Sept 27th, 2026 A Shamanic Breathwork Journey for Inner Freedom with Live Music
Transform Your Breath, Evolve Your Energy
This is a Journey for people who have a desire to shake off outdated narratives and step into an experience of heartfelt coherence.
Please bring:
-Journal and Pen
- Water Bottle
- Dress Comfortably for Movement
*** It's important to enrol early as you will get a prep homework via email a week before the event.
Clear Perception
In many ancient traditions, smoky quartz is the stone of clear transmutation as it filters distortions from the energy field.
Similarly, the “smokey mirror” represents the moment when perception is clouded by collective trauma, emotional overwhelm, or long-held inner narratives.
Instead of smashing the mirror,
We learn to breathe clarity into it until the smoke dissolves.
This journey invites you to:
❖ Slow down the nervous system
❖ Release distorted perceptions rooted in past shock
❖ Rebuild trust in your intuition and inner authority
❖ Reconnect to your authentic voice
❖ Reclaim the energy wasted in emotional reactivity or defensive patterns
When the smoke settles, you don’t need to force clarity.
Truth reveals itself effortlessly.
When the Smoke Clears ...
When perception softens and the breath deepens, we begin to see:
❖ what is ours and what is not
❖ what is true and what is projection
❖ what needs releasing and what needs reclaiming
❖ what we’ve inherited and what we choose going forward
Without clear perception, you cannot live the life you were born to live.
This journey is for you if ...
❖ You feel energetically overloaded or emotionally clouded
❖ You’re healing from recent community or personal trauma
❖ You sense your intuition but struggle to trust it
❖ You’ve been carrying the weight of other people’s emotions or projections
❖ You’re ready to reset your perception and reclaim sovereignty over your energy
No previous Breathwork experience is required.
Only a willingness to breathe, feel, and return to yourself.
Note: Those who are pregnant past the first trimester, suffering from lung ailments, heart disorders, blood pressure disregulation, and other disease processes must email sage@johnsonchong.com to seek approval before coming.
What to Look Forward to in this Journey ...
Reclaiming the Inner Witness
A guided meditation to recognize where perception has become clouded.
Shamanic Breathwork Ceremony
A deep dive using conscious connected breathing, activating emotional clearing while staying grounded and regulated.
Sound Healing
A mix of a curated playlist and live crystal sound bowls, crystal xylophone and other percussive vibrations to support coherence between the heart, breath and nervous system.
Clearer Perception
Facilitated inquiry to help you articulate the truth emerging from your body—not your mind.
Connect with Your Inner Guidance
Dialogue with your higher guides and let them work with you in clearing your energy field for more grounded and integrated embodiment.
Returning to Authentic Authority
A reclaiming of your authentic voice, that will help you anchor clarity into action and daily life.
Sunday Sept 27th at RARE Surry Hills
Foster St
1:30 pm- 4:30 pm
(Early Bird $99 before Aug 31, $111 after)
*** You will get a prep email a week before the event with more d etails.
Your Guides on this Journey
Johnson Chong
Main Facilitator
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 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 was initiated as a shaman of the Andean Q’ero elders and studied with Dr. Alberto Villoldo of the Four Winds Society as an Energy Medicine Health Coach. He has been initiated as a Reiki Master by grandmaster Swami Amitanand. Through his somatic energy work studies with Dr. John Amaral and Spinal Energetics with Dr. Sarah Jane, he infuses his understanding of the energy body into helping clients break the pattern that is keeping them from living unapologetically as themselves.
He is a native New Yorker, and currently is based in Sydney, Australia.
He speaks, English, Cantonese & Spanish.
Phil Barlow
Live Musical Guest
Phil has a soulful voice that empowers and inspires. He is a dynamic artist known for his versatile performances. Blending heartfelt healing songs with earthy blues rock, he captivates audiences at both intimate gatherings and festivals. A passionate advocate for wellness, Phil also uses his music as a powerful tool for self-discovery and transformation. He is a firm believer that music can be a pathway to healing. As such, he shares deeply healing songs, music meditations and transformative poetry on his app ‘Peace Mind Music.’
You can find his 4 albums in all major streaming platforms. True Evolution (2019), Break Free (Fire, 2022), Break Free (Heart, 2022), Golden River (2024).
Eugenia Kromerinsky
Assistant facilitator
Psychotherapy, Shamanic Mentorship
Eugenia is an integrative therapist, healer, and facilitator whose work bridges psychology, neuroscience, and shamanic wisdom. Through the synthesis of somatic therapy and shamanic breathwork, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and energy medicine, her sessions are designed to help people release emotional blockages, reconnect with their bodies, and cultivate clarity, resilience, and self-compassion.
She has completed Johnson’s Level 1 Facilitator Training Program and is currently apprenticing with him in Shamanic Energy Medicine and Somatic Healing studies, where she continues to refine her ability to integrate modern therapeutic practices with ancient wisdom traditions.
Eugenia’s approach honors both science and soul—inviting clients to transform pain into purpose and to live from a grounded, heart-centered awareness.
She is based in Sydney, Australia, and works with clients both in person and online.
Jonathan Symonds
Assistant facilitator
Counsellor, Shamanic Mentorship
Jonathan is a counsellor, coach, and energy medicine practitioner who bridges modern psychology with ancient wisdom traditions. Drawing from talk therapy, mindfulness, meditation, somatic therapy, and Reiki, he supports clients in transforming emotional and energetic blockages into deeper self-awareness and purpose. His work is grounded in the belief that healing is not about fixing, but remembering — uncovering the wisdom, resilience, and clarity that already reside within.
Jonathan is currently undergoing Johnson’s Level 1 Facilitator Training Program and is also furthering his studies through apprenticing in Shamanic Energy Medicine and Somatic Healing work. He continues to refine his East-meets-West approach, integrating counselling and energy work to help clients reconnect with their inner guidance and live more consciously aligned lives.
He is based in Sydney, Australia, and offers sessions both in person and online.
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
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