
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.
Formerly 1 Giant Mind Podcast.
Episodes
87 episodes
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 te...
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13:50

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...
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Episode 112
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14:20

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 t...
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14:24

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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8:21

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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17:04

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 off...
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7:41

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 inter...
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34:35

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 beyo...
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27:21

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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18:12

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 hones...
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46:15

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 f...
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7:51

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 ...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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11:14

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. T...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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11:26

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...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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14:48

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 transformat...
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22:43

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 c...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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10:41

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...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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9:21

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 fr...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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12:53

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 declin...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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11:32

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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Season 4
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Episode 10
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20:01

The Rise of Technology
Andrew asks for a perspective on the push-pull relationship between spiritual life and modern tech.
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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46:57

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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Season 4
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Episode 9
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19:42

Procreation?
Laura asks Jonni for a perspective on if we should be bringing kids into the world or not.
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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18:50
