2026

Energy vampires are either consciously or unconsciously draining you because they’re disconnected from their own source.

From a shamanic lens, an “energy vampire” isn’t a villain.
It’s someone stuck in a loop of suffering, reaching outward to regulate themselves.

And here’s the deeper truth…
they can only take what you’re still offering through attention, guilt, over-giving, and the need to fix.

This is where upeksha, the yogic principle of equanimity comes in.
The art of staying present… without getting pulled in.

You don’t need to shut down.
You don’t need to cut people off.

You simply stop abandoning yourself in the interaction.

When you feel the hook, pause.
Stay in your body.
Let them have their experience without making it yours.

You’re still there.
Still open.
But no longer entangled.

👉 Comment how you’ve dealt with reclaiming your power from the energy vampires in your life.
⸻

23/03/2026

Your spine remembers everything you’ve been through.

Not just physically…
but emotionally, energetically, even subconsciously.

Across traditions — from yoga to Kabbalah to shamanic wisdom —
the spine has always been seen as the axis of transformation.

The place where:

⚡ energy rises
🌳 memory is stored
🧠 consciousness is refined

Just like a tree…

your spine holds the rings of your life.

The moments of contraction.
The times you felt rejected, unseen, not enough…

And also the moments of joy, love, and expansion.

But here’s the truth most people miss:

You can’t just think your way into healing.

Because trauma isn’t just a story in your mind…
it becomes a pattern in your nervous system.

And one of the places those patterns live…
is in the spine.

This is why I work with shamanic spinal sessions —
to help you release what your body has been holding onto,
and reconnect you back into a state of flow and coherence.

If you’re in Sydney and feel called to go deeper:

👉 First 5 people for April get $88 off
⚡️Comment “SPINE” to get more info

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Sydney, NSW

Website

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