Human footprints represent our path, our journey in life.

There is a Path....sometimes it's invisible but it's there.
You may not know where it is going,
but still you've got to follow that path.
It's the path to the creator.
That's the only path worth following.
~ Leon Shenandoah, Iroquois

The blue circle representing the earth with the feet to each side, reminds us of our role as “caretakers”, to leave the earth a better place for our future generations. As we connect to the earth through nature, we learn to listen to our heart, understand and appreciate our role and find a way to live a rich and fulfilled life, in harmony with our highest ideals.

The spiral represents the spirit, the mysterious, our source, energy, connection with all things and the wisdom of our ancestors that guides us along our path.

The spiral is the earliest recorded symbol of spirituality. It is the simplest and most common geometric shape in nature, both visibly and invisibly. From conch shells to weather patterns to DNA to galaxies, spirals are omnipresent in nature.

The spiral is about change, flexibility and looking at a problem from a different perspective and point again and again. The inward turn of the spiral takes us on an inner journey to gain insight, into dreamtime to visions and enlightenment.

Simone Engdahl is a Journey Accredited Practitioner, NLP Trainer and an experienced natural therapist. Working for over 17 years in the natural health and personal development field she runs a full time therapy /coaching practice, Yoga classes, meditation retreats, and workshops on self discovery.. She has combined her teaching skills with her passion for health, self discovery and love of nature, to live a life of inspiration. Inspiration – Inspirados – in Spirit

Simone began her career working in overseas aid delivery, then moved into training and development, delivering adult education programs in the corporate and Tafe environments. After running her own health therapy practice for 5 years she left to work in the USA for a leading NLP training company.

Since returning to Australia and discovering the Journey she offers all her clients the deepest level of commitment to healing and freedom. . Her specialty is in helping people release the filters, beliefs and patterns that block us from living in the grace of freedom, our true selves.

An appointment with an acupuncturist 20 years ago for treatment for severe hayfever started Simone on a path of natural healing that ultimately led to self discovery, to living in freedom.

“Two needles, one on each foot between the junction of the big toe and the next. Unable to figure out the correlation between my toes and nose I was grateful for the relief the acupuncture provided.

Some years later while living in England I again had hayfever woes and a work colleague told me of reflexology. Since it had to do with the feet I figured it was worth a go. The amazing experience of having my feet worked on led to a complete change in career. I trained as a reflexologist, and then quickly after in remedial massage. I set up my clinic in 1994. I continued to train as a naturopath but the burning questions of how the mind and body interacted were not being answered by herbs and nutrition.

Emotional and Physical Blocks in our bodies
I knew from the body work that many clients’ physical symptoms seemed to be based in deeper emotional issues yet I was not able to get to the core issue for complete release through the massage. I took more courses and found they offered only partial solutions. I wanted to be able to help uncover the deepest secrets of the body’s blocks and pains and find ways to release the stored issues to enable the body to heal.

Still looking for answers I trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming. I took all the trainings on offer and became a trainer in NLP. I also expanded my search into more spiritual fields and attended various courses, reading voraciously on all manner of spiritual and new age material, looking for answers to the meaning of life, consciousness and enlightenment.

I kept feeling as if there was a deeper element and I just didn’t know how to gain access.
From my own experience of dealing with some issues from my past, it almost seemed that no matter how much I worked on them, they would continue to pop up their heads again and challenge me. It seemed I would experience a short remission and then drop back into the black hole of depression and despair.

I lost faith and left the healing field, feeling like a fraud. How could I congruently offer what I had learnt to others when it didn’t seem to work for me? I retreated from the world. Hiding in a family business where the work was 6 - 7 days a week 9am until 7pm I managed the anxiety and panic attacks that would strike in the middle of the night by keeping to myself.

An end to searching for answers
For over a year I kept coming across articles, flyers and information on Brandon Bays and The Journey. I even went to buy her book a few times but never did get to the checkout with it. I’d lost faith in all the courses and books that had not delivered on their big promises.
In January 2001 after a short break spent with friends who were alarmed at how deep in the black hole I had sunk, I returned home with the promise to them I would get help. I did not know where to turn. I knew that I needed something different than all the various treatments I had used in the past.

If you hear the message three times Listen!
One night in my home office I was looking for some accounts and came across Brandon’s article from a Living Now magazine 6 months prior. I put it aside and kept searching. Then I found a brochure and not long after a flyer for the 2001 workshops. The next workshop was in Brisbane, 7 days time.
I checked out the website and downloaded some information. While I did not believe it would work for me, it might just help out my mum who was suffering terrible pain from some fractured ribs. The articles said The Journey could help chronic pain and arthritis. I would go if Mum would. She has never been into workshops and not “new age spiritual/healing stuff” so I figured I’d be safe from going. Surprise, surprise she liked what she read and was happy to go along.

That Saturday morning still stands clear in my mind. The room full of smiling faces, the excitement mingled with nervousness. I was sceptical yet secretly hoping it would work. Even temporary relief would be a bonus. Nothing out of the ordinary came up over the weekend. I did the processes and found them straightforward, easy to follow though nothing particularly “big or profound” was revealed.

What did surprise me was a dream on Monday morning right after the seminar. The dream was so full of love and peace and was about an issue I had not even worked on, yet I knew in my heart it was complete and I was healed from it. I rested for days in a bath of love and peace, my own experience of Source. The depression had lifted and it felt as if a veil had finally gone. Now many years later I know that issue was completely finished without needing to be addressed directly.

At last I had found the answers my heart had been looking for all along.
This was the deepest level of working with issues I had been searching for. Our soul has the answers and from this place we can live as freedom and happiness.

After the first weekend I dedicated my life to sharing this truth of love and joy, of the possibility of self healing and self discovery with others. Changes came into my life so rapidly after making that decision. I returned to therapy work, travelled to Europe and manifested so many more of my dreams.

I undertook more of the trainings and in 2002 I completed the Journey Practitioners Accreditation program.
Journey Work continues to weave its magic in my life and I regularly attend Journey Events deepening in my own growth.

The Journey helped me to find my true self and my greatest joy is facilitating others to find their true self. Through the coaching and therapy work, training programs and workshops I offer the various tools I have found most effecting in leading me to my own self, to living a life of love and freedom.”

PS Mum healed from her pain and kept returning to the Journey Intensives. In 2004 she completed her accreditation training and is now a therapist. Our own relationship has deepened and it is wonderful to share this truth and freedom together.