What Your Body Is Trying to Tell You: Somatic & Shamanic Healing Explained

Guests: Kyra Klein, Physiotherapist & Shamanic Healer | Matthew Johnson, Somatic Therapist

Business: Body Language | Squamish, BC | trainbodylanguage.com

What if the pain you feel in your body is actually the voice of something your mind hasn't found words for yet? In this episode, hosts Harmony Slater and Russell Case sit down with two extraordinary healers—Kyra Klein and Matthew Johnson, co-creators of Body Language in Squamish, British Columbia—to explore what it really means to heal the whole human system.

Kyra is Harmony's cousin, reunited through Ancestry.com in one of the most unexpected family stories you'll ever hear. A trained physiotherapist, yoga teacher, and shamanic practitioner, Kyra has spent over a decade learning to read the body's deepest stories through touch, intuition, and energy work. Her partner Matt came to healing through a radically different path—as a nationally ranked sport climbing coach who suppressed his emotions with elite precision, until a family loss and near-death illness shattered everything he thought he knew.

Together, Kyra and Matt have built a practice that bridges physiotherapy, somatic therapy, breathwork, shamanic ceremony, and psychedelic integration—because they've learned that no single modality can heal the whole person.

In this conversation, you'll discover:

• Why the body stores emotional and traumatic history in physical form
• How Matt's three-month health crisis—where he lost a third of his body weight and negotiated with death itself—became his initiation into healing
• What somatic therapy offers that traditional talk therapy cannot
• How Kyra reads the emotional story underneath physical symptoms through touch
• The difference between caring for someone and carrying them
• Why breathwork ceremony can be as powerful as psychedelic medicine
• What the Pacha Mesa shamanic tradition teaches about reconnecting to the natural world
• How integration is the missing piece in most healing journeys
• Why the West is finally waking up to what indigenous and Eastern traditions have always known

This conversation is rich, tender, occasionally hilarious, and deeply grounded in the lived experience of two people who chose to turn toward their own healing—and built a business helping others do the same.

⭐ Want to go deeper? The full conversation about Harmony and Russell's personal journeys with Kyra and Matt—including their integration experiences—is available exclusively inside the Finding Harmony Community: community-harmonyslater.com

Timestamps

• [00:00] Welcome to Finding Harmony
• [01:00] Introducing Today's Theme: Whole Human Healing
• [03:00] Meet Kyra Klein & Matthew Johnson: Body Language, Squamish BC
• [06:00] The Ancestry.com Discovery: How Harmony Found Her Cousin
• [09:00] Soul Collision: How Kyra and Matt Met on Hinge and Knew Immediately
• [12:00] What It Means to Build a Relationship Around Healing
• [14:00] Matt's Background: Canadian National Sport Climbing Coach
• [15:30] The Moment Everything Broke: A Family Loss and a Health Crisis
• [18:00] Three Months Without Food: Negotiating with Death
• [21:00] Cashews, Consciousness, and Coming Back
• [24:00] Kyra's Spiritual Awakening: Spirits in Her Bedroom as a Child
• [28:00] From High-Performance Sport to Physiotherapy: The Body as Teacher
• [32:00] Kyra's Approach: Reading the Emotional Story Beneath Physical Symptoms
• [38:00] The Mind-Body Split: What Western Medicine Got Wrong
• [40:00] Somatic Therapy: Getting Out of the Story and Back into the Body
• [44:00] Why Intense Practice Can Be a Way to Avoid Feeling
• [47:00] Body Language: Learning to Understand What Your Body Is Saying
• [52:00] How Healing Happens in Stillness
• [56:00] Matt's Spiritual Awakening Through Meditation
• [59:00] Kyra's First Psilocybin Journey and the Birth of Something New
• [01:01:00] Integration: Why Openings Without Integration Don't Stick
• [01:04:00] The Pacha Mesa Shamanic Tradition: Earth-Honoring Philosophy
• [01:09:00] Cultural Appropriation and Sacred Transmission
• [01:11:00] Ceremony, Ritual, and What We've Lost as a Culture
• [01:14:00] How Kyra and Matt Set Sacred Space for Breathwork Ceremonies
• [01:18:00] The Power of Collective Healing
• [01:19:00] Where to Find Body Language

Connect with Kyra & Matt

• Website: trainbodylanguage.com
• Instagram: @trainbodylanguage
• Somatic therapy & psychedelic integration support available virtually (sliding scale pricing)
• Physiotherapy, shamanic therapy, and holistic sessions in Squamish, BC

Resources Mentioned

• Gabor Maté – Compassionate Inquiry Professional Training
• Pacha Mesa Tradition teachers: Robin and Darcy
• Heart of the Healer tradition
• How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan
• Ancestry.com

Key Takeaways

• The body stores emotional and traumatic history as physical pattern
• Healing is a lifelong path—you either turn toward yourself or you don't
• Somatic therapy gets you out of your story and back into felt experience
• Integration is the missing piece in most spiritual and healing journeys
• Breathwork ceremony can occasion mystical experience without plant medicine
• You can become addicted to anything—even spiritual practice—as a way to avoid feeling
• Genuine spiritual connection to the natural world is what the West is hungry for
• Your outer healer helps clear the path; the healing intelligence lives inside you

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