Prema Shui Hong Hong

Prema Jansen, founder of One Heart Healing in Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Bachelor in Biology, St. Mainrad College, Indiana, U.S.A.

Masters of Science in Education with a Major in Counselling and Guidance, Indiana University, U.S.A.

Master of Divinity, St. Meinrad School of Theology, Indiana, U.S.A.

Diploma (equivelant to Master’s degree in Australia) in Analytical Psychology,
C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

Prema was born in 1942, he began his professional life as a Catholic priest in the U.S.A. in 1968, and also finished his Master’s degree in Counselling at this time. He worked as a priest for 4 years, before realizing his own need for therapy and self-development. He moved to Switzerland in 1972 where he entered therapy and began his training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He also trained for 2 years in Sandplay therapy with Dora Kalff, completing both his trainings in 1976. These years marked the beginning of his meditation practices. He practiced Tai Chi, various forms of breathing, and creative painting and writing. He also began his connection to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, learning and using many of their meditation techniques.

Prema then moved to Sydney, Australia where he worked as an analyst for 7 years, using primarily dream work and Sandplay therapy. During this time he was President of the Jung Society for 3 years, worked at the Sacred Heart Hospice for the Dying for 3 years and conducted many, many workshops throughout Australia in dream work, sandplay, creative painting and writing, Death & Dying, and Meditation. After 5 years Prema began training professional therapists. He worked in several government agencies, training conventional psychologists in depth psychology. He also worked in psychiatric clinics with deeply disturbed clients who were passing through psychotic episodes.

In 1983 Prema moved to the Blue Mountains (near Sydney) where he co-founded, with his friend Bhakti, the Living Water Centre. They offered a 3 month residential training program in Rebirthing and Applied Jungian Psychology. People began coming from many different countries to learn at the Living Water Centre, and a wide variety of methods were used. They taught Shamanic work, meditation practices from many traditions, Rebirthing, Sandplay Therapy, dream work, the use of dance, group work, therapeutic massage, and various other techniques as part of the training program. Prema and the team also conducted many workshops throughout Australia and New Zealand during this time.

Prema moved to Western Australia in 1989, which marked a new stage in his life. During this time he worked in several Government agencies as a counsellor and family therapist. He also did several workshop tours throughout Australia and the United

States. However, his main focus and effort over these 12 years was his own inner
growth and development. He used many methods such as fasting, various intense meditation techniques developed by Osho, and the “ordinary challenges of life” as his workshop towards wholeness. He also used fasting and “right eating” as methods with his clients, in order to dissolve their past conditioning. He set up and ran a spring water delivery business, helped his partner raise her two young children, and was active in the community by conducting a men’s support and therapy group. Prema began using The Tibetan 5 Rites as part of his meditation and also began his study of the Flower of Life work (Drunvalo Melchizadek). He also spent 6 months intensive training in the use of Tibetan Pulsing.

Prema began living in Malaysia in 2003 when he began to set up the Golden Dawn Centre with the essential help of Loo Theng and Wan Yee. He and Olivia (Lam Yu Xuan) were married in 2004. They lived in Penang until 2009, where they ran the Golden Dawn Centre. From 2004 to 2009, Prema and Olivia conducted workshops in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Malaka, Kuching, Ipoh, Hat Yai in Thailand and Singapore. These workshop tours included lectures and seminars for hospital and Palliative Care staff. They also conducted workshops in Tasmania, Melbourne, W.A., and the Blue Mountains. The workshops included Dream work, Sandplay therapy, Death and Dying, Vision Quest, Tantra, Fasting and Right Eating, Rebirthing, and meditation techniques from many traditions.

Prema moved to Johor Bahru in July, 2009 and with the help of Jennifer Wong, set up the One Heart Healing Centre in Sutera Utama, Skudai. The scope of Prema’s workshops has expanded, due to a large extent to the promptings of Jennifer, who suggested family workshops, children’s workshops, and ongoing training workshops for “old students” who had trained with Prema. The most recent workshops have been sex education for children from ages 8 to 16, which we considered highly successful, based on the comments of the 14 participants. We also conducted a small workshop for 2 families, both of whom brought their autistic child, one aged 3 and the other aged 6.

Another aspect of Prema’s teaching in his workshops is the Earth Changes which are happening on a global scale, from 2 different causes. One is the occurrence of natural disasters like earth quakes, volcanoes, and very severe and unusual weather. And the other cause is manmade, resulting in global pollution, growing poor health, accelerating violence, and chaotic financial instability. All of these events are contributing to an intensification of the need for all of humanity to grow emotionally and spiritually.

Prema says "The aim of my workshops and therapy is to free the individual from his & her past conditioning, to free the individual to be their ultimate whole self, free of all dependency and fear, free to love, laugh and celebrate life".