The Next Class

December 4-6, 11-13, 2026

Live on Zoom, 10 am to 6 pm Central Time each day

$1995

Hold your seat with a $695 deposit and pay the balance before class starts. Payment plans are available.

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The Class

What Happens in Past Life Regression Training?

It is six live days on Zoom, spread over two weekends, 10 to 6 Central Time. This is not a video course. You watch sessions happen, you talk them through, and then you do them yourself.

The rhythm of the class goes like this. I teach a piece of the process, then I do a live demonstration with a volunteer while the class watches. After the demo we debrief it together, what I asked, why I asked it, and what I might have done differently.

Then you trade sessions, practitioner and client, so you experience the process from both chairs. I invite former students and volunteers to join on practice days so everyone has a partner to work with. I think it is really good to see a demo before you do your own sessions, and the class is built around that.

The Skills

What Skills Does the Class Teach?

You learn the whole session, in the order it happens with a real client.

  • The pretalk, and how to settle an active, analytical mind before you begin, including the Ball.
  • Regression to a happy time in childhood, somewhere around four to eight years old.
  • Regression to the womb, where the experience is often more feeling than visual.
  • Moving into a past life, beginning with what the client notices first, and exploring it with open, non leading questions.
  • Guiding the client through the death scene and the transition with peace.
  • The past life review, where the healing and the understanding come together.
  • The post talk, and making sure your client is settled before the session ends.

You also learn the practical side of working online, including a short Zoom consultation before a session so you know what the client's internet connection is like before the day you need it.

Throughout, the emphasis is on trusting the way the information comes. Some clients see a past life, some feel it, and some simply know. You learn to work with all of them.

The Heart of the Session

Why Does the Past Life Review Matter So Much?

If something difficult comes up in a past life, it needs to be resolved in that past life. That is what the review is for. It settles the energy from that lifetime so the client does not carry it home with them.

Students have told me about sessions they had somewhere else, where they relived something painful and were brought out with a recording and a goodbye. That energy came out with them. In class you learn why that happens and how to keep it from happening.

You learn to keep a client in the process when they want to open their eyes and quit, to let the steam out of the pressure cooker, and to use tools like Gestalt and forgiveness inside the past life itself.

Connecting with guides and the higher self is its own class. I moved that work into my advanced Spiritual Connection and Communication training so this class has two full days of practice sessions.

My review is thorough, and sometimes it is longer than the past life. One client went to a lifetime as a four year old girl who slipped by a river and drowned, over in about two minutes. We spent more time in the review than in the life, and that is where the real work was.

The Material

Where Does the Method Come From?

I grew up watching my father, a medical doctor, guide people into past lives starting in the 1960s. Since then I have studied with Brian Weiss, Michael Newton and Dolores Cannon, and I have learned just as much from my clients and my students.

After teaching from a different manual for years, I wrote my own. Most of the past life review questions come from Henry Bolduc, whose books are in the public domain, and I share his past life training manual with my students. The work on releasing physical and emotional energy draws on Roger Woolger.

I have pulled from many places and made it my own. I do not read a script word for word, not even mine, because the work is about the soul in front of you. You leave the class with the manual and the scripts, and with the understanding to go beyond them.

Before You Enroll

Do I Need Hypnosis Training First?

Yes. Past Life Regression is an advanced application of hypnosis, so a hypnotherapy certification is required before this class. It gives you the foundation to guide someone safely into the deeper states this work needs.

If you have not trained in hypnosis yet, you can start with my live online hypnotherapy training. If you trained with another qualified teacher, send documentation of that training and we can talk it through on a discovery call.

Life Between Lives

Does This Meet the Newton Institute Requirement?

Yes. This class fulfills the Past Life Regression requirement of The Michael Newton Institute for Life Between Lives training. The Institute asks for certification in both hypnotherapy and past life regression before you apply.

You receive a Good Vibes Hypnosis Past Life Regression Certification when you complete the class and its case work. An optional Specialty Past Life Regression Certification is also available through IACT.

For students who want to keep going, the path continues from here. Hypnosis training, then Past Life Regression, then my advanced Spiritual Connection and Communication training. If you came here from the Newton Institute, my Career Partner page lays out the whole path.

Who It Is For

Is This Training Right for Me?

Many of my students tell me they were drawn to this work long before they could explain why. Some read Journey of Souls years ago and never let it go.

The class is a good fit for hypnotists and hypnotherapists adding past life work, therapists, coaches and healers who want spiritual depth in their practice, and anyone preparing for Life Between Lives training. What matters most is wanting to learn it live, with real sessions, rather than from videos.

If you are not sure, a free discovery call is about 20 minutes on Zoom. Ask anything at all, and we can figure out whether this class is your next step.

Your Teacher

Who Teaches the Class?

Mark Johnson with Michael Newton

With Michael Newton at my first Life Between Lives training, Chicago, 2007

I am Mark Johnson, a second generation hypnotherapist and past life regressionist. I have been practicing since 2003 and teaching since 2012.

I was named IACT Educator of the Year in 2016, and I have been a Lead Instructor for Life Between Lives training with The Michael Newton Institute since 2022.

More of the story is on my About Mark page.

From Past Students

What Students Say About the Training

Google Review

I took the Hypnotherapy training course and a Past Life Regression training course with Mark and they were both amazing!! He is a great teacher, the online class format was a ton of fun, and I will miss our class a lot. There is a lot of information that Mark has carefully compiled through his extensive experience and with his deep knowledge of hypnotherapy, and he shares it in a really accessible way. Highly recommend taking both classes. Thanks Mark!

Wendy, Chicago

Google Review

I have taken two training week-long learning experiences with Mark Johnson. I have also taken training experiences with three other internationally well-known names in the field of Hypnotherapy, specifically with past-life regressions. I considered all of these trainings to be very good and definitely worthwhile experiences. So it means a LOT when I say that the best training I received was hands down, no comparison, the training I received with Mark Johnson.

Velinda, Phoenix

Google Review

Mark is very knowledgeable and experienced in the art of hypnosis, past life regression and Life Between Lives. He is a great teacher and helps make the learning even more interesting, interactive and fun! It is one of the best decisions I have made for my career and myself! Thank You Mark!!!

Dennie, Louisiana

Ready to Learn This Work?

The class is on the calendar for December 4-6, 11-13, 2026. Register to hold your seat, or book a free discovery call first and ask me anything.

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, have your normal morning coffee or tea. If you drink caffeine every day, skipping it can give you a headache that makes it harder to relax, which is the opposite of what we want. Just keep it to a cup or two rather than the whole pot so you do not arrive jittery. A light meal beforehand is fine too. The one thing I ask is to go easy on water and other liquids right before we begin, so you are not needing restroom breaks while you are in trance.

Many people find that a single session provides profound and lasting insights. That said, some clients choose to return for additional sessions to explore different lifetimes or to deepen their understanding of their soul's journey. There is no set number. I will always discuss your goals with you during our initial conversation so we can determine what feels right for your unique path.

You can still have a good session with me. Over twenty years and well over three thousand sessions, I have found that going into hypnosis comes down to how the session is run. I customize every session in real time using my clinical hypnotherapy background, and I have multiple backup inductions ready if the first one does not settle you. I also use interactive dialogue to quiet an overactive mind, since a busy mind is the most common reason people feel they did not go under. Clients who told me they had failed before often tell me afterward that this time it simply happened. Come with an open mind and let me handle the rest.

Connecting with your Higher Self is part of the Quantum Healing Hypnosis session, and it is one of the most natural parts of the work, typically from your very first one. To prepare, you write a list of the personal questions that matter most to you. Once you are in a deep hypnotic state, the Theta brainwave frequency, your logical, analytical thoughts step aside. Then I speak directly to your Higher Self and ask it to answer through your voice, or to deliver sudden, clear knowings. Clients often say something like "this just popped in my head," and that is exactly it. What you end up with is an open line of communication and clear spiritual guidance on the questions you brought. The video on the QHHT preparation page, under Sessions in the menu, goes deeper into this connection and is worth watching before your session.

Those fast flashes are what some of my clients call fleeting images, so I use that term as well, and I can slow them down. Some of my clients are not especially visual, so a past life memory arrives as a quick scene that appears and vanishes, almost like a slide show. When that happens I use specific hypnotic suggestions that ask your subconscious to let the images settle and hold still long enough to look at. I also shift your attention away from your inner vision and toward what you feel in your body and your emotions, because those channels tend to be steadier. What typically happens is the scene stabilizes, and once it holds we can gather rich, detailed information from it just as we would from a vivid picture.