Ritam Studio Podcast With Jonni Pollard and Carla Dimattina
Jonni Pollard & Carla Dimattina bring a combined 50 years of experience together on the Ritam Studio Platform. Sharing ancient knowledge, techniques and modern movement to help you be the best of all that you are. Â Formerly 1 Giant Mind Podcast.
Setting Boundaries With Love
We explore the nuanced world of personal boundaries, specifically distinguishing between boundaries set from defensiveness versus those set from love. The conversation delves into how properly communicated and maintained boundaries can actually deepen relationships rather than end them.
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Beyond the Addiction to Validation: Discovering Your Divine Nature
What if every challenge you face isn't a divine test but simply an opportunity for awakening? This profound conversation explores how we've misunderstood our relationship with the universe and our own spiritual nature.
We begin by examining the human tendency to create narratives around difficult experiences. When challenges arise, we often think "the universe is testing me," but this fundamentally misunderstands the spiritual journey. Rather than tests with pass/fail outcomes, life offers a continuous stream of opportunities for expanding consciousness – miss one, and another appears. There's no "last chance" mentality in spiritual evolution.
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Beyond the Depths: Navigating Oceanic Consciousness
Have you ever felt like your meditation practice has lost its depth? That moment when your once-profound journeys into transcendence seem to have flattened into something more... ordinary? This fascinating exploration reveals why that apparent plateau might actually be your greatest breakthrough.
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The Ripple Effect: How Inner Coherence Transforms Your World
What if your personal practices were about something much bigger than self-improvement? The journey toward inner coherence isn't just about feeling better—it's about becoming a transformative presence in your relationships and community.
We dive into the profound ripple effects that emerge when we connect to the deeper purpose behind our practices. Rather than pursuing self-improvement as a hedonistic quest to alleviate personal suffering, we explore how developing inner stability allows us to become a reliable anchor for others. Your relationships naturally become more authentic and less reactive when you cultivate the capacity to ride your own em...
The Divine Blueprint: Exploring Our Spiritual Essence and Purpose
We explore the profound concept that humans are spiritual beings at our core, with souls that represent the pure light of divine consciousness existing before sound and form. Our existence is intentional and purposeful, created with great force by the divine source to fulfill specific functions in the cosmos.
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Transcending Together: Why Group Meditation Amplifies Consciousness
Ever wonder why meditation feels more powerful when practiced in a group? The answer lies in the fascinating science of collective consciousness.
What we're experiencing during group meditation isn't just psychological suggestion—it's a measurable phenomenon called the Maharishi Effect. When consciousness states begin to entrain through intentional practice, something extraordinary happens. Our individual awareness moves from localized states toward a universal, non-local consciousness experience, creating an amplification that pulls everyone deeper.
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Cosmic Consciousness: Are We Alone in the Universe?
Have you ever wondered if consciousness can go backward? The journey begins with a provocative question about ancient civilizations and their apparently higher states of consciousness compared to our current world. This leads us down a fascinating rabbit hole exploring human evolution, crisis as a catalyst for growth, and the mathematical certainty that we're not alone in the universe.
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Peeling Back the Curtains of Ignorance: Finding What Was Always There
This conversation reveals the fascinating mechanism behind pre-transformation anxiety. When we commit to spiritual growth, the universe doesn't wait for the official start date—the process begins the moment we press "register." That mounting tension, those emotional releases, the irrational fears? They're all part of divine intelligence orchestrating your preparation, ringing out your nervous system before the formal work even begins.
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Subtlety is Power: Discovering Universal Intelligence Through Meditation
Have you ever found yourself witnessing kaleidoscopic patterns during meditation and wondered what they mean? You're not alone. These mesmerizing visual phenomena represent a profound shift in consciousness—your mind moving from the gross level of awareness toward the source of thought itself.
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The Compassionate Design of Universal Intelligence
Our intuitive feelings aren't random thoughts but glimpses of our natural intelligence breaking through our conditioning. We explore how we are intelligence itself rather than having intelligence, and how trusting our gut feelings connects us to a deeper knowing.
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The Beautiful Mess of Being Genuinely You
Authenticity and enlightenment represent different points on the spiritual journey, with authenticity being the courageous expression of one's true nature while enlightenment transcends strategy altogether.
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A...Beyond the Body: Why We Meditate When Breathwork Feels Better
A profound exchange about balancing different spiritual practices when breath work starts feeling more appealing than meditation. We explore how to navigate when kriyas provide an immediate high while meditation requires more discipline but offers deeper transformative effects.
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Surrendering to Your Spiritual Intelligence: The Art of Doing Nothing to Achieve Everything
Exploring the paradoxical wisdom of "do least, achieve most; do nothing, achieve everything" reveals how our deepest human nature flows from spiritual experience rather than materialistic thinking.
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The Resonance of Mantras
Specific mantras create resonant vibrations that guide us to deeper levels of consciousness, where we can experience the purifying effects of connecting with divine intelligence.
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Beyond Traditional Therapy: The Vedic Approach to Healing Trauma
Jonni shines light on the foundations of Veda Therapy, a therapeutic approach rooted in Vedic tradition that focuses on liberating people from trauma patterns by reconnecting them with their true nature as knowing beings.
For those interested in experiencing these approaches, try the seven-day free trial on Ritam Studio, join Jonni's weekly group meditation on Thursdays 7pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, or consider attending one of their transformative retreats.
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Chain movement: The Holistic Approach to Physical Healing
Our body's physical ailments often reveal deeper emotional and spiritual blockages that conventional medicine fails to address. Holistic physiotherapy treats the interconnection of mind, body, emotions, and spirit to create lasting healing beyond symptom management.
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Mind-Body Connection: Unlocking Your Divine Intelligence
The mind and body are inextricably linked, and physical symptoms often point to deeper emotional blockages that need to be addressed for true healing and transformation to occur.
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The Sacredness of Masculinity
What does it mean to be a real man in today's world? This profound conversation between spiritual teacher Jonni and his wife Carla cuts through cultural confusion to reveal the essence of authentic masculinity.
Carla opens with raw honesty about her past relationships with men who looked the part—tall, strong, financially successful—yet consistently disappointed her when emotional depth and accountability were required. "I'd given up on my definition of a man being possible to find," she confesses, describing how these experiences steadily eroded her expectations of what men could truly offer.
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What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Sacred Nature?
Caught in the dance between remembering and forgetting who you truly are? This profound conversation reveals a liberating truth: you haven't forgotten anything at all. What feels like forgetting is actually ignoring – a temporary turning away from the divine nature you already know exists within you.
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Awakening to Natural Consciousness: Beyond Mindfulness Practices
Witnessing consciousness transforms our relationship with ourselves and others in ways mindfulness practices only hint at. Unlike deliberate attention practices, true witnessing emerges spontaneously when we make contact with our deeper nature – pure consciousness itself.
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Breaking Through Meditation Plateaus
Feeling like your meditation practice has lost its spark? You're not alone. After years of consistent practice, many meditators encounter a mysterious plateau where the once-transformative experience becomes mechanical and seemingly lifeless. This conversation dives deep into the phenomenon of meditation staleness and offers a refreshingly practical path forward.
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Healing Through Understanding: Moving Beyond Pain and Resentment
We explore the journey beyond conventional forgiveness to a deeper understanding of compassion and healing. Discovering that true liberation comes not from pardoning others but from recognizing the divine nature within everyone – even those who have hurt us.
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The Birth of Ritam Studio
Jonni Pollard and Carla DiMattina introduce their new venture, Ritam Studio, which combines Jonni's meditation expertise in "Veda Therapy" with Carla's holistic physiotherapy approach "Chain Movement" to create a powerful system for transformation and healing.
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Perspective: How Cynicism Chokes Our Human Connection
We explore whether it's possible to raise children in our modern world without trauma and how belonging is essential to human wellbeing. The conversation delves into the shift from communal living to isolated households and offers insights on cultivating resilience, community, and human connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
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Pain vs Suffering: Understanding the Critical Difference
Pain is inevitable in life but suffering is optional and largely self-created. Suffering occurs when we feel trapped in narratives about our pain, believing we're victims rather than recognizing our capacity to overcome challenges.
If you're finding yourself stuck in recurring patterns that feel too painful to address, please get help looking at them. What you're carrying is far worse than what you'll experience by processing it, and you're losing precious time that could be spent in joy.
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Compassionate Boundaries: How to Give Without Getting Depleted
We explore how to be of service without being taken advantage of through understanding our inherent value and setting compassionate boundaries. When we resolve our need for external validation and recognize our worth, service flows naturally from a place of abundance rather than depletion.
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Healing in a Traumatized World: Finding Your Baseline
What we label as PTSD is actually a condition experienced by nearly everyone, with most people suffering from both past and present traumatic stress in our chaotic world. True mental health—the freedom to actualize our deepest desires—is declining as people feel increasingly overwhelmed, anxious, and unable to self-actualize in today's environment.
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What is Ritam?
In a long awaited return Jonni makes some announcements regarding his new platform Ritam Studio and the evolution of the 1 giant mind podcast.
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Our role in the Greater Evolution?
Is it our role to educate others or is it enough to maintain our own patch?
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture w...The Rise of Technology
Andrew asks for a perspective on the push-pull relationship between spiritual life and modern tech.
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture with C...How Do We Reconcile The Darkness?
How do we find that universal compassion for the most terrible violations of our humanity?
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture with C...Procreation?
Laura asks Jonni for a perspective on if we should be bringing kids into the world or not.
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore t...Cultivating Personal Power
Nida asks jonni how can we no be in a hurry for the shift that we are collectively experiencing right now to be over?
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Awaken aw...Why does Nature need us?
Nida asks the question, if there intelligence of Nature has orchestrated all that is in the universe, why does it require our participation?Â
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Awaken awareness, bu...Fire
Stel asks Jonni to go a bit deeper on the element of fire (Agni) and how to deepen our relationship with it.
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Awaken awareness, build s...When Action becomes Inaction
Mattie asks the question about when action becomes inaction.
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture with Carla's Movement Fundamentals. Access Jonni's Knowledge f...Detecting Subtlety
Lise asks how do we increase awareness of the subtle aspects of our experience.
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture with Carla's M...Trust Vs Knowing
Niko asks Jonni to explain the difference between trust and knowing and the value of investigating the relationship between the two.Â
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Awaken awareness, build strength an...Covid, What Happened?
In this episode show producer Dan asks the question- What was that covid thing all about?Â
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Awaken awareness, build strength and mobility, restore true posture wi...Sensitivity
The mighty Jez asks about increased sensitivity as he progresses toward enlightenment. Jonni reflects that as we become more able to process the data that our senses yield we increase sensitivity to detect ever more subtle layers of information.
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