"Again and again
Some people wake up...
They have no ground in the crowd

And they emerge according to broader laws
They carry strange customs with them 
And demand room for bold gestures. 
The future speaks ruthlessly through them.
And they change the world." 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
 

Alexandre Jodun is an integrative psychotherapist, group facilitator, and ritualist, with over a decade of study and apprenticeship in shamanism, mysticism, and transpersonal and integrative psychotherapies. As a multidisciplinary and eclectic practitioner, his work is in service to the remembering of the essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge (and be preserved) to carry future generations. 

Originally born in Mauritius into a creole-diasporic ancestral heritage, and raised as a first-generation immigrant in Australia, Alexandre has always felt a longing to meaningfully weave the spiritual roots of earth and ancestral connection into the complexities of his unfolding. Growing up with a passion for world music, he began his younger "first life" as a DJ and Afro-Brazilian percussionist, unknowingly drawn to collective explorations of ecstatic states of consciousness. Although he was most inspired by the idea of helping people to heal and thrive, within the limited worldview he was raised in, he started working in the corporate world as a relationship manager - seeking authentic spirituality and depth in his spare time. Feeling heavily misaligned with his outer life, and overcome by a strange depth of grief and longing for something ineffable, he began to intensely seek the deeper questions in life: Who am I, really? What is sacred, worth preserving and protecting in this life? What is my sacred service and unique contribution to my relations and this immense world? 

During this time, he experienced the 'soul-quake' of a spontaneous spiritual emergence, which completely shattered his understanding of himself, his place within his ancestral lineage, and his calling in this lifetime. After many inner and outer twists and turns, this non-linear and humbling path mysteriously led him to his vocation of becoming a bridge: between worlds, traditions, and ways of knowing. Since then, Alexandre has devoted his life to empowering others to attune themselves to their path of heart and cultivate the relational skills and psycho-spiritual capacities to traverse the beauty, challenge, and initiatory passages that life has destined for them. 

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Through A Healing Bridge, Alexandre offers integrative psychotherapy & mentoring to individuals and couples in his private practice, and also facilitates group-work, grief-rituals, and ceremonies, retreats and pilgrimages in conjunction with psychedelics & plant-medicines. His passion is to provide a caring and robust alchemical vessel for seekers, creatives, healers, and edge-walkers from varied backgrounds to encounter what is most meaningful for their ripening and courageously walk their soul's path with maturity, authenticity, dignity, and awareness. Drawing from his diverse lived experiences, including his facilitation work with hundreds of people from around the world over the last 15 years, Alexandre is rooted in a deep faith in the multidimensional work he is blessed to carry forward. ​

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Among various lineages, his approach is predominantly informed by his: 
 

• Holistic Psychotherapy training at the Metavision Institute (rooted in Arnold & Amy Mindell's Process-oriented Psychology);

• 4 years of experiential training and apprenticeship with Grof Holotropic Breathwork & Transpersonal Psychology;

• 6+ years apprenticing in, and facilitating, grief-work (from the lineage of Francis Weller); 

• 4-years of comprehensive training and initiatory transmissions in Psychedelic Medicine & Transpersonal Psychology through the AWE Foundation;

• 4 years of Tabaquero apprenticeship, which he has almost completed (i.e dietas with Nicotiana Rustica and various master plants) within the Mamancunawa mestizo lineage;

• And, over 10+ years of receiving teachings, initiations, and transmissions from various medicine-keepers across Peru, Australia, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico. Within this dimension of his study and apprenticeship, Alexandre is deeply grateful in this lifetime to be a Bwiti initiate, traditionally initiated into Iboga and the mens-only path of Dissumba in Gabon, as well as an on-going student of the way of Yagé with his friends and elders of the A'i Cofan.

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His process-oriented and integrative approach to psycho-spiritual maturation is a great fit for those who are not completely new to soul-work. His practice is for those who are already engaged in - and desire to go deeper into - the vital inner, outer, and relational work required for meaningful change. Alexandre's work tends to be most potent for those who resonate with animist, soul-centric and depth-oriented, non-dualistic, spiritually-rooted, eclectic paradigms, who feel inspired to wholeheartedly participate in the organic (and often slow, non-linear & life-long), individual and collective process of authentic ripening and embodied integration. 

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At the heart of his work, Alexandre's passion is to bridge the intersections between transforming developmental & ancestral wounds, working reverently with extraordinary states of consciousness within the context of ritual and ceremony, and navigating the psycho-spiritual passages of initiation into authentic adulthood and beyond. His main areas of focus are:
 

• Soul-work (Dream-body & somatic work, transforming childhood wounds, psycho-spiritual maturation, integrating night-dreams, shadow-work, etc.)

• Mentoring (Deepening in one's vocation / path of sacred service/ soul activism, tracking soul-encounters, fidelity to one's mythopoetic image(s), ritual practice, soul-centred guidance, etc.)

• Psychedelic & Plant-medicine Ceremonial & Therapeutic Work (Incl. preparation, ceremonial/session facilitation, and integration/elaboration);

• The Terrain of Grief, Death, and Dying;

• Intergenerational Healing, and Ancestral Connection / Remembering;

• Spiritual Emergence & Initiatory/Liminal Experiences;

• Relational Intelligence, Couples Work & Romantic Love;

• Sexuality & Eroticism;

Alexandre has co-facilitated community grief-work with, and mentored alongside, writer and soul-activist, Francis Weller, and draws much inspiration from other elders in his life, such as his therapist and supervisor, Niyati Evers, and mystic poet Baba Jaiya John. He is blessed to be a student of Lila Vega (and the AWE lineage), who has profoundly influenced and enriched his approach to ceremonial, shamanic, and psychedelic medicine work. Alexandre has previously been involved with training new students of Holistic Psychotherapy at the Metavision Institute, and has been a part of the facilitation and admissions team for AWE's Ecstatic Mysticism 3-year initiatory program for the last few years, also involved with their sacred activism work of preserving ancestral knowledge and mystical traditions of indigenous communities. In his quiet passion for creative writing, he is in the process of completing a Master of Arts (MA) in Integrative Psychedelic Therapy through Ubiquity University exploring the value of ritual technologies and initiation in the journey of becoming psychedelic practitioners. He is also delighted to be birthing his first book of poetry.

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Alexandre is grateful to call the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru, home, surrounded by the sacred Apus of Pitusiray & Sawasiray - where he lives and works alongside his beloved wife, Alyona, his big-hearted cocker-spaniel, Nala, and trickster-zen-master cat, Hampi. He feels an immense privilege to be alive in this world, and prays that our shared devotion to healing our collective wounds and remembering what is worth feeding seeds more beautiful futures for the generations to come.

 

If you would like to work or collaborate with Alexandre, you're welcome to reach out to him via the Contact Form.

 

And for more on Alexandre's approach to transformational soul-work, visit any of the following pages: Integrative Psychotherapy & Mentoring; Couples Psychotherapy; Medicine Ceremonies & Retreats in the Sacred Valley.