The entire retreat so sacred, fun and transformational. I have honestly struggled with yoga and breathwork for years, and I am a yoga instructor. So, coming here and having a sacred place to go into deep practices, opened me up as a teacher and as a human. I feel more comfortable in my skin than I have ever felt in my life. If I had to summarise this retreat in one word it would be ‘pause.’ I finally have paused in my life, and I almost 48 years old, and I don’t think I’ve ever taken a pause to reflect on myself and to love myself this much.

It’s something that he does where he gets into your mind that helps you move better through your body. The morning cleansing ritual was interesting at first, but then it became something that I wanted to do every single day. The purification process actually brought up everything that needed to get out at the moment. It’s powerful in so many ways because you’re connecting to yourself. This is all about you. Johnson’s just the facilitator in helping you to find you and bringing out what needs to come out. He is very gifted.

What I discovered about myself is how much fear I had before coming here, but also how much strength and tenacity I have in going through this journey to let go of my fears and old beliefs. This journey has been transformative. It has been magical and heartfelt.

The shamanic journeys were extremely profound. I had a lot of soul revelations and true connection with Spirit. I feel Johnson is truly a channel to the spirit world, and his presence there is so much stronger than me doing it on my own. It was beyond my wildest dreams. What surprised me about this retreat was the connections with the people in the group. I feel like I have made friends from all over the world. Each person in the group contributed their own unique energy, and we all have a really special connection now.

It’s been a very uplifting and invigorating experience. I don’t think it’s something that you can explain to anybody unless they go through it themselves. I think that it’s important for each person in the world to experience because this is a journey on understanding where you come from – to connect to your inner self and to understand your mission for the future.

What felt really healing to me was that Johnson was able to provide the space and the compassion for me to let go of the family ancestry that was so abusive, without telling me how to do it, but allowing me to find mine own way of doing it. He has a beautiful of not pushing you into something you’re not ready for, and letting you find it on your own because no one can heal you but yourself.

What I love about Bali is the culture and the people. As soon as you land, you sense the sincerity and the authenticity of the people because they look you in the eyes and they smile with their eyes. I’ve worked with Johnson intensely for about one year. I would call this a healing retreat. We all have healing to do and are on different points of the spectrum. We all have the same pain and suffer from the same traumas, and Johnson creates the safest container. He’s just so gentle, yet firm and so wise.

We did this fabulous trek up to Tiger’s Nest. I had this injury where I couldn’t walk down, and somebody carried me for half the way down and then found me a horse. When we tried to thank these people, they said, ‘it was our honour.’ You saw the real base of generosity and compassion that people had, and the unconditional pleasure they got from doing things for other people. That was a very moving experience.

I’m on the most incredible spiritual journey with Johnson. We have done so many amazing things, rafting down the river, going to monasteries and temples. I would highly do this all over again. We did a number of workshops everyday, and shamanic journeys which I had never done before. You actually feel the energy through your body, that Spirit has come into you that made me feel at one with nature and the world.

We have been here in Bhutan for 10 days doing daily yoga and shamanic journeys, hiking in the mountains and visiting temples. The place is magical and very beautiful. I came here with no specific things in mind, but through the different journeys and the mystical places we went to, I learned a lot about myself – the attachments I had, my fears and my personality. This has been enlightening for me, because I feel more free.