10 Day Shamanic Healing Retreat
July 11-20, 2025
in the Sacred Valley of Peru
with Shaman, TedX Speaker Johnson Chong
& Guest Q'ero Healers of the Andes Mountains
Become the Medicine that you Seek in the Sacred Valley ...
During the 10-day Shamanic Healing Retreat in Peru, you will be on a life changing journey to meeting your healed and most empowered self.
Imagine going through years of therapy in 10 days in an accelerated journey that taps into deep healing wisdom from the Andean tradition.
You will have the chance to heal your deepest blocks and expand into your highest potential, all while advancing your life mission in powerful ways. The best part is you get to do this in a supportive community of conscious peers in a co-creative experience.
If you’ve been on a spiritual quest, but haven’t found your ‘aha’ healing moment or purposeful calling click in for you, this retreat is for you. We’ll take you from the crossroads you’re at, to the dream that your heart is truly desiring on the other side.
Author, TedX speaker and shaman Johnson Chong, alongside a team of powerful indigenous healers will immerse you in sacred plant medicine healing ceremonies, energy healings, blessings in ancient ruins, energetic upgrades, various healing workshops, yoga and shamanic breathwork and so much more.
These experiences are all designed to help you release the energetic blocks that are keeping you from connecting to your innermost desires, so that your soul can shine through the life you were born to live.
Throughout your journey, you’ll be well taken care of with a pre-travel orientation call to clarify travel logistics. Post retreat, you will also get an integration call to help you stay accountable when you return home.
Who this is for...
This retreat is for:
- Those who have dreamt about Peru, or are intuitively called to explore the ancient healing traditions of this land.
- Those who are courageous to do the deep inner work to uncover the truth behind what is blocking them from deeper connection.
- Spiritual seekers who are still seeking on their journey towards Truth, Wisdom and Love.
- Individuals who know they have a higher calling, and need more clarity and insight into how to manifest it.
- You feel called to explore sacred plant medicines in a safe, legal and supportive environment.
- People at the precipice of a life-changing event and need guidance to move through the challenge.
- Individuals who feel are called to reclaim their innermost essence.
- People who are ready to awaken to their True Self and walk into their new life feeling completely free.
- A true and unbreakable connection with your authentic self.
- All the courage you need to take actions and make long lasting change in your life.
- A better understanding of your higher calling and become more purposeful in everything that you are.
- A stronger spiritual connection and routine to practice in your day to day.
- A resolve where you can weather any storm such that all negative people and situations will flow like water off a duck’s back.
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 the age of 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
- 9 Yoga Workshops
- 6 Shamanic Breathwork Journey Sessions
- 1 Ayahuasca Plant Medicine Ceremony
- 2 Huachuma Cactus Plant Medicine Ceremonies
- Temazcal Sweat Lodge healing ceremony
- Q'ero Q'olluryikuy Blessing Ceremony
- Fire Ceremony
- Support from a highly experienced trauma informed shaman and facilitator
- Transport to local sacred sites
- Surprises
- All Vegetarian Meals (Breakfast, Lunch &
Dinner)
- Tea & Snacks
- Private Boutique Accomodation nestled under a Sacred Mountain in the Valley
- Connect with amazing spiritual 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 Yoga
Ayahuasca Plant Ceremony
San Pedro Cactus Ceremony
Shamanic Breathwork Journeys
Temazcal Sweat Lodge
Sacred Site Rituals
Q'ero Healings
Delicious Vegetarian Meals
Retreat Dates
For custom dates please send an inquiry to sage@johnsonchong.com
Have your ever gone on a trip
that forever changed your life?
Travel is a powerful gateway to personal growth, and when you venture to one of the world’s most sacred places, guided by exceptional healers and engaging with ancient traditions and sacred plant medicine, true magic can unfold.
The aim of this retreat to offer a life-altering initiation into traditional healing practices with sacred plant medicine, Andean wisdom in the stunning backdrop of Peru—all within a nurturing and safe environment.
Deep healing will be integrated with contemporary wisdom in a heart-centered container. You will remember your authentic Self while expanding your heart to receive the vision for the most empowered version of who you are.
We are moving into an era where victimhood and the lower vibration of fear cannot be our main operating system.
As we ascend to a higher level of consciousness, old destructive narratives will crumble and the sage sapien will emerge. One who is truly connected to the spirit of compassion and unconditional love.
To be human means you have faced challenges like everyone else. To be a sage human means you have developed the skills and made the choice to compost those old wounds into gifts and to be in service to humanity.
It’s time to let go of the old, and step into your destiny.
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.
Justino & Raul Apaza
Ayahuasquero & Huachumero (Plant Medicine Shaman)
Saul was born in the rural community of Ccapacchapi in the district of Pitumarca, Canchis province in Peru. He is part of a long lineage of Pacha Illa (Light of the Universe) spiritual masters.
His lineage traces back to his maternal grandmother, of which the records of the Pacha Illa masters in his family have been lost. Through many years of teachings from his family, and also direct teachings by working with the Spirit of Mother Ayahuasca and Father Huachuma, he has become a master bridge between the invisible world of Spirit and the human world.
Since he was 18, he has been healing people from illnesses where the root cause was not visible to the Western scientific eye. Through the power of icaros, which are powerful healing songs channeled through the spirit of the plants and passed on through his lineage, he is able to use sound as a bridge to transform the density of all the issues that come before him.
As a Pacha Illa lineage holder, he walks the path of the Earthkeeper and holds all those who come before him as dear and sacred.
Justino & Raul Apaza
Pampa Mesayoq Paqo (Q’ero shamans)
Justino & Raul Apaza are the sons 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. Their 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.
Justino and Raul work 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.
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
This retreat is powerful in so many ways because you are connecting with yourself. This is all about you. Johnson is just the facilitator to help you find you, and to bring out what needs to come out. It’s quite fascinating. He is very gifted.
Dina Levy
Sydney, Australia
Accommodations
During this retreat you’ll be staying in either triple share, twin share or a private room in little casitas or villas on the a lush green retreat grounds, with plenty of pockets of private space to nestle in if you need alone time to write or process. There is also a world class spa, swimming pool and jacuzzi on the retreat grounds nestled in the mountains of the sacred valley.
Are you ready to drop into the most life changing ceremonies?
Dates:
July 11 – 20, 2025
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 22 participants.
• Triple Share $2500
• Twin Share $3500
• Private Room $4500
A $500 USD non-refundable deposit is required to hold your spot.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are only 22 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.
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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