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12/01/2026

🪞Yesterday’s Shamanic Breathwork Journey through the Smoky Mirror was a powerful one. Emotional release, clarity, nervous system openings, past life gifts, tracking ancestral threads, and revealing truth beneath old narratives.

Deep gratitude to my soul brother for coming down all the way from the Sunshine Coast to serve his frequency medicine. And to my heart felt assistant facilitators , & Justine Adler for their hands on energetic assists to support the group process. And big thanks to for capturing the vulnerable and ineffable.

The shamanic process is a journey that is involves lots of willingness to step beyond the veil of dense illusions. And the transformation happens not through analysis, but through feeling the full spectrum of your lived experience and turning that into embodied action.

Next journey is Feb 15 with live cellist. .

Early bird ends Jan 26. COMMENT “Feb 15” for the registration details. (You get a homework email week before the process, so sign up early)

31/12/2025

was looking back through my diary month by month as I reflect on 2025, and what a year it’s been. I ushered it in Scotland, then drove down to Glastonbury to make sacred offerings at what’s often called the heart chakra of the planet. A powerful way to begin.

Looking back now, 2025 feels long and layered, timelines overlapping, waves within waves. While many have described this year as “negative,” that doesn’t quite fit for me. Intense, yes. Initiatory, absolutely.

As I reflect on this year of the Snake that demanded the shedding of old skins, identities, and ways of being that no longer serve, I look at my wins and celebrate them. For me, that shedding arrived on many levels. I left my 30s, and something palpable released. Old patterns of FOMO, striving, and external validation dissolved in a very embodied way.

In March, I gathered friends in Bali for my 40th, sharing deeply mystical healing experiences and sacred ceremony. I facilitated retreats in Singapore, Bhutan, Peru, and the Blue Mountains, witnessing profound collective shedding, grief, and rebirth. What surprised me most was how my own capacity to hold space evolved. Dense energies no longer stuck to me how they once did.

I returned home to New York, spent precious time with my siblings in the Catskills, and led a powerful shamanic breathwork ceremony in the city. I then spent five weeks in Peru receiving further initiations, before guiding a retreat in the Sacred Valley and witnessing extraordinary transformation.

Alongside all of this, I collaborated with brilliant musicians, and am nearly complete with my 6 track breathwork album and my SAGE Oracle Deck.

Looking back, I feel deep gratitude for the uncomfortable shedding that allowed me to stretch the way I can be of service - with more grace and less effort.

Thank you, 2025, for the great skin peel.
I step into 2026 excited for more travel, adventure, and shared healing. I am deeply grateful for everyone who has walked this journey with me. 🤍🙏🌈

19/12/2025

🌀 Comment “11:11” and I’ll send you the details for this journey on Jan 11, 2026

11:11 isn’t just a moment to wish for more — it’s a moment to pause and check the lens you’re seeing life through.
Because when perception is clouded, even the strongest manifesting energy can amplify confusion instead of clarity.
So much of what we call “truth” is actually reaction — shaped by old stories, inherited fears, and collective wounds that were never given space to settle. When those narratives go unquestioned, the world starts to feel like a constant tug-of-war… and the nervous system stays on high alert.
✨ Through the Smokey Mirror is a Shamanic Breathwork Journey designed to slow everything down — to help you clear the internal fog, soften rigid perspectives, and remember what it feels like to live from coherence rather than defense.
This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about letting go of what’s no longer true.
When the body feels safe enough to exhale, insight arrives naturally. And beneath all the noise, what’s left is simple:
Love is the baseline.

#1111

15/12/2025

Yesterday, we had our last shamanic breathwork journey of the year where the group went into deep vulnerable release.

Shortly after, some workshop participants returned home to scenes of terror with a mass shooting that targeted the Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah celebrations in Bondi.

Friends who lived across the park witnessed people gunned down in front of them. Co-facilitators Eugenia and Jonathan were at the water when the shots rang out. I was with friends nearby hoping to catch the sunset, delayed by making a quick house stop.

We are all affected by this — whether in the proximity or not.

This moment has shaken our collective sense of safety, belonging and trust.

What actually unfolded in the workshop earlier that day now feels deeply symbolic. Almost immediately, the room openly expressed raw grief, rage, tears, blood curdling screams that felt ancient.

NO ONE LEFT. EVERYONE STAYED. The room held each other in the full spectrum of human emotion — the mad,sad glad and everything in between.

This is the medicine we need right now as a collective.

To stay present in intensity.
To feel without collapsing or hardening.
To move emotion through the body rather than store it.
To hold one another — especially our vulnerable Jewish community most impacted by targeted hate.

Yoga classes are cancelled in Bondi today. However, if you are longing for connection and healing, please come to yoga tonight at in Surry Hills at 4:30 p - 5:30 p or 5:45 p - 7 p.

May we become beacons of steadiness and compassion.
May we remember that even in the darkest moments, love is the thread that re-weaves what has been torn.

🤍🕯️🕎

09/12/2025

✨Comment ‘Peru’ to get the application for the July 22-30, 2026 Shamanic Expansion container.

Many retreats promise rest, reset, and nervous system repair. Those are important—but this goes deeper.

This is not about patching up exhaustion.

It is about breaking up with the outdated version of yourself, so your soul can expand its energy field and align with its true abundance.

Because when your energy field evolves—

You attract aligned relationships, opportunities, and experiences.

You embody vitality that no supplement can provide.

You no longer chase abundance—you radiate it.

This is sacred work … a rite of passage into your next chapter.

THIS RETREAT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.

It is for the leader, the high achiever, the coach, the visionary who:

✨Has built success on the outside but feels numb inside.

✨Is exhausted not from doing too much, but from being too much of what they no longer are.

✨Hears the whisper: “There’s more. You’re not meant to live this way anymore.”

✨Is ready to break old energy patterns and step into a new rhythm of being.

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24/11/2025

Yesterday’s Shamanic Breathwork Journey tugged at our hear strings with and assisted by , &

On Dec 14 12 - 3 pm we gather again — this time under a Scorpio Moon, with Mars square Neptune opening the veil between your body, your lineage, and the invisible realms.

This is the kind of astrology that doesn’t just stir your emotions…
It pulls you into the truth beneath them.

And yes — the cello returns to activate the vagus nerve, softens the limbic system, and opens the emotional body so your system can finally release what words alone can’t reach.

If you’re ready to say goodbye to 2025 and…

• Release old pain the mind understood but the body never had permission to feel.
• Rebalance your capacity to receive by letting go of the compulsion to hold everyone else.
• Reclaim expression, voice, boundaries, needs, truth.
• Stay in the body, not the mind — healing happens through sensation, not logic.
• Rewrite family lineage contracts, and the pressure to become who others needed you to be.
• Take your rightful place to feel worthy of having what your heart truly desires.

Dec 14 will continue this work — deeper, slower, wiser.

Comment “CELLO” and I’ll DM you the ticket details.

17/11/2025

🌑 Jupiter Retrograde in Cancer: The Descent has Begun

If life has felt heavy, emotional, or strangely fated lately… you’re not alone.
Jupiter—the planet of expansion and truth—is moving backward through Cancer, pulling us into the emotional underworld we’ve avoided.

This isn’t expansion upward.
It’s expansion downward — into buried feelings, old roles, inherited pain, and the truths we’ve tried to keep “peacefully” hidden.

In Andean shamanism, descent is never punishment.
It’s an initiation.

Like Inkahuascar, the Andean keeper of the Underworld, this transit asks:
What needs to be unearthed so you can finally breathe again?

✨To read the full blog, comment “Jupiter”

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21/10/2025

There are places on Earth where you feel a palpable charge of the divine moving through all things.

🐉Join Dr. Karma, holistic healer and myself in Bhutan May 28 – June 4, 2026 for the Awaken Spirit Retreat, a sacred 8-day journey through the Land of the Thunder Dragon.

Anchored in Buddhist and shamanic traditions, this is a portal into reconnecting with your true essence, and rediscovering the clarity of your soul.

🕊️ Early Bird — Save $500 USD ends Nov 1
Includes a 90-min Human Design Energy Blueprint Coaching Session to help you align with your unique path before the journey even begins.

Travel with a shaman, a healer and a monk.

An intimate group of only 12 journeyers.

🪶Comment ‘BHUTAN’ for info & registration details.

20/10/2025

🪶Comment ‘JOURNEY’ to get more details.

This past weekend we were hosted by ’s in Bondi and the energy was electric.

We are doing it again, the next one Nov 23rd 11-1:30 pm Sunday at the new in Surry Hills.

This is not your typical breathwork process. This is a sacred ceremony to connect with your Spirit guides.

🎻Soundscapes and live cello by and assisted by

Early bird ends Nov 1st.

Space is limited.

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16/10/2025

You’ve done some inner work — the therapy, the coaching, the mindset rewiring.
But mental understanding isn’t the same as embodied transformation.

True integration means feeling the wisdom in your body — not just thinking it.
It’s where insight becomes movement, breath, voice, and lived truth.

My Shamanic Expansion Mentorship in Sydney, Australia is your bridge from concept to embodiment. Through breath, energy medicine, and the Andean Medicine Wheel, you’ll learn to live your soul’s wisdom in real time — grounded, open, and fully alive.

🌀 Comment “EXPANSION” and I’ll send you the info + application link.

15/10/2025

Your breath is the bridge between Spirit and body.

🌬️Join me Oct 18 | 2–4:30 PM at the studio of the wonderful in North Bondi joined by on sound, and & on hands on assisting. We are going on a Shamanic Breathwork Journey through the Andean Medicine Wheel — with live sound healing to guide you into vision, embodiment & authentic release, so you can step into a truer alignment with your highest expression.

Comment “WORKSHOP” for the reg link.

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What I believe and know wholeheartedly is that in order to change the world…

We must change our lack-based and fear-based beliefs to ones that are anchored in truth, wisdom and freedom.

Yes, it all sounds very idealistic and almost unattainable in a world that is full of so much abuse, trauma, corruption and hatred, but I trust and know that compassion, love and joy are waiting to be rediscovered on the other side of confusion.

My deepest raison d'être is to help you breakthrough the mental and emotional blocks that gets in the way of you feeling whole.

In the domino game of consciousness, your loss is my loss and your gain is my gain. We are all intimately and intricately connected in this tremendous and turbulent play called Life.

And I am on a mission to guide, awaken and empower those who hear the call within.

Are you ready to free yourself from yourself and to embody the freedom that your heart so yearns for?