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Mystics

Brighten Immersion

Jan 25th - Jan 28th

MYSTICS

activation

MAY 24th 6pm - MAY 28th 6pm

You have probably done

a lot of inner work and

as a result you might be

relatively more self-aware

and open than you used to be.. 

You have probably done a lot of inner work and as a result you might be relatively more self-aware and open than you used to be.

And yet still
some part of you senses there is more…

more of your past that can be released to clear out space so you can be filled, fueled and lived by

more inspiration
more freedom
more thriving
more love
more joy

Now, this is where most people stop. They get stuck in always chasing more or distracted by the shiny pleasures of living the good life and enjoying it just for themselves.

Others subconsciously dampen themselves so they don’t shine too brightly or slow their process so as to not outgrow loved ones.

As a result most people will not experience their full potential or the true magic that Life has waiting for them.

This doesn’t have to be your story. Because if you are reading this now, you are probably someone who sees through these pitfalls and seductors.

You don’t want to stop, hold yourself back or dim your light just because others are afraid or don’t quite know what to make of you now.

You know this whole thing is about something much greater and that you are destined for something much greater.

Yes you, and we, want to thrive all throughout our lives while being deeply loving, open, joyful and free humans. But we also know, it is not just about us.

Mystics

This is for the ones who want to unlock your advanced abilities.

This is for you who are here to fully open, releasing any past patterns or clearing anything that clouds you from shining as brightly as possible fully & freely expressing yourself living with greater passion & joy expanding your span of compassion and deepening your capacity to love.

Yes, this is for you, for you who want to use your unique gifts to inspire and empower others while being living exemplars contributing to a better. brighter and more beautiful world.

What

MYSTICS

MYSTICS

Brighten Immersion

San Diego, CA

Personal & Spiritual Development

A beautiful secluded location paired with delicious healthy local organic food are the backdrop for a high quality, deeply transformative immersion. Combining powerful practices in a Presence-rich field with big breakthroughs and real human connection, Mystics Retreats are highly experiential, expansively opening and surprisingly fun.

When

SAT JAN 25th 9am — TUE JAN 28th 6pm

Where

a luxurious retreat center in the beautiful hills of Temecula, California

Deeply transformative personal development, spiritual practice and real human connection.

Would You Like To Come?

Join us for a fun, connective, energy-rich & expansively opening day. Register now to secure your tickets; the last 5 retreats have sold out.

Tickets Remaining: 8
Maximum Capacity: 45

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Remaining Tickets: 8 Max Capacity: 45
REGISTER NOW

Would You Like To Come?

Join us for a fun, connective, energy-rich & expansively opening Immersion.

Register now

The

TESTIMONIALS

TESTIMONIALS

How are the events?

Watch and listen to others’ experiences.
Carryn-Mills

“I felt really met. To be given that kind of reflection, with a depth of presence in offering a sense of understanding and reflecting back to me my own gifts in a way that they can come into fruition and then further expand is a really special gift.”

Carryn | Teacher

Amber-Rochelle

“As a psychologist I'm picky about who I work with.  But, I love how much work he's done on himself; it's very evident. I respect people who've walked the path and done the work because you can feel it. He's so loving and he's so present. His attunement to what's actually happening with you is incredible.”  

Amber | Psychologist

Drisana Carey

“There's another level of vision that he has, like he can see what you don't know that you don't know and he helps to illuminate at the right time in a very skilled way help to bring that to the light and then hold the space for the revelations to unfold.”

Drisana | Acupuncturist

Shannon-Lee

“There's so many layers to Johnny's coaching, he's such an expert at human development.  He just has this amazing ability to help you to become the best version of yourself and to develop a path to get you there.”

Shannon | Real Estate Investor

Matt-Hersh

“He helped me to tune into myself, find what was actually blocking me, whether it's in life or business, and then helped me release those blockages, which freed up tons of energy and space and provided me with the clarity that I needed. It’s been completely transformative for the my effectiveness, my business and my overall happiness.”

Matt | Business Mastermind Leader

Katelyn.-Means

“He has literally changed my life, I’m a completely different person than I was when we started.  I would still just be suffering in a lot of inner pain and living a life that isn't fulfilling and not in love. The liberation and the love is like on the other side; just keep going”  

Katelyn | Physical Therapist

Summer | Johnny Blackburn Testimonial

“I had never worked with somebody who's so skilled and he has such a broad capacity; it's an attunement that goes beyond words.  I left our first session and thought ‘is this what it feels like to have all of my stuff cleared and I was looking around, the colors were brighter and I felt alive again for the first time in a long time.  And now I've healed so much trauma that I am actually happy to be on Earth and am enjoying my life in a way that I never did before. It's incredible!”

Summer | Healer

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“Expert facilitators with gigantic open hearts.  And the skill of the facilitators at being attuned and helping people move energy through their bodies was expert level.”

Brian | Executive Coach & Nature Guide

“He's just got a lot of heart. You know he really genuinely cares for his clients.”

Chris | Restauranter & Winemaker 

Josh-Bieglow

“I was in a place where I wanted change and was seeking someone advanced in that journey who could serve as a mentor to me.  The gravitas of his presence was very apparent and his status as a coach and a leader is well established by anyone that knows him. So, for those that have the privilege of working with him, you're coming across somebody who's exceptional.”

Josh | Tech CEO

Teresa-Mutch

“I couldn't take it in. I couldn't feel it. There was a lot of things in the way, so spent some time excavating, so now I can take it in. I can receive all the goodness all the joy Life has to offer!” 

Teresa | PhD Consultant

Kristen

“He's just so open in his entire spirit. He has a really really strong intuition; it's like how he knew that at that moment; he is just so skilled. You feel like you have somebody on your side, walking a journey with you.”

Kirsten | Psychotherapist

Christopher

“When you come in here, you're going to feel comfortable, you're going to feel loved you're going to feel like this person is here to improve your life and take you on this journey that will help to solve your problems and help you to make the world a better place.”

Christopher | Tech Director & Musician

Testimonials

How are the events?

Watch and listen to others’ experiences.
Carryn-Mills

“I felt really met. To be given that kind of reflection, with a depth of presence in offering a sense of understanding and reflecting back to me my own gifts in a way that they can come into fruition and then further expand is a really special gift.”

Carryn | Teacher

Amber-Rochelle

“As a psychologist I'm picky about who I work with.  But, I love how much work he's done on himself; it's very evident. I respect people who've walked the path and done the work because you can feel it. He's so loving and he's so present. His attunement to what's actually happening with you is incredible.”  

Amber | Psychologist

Drisana Carey

“There's another level of vision that he has, like he can see what you don't know that you don't know and he helps to illuminate at the right time in a very skilled way help to bring that to the light and then hold the space for the revelations to unfold.”

Drisana | Acupuncturist

Shannon-Lee

“There's so many layers to Johnny's coaching, he's such an expert at human development.  He just has this amazing ability to help you to become the best version of yourself and to develop a path to get you there.”

Shannon | Real Estate Investor

Matt-Hersh

“He helped me to tune into myself, find what was actually blocking me, whether it's in life or business, and then helped me release those blockages, which freed up tons of energy and space and provided me with the clarity that I needed. It’s been completely transformative for the my effectiveness, my business and my overall happiness.”

Matt | Business Mastermind Leader

Katelyn.-Means

“He has literally changed my life, I’m a completely different person than I was when we started.  I would still just be suffering in a lot of inner pain and living a life that isn't fulfilling and not in love. The liberation and the love is like on the other side; just keep going”  

Katelyn | Physical Therapist

Summer | Johnny Blackburn Testimonial

“I had never worked with somebody who's so skilled and he has such a broad capacity; it's an attunement that goes beyond words.  I left our first session and thought ‘is this what it feels like to have all of my stuff cleared and I was looking around, the colors were brighter and I felt alive again for the first time in a long time.  And now I've healed so much trauma that I am actually happy to be on Earth and am enjoying my life in a way that I never did before. It's incredible!”

Summer | Healer

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“Expert facilitators with gigantic open hearts.  And the skill of the facilitators at being attuned and helping people move energy through their bodies was expert level.”

Brian | Executive Coach & Nature Guide

“He's just got a lot of heart. You know he really genuinely cares for his clients.”

Chris | Restauranter & Winemaker 

Josh-Bieglow

“I was in a place where I wanted change and was seeking someone advanced in that journey who could serve as a mentor to me.  The gravitas of his presence was very apparent and his status as a coach and a leader is well established by anyone that knows him. So, for those that have the privilege of working with him, you're coming across somebody who's exceptional.”

Josh | Tech CEO

Teresa-Mutch

“I couldn't take it in. I couldn't feel it. There was a lot of things in the way, so spent some time excavating, so now I can take it in. I can receive all the goodness all the joy Life has to offer!” 

Teresa | PhD Consultant

Kristen

“He's just so open in his entire spirit. He has a really really strong intuition; it's like how he knew that at that moment; he is just so skilled. You feel like you have somebody on your side, walking a journey with you.”

Kirsten | Psychotherapist

Christopher

“When you come in here, you're going to feel comfortable, you're going to feel loved you're going to feel like this person is here to improve your life and take you on this journey that will help to solve your problems and help you to make the world a better place.”

Christopher | Tech Director & Musician

I felt called I thought there was some growth I was ready for I need to learn the skills to expand into it
Joe DowlingBusiness Owner
Joe Dowling
I was impressed by the caliber of people who showed up and how beautiful and inspiring humans can be. I also feel like the roof of my potential and how I can grow is n ow higher...and you do it for your-self, but you also do it on behalf of the collective healing and evolution of humanity
John HalcyonInfluencer
John Halcyon
There is a lot of variety, modern aspects and it is really approachable. And there is lots of fun and play in addition to the deeper work
Amy PamenskyCoach
Amy Pamensky
I had no clue of the range of possibilities of where I can go. The beautiful visual maps are so helpful to see ‘oh I am here and I can do this next and then that 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 RochellePsychotherapist
Amber Rochelle

Spirituality's Next Evolution

Have you had glimpses of profound states, but your average daily baseline seems far from that?

Do you intellectually understand certain spiritual concepts, but long to embody them and feel them throughout your life?

Awakening is a Process with a Clear Map

Over the millennia, it has been dedicated to and realized by few, yet misunderstood by many.

Some say “when I had my awakening” like it was a thing that happened once. Often this person is referencing a past memory of a temporary state. The Awakening process is not the memory of a past state or something that you once tasted in a plant medicine ceremony.

And it doesn’t matter what clothes you wear, how many ceremonies you’ve done, if you’ve been to Burning Man or how Spiritual AF you seem on Instagram.

Nor is it just a kundalini energy activation up the central channel, which is only subtle energy which arises within the larger unified Non-Dual Awareness —although this is often part of the process. It is a direct experience, a felt sense beyond thoughts and concepts that words can only point to. It is a combination of Grace and specific practice. It is universal Awareness beyond any one culture although many traditional have had effective practices to realize It like Zen, Transcendental Meditation, Sanskrit Mantra, Kabbalah, Shamanism, Vipassana, Quepassana, WTFassana???

These are all roads to the grand Spiritual Awakening. We are so fortunate to be alive at this time in history when we have access to the wisdom of so many great traditions across the world and throughout history. Some traditions had very clear steps for a certain part of the Awakening process but had big blind spots in other areas.

Over the millennia, it has been dedicated to and realized by few, yet misunderstood by many.

Some say “when I had my awakening” like it was a thing that happened once. Often this person is referencing a past memory of a temporary state. The Awakening process is not the memory of a past state or something that you once tasted in a plant medicine ceremony.

And it doesn’t matter what clothes you wear, how many ceremonies you’ve done, if you’ve been to Burning Man or how Spiritual AF you seem on Instagram.

Nor is it just a kundalini energy activation up the central channel, which is only subtle energy which arises within the larger unified Non-Dual Awareness —although this is often part of the process. It is a direct experience, a felt sense beyond thoughts and concepts that words can only point to.  It is a combination of Grace and specific practice. It is universal Awareness beyond any one culture although many traditional have had effective practices to realize It like Zen, Transcendental Meditation, Sanskrit Mantra, Kabbalah, Shamanism, Vipassana, Quepassana, WTFassana???   

These are all roads to the grand Spiritual Awakening. We are so fortunate to be alive at this time in history when we have access to the wisdom of so many great traditions across the world and throughout history. Some traditions had very clear steps for a certain part of the Awakening process but had big blind spots in other areas.

Key Questions for the 21st Century

Amidst all the festivals, building your business and digital distractions, you still remember, at your deepest depths, why you are really here having this experience and are Awakening and Growing Up your highest priorities?


Can you choose a path that works for you in the 21st Century world? And do you know the MAP so that whatever you choose can work for you?


Can you be devoted and stay consistent enough to actually transform your nervous system to stabilize these Awake states?

And do you want to do it together, deeply connected with other epic, evolutionary humans?

 

Amidst all the festivals, building your business and digital distractions, you still remember, at your deepest depths, why you are really here having this experience and are Awakening and Growing Up your highest priorities?

 

Can you choose a path that works for you in the 21st Century world? And do you know the MAP so that whatever you choose can work for you?

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Can you be devoted and stay consistent enough to actually transform your nervous system to stabilize these Awake states?

 

And do you want to do it together, deeply connected with other epic, evolutionary humans?

REGISTER NOW

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

growth is faster when you have a map, deeper in a presence-rich group field and more fun with others of your likeness

Your Guide

Johnny Blackburn

Developmental Coach | Author | Facilitator

Johnny Blackburn specializes in helping people awaken greater potential. 

His original background in Management Consulting, Master’s degree in Psychology, 9000+ client-coaching hours, hundreds of hours facilitating groups and live events all combine to provide an integral approach to embodied transformational experiences.

 He provides a safe & playfully challenging experiential container with heightened presence, creative experiential exercises & openness enabling you to experience greater possibilities and integrate skills for practical work, love & life applications.

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BENEFITS

BENEFITS

Embodiment

Learn the most advanced Jedi skills and potent practices to embody your greater potential. Feel more relaxed, free, grounded, centered, expressive and confident in your body through movement, healing, energy practices & meditation.

Impact & Success

Liberate limitations in procrastination, distraction and low productivity, so you can more often be in flow states for greater creativity, success and thriving. Find the clarity and access the states that allow you to take your career to the next level in a way that is aligned with your unique purpose, positivity impacts our world, and allows all to prosper.

Heart Openness

Feel more accepting, open, secure, close, connected and freely individuated in connection. Open your personal heart for more joy, gratitude and love. Then open the transpersonal Big Heart to feel more compassion for humanity and the essential Love that is the fabric of reality.

Advanced Abilities

Feel more accepting, open, secure, close, connected and freely individuated in connection. Open your personal heart for more joy, gratitude and love. Then open the transpersonal Big Heart to feel more compassion for humanity and the essential Love that is the fabric of reality.

Spiritual Awakening

Feel more accepting, open, secure, close, connected and freely individuated in connection. Open your personal heart for more joy, gratitude and love. Then open the transpersonal Big Heart to feel more compassion for humanity and the essential Love that is the fabric of reality.

Embodied Growth

Impact & Success

Heart Openness

Advanced Abilities


Spiritual Awakening

Learn the most advanced Jedi skills and potent practices to embody your greater potential. Feel more relaxed, free, grounded, centered, expressive and confident in your body through movement, healing, energy practices & meditation.

Liberate limitations in procrastination, distraction and low productivity, so you can more often be in flow states for greater creativity, success and thriving.  Find the clarity and access the states that allow you to take your career to the next level in a way that is aligned with your unique purpose, positivity impacts our world, and allows all to prosper. 

Feel more accepting, open, secure, close, connected and freely individuated in connection. Open your personal heart for more joy, gratitude and love. Then open the transpersonal Big Heart to feel more compassion for humanity and the essential Love that is the fabric of reality.

Develop more refined energetic sensing, expansive Openness and an integrated nervous system to be more relaxed, skillful and effective throughout your Life. Activate your advanced abilities to sense, intuit, empathize, power-up, release emotion, move energy, notice the unspoken, create attraction, access wisdom, enter flow and many other extra-sensory perceptions.

Deepen your 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 daily baseline.

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Food

Delicious Organic Cuisine

Enjoy fresh, high quality, organic meals and enhancing teas, tonics and elixirs. Our masterful culinary team prepares delicious anti-allergenic and anti-Inflammatory Vegetarian, Paleo or Keto meal options.  

The food is specially curated and prepared to nourish you with the foods that are optimal for your unique constitution to help you feel your best in body, mind and mood. Click on the button below to view a sample menu. 

SAMPLE MENU

Would You Like To Come?

Join us for a fun, connective, energy-rich & expansively opening day. Register now to secure your tickets; the last 5 retreats have sold out.

Tickets Remaining: 8
Maximum Capacity:: 45

<span style="font-weight: normal;

Remaining Tickets: 8 Max Capacity: 45
REGISTER NOW
REGISTER NOW

Would You Like To Come?

Join us for a fun, connective, energy-rich & expansively opening Immersion.

REGISTER NOW

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