9 Day Shamanic Expansion Retreat
July 22-30, 2026
in the Sacred Valley of Peru
with Shaman, TedX Speaker Johnson Chong
& Indigenous Master Healers
A sacred 9-day experience for high-achieving individuals who understand their patterns but still feel trapped inside them — and are ready to move through a fully embodied shift
By Application Only
You Understand Yourself, So Why Are You Still Living the Same Way?
I know. You’ve done the work.
Therapy. Coaching. Retreats. Meditation. You can name your wounds. You understand where they come from. You’ve traced them back through your history, your family, your body.
And yet — something hasn’t fully shifted. In the quiet moments, something still feels incomplete.
There is a reason for that. And it’s not that you haven’t done enough.
Insight and embodiment are not the same thing.
There is a layer of transformation that the mind alone will never reach. Not because you’re broken. Not because you’re doing it wrong. But because the work you’ve been doing stops where the body begins.
You have arrived at a Crossroads.
There comes a moment when the life you’ve built stops fitting. Not because something went wrong. Because you’ve outgrown it.
From the outside, everything still works. The career. The relationships. The version of yourself you’ve maintained for years. But inside — something feels heavier than it should.
“Is this actually the life I chose? Or the one I built to survive?”
That’s not confusion. That’s a signal.
There is a version of you that hasn’t had permission to exist yet. Not a better version. Not a more spiritual version. The real one.
And crossing into it requires more than understanding.
Peru is a portal—a place where ancient shamanic wisdom and the mysteries of consciousness converge. The Andes are alive with a frequency that strips away illusion, reorients your soul, and expands your energy field beyond its old limitations.
Because here is the truth:
The quality of your life and the experiences you attract are shaped by the depth and resilience of your energy field.
If your field is underdeveloped, life feels like survival.
If your field is expanded and coherent, life flows with abundance, clarity, vitality, and soul-aligned creation.
This retreat is not a vacation.
It is a soul recalibration, an initiation into expanded consciousness, and a rite of passage into your next chapter of leadership and living.
Why This Retreat is Different
Many retreats promise rest, reset, and nervous system repair. Those are important—but this goes deeper.
This is not about patching exhaustion.
It is about breaking up with the outdated version of yourself, so your soul can expand its energy field and align with its true abundance.
Because when your energy field evolves—
You attract aligned relationships, opportunities, and experiences.
You embody vitality that no supplement can provide.
You no longer chase abundance—you radiate it.
This is sacred work … a rite of passage into your next chapter.
Who This Is For
It is for the leader, the high achiever, the visionary who:
Has built success on the outside but feels numb inside.
Is exhausted not from doing too much, but from being too much of what they no longer are.
Hears the whisper: “There’s more. You’re not meant to live this way anymore.”
Is ready to break old energy patterns and step into a new rhythm of being.
This retreat is not for everyone.
This is for those ready to walk through the portal of initiation—where old blueprints dissolve, and a soul-led life begins.
This journey is NOT for you if you have existing psychological or medical contraindications, or if you’re not willing to engage with ceremonial healing work with respect for yourself and the plant spirits. If you are over 70, you need medical clearance from your doctor before attending.
Why Peru, Why Now?
Peru is a portal—a place where ancient shamanic wisdom and the mysteries of consciousness converge. The Andes are alive with a frequency that strips away illusion, reorients your soul, and expands your energy field beyond its old limitations.
Because here is the truth:
The quality of your life and the experiences you attract are shaped by the depth and resilience of your energy field.
If your field is underdeveloped, life feels like survival.
If your field is expanded and coherent, life flows with abundance, clarity, vitality, and soul-aligned creation.
This retreat is not a vacation.
It is a soul recalibration, an initiation into expanded consciousness, and a rite of passage into your next chapter of leadership and living.
Why This Retreat is Different
Many retreats promise rest, reset, and nervous system repair. Those are important—but this goes deeper.
This is not about patching exhaustion.
It is about breaking up with the outdated version of yourself, so your soul can expand its energy field and align with its true abundance.
Because when your energy field evolves—
You attract aligned relationships, opportunities, and experiences.
You embody vitality that no supplement can provide.
You no longer chase abundance—you radiate it.
This is sacred work … a rite of passage into your next chapter.
Who This Is For
It is for the high achiever who has a vision:
Who has built success on the outside but feels numb inside.
Is exhausted not from doing too much, but from being too much of what they no longer are.
Hears the whisper: “There’s more. You’re not meant to live this way anymore.”
Is ready to break old energy patterns and step into a new rhythm of being.
This retreat is not for everyone.
This is for those ready to walk through the portal of initiation—where old blueprints dissolve, and a soul-led life begins.
This journey is NOT for you if you have existing psychological or medical contraindications, or if you’re not willing to engage with ceremonial healing work with respect for yourself and the plant spirits. If you are over 70, you need medical clearance from your doctor before attending.
What's Included
(Scroll to the end for full tuition)
- 8 Week Shamanic Breathwork Journeying for Mental Emotional Freedom Online Course Preparation
-Pre-Travel Zoom Group Meeting
- Post Retreat Zoom Integration Call
- Movement Workshops (Yoga, Somatic Movement, etc)
- Breathwork Activation Workshops
- Inner Healing Workshops
- 2 Ayahuasca Plant Medicine Ceremonies
- 2 Huachuma Cactus Plant Medicine Ceremonies
- Q'ero Q'olluryikuy Blessing Ceremony
- Fire Ceremonies
- Support from a highly experienced trauma informed shaman and facilitator
- Transport to local sacred sites
- Surprises
- All Vegetarian Meals (Breakfast, Lunch &
Dinner)
- Private Boutique Accomodation nestled under a Sacred Mountain in the Valley
- Connect with soulful seekers from around the world
The Daily Schedule
There is a structured flow everyday that moves with the elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether) in conjunction with the Andean medicine wheel. This is a snapshot into what activities are available. However, you will not be given a schedule of what is happening when, as the element of surprise during the retreat is designed to keep you in awe, wonder and constantly present. All that is expected of you is to lovingly stay open and to receive all the beautiful experiences that come your way.
Daily Movement
2 Ayahuasca Plant Ceremonies
2 San Pedro Cactus Ceremonies
Shamanic Breathwork Activations
Inner Healing Workshops
Sacred Site Healing Ritual
Indigenous Healing
Delicious Vegetarian Meals
Retreat Dates
For custom dates please send an inquiry to sage@johnsonchong.com
The Invitation
If your heart quickens as you read this, if your body leans forward, if some deeper part of you whispers “Yes”—this is your moment.
The Andes are calling you into remembrance.
Your soul is asking you to expand.
Your energy field is ready to evolve.
This is not a retreat. This is your initiation.
The Sacred Plant Ceremonies
The modern research around psychoactive plant medicines and their ability to heal traumas, addictions, PTSD and so much more has finally caught up with what the ancients knew for thousands of years.
On this retreat, you’ll meet powerful sacred plants spirits of Grandmother Ayahuasca and Grandfather Huachuma.
Ayahuasca is often used in nighttime ceremonies and helps us to clear out our inner shadows through a kind of “tough love.” Huachuma offers a “softer and healing embrace” during the daytime.
Both plant medicines when approached with deep reverence can change the way we live forever. By fostering a deep relationship with these plant spirits—alongside the healing power of ceremony—you have the ability to transcend feelings of disconnection, depression, and dis-ease, while shifting into an awakening of your consciousness.
In the Andean tradition, these plants are more than mere substances. They are living, revered entities that hold profound intelligence about how you can awaken into the higher octave of who you are becoming.
Our Q’ero master healers in plant medicine will guide you through your journey. To ensure you receive lasting benefits in a safe environment, you’ll have access to pre- and post-integration work that offer psychological, spiritual, and physical healing tools.
Your Guides
Johnson Chong
Shaman, Best-selling Author, TedX Speaker
Johnson Chong is the best-selling author of Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma. He is also a TedX Speaker, shaman and the founder of SAGE Journey where he trains aspiring yoga & breathwork teachers. Through the synthesis of the most applicable teachings of yoga, meditation, breathwork, coaching and shamanic healing, his trainings are designed to help people quiet the mind, awaken the heart and free themselves of the roadblocks that keep them from living more authentically and joyfully. He has spoken and led workshops at companies like Unilever, Facebook, Nike, Macquarie, Insight Timer, UBS, UOB and more.
Johnson is also initiated as a paqo shaman of the Andean Q’ero priests, a Four Winds Energy Medicine Health Coach, and a Reiki Master. He is a native New Yorker, and currently is based in Sydney, Australia.
He speaks, English, Cantonese & Spanish.
Maestro Porfirio Apaza
Ayahuasquero & Huachumero (Plant Medicine Shaman)
Maestro Porfirio Apaza was born in the Q’ero nation at Huamanlipa, the Falcon Feather’s Mountain in the Paucartambo province of Cusco. He belongs to generations of earthkeepers, healers and guardians called pampamesayoqs and started apprenticing in the shamanic path at the age of 15 with his father and mother. He eventually received his Andean initiations at the age of 20, and later started initiation with the San Pedro cactus medicine. He continued studying with the jungle shamans in Pucallpa and received the rites to serve ayahuasca. He has been offering healing services for over 30 years and his deepest wish for humanity is that each person awakens to a life that is enriched with Munay, a truer and more connected way of living on the path of love.
Raul Apaza
Pampa Mesayoq Paqo (Q’ero shaman)
Raul Apaza is the son of the great Q’ero healer Maestro Alejandro Apaza, and are pampa mesayoq paqos – those who heal by working with energies and sacred spirits in nature. His family comes from the Q’ero nation, a tribe of approximately 1500 people who lived in the Andean highlands at altitudes above 15,000 feet in order to escape the conquistadors. They lived in isolation from the rest of the world, during the Spanish occupation for many centuries hiding in caves in high altitudes until their “discovery” in 1949.
Their ancestors prophesied for them to stay in hiding for about 500 years for fear of being punished for their “magical” knowledge. Today we have the privilege of receiving the unbroken wisdom from the lineage of these masters.
Raul works with the spirit of the coca leaf for divinations. They also perform offerings and ceremonies of gratitude to the Earth and various other Spirits like the Pleiades to bring harmony to the land and their local communities. One of the main healing techniques that are unique to his lineage is done through chumpis, or sacred medicine stones of alabaster and marble that have been blessed and activated for the purpose of energy healing.
I loved starting the day with a good yoga practice and breathwork. You really feel so energised after that. I know quite a lot about nutrition already, but coming to the retreat showed me that there is so much more to learn. If I had to summarise this retreat in one word, it would be self-love.
Tammy Boh Calabro
Italy
We’ve done some many amazing things, rafting down rivers, going to temples and seeing so many fascinating things. We did a number of workshops every day, and the shamanic journeys were something I’ve never done before. You can actually feel the energy move through your body. I would happily do it all over again.
Deborah Travers
Sydney, Australia
The biggest highlight was my visit to the fertility temple, as I am currently going through a journey in that area. Through this trip, I really started thinking about this yin/yang balance. And my biggest takeaway is to shift my consciousness to more of my feminine side so that I have more balance.
Miki Hata
Sydney, Australia
Bhutan is magical and very beautiful. I came here with no specific things in mind. I didn’t know what to expect. I learned a lot about myself. I learned about the attachments, fears and my personality. It was enlightening for me, and now I am feeling freer from those attachments.
Cahê Toporowicz
Brazil
It has been really intense, but I feel that I can connect with my true essence now. During these 10 days, we did yoga, meditation, walked to sacred temples and connected inwards through shamanic journeys to clean our energy bodies. I would highly recommend this trip if you’re wanting to reconnect with your true inner self.
Mayra Andrade
Brazil
Johnson did an incredible job bringing a group of diverse people from multiple countries, and it’s just been a wonderful experience. I would highly recommend taking this journey with an experienced team of people like we have. It makes the experience so much richer to have the guidance of people who can bring the community together and make it relatable.
Diana Schmidt
North Carolina, USA
What I learned from some of the workshops that we were doing was that I am exactly where I need to be in my life. And that is something that I normally struggle with, comparing myself with others. I ended up in Bhutan for a reason. It had a very profound impact on how I look at my life.
Artem Gorobets
Sydney, Australia
The shamanic journeys were extremely profound for me. I feel like Johnson is truly a channel to the spirit world. What surprised me about this retreat was the connections with the people in the group. It was beyond my wildest dreams.
Sarah Bright
Sydney, Australia
What I learned about myself was how much fear I had before coming on retreat. But also how much strength and tenacity I have in going through this journey and these beliefs. I think this journey has been transformative. It has been really magical and heartfelt for me.
Joel Low
Singapore
What I found really healing is that Johnson was able to provide the space and compassion for me to let go of the family ancestry that was so abusive, without being invasive. He didn’t tell me how to do it, he allowed me to find it on my own.
Steffi Adams
Florida, USA
Accommodations
During this retreat you’ll be staying in either twin share or a private room in a private boutique villa on lush green grounds, with plenty of pockets of private space to nestle in if you need alone time to write or process. There is also a swimming pool nestled under the mountains of the sacred valley.
Are you ready to drop into the most life changing ceremonies?
Dates:
July 22-30, 2026 (9 Days, 8 Nights)
Exclusions:
• Flights
• International Travel Insurance
• Shopping & personal expenses
Community: Your participation in plant ceremonies with indigenous healers will greatly support the continuation of their local communities.
Room Options:
Rooms are priced in USD per person below and on first come first serve.
Limited to 16 participants.
• Twin Share $2200
• Private Room $3300
A $500 USD non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are only 16 spaces available. A $500 USD non-refundable deposit is required to book your spot via the link above (which incurs a 3% transaction fee). The balance is due 90 days before the retreat.
If you’d like an international bank transfer or use Venmo, and would like to use that instead of incurring the 3% credit card fee, please send a USD transfer to
Venmo: @johnsonchong_sagesapien
Bank Name: Wise
Name: Johnson Chong
Routing Number: 084009519
Account Number: 9600000000044932 (9 zeros)
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United States
It’s perfectly normal for people to attend retreats alone. If you prefer a single room, we will honour that. If you want to paired with a new friend, please email us your preferences (i.e are you a light sleeper, do you snore, etc?). We will pair you with someone who we believe would be a good match for you. If 90 days before the retreat there isn’t a sufficient pairing, you will be asked to upgrade your room to either twin or single.
Taxi services in Peru are relatively easy. As everyone will be arriving and leaving at different times. We can send you a driver to pick you up or you can take an Uber which is very reliable and straightforward.
Due to the intensity of the sacred plant medicines and healing ceremonies that we will be partaking in. We will not be visiting Machu Picchu during the week of the retreat. We will be visiting other Incan sacred places as some of our plant medicine ceremonies will take place in these power spots. If you would like to schedule time to visit Machu Picchu, we recommend you either arrive earlier before the retreat begins, or stay after the retreat ends to visit. There are plenty of travel agencies that can help you organise a trip to Machu Picchu, please send an email to sage@johnsonchong.com and we can give you a recommendation.
All the meals are included during the retreat according to the meal plans. Any beverages outside of those meal plans are chargeable. If you are vegan or gluten free, an additional surcharge of $30 per day for all your meals are charged.
Children are not allowed at this retreat center at all. Only adults 18 and older who are committed to deep transformational inner work.
Complimentary Wifi will be available. Though, we highly encourage that you switch off your mobile devices during the retreat so that you can get the most our of this important time for yourself.
Yes, laundry is available for an additional service charge.
We ask that you commit to blocking out time for yourself and to be sure that you’re coming before you book. We also know that life is unpredictable. As with all our retreats, you are responsible for acquiring your own travel insurance in the event that life takes a left turn for you. Please click here to review our terms and conditions.
Cancellation in less than 30 days before the retreat (0% refund)
30-60 days before the retreat (50% refund)
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