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Helping you heal what life has left behind

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When something feels off , we begin with what feels real, and we go gently.

Do you recognize yourself here?

✦You feel changed after a loss, an ill­ness, a breakup, or shock.

✦You’re func­tion­ing… but you don’t feel like you.

✦You have per­sis­tent heav­i­ness, dread, or fatigue that inter­feres with your life.

✦You feel emo­tion­al­ly numb, stuck, or unable to access joy.

✦Your ner­vous sys­tem won’t set­tle, lead­ing to sleep dis­tur­bances, anx­i­ety, irri­tabil­i­ty, and hyper­vig­i­lance.

✦You feel unusu­al­ly bur­dened by shame, fear, or old mem­o­ries.

What can be happening underneath

Grief that didn’t get time

After your loss, life kept moving—so, you did too. But your body may still be hold­ing it: heav­i­ness, numb­ness, or sud­den waves that come out of nowhere.

Protection that never got turned off

There was a long peri­od dur­ing which your sys­tem had to stay alert. Even now, you might still be braced—tight chest, rest­less mind, shal­low breath—like safe­ty nev­er ful­ly arrived.

A weight that doesn’t feel like you

You’re doing your best, yet some­thing feels lay­ered on top of you: fog, heav­i­ness, “not quite me.” It may be accu­mu­lat­ed stress—or old fam­i­ly bur­dens you nev­er chose.

A life shift that cracked your sense of self

A loss, a move, a breakup, a long peri­od of look­ing after oth­ers, retirement—suddenly the old you doesn’t fit. You’re here, but your sense of iden­ti­ty feels scat­tered, like you’re rebuild­ing from the inside.

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Sometimes healing is quiet: one small act of tending, and life begins to feel possible again.

A Grounded Way Forward

Making Sense of What You’re Feeling

We slow things down and look at what is happening—what trig­gers it, where you feel it in your body, what it may be try­ing to pro­tect, and what helps it begin to set­tle.

Why Deeper Healing Can Last

Some­times, change does not hap­pen because the deep­er lay­er has not been reached. You may know what hap­pened and still feel stuck in the same fear, pain, or reac­tion. This work helps you to uncov­er and heal what lies beneath, so change can begin at the root and car­ry over into your dai­ly life.

What Becomes Possible

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When everything goes still, even a simple view can feel like medicine.

What Becomes Possible

Feel lighter inside

Feel the inner pres­sure begin to ease. Many peo­ple notice more breath, less tight­ness, and a calmer ner­vous system—so you’re not brac­ing your way through the day.

Come Back to Yourself

When the fog lifts, you can hear your­self again. This work helps you recon­nect with your emo­tions and inner guid­ance, so deci­sions feel clear­er and you feel more like you.

Stronger Boundaries & Energy

Stop car­ry­ing what is not yours. This work helps clear what has built up through old pat­terns and dif­fi­cult rela­tion­ships, so you feel less drained and stead­ier in your dai­ly life.

When everything goes still, even a simple view can feel like medicine.

A grounded approach to deep healing

When Deeper Things Begin to Surface

My prac­tice is ground­ed in the under­stand­ing that your expe­ri­ences can affect your body, mind, and spir­it, leav­ing you feel­ing unset­tled, bur­dened, or unsure of how to find their way back.

Rooted in Experienced Shamanic Practice

This work is ground­ed in expe­ri­enced shaman­ic prac­tice, shaped by years of heal­ing work and offered in a steady, respect­ful way.

Working Carefully with What Comes Up

This work also includes hyp­nother­a­py and past-life regres­sion when they are a good fit. This approach sup­ports care­ful work when strong mem­o­ries, emo­tions, or mean­ing­ful inner expe­ri­ences arise.

For What Still Feels Hard to Shift

Often, anx­i­ety, grief, shame, or hard-to-explain symp­toms run deep­er than we real­ize. Even when you under­stand what hap­pened, some­thing in you may still feel stuck, reac­tive, or weighed down. This is where my work begins — I use a blend­ed approach to help you uncov­er what lies beneath and find the heal­ing path that best fits you.

You Are Welcome Here

This prac­tice is open to all. You do not need to fol­low a par­tic­u­lar path or hold any spe­cial beliefs. You only need a sin­cere desire for heal­ing and a readi­ness to begin where you are. Call me, let’s talk.

Reflections

Where Healing Takes Root

Thank you again so much for our hyp­no­sis ses­sion – it has had won­der­ful­ly pos­i­tive effects!!! It was like final­ly being suc­cess­ful in extract­ing the full deep roots of an emo­tion­al weed that has been inhab­it­ing my sense of self my entire life! That ‘weed’ that was steal­ing space and ener­gy is now GONE for good!!! What a free­ing expe­ri­ence…

Debra Blucher

Halifax, NS

Guided to Clarity and Renewal

“In the past ten years, I’ve often had the priv­i­lege of expe­ri­enc­ing the heal­ing skills of Shaman John Moir. John brings into his Shaman­ic call­ing a per­son­al desire for the well­ness of oth­ers, body, and soul. His wis­dom and knowl­edge form the struc­ture of his work, but his deep, nat­ur­al com­pas­sion allows one to trust one­self to the heal­ing process and be drawn into renewed hope and renewed life.”

Susanne McKim

Anglican Priest (retd.), ON

A Warm, Compassionate Healer for Your Grieving Heart

John is an amaz­ing heal­er, a love­ly con­nect­ed soul, and a deeply gen­er­ous, kind and warm pres­ence to bring your griev­ing heart to. I high­ly rec­om­mend him.

Angie S.

Madison, WI

Frequently Asked Questions

Hyp­nother­a­py is a focused, relaxed state where we work with pat­terns held beneath the sur­face (habits, emo­tions, pro­tec­tive respons­es). You’re not uncon­scious, and you don’t lose control—you can speak, pause, or stop at any time. Peo­ple can also resist sug­ges­tions that don’t fit them.

Shaman­ic heal­ing is a spir­i­tu­al (not reli­gious) approach that works with inten­tion, imagery, and energetic/spiritual clear­ing to sup­port emo­tion­al relief and recon­nec­tion. You don’t need to share any par­tic­u­lar belief sys­tem. We keep the lan­guage ground­ed and only go as far into “spir­i­tu­al terms” as you’re com­fort­able going.

Think of them as two door­ways to the same goal: help­ing what’s stuck begin to move. Hyp­nother­a­py can work gen­tly with the sub­con­scious and ner­vous sys­tem pat­terns; shaman­ic work can sup­port clear­ing bur­dens, strength­en­ing bound­aries, and recon­nect­ing parts of self. In prac­tice, we choose what fits you—your com­fort lev­el, your goals, and what your sys­tem is ready for.

Yes—many peo­ple come for grief that won’t move, anxiety/heaviness that won’t set­tle, or dis­con­nec­tion and numb­ness. We don’t force emo­tion or push you to relive pain. We work at a pace your sys­tem can hold, aim­ing for steadi­ness, relief, and real-life inte­gra­tion.

This work is gen­tle, paced, and consent-based—you stay in con­trol and we can slow down or stop at any time. It can com­ple­ment ther­a­py or med­ical care, but it isn’t cri­sis sup­port or a replace­ment for men­tal health treat­ment. If you feel unsafe or are in an acute cri­sis, the right next step is imme­di­ate pro­fes­sion­al sup­port.

 
 

Remote hyp­nother­a­py and shaman­ic heal­ing meth­ods via video are wide­ly used and appear accept­able to clients, with research dis­cussing their effec­tive­ness and acces­si­bil­i­ty com­pared with in-per­son options. Many peo­ple also find it eas­i­er to go inward from the safe­ty of their own space.

Past Life Regression & Transpersonal Hypnotherapy

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A first step if you have ques­tions or want to see if this work feels right for you.

If anx­i­ety, grief, shame, or old pat­terns keep tak­ing hold, this work helps uncov­er what may be under­neath. Through shaman­ic heal­ing, transper­son­al hyp­nother­a­py, and regres­sion ther­a­py, the goal is to help you feel clear­er, more ground­ed, and more like your­self again, and per­haps find the heal­ing you have been look­ing for.

Beneath the Surface

Exploring what lies beneath experience

If life has brought you into a sea­son of grief, tran­si­tion, or deep­er ques­tion­ing, you are wel­come here. Join the newslet­ter for soul­ful reflec­tions, gen­tle heal­ing guid­ance, and Urban Grief Shamans pod­cast updates from Soul­ful Ener­gy Med­i­cine.