“I was impressed by the caliber of people. I also feel like the roof of my potential and how I can grow is now higher…and you do it for your-self, but you also do it on behalf of the collective healing and evolution of humanity.”
MYSTICS
Personal & Spiritual Development
The Ultimate Approach
to
Full Spectrum Human Development & Awakening.
Personal & Spiritual Development
The Ultimate Approach to
Full Spectrum Human Development & Awakening.
Level 1
Illuminare
| The path of wisdom and brightening |
The path of wisdom and brightening
Illuminare | i-lum-in-ar-e’ | verb
To illuminate, to clarify, to brighten
Illuminare
i-lum-in-ar-e’
verb
To illuminate,
to clarify, to brighten
A 4-month online program and in-person immersion to accelerate your personal, relational
& spiritual development
THE
calling
I know you can sense it-that beckoning whisper from deep within, inviting you on a journey that’s been followed by great souls throughout history. It’s the same pull that awakened Socrates, Mother Teresa, and the Buddha, and now it’s calling you to grow and expand into the next of your development and life.
This is your invitation
This is more than just a program-it’s a transformative experience that will unlock your greater potential. Mystics empowers you into greater growth, purpose-aligned success and thriving with new depths of joy, love and spiritual presence amidst the busyness of modern life,
The next level of your personal, relational, and spiritual mastery awaits- if you feel the call, trust that it’s your time to rise. Welcome to Mystics. Your journey to human and spiritual mastery continues here.
THE
School
Mystics provides world-class training combining embodied personal development, healing and deep spiritual practice to activate the leaders who are called to help evolve humanity in co-creating a better brighter, more beautiful world for us all.
Founded
2018
retreats
21
graduates
242
THE
Benefits
Embodied Growth
Continue your embodied growth, becoming more conscious, actualizing your greater potential and thriving all throughout your life. Feel more relaxed, open, free, grounded, centered, expressive, joyful and confident in your body. Learn tools to self-regulate, have more energy, feel and release emotions and heal past trauma. It’s not just about mentally knowing it, Mystics is intentionally designed so your growth can be embodied to create lasting change and skills for a lifetime.
Better Relationships
Learn how to create rapport, deepen connection, deescalate conflict, invite openness, evoke insight and relate with much deeper presence and connection. Enhance your communication skills, while becoming more aware, curious, empathic, boundaried and accepting
with your romantic partner, friends, clients and community. Become more securely attached with those closest to you. Live with an open heart to feel more connection, joy, love and gratitude throughout your life.
Impact & Success
Reclaim your attention, reduce stress, avoid digital distraction and overcome procrastination, so you can more often be in flow states for greater creativity, productivity and success. Find the clarity, direction and inspiration to take your career to the next level in ways that are aligned with your unique purpose, positively impact our world, has you feel fulfilled and allows many to prosper.
Advanced Abilities
Learn the Jedhi skills and potent practices to embody your greater potential and activate your advanced abilities. Learn to sense, intuit, empathize, power-up, release emotion, move energy, create attraction, access wisdom, enter flow, feel the Sacred and many other extra-sensory perceptions. Learn to live from Soul and Awake Awareness rather than predominantly from mind and ego.
Spiritual Awakening
Cultivate a more consistent spiritual practice to feel more inspired, aligned, in flow and spiritually connected. Deepen devotion to your unique spiritual practice, the Divine and the Awakening process. Use the Mystics Map to clarify, accelerate and stabilize, previously glimpsed, deep states as your new baseline, ultimately stabilizing Non-Dual Awake Awareness in all moments.
THE
Tools
Energy & Embodiment Tools
Practice in specially curated energy-rich containers to discover your innate capacities and activate your greater potential as well as advanced energetic abilities. Learn embodiment tools to quickly get grounded, centered, relaxed, open-hearted, energetically open, peaceful, joyful and spiritually aligned. Learn energetic tools to sense, intuit, power-up, empathize, read emotions and energy in others, release emotion, move energy, create attraction, access wisdom, enter flow states, feel the Sacred and activate many other extra-sensory perceptions.
Emotion & Self-Regulation Tools
Self-Regulation is the ability to use your own internal resources (breath, attention, grounding, body sensing, emotional presence and awareness to regulate your own nervous system state. The Program offers several tools for downregulating into relaxation and stillness or upregulating into more open, free, energy-rich states and elevated emotional states. Our 5-step Emotional Intelligence Process allows you to become more aware, name, allow, digest and release what you are feeling. Also learn to increase your capacity to stay present with your own state and emotions in others.
Connection Tools
Mystics places a strong emphasis on real human connection, attachment styles and living with an open heart. The Program provides tools to open your heart including clearing trauma and working with psychological protectors to feel more connection, joy, love and gratitude throughout your life. Mystics also provides tools to become more accepting, open, closer, connected and securely attached including connection exercises, deeper authentic relating and adult attachment repair (AARM).
Communication Tools
Mystics uses a practice called Deep Relating, which creates a container of heightened awareness, curiosity, empathy, and acceptance, along with specific communication tools that allow much deeper presence and connection. Drawing upon Authentic Relating and a palette of advanced communication tools, in Mystics you’ll learn how to use communication to create connection, deescalate conflict, invite openness, evoke insight and relate with much deeper presence and connection.
Spiritual State Tools
Learn tools, meditations and Awareness practices to activate more subtle energy and access deeper Spiritual States. Get the Awakening Process Map to clarify and accelerate the process of accessing, then stabilizing deep states, such as Non-Dual Awake Awareness in all moments. Also learn to deepen your dedication and devotion to the Divine and your felt sense of the Sacred all throughout your life.
THE
features
Learning Labs
Mystics Learning Labs offer highly interactive learning with a potent curriculum, specially curated to support and accelerate your healing, growth and awakening. Learn the latest psychology and most practical life tools paired with ancient wisdom from the great perennial philosophy. Meet 1x monthly to deepen your wisdom and understanding as well as learn the most essential skills to activate your greater potential in becoming a more deeply embodied, connected and aware human being.
Practice Labs
Make growth fun, engaging and effective in these highly experiential Practice Labs. Meet regularly 2x’s monthly to deepen in practice together in a community of fellow Mystics in a potent energetic group field. Enjoy specially curated spiritual practices, clarify questions and receive personal guidance by Mystics facilitators
4 Day Immersion
A deeply transformative 4 day intensive of personal development and spiritual practice. A luxurious location and delicious, healthy, organic food are the backdrop for this high quality, all-inclusive Immersion. Combining powerful practices and big breakthroughs, it is innovative, experiential and surprisingly fun. It’s the heart of Mystics and you won’t go home the same.
Deep Relating
Learn the advanced skills of communication and real human connection to radically enhance your personal, romantic and business relations. Become able to have others feel seen heard and felt, by creating safety, being accepting and empathetic, and asking great questions. Also learn to embody deeper presence, energetic tracking, psychic sensing, stay present with emotion, disarm protectors to enhance awareness and create deep connection.
Developmental Assessments
What you are aware of and gets measured, lets you know what to focus on and how to consciously grow it. Discover where you are
on the map in your healing, development and awakening processes. Some think this is one of the most valuable elements of the whole program.
Online Learning Platform
Interact with other participants, share experiences and ask important developmental questions to facilitators in the Mystics online learning platform in Practice Labs and in the Group Message Forum. Also access course materials, instructional videos, guided meditations, and interactive resources for both guided and self-paced learning throughout the program.
Accountability Support
Connect and practice with your fellow Mystics and stay consistent in your practice to help transform profound states into new baseline traits. Foster a heart-felt sense of community throughout the collaborative learning experience of the Mystics Program as you deeply connect with other Mystics as Practice Partners, in online message forums, in Learning and Practice Labs and at the Immersion.
Guided Practices
Mystics Illuminare provides specially designed weekly practices to cultivate greater awareness, presence, emotional freedom, well-being and spiritual connectedness. These include guided meditations, embodiment practices, healing tools, integration exercises, self-reflection prompts and pattern interruptions to help you grow, create new habits, apply what you are learning, and embody the transformations experienced during the program.
Want To
Learn More
Are you interested in joining Mystics or curious to learn more? Schedule a call with our admissions coordinator now.
The
Graduates
Watch this video to hear graduates from the Mystics Program share their experiences. Their words can provide you with an immediate "feel for the Mystics School and the impact that our training can have.
John | Influencer
John | Influencer
“I felt called I thought there was some growth I was ready for I need to learn the skills to expand into it.”
Joe | Business Owner
Joe | Business Owner
“We’re here to experience this radiance, this afterglow and we take it home and we share it to people through our example. And they look at us and they think ‘what did you do to be that way and you just smile and let it shine through.”
Victoria | Spiritual Guide
Victoria | Spiritual Guide
“I’ve never been at this depth of feeling like of the deepness reaches of my heart and it seemed like every moment that I needed it there was somebody there. The facilitators are here to feel with you and be your partner to help you let you go deeper because you can’t do this depth kind of work alone.”
Zach | Fitness Expert
Zach | Fitness Expert
“Mystics has helped me access that I didn’t really know were even there like starting to connect to higher levels of consciousness, connect to myself, connect to Spirit and just live a more present happy and free life. I can be with anyone that I meet so so deeply and it’s incredible.”
Summer | Healer
Summer | Healer
“I really appreciate the frameworks, the clear processes and having the structure. And it’s unlocked a lot of for me in business. I think it’s important because this work is not just about healing past trauma, it’s also about creating our future and living our purpose.”
Katelyn | Physical Therapist
Katelyn | Physical Therapist
“Whatever answers you’re looking for, whatever obstacles you’re looking to be released, this container is a great space to bring your full self.”
Wendy | CFO & Boardmember
Wendy | CFO & Boardmember
“In the Mystics program I learned what presence is how to actually be present and cultivate presence. I had done meditation work and energy work prior but it was through the Mystics Program where I was able to like bring it all together and actually embody it into my life.”
Matt | Business Mastermind Leader
Matt | Business Mastermind Leader
“Mystics has helped me clear out old stuff and rather than shutting off even if it’s just a little bit which would create blockages in my system and problems for the future. They have a very systematic approach and understanding of how to be with all of that heal it, repair it, and rewire it in a very very loving compassionate present and sometimes fun and humorous way.”
ThaiHa | Influencer
ThaiHa | Influencer
“Thank you so much for helping me to open my heart. My life is so much better now I can feel people deeply and I can truly enjoy the little things and life is just so much richer with an unguarded heart.”
Shannon | Real Estate Investor
Shannon | Real Estate Investor
“I’m softer and my feminine energy is much more present. It’s easier for me to have a stronger sense of groundedness when there’s a state of overwhelm and we learned a lot about how different people deal overwhelm how I deal with my own state and then we learned really effective tools to help other people with their states.”
Drisana | Acupuncturist
Drisana | Acupuncturist
“There’s a sense of integration. It provides a powerful space to experience a deeper realization and greater sense of spaciousness Awareness and then helps us go live it in a way where I feel as though I still have my feet on the ground, I’m still connected to others and I have a deep felt sense connectedness to everything.”
Carryn | Teacher
Carryn | Teacher
“I had no clue of the range of possibilities of where I could go. The beautiful visual maps are so helpful to see ’oh I am here and I can do this next and then all the way up to there!’, and I am committed to that and want to have people and mentors in my life who inspire me to be my best actualized self.”
Amber | Psychologist
Amber | Psychologist
Our
facilitators
Allen Bittaker
Facilitator
Allen Bittaker combines a powerful physically, with an huge heart, extraordinary healing abilities and a deep well of wisdom. With a special ability to see and sense people, Dr. Allen helps empower people to discover, transform and awaken their greater potential throughout their lives and especially in their business and relationships.
He graduated from Life University and is a chiropractor by training, in addition to numerous other multi-disciplinary trainings. And Allen is particularly passionate about working with leaders who are catalyzing a new paradigm and working together to create a help evolve our world.
Summer Sheehan
Facilitator
Summer Sheehan is a highly gifted healer with an extraordinary intuition and mastery of energetics. Her personal healing journey began just after college with high anxiety and a dark depression. Not without tremendous tribulation and turmoil, she started asking deeper questions which eventually led to her healing. discovery of her gifts and the awakening process.
Over the years she has traveled the world to study, train and expand her knowledge, skills and professional credentials in healing and spiritual development. Combining her deep well of experience, multi-disciplinary training, she brings a deep devotion to being of service to humanity in helping others heal, activate their energetic abilities and awaken spiritually.
ThaiHa Sloan
Facilitator
With an original background in engineering, ThaiHa Sloan came to a point where she realized she wanted to dedicate her life’s work to her passions and making the world a better place. So, with tremendous trust she pivot her career and sought out to discover and live her purpose.
And over the past decade, with a deep curiosity for continued learning and devotion to being of service, ThaiHa has taken numerous trainings and continuing education programs. Combining all of that training plus her own unique gifts and life experience, ThaiHa offers a plethora of practical tools to help people heal and grow mentally, emotional and spiritually,
ThaiHa is a respected relationship coach, teacher and influencer specializing in relationships, healing and emotional intelligence. Born and raised in Hawaii, she currently resides in Encinitas, California with her loving partner.
Koichi Naruishi
Facilitator
Koichi Naruishi is a highly trained network chiropractor with over two decades of experience and a deep dedication to continuing education, growth and excellence in practice.
Steeped in a variety of ancient wisdom traditions and esoteric practices, he has cultivated a mastery of subtle energetics and the healing arts. He combines that rigor, perhaps from his Japanese American heritage or maybe because of depth of his own being, with an enormous heart full of joy, care and playfulness.
Early health challenges, guided Koichi, and his whole family to create major shifts in health and lifestyle. Inspired by his own direct experience of the potential to change one’s life, he has dedicated his career to being of service in helping transform the lives of his clients.
He is very passionate about setting people free from limiting patterns and beliefs, so they can feel the love and joy at the center of their being while experiencing their greater potential.
Drisana Carey
Facilitator
Drisana Carey has a laugh that lights up a room and a joie de vive that is highly contagious. She is a licensed acupuncturist L.AC, DIPL.O.M. who studied at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine after an undergraduate degree atSyracuse University where she played collegiate volleyball.
In addition to being a highly skilled traditional Chinese medical doctor, she is an accomplished yogini and yoga teacher, model, Zen tea ceremonial server, trail runner, touring cyclist, foodie and cultural connoisseur. Along with her dynamism and joyfulness, she brings a radical compassion that inspires and empowers, while at the same some relaxes and frees you to be your authentic self.
Johnny Blackburn
Founder & Facilitator
Johnny Blackburn is a contemporary mystic and a well-respected authority on human development, embodiment and the Spiritual Awakening process. He is the founder and director of Mystics, with
Master’s Degree in Psychology and more than 10,000+ client-coaching hours counseling individuals and couples, and hundreds of hours of leading groups since 2010.
Johnny serves as a catalyst for activating leaders, who them activate their own clients and communities, creating a ripple effect of positive change. His work serves as a bridge between the perennial spiritual insights of wisdom traditions throughout the ages with the leading psychological research on adult human development and the upper reaches of human potential.
THE
community
A developmental dojo for the 21st century to embody
& awaken your greater human & spiritual potential.
& awaken your greater human & spiritual potential.
Want To
Learn More
Are you interested in joining Mystics or curious to learn more? Schedule a call with our admissions coordinator now.
THE
FAQ
Here are some answers to our frequently asked questions
How many time
year is this offer?
year is this offer?
If you are reading this now you are probably someone with great potential and significant opportunities. You are likely a bright Soul who knows there’s more to this whole thing than the conventional pursuits of more pleasure and avoiding pain.
Maybe you are someone who is high-functioning, really values growth and peak performance, and wants elite level support to accelerate your development and potential even further and faster.
When are the
group calls?
group calls?
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How many hours
per week can i expect ?
per week can i expect ?
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Can i do this with partner or friend ?
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Is there 1 - 1 coach available?
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Is there payment
plan available?
plan available?
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Will this work for
me?
me?
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What if i dont want
to share with the group?
to share with the group?
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