Workshop:
Shamanic Breathwork: Expanding 4 States of Consciousness
Transform your body. Transform your Consciousness.
This is a safe place to experience what your nervous system and energy body has forgotten is possible.
Join shaman, author and TedX Speaker Johnson Chong on a 3 hour shamanic breathwork journey workshop with a team of heart-led space holders.
*** You will get a prep email a week before the event with more d etails.
About This Workshop...
You don’t need to force transformation.
Sometimes, you simply need an experience profound enough to remind your body that another way of being exists.
For three hours…
the noise quiets.
The armor softens.
Old emotions shift.
Forgotten parts return.
Not because you’re escaping yourself.
Because you’re finally meeting yourself.
This workshop isn’t designed to heal everything.
That would be entirely immature and foolish to believe so.
It serves as a key to open a doorway to what is possible.
The shamanic breathwork journey is like opening a window of an old house.
You breathe in fresh air.
You look out with new eyes and an expanded perspective.
Many people have never experienced what it feels like to be free from the patterns they have carried for years.
During this workshop, you may discover that anxiety actually isn’t really part of your identity.
That people-pleasing isn’t your true nature.
That the natural intelligence of your body knows how to feel safe again.
Perhaps, one breakthrough moment won’t completely overhaul your life.
However, it can become the beginning of a new way forward, if you let it.
Please bring:
-Journal and Pen
- Water Bottle
- Mat Set Up
- Dress Comfortably for Movement
Every stage of the shamanic process represents an identity you've outgrown
South - Serpent
Let go of old wounds and survival patterns that are bound in the body as trapped energy in the form of tension in the muscles, tissue, organs and bones.
West - Puma
Meet the emotions that you've been trying to outrun. When you can safely feel the truth of what is bubbling under the surface, you become more unapologetically you.
North - Hummingbird
When inherited stories lose their hold on you, you regain inner wisdom and clarity that will motivate a new way forward.
East - Condor
Tap into immense joy and freedom by connecting to expanded perspectives that are beyond logic and fear.
What You Will Gain...
Release Stress & Anxiety
Release stress that can potentially cause disease in your organs. Research from the International Journal of Stress Management highlights the effectiveness of breathwork in lowering stress hormones while enhancing your health and well-being.
Release Blocks & Traumas
Past participants have reported they have had more release in one session than in 5 years of talk therapy. The body is an archive of your emotional patterns. Studies published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology demonstrate the therapeutic effects of shamanic ritual and healing practices.
Connect to Inner Freedom
Purpose, Truth, Love, Wisdom, Freedom, Joy. These are some of the qualities that are your birthright to feel. If you can free your mind, body and heart, you will be able to access these states regularly.
Reconnect to Your Purpose
The heart's biomagnetic field is 100 times stronger than the brain. When you are able to unlock the energy of your emotions and utilize them correctly, you will unlock a new blueprint towards your higher purpose.
You know this work is calling you if...
- you understand yourself intellectually, but your body still responds from old fear patterns.
- you're ready to reconnect with a deeper part of yourself that goes beyond the daily stresses, expectations and responsibilities.
- you're ready for an experience to help you move beyond the stories, emotions or beliefs that have shaped you negatively.
- you feel something within you is looking to be released, whether it's grief, emotional overwhelm, self-doubt, inherited family patterns or old identities that no longer fit.
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- you're standing at a crossroads. Perhaps a relationship, career, life transition, or spiritual awakening has shown you that the life you've been living no longer reflects who you're becoming.
- you're curious about expanded states of consciousness is a safe, grounded and integrated way, facilitated in a safe container.
SUN AUG 18th at Rare Studios
16 Foster St Surry Hills, Sydney 2nd Fl
1:30 - 4:30 pm
*** 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.
Eugenia Kromerinsky
Assistant factilitator
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 factilitator
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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