Embody the Power of Your Dreams
A Jungian & Shamanic Approach to Living a Symbolic Life
with Jungian Psychoanalyst & Author Patricia Elwood &
Shaman, TedX Speaker Johnson Chong
August 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026
Saturdays
8:00 am – 10:00 am Geneva
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sydney
You dream your reality into being knowingly or unknowingly ...
There was a time when dreams were not dismissed as random images of the sleeping mind.
They were honoured as messages from the soul, the ancestors, the gods, and the deeper intelligence of life itself.
Across the ancient world, dreams were understood as portals of guidance.
Leaders, healers, mystics, and communities turned to dreams before making decisions about healing, hunting, war, fertility, initiation, and the future of the people.
To dream was not only to sleep. To dream was to participate in the living mystery of creation.
This four-week immersion is an invitation to return to that sacred relationship with the dream world.
It will serve as the foundation of a deeper journey into dreams, mythology, archetypal psychology, and shamanic practice.
Who this is course is for...
This course is for those who sense that life is speaking to them through symbols, synchronicities, dreams, and meaningful coincidences—and who feel called to deepen their relationship with that inner world.
Whether you are beginning your exploration of dreams or have been walking a spiritual path for many years, this course offers a grounded and experiential approach to understanding the language of the psyche and living with greater purpose, imagination, and intuition.
This course is especially suited for people who are:
- Curious about Jungian psychology, mythology, dreams, symbolism, and the unconscious.
- Interested in understanding the messages hidden within their dreams and learning how to apply them to everyday life.
- Seeking a deeper connection with their intuition, inner wisdom, and authentic self.
- Navigating a period of transition, uncertainty, loss, or personal transformation, and looking for meaningful guidance.
- Drawn to shamanic practices and contemplative traditions that honour nature, ritual, and the symbolic dimensions of life.
- Wellness practitioners, therapists, coaches, counsellors, yoga teachers, breathwork facilitators, healers, and educators wishing to enrich their personal practice and deepen the way they support others.
- Creative artists, writers, musicians, and visionaries seeking to reconnect with imagination, inspiration, and the wellspring of the creative unconscious.
- Anyone longing to live with greater presence, purpose, and trust in the unfolding journey of their own soul.
No prior experience with Jungian psychology, dream work, or shamanic journeying is necessary—only an open mind, a curious heart, and a willingness to listen deeply to the wisdom that already lives within you.
You dream your reality into being... knowingly or unknowingly ...
Embody the Power of Your Dreams brings together the depth of Jungian psychoanalysis guided by over 5 decades of field experience with Patricia Anne Elwood, and the embodied wisdom of shamanic journeying facilitated by shaman Johnson Chong.
You will learn to listen to dreams not as puzzles to solve, but as living symbolic landscapes that can guide your healing, creativity, relationships, decisions, and sense of purpose.
In Jungian psychology, dreams reveal the language of the unconscious. They show us the hidden patterns, archetypes, wounds, instincts, and unrealised possibilities moving beneath the surface of our lives.
In shamanic traditions, dreams and journeys are pathways into the unseen world, where we can meet guides, retrieve power, receive teachings, and return with medicine for ordinary life.
Together, these two approaches offer a profound way to live symbolically: to recognize that the images, myths, archetypes, and recurring patterns in our dreams are not separate from our waking life. They are invitations from the soul.
Over 4 weeks, you will explore the foundations of dream work through Jungian psychology and shamanic practice. You will discover how dreams communicate through symbol and myth, learn to recognize the archetypal forces shaping your life, and experience practices that help transform insight into embodied wisdom.
This is not a course about escaping reality. It is a course about bringing the wisdom of the dream into reality.
The Program
Yes, you will receive learning pdfs learn about Jungian psychology in relation to dream interpretation.
More than that, this online course involves you having real life experience of having your dreams worked on with LIVE participation on a weekly 2 hour zoom immersion.
Here is a snap shot of the themes of each week.
The Power of the Unconscious and the Dream World
We begin by exploring the dream as a bridge between the conscious and unconscious realms. Through Jungian psychology and shamanic cosmology, we will look at how dreams have guided cultures, leaders, healers, and initiates throughout history.
Themes include:
- Dreams in indigenous and shamanic cultures
- Anima Mundi and Spiritus Mundus
- The ego and the conscious realm
- The personal unconscious, collective unconscious, and psychoid spheres
- The four types of dreams
The Myths We Carry and the Narratives They Form
This week explores how myths are not only ancient stories, but living psychic patterns. We will investigate the cultural, familial, and personal myths that shape how we think, love, work, create, suffer, and make meaning.
Themes include:
- The myths that unconsciously drive thoughts, words, and actions
- How myths shape identity, depression, purpose, and belonging.
- The dream as a personal myth unfolding
Embodying the Archetypal Dream
Dreams do not transform us simply because we understand them. They transform us when we embody them. This week explores purification, symbolic death and rebirth, disciplined practice, and the courage required to bring dream wisdom into everyday life.
Themes include:
- Archetypes as living forces rather than abstract concepts
- Recognizing archetypal dreams
- Symbolic death and rebirth
- The body as a vessel for dream integration
- Developing personal practice that anchor dream insights in daily life
Totemism: Your Power Animal
Animals have appeared in dreams and spiritual traditions throughout human history as guardians, teachers, protectors, and mirrors of our deepest instincts. We explore totemism and the symbolic language of power animals. You will reconnect with the instinctive wisdom that modern life often asks us to ignore.
Themes include:
- Animals as archetypal symbols within dreams
- Totemism across indigenous traditions
- Power animals as expressions of instinct and vitality
- The symbolic meaning of predators, birds, serpents, insects, and mythical beings
- Reclaiming intuition through embodied relationship with the natural world
Are you ready to embody the hidden power of your dreams?
Dates of LIVE Online Course:
August 8, 15, 22, 29, 2026
Saturdays on Zoom
8:00 am – 10:00 am Geneva
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sydney
LIVE Group Tuition:
$444 AUD/ (~ 245 CHF) per person
Self Study Tuition:
$222 AUD/ (~ 125 CHF) per person
Excluding a 3% credit card transaction fee. Checkout will be priced in AUD.
Your Guides on this Journey
Patricia Elwood
Jungian Psychoanalyst
Patricia is a Jungian analyst, author and seminar leader with over 5 decades of research into the personal and collective unconscious. A post-graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, she completed her diplomas in analytical psychology for children, adolescents and adults, and now lives and practices in Lausanne, Switzerland. Patricia has taught in universities and worked across clinical and educational fields, guiding professionals from diverse disciplines in the exploration of psyche, symbol and individuation.
She has travelled the world, and had numinous initiations with the indigenous shamans of the Arctic and Siberia. She is the author of A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing, a respected work that demonstrates how spontaneous imagery and drawing can reveal archetypal patterns, release unconscious blockages and reconnect individuals to the deeper intentions of the soul.
A lifelong traveller of the inner and outer realms, Patricia’s work bridges Jungian psychology with reverence for indigenous wisdom traditions and the collective human search for wholeness. She believes that true wellness arises when the ego aligns with the deeper intention of the unconscious, allowing individuals to live creatively, consciously and in service to the greater whole. In times of transition, her work invites people onto the path of individuation — not as egoism, but as the courageous journey toward higher awareness, unity and meaningful participation in the human tribe.
Patricia is currently based in Switzerland.
Johnson Chong
Shaman, Yogi, Author, TedX Speaker
Johnson Chong is the best-selling author of Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma and creator of the SAGE Oracle Deck: A Mythic Journey through the Medicine Wheel.
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 events 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 Q’ero priests from the Andes Mountains, a Four Winds Energy Medicine Practitioner, a Spinal Energetics Practitioner, a Reiki Master and a yoga teacher of over 16 years.
He is a native New Yorker, and currently is based in Sydney, Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most dream courses teach you what symbols are supposed to mean.
This course teaches you how to listen.
By weaving together the depth of Jungian psychology with the experiential practices of shamanic journeying, you’ll learn to develop your own symbolic relationship with the unconscious. Rather than memorising universal definitions, you’ll cultivate the ability to engage your dreams as living conversations with the psyche.
The goal isn’t simply to understand your dreams.
The goal is to allow your dreams to transform the way you live.
Not at all.
This course has been thoughtfully designed for both beginners and experienced practitioners. Whether you are completely new to dream work or have spent years exploring psychology, spirituality, mythology, or personal development, you will find practical tools and profound insights that can be immediately applied to your own life.
All you need is curiosity, an open mind, and a willingness to explore the symbolic language of your dreams.
We understand that participants will be joining from many different countries and time zones.
Every session will be professionally recorded, allowing you to revisit the teachings whenever you wish.
You’ll receive:
- Lifetime access to all four class recordings
- Comprehensive PDF lecture notes and course materials
- Guided exercises and practices
- Homework designed to help you integrate the teachings into your own life
You can move through the material entirely at your own pace if attending live isn’t possible.
Yes.
Rather than teaching fixed meanings for dream symbols, this course will teach you how to develop your own symbolic language.
Through Jungian psychology and shamanic practices, you’ll begin learning how to:
- Recognise archetypal patterns
- Understand recurring dream symbols
- Work with myths and universal imagery
- Develop trust in your own intuition
- Apply dream wisdom to everyday decisions and relationships
Ultimately, this course is about empowerment—helping you cultivate a lifelong relationship with your own unconscious rather than relying on someone else to interpret your dreams.
Both.
Each week combines:
- Jungian psychology
- Mythology and symbolic teachings
- Live discussion
- Guided shamanic journeys
- Practical dream interpretation
- Experiential exercises
- Integration practices to bring dream insights into everyday life
The intention is not simply to understand dreams intellectually, but to live more consciously because of them.
This course has been created specifically for an international audience.
Participants from anywhere in the world are warmly welcome.
Live classes take place:
Saturdays
8:00 am – 10:00 am Geneva
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Sydney
If these times don’t suit your time zone, you can enrol in the self-study option and complete the course whenever it is most convenient for you.
Investment: $444 AUD (~245 CHF)
Your Live Course registration includes:
- Four live online Zoom sessions with Patricia Anne Elwood and Johnson Chong
- The opportunity to ask questions during each class
- Lifetime access to all recordings
- Downloadable PDFs and lecture notes
- Guided journeys and practical exercises
- Homework and integration practices
- Lifetime access to the course materials
Yes.
Investment: $222 AUD (~125 CHF)
If you are unable to attend the live classes, you can enrol in the self-study version of the course.
You’ll receive:
- Lifetime access to every recorded session
- All PDF course materials
- Guided practices
- Homework and reflection exercises
This option allows you to move through the course entirely at your own pace without live interactive participation with the group.
Once enrolled, you’ll receive lifetime access to all course recordings and downloadable resources.
We hope this becomes a library that you return to again and again as your relationship with dreams continues to evolve.
Due to the digital nature of the course and immediate access to the course materials, all registrations are final.
We are unable to offer refunds once enrolment has been completed.
If you have any questions before registering, please don’t hesitate to contact us at sage@johnsonchong.com—we’re happy to help you determine whether this course is the right fit.
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
Let’s keep in touch
Subscribe to the mailing list and receive the latest updates