Past Life Regression in Charleston has always meant going home for me. I grew up in Charleston in the 1960s in a house where past life regression was not unusual. My father, a medical doctor who studied with Dave Elman and Milton Erickson, brought hypnosis into his practice in the 1950s and began guiding people into past lives in the mid 1960s, and from about the age of ten I got to watch him regress the neighbors in our living room, including one who went back to a life as a caveman. I resisted the whole idea as a teenager. When I started traveling for sessions I added Charleston in 2012, usually once a year, staying with a family friend and working in the office above her garage. In June 2013 I filled a Charleston trip after two shows I appeared on, before I even arrived. Today my Charleston clients, from Mount Pleasant to Summerville to James Island, meet me over Zoom.

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Sessions for Charleston

Do You Work With Past Life Regression Clients in Charleston?

Yes, and Charleston is not just another city on my list, it is my hometown. Every session is online over Zoom, which puts Charleston, Mount Pleasant, Summerville, North Charleston, Goose Creek, James Island and Daniel Island all the same distance from me, and nobody has to cross the Ravenel Bridge to get here. Find a day and a time on the schedule that works for you, and we meet on Zoom.

The 1960s

Who Was Doing Past Life Regression in Charleston in the 1960s?

My father was. He was a medical doctor who studied with Dave Elman and Milton Erickson, he brought hypnosis into his practice in the 1950s, and by the mid 1960s he was guiding people into past lives in our Charleston living room. He would have a party, invite people over, and take them back into past lives. From about the age of eight or nine I got to sit and watch. One neighbor went back to a life as a caveman.

Years later I was studying with Dolores Cannon, who developed the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, and one day she said nobody was doing this work back in the 60s when she started doing it. I told her my dad was doing past life in the mid 60s, and that I watched him take a neighbor back to a life as a caveman. As I recall, she did not have a comment on that one.

As a teenager I resisted the whole idea, and it was 2003, after my mother passed, before I learned hypnosis myself. That part of the story continued in Texas, and the Dallas page tells it.

The Teachers

Who Taught Mark Johnson Past Life Regression?

It started at home, and then I went and studied with the best known names in this work. I took a class with Brian Weiss, the psychiatrist who wrote Many Lives, Many Masters, in Austin in 2005, right after I started learning hypnosis. I trained in Life Between Lives with Michael Newton, the author of Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, in Chicago in 2007, and that training is when I decided to specialize in spiritual hypnotherapy.

Then in 2008 I went to Fayetteville, Arkansas for my first class with Dolores Cannon, who developed the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, and I kept returning to study with her for the next four years. As I tell my students, I have taken what I learned and made it my own. The full stories, with photos, are in the Teachers and Influences section of my blog.

Why People Book

Is Curiosity a Good Enough Reason to Try Past Life Regression?

Everybody is curious, and curiosity is a fine place to start. The time I push back is when there is nothing else behind it. I ask, why do you want to do this, and somebody says, I'm just curious, I just wonder who I was. There's no meat on those bones.

So bring an intention along with your curiosity. What do you want that you do not have right now? What would you like to be different in your life after the session? When you have an intention, it helps you focus on that, to target that, so that you get what you really need out of the experience. And you know what they say about curiosity and the cat.

A Common Worry

What If I Fall Asleep During My Session?

I guess the session would be over pretty quick. Here is the thing. There are two times people tend to fall asleep. One is at the beginning, while I am taking you into hypnosis, which typically runs 20 to 25 minutes. The other is at the end, when I teach you self hypnosis so you can put yourself to sleep at night, and some people take me literally.

I have learned how to tell, even online. I have you take a deep breath throughout the session, and if I ask for a deep breath and nothing happens, you have either zoned out or drifted off. Once we are in the childhood, the womb and the past life, we are having a conversation, so if you are asleep, you are not talking to me, and I know how to wake people up. And many people tell me that the night after their session they get the best sleep they have had in a long, long time.

The Sessions

Three Ways to Explore

Past Life Regression

Typically 3 to 3.5 Hours

A guided journey through happy childhood memories and the womb experience, then into one or more past lifetimes. Explore the patterns, relationships, and talents connected to your current life, and release what no longer serves you.

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Quantum Healing Hypnosis

Typically 4 to 5 Hours

Developed by Dolores Cannon, QHHT begins as a Past Life Regression and then goes further, connecting with your higher self to answer your prepared questions about your life, purpose, relationships, and health, and to address healing directly.

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Life Between Lives

Typically 4 to 5 Hours

Based on the research of Dr. Michael Newton, LBL explores your soul's journey between incarnations. Meet your guides, your soul group, and your council of elders, and discover why you chose this life. A prior PLR or QHHT session is required.

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In Their Words

What Clients Experience

Past Life Review

Mark is a true professional and a master at his craft. Working with him is a chance to work with the best.

B.E.Dallas

Past Life Review

The session with Mark was simply amazing. I highly recommend it. I am rather private with my experience but it far exceeded my expectations. I will do it again.

J.L.Houston

Past Life Review

I really enjoyed the group regression. I was surprised that even in a group environment I was able to relax and get into a light hypnotic state where I accessed impressions of a past life. Mark was very patient and gave of his time and energy.

D.B.New Orleans

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Frequently Asked Questions


Every session is online over Zoom now. Charleston is my hometown and I came back for sessions about once a year from 2012 until the travel years ended in early 2020. In March 2020 I moved the whole practice online, and my Charleston clients tell me the sessions go just as deep from home.

Sessions are scheduled from 10 in the morning Central, which is 11 in the morning on Charleston clocks. A Past Life Regression typically runs three to three and a half hours and a Quantum Healing session four to five, so plan on an afternoon. If you need an earlier start, book the first slot and send me a note, and I can move you up an hour.

Yes. I grew up in Charleston watching my father hypnotize the neighbors, and by the mid 1960s he was guiding some of them into past lives right there in the house. He was a medical doctor who studied with Dave Elman and Milton Erickson, and I wanted nothing to do with it as a teenager. It was not until 2003, after my mother passed and I wanted to find a way to talk with her, that I learned hypnosis myself. Coming back to Charleston for sessions always felt like closing a circle.

An analytical, left brain mind, which I see often in engineers and software developers, is no barrier to hypnosis. To quiet that logical chatter I use a simple visual exercise I call the Ball Game. You imagine holding a ball, you toss it up, and you watch it turn into a balloon. That is the whole thing. It sounds almost too simple, but what it does is shift you from trying to analyze what is happening into simply allowing impressions to flow from your subconscious. Once that shift happens, the critical mind steps out of the way and my analytical clients access deep memories and knowings just as easily as anyone else.

You are safe if the Zoom connection drops, and we have a plan for it before we begin. During the pre talk I establish a simple protocol. If you do not hear my voice for a minute or two, you naturally and gently open your eyes and emerge from hypnosis on your own. Then you redial on Zoom or call me back on the phone and we resume where we left off. On my end I have fiber internet with a backup connection, and I block off an extra hour or two on my schedule so any connection hiccup can be managed without rushing your session. My clients tell me that knowing this ahead of time takes the worry off the table.

If you carry memories of dying as a soldier, say a Civil War sergeant, you are in familiar territory for me. Clients with spontaneous recall of historic battles often carry residual physical and emotional weight from that death into this life, things like phantom neck or back pain. In hypnosis I use release techniques to separate that battlefield energy from your modern body. Reviewing the event from an observer's perspective helps your subconscious take in that the war is over and that you are safe in your current body today. Many people find the fear and tension they carried eases once that message lands. The memory stays, but its grip loosens.

Those intuitive flashes, hunches and psychic knowings are often messages your spirit guides or Higher Self are dropping into your mind. Under hypnosis, clients discover that what they had been writing off as random thoughts, odd coincidences or their brain doing something weird is actually real spiritual guidance. In a Quantum Healing Hypnosis session you can ask your guides about your gifts directly and how to use them. From there we work on trusting it. I teach self hypnosis anchors and progressive relaxation so you can quiet the logical, analytical part of your mind on your own. With practice, many people learn to hear these signals comfortably, recognize them when they arrive and trust them enough to navigate their lives by them. Understanding the gift is the first step, and using it well is the second.

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Charleston is where I first watched hypnosis happen and where the seed of this work was planted. The same Past Life Regression, Quantum Healing Hypnosis and Life Between Lives sessions I once traveled home to facilitate now happen in your own quiet space over Zoom.

Ready for Your Charleston Session, Online?

Both Past Life Regression and QHHT are wonderful choices for a first session, and most of my new clients have never been hypnotized before we begin. If you would like help deciding, a free discovery call is the easiest place to start. You get your questions answered, and I may have a few for you as well.

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