MATT JOHNSON
BODYWORKER
SOUND HEALER
SOMATIC THERAPIST
SHAMANIC PRACTITIONER
PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION COACH
WHOLE HUMAN HEALING
Matt is a multidisciplinary healer who weaves ancient shamanic wisdom, spiritual traditions, and modern scientific research and music into a uniquely integrative approach. Matt brings an intuitive presence and profound insight to the space he holds for healing, no matter where you are arriving from.
Matt is a passionate teacher who believes in empowering people with tools to heal, grow, and evolve under their own power. He teaches that our “growth edge” often emerges in discomfort, and that working skillfully with this edge can transform our relationship to our suffering. By offering subtle consciousness-shifting practices, he invites clients to reclaim their healing process and expand their capacity for life.
His holistic method looks beyond symptoms to explore lifestyle, movement, and emotional history, uncovering root causes of dysfunction. Treatments may include a blend of bodywork, myofascial release, sound healing, shamanic tools, guided breathwork, and counseling techniques. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, he works to harmonize the entire body-mind-spirit system, guiding clients to reconnect to their innate healing intelligence, and their highest expression of self.
Matt's playful spirit supports exploring our relationship to pain without forgetting joy in the healing and growth process. His background in competition climbing instilled in him the power of play as a teacher, and the importance of laughter as medicine, especially when facing fear or discomfort. He believes that reconnection to joy is one of the most powerful foundations for both initial healing and sustained growth. His sessions are more than treatments—they are ceremonies of reconnection.
SOMATIC THERAPY
Matt is a certified Trauma Informed Therapist through Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training.
Our trauma and emotion is not stored solely in the mind, your body holds a vivid emotional memory connected to every story in your life.
This modern and deeply humanizing approach to counselling emphasizes a deep reconnection to the wisdom contained within our body, beyond the story of our lives. While we may be conscious of the challenging experiences in our lives, we often divorce from the emotional and embodied experience of those memories to survive. When we disconnect, the pain doesn't leave, it lives on, trapped in the body and burdening our unconscious mind. In Somatic Therapy we explore, reprocess and integrate your relationship to your lived experiences, traumatic events, family and culture.
Through reconnecting to the language of the body, we understand our emotions and behavior differently. Depression, anxiety, addiction, insomnia, chronic pain and burn out can all begin to heal by releasing them from the body. Breathwork, IFS informed Parts Work, sound healing, and bodywork tools may be used in support of our exploration.
When we become conscious of our pains influence on our mind, our body, our behavior, and our emotion we are empowered to live life fully in the present, and begin healing. Become conscious and empowered in your struggle, transcend victimhood and reclaim your highest expression of self.
Matt offers in person counselling sessions in studio , and nature in Squamish, BC, or virtually wherever you are .
BODYWORK
Bodywork is a dynamic experience of deep tissue release and whole body reconnection. Lifestyle choices, sport specific strength, repetitive training, work postures, and injuries all cement themselves into our tissues over time. Unprocessed stress and emotion often manifests as trapped and persistent pain in the body.
Bodywork takes an active approach to helping you explore where pain lives in your body. This beautiful approach emphasizes deep tissue muscle release in conjunction with a powerful rewiring of your central nervous system. Matt guides you in exploring movement and dynamic postures simultaneous to muscle and myofascial releases. Throughout the session you are lead through an active and dynamic treatment process that releases tension in the body, reconnects mind, and releases trapped nervous system energy with powerful precision. Together, we co create a clear, optimized and fresh relationship to your body-mind. We rebuild your minds relationship to the entire network of your body, rather than just treating the pain locally.
Unlike more conventional approaches to treatment, Bodywork asks that you move in session to explore, and understand the messages your body communicates on a deeper level. Bodywork is a profoundly impactful way to reconnect to your whole body-mind system. Reclaim communication and control of your long suffering tissues and move through your world with new ease.
Some Body Language services can be submitted to your benefits, contact us for more information.
PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION COACH
Integration refers to the unique and personal approaches that support us processing, grounding, understanding and making life long use of what we've experienced with psychedelics.
Psychedelic experiences can be beautiful, healing, and sometimes challenging. We offer a safe, compassionate and empathetic space to process and explore your experience. We are well trained, deeply experienced guides who are well versed in the mechanisms and experiences of psyhchedelics.
With trainings from Vancouver Island Universities Psychedelic Assisted Therapy program, and Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry, we weave the mind, body and spirit through the fabric of your journey in a way that helps deepen the lasting meaning of your experiences. We support the spiritual and Shamanic dimensions of your experience through our training and apprenticeship in the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition.
We honor the wisdom of your inner healer by encouraging a curious approach to understanding what's within you. We re-explore your experience using somatic techniques, bodywork, sound healing and Shamanic breathwork tools for deeply embodied understanding. An IFS informed approach to "Parts Work" facilitates emotional reprocessing, helping expand our perspective on our experience of self and integrate the various aspects of our personality that can emerge through ones Psychedelic journey.
We offer support with education in harm reduction best practices before a journey, and can offer nuanced guidance with making sense of what you've experienced during a journey in a way that supports you living a more balanced and integrated life.
If you've had a psychedelic experience that continues to challenge you, or need support with preparation for an upcoming Medicine Journey , we can help.
SOUND HEALING
Sound healing leads us to a place of stillness where we can reduce stress, calm the mind and restore balance.
This ancient practice has been used for centuries, offering powerful benefits for the entire body. Through sound vibrations, we relax the body and mind by shifting natural frequencies, clearing energetic blockages, and supporting healing on both emotional and physical levels.
We are constantly vibrating at different frequencies, influenced by our thoughts, feelings and actions. When we experience stress or hold onto trauma, our natural vibrations fall out of balance, leading to physical and emotional distress and often resulting in the projection of negative energy. Sound touches us at a cellular level, expanding our thoughts and awareness while supporting both mental and physical well-being.
We work with a mixture of Voice, Didgeridoo, Drone Flutes, Native American Flutes, Hulusi, Fujara, Chimes, Tibetan Bowls, Chimes, Crystal Bowls, Shruti Box, Tanboor, Balalaika, rattles and drums create a rich tapestry that soothes the nerves, softens tissue, expands the mind, and enriches spirit.
Shamanic tools compliment the Soundscape and help create a natural and beautifully harmonized sacred space for your healing process.
Restore the balance and harmony between your body, mind and spirit through a sound healing ceremony.
SHAMANIC CEREMONY
Shamanic Ceremony supports deep healing and transformation. We work with earth medicines of Plants, Herbs and Attars to reconnect you to the medicine within your heart. Breathwork, Meditation, and Sound Tools support a deep exploration of your inner world.
We are Shamanic practitioners, and Mesa Carriers of the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition. This ancient lineage holds the vibrant cultural and spiritual wisdom of the Andean peoples and has been brought to the western world to support the evolution of our species' consciousness, and reconnection to our earth.
We believe you are the medicine. We trust the guidance and wisdom of your inner healer to release trapped energy, unwind behavioral patterns that no longer serve you, and support expansion into higher consciousness. Ceremonial work can have a transformative impact on our perspective of self, in our relationships, and our place in the world.
We offer Ceremony for individuals, couples and groups. Contact us for more information about the kind of ceremony that will support your healing process.
We are the earth,
What surrounds us, is us.
It shapes us, as we shape it.
CERTIFICATIONS, TRAINING, EXPERIENCE
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Adaptive Bodywork & Myofascial Release (Montreal)
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Physiotherapy Mentorship (PTSW + Connect Therapy)
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Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training (Trauma Informed Therapy)
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Counselling, Psychology, Somatic Experiencing , Consciousness Studies
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20 Years Coaching experience, including Canadian National Climbing Team
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Sound Healing & Ceremonial Music (Multi-Instrumentalist)
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Shamanic Healing Practices & Tools via Pachakuti Mesa Tradition
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Guided Breathwork Facilitation
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Athletic Training & Performance Coaching certifications AGATSU and ISSA