In this episode Bini asks how to bring the experience of going beyond boundaries and being quite expansive in Meditation back into a relative and relevant form and follows up with a second question around the enquiry into- "who you are"? Jonni unpacks both offering a different perspective on a question that many are seeking to answer. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into unders...
Mar 24, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Our guest Jen asks what is the purpose of a committed relationship outside of procreation and what is the basis for cultivating a healthy and loving relationship. Jonni explains that relationships are the format for our deepest expression. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes with Carla Dimatti...
Mar 20, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In this episode Julie asks one of the most important questions of the season regarding feeling overwhelmed and isolated because of divisive news and information circulating the internet. She asks how to best wake people up and Jonni sheds light on the un-sustainability of taking our life cues from outside of ourselves particularly from the news or online. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ev...
Mar 17, 2021•25 min•Season 3Ep. 8
The next inquiry came from Vanessa and she asks Jonni to break down the different types of meditation in relation to the 5 functions of the mind and why practicing a being technique is so important as a solid foundation. Refer to earlier episode* 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes with Carla ...
Mar 13, 2021•23 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Our guest Damien asks Jonni about surrender and how do we let go when we realize something is no longer good for us? What unfolds is a discussion on the misconceptions around the ego. For deeper exploration see previous 1GM podcast episode #10 Meditation and the Ego. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movemen...
Mar 10, 2021•17 min•Season 3Ep. 6
In this episode Josh asks Jonni exactly what he means when he says that the world needs more embodiment. What unfolds is an interesting conversation about staying diligent and vigilant with the process of unfolding our potential. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes with Carla Dimattina to stre...
Mar 03, 2021•20 min•Season 3Ep. 4
In this episode Stellios asks an important question regarding the awakening of humanity and wanted to know if nature will support us or the environment? Jonni elaborates on the role that Nature (creative Intelligence) takes creating circumstances that bring about the awakening of humanity. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolu...
Feb 27, 2021•21 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Our guest Ashwin asks Jonni to share his perspective on the experience of Love as it pertains to unfolding our human potential through meditation and more importantly how to gain deeper access to our full expression of Love. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes with Carla Dimattina to strengthe...
Feb 24, 2021•20 min•Season 3Ep. 2
In the first episode of season 3 podcast producer Daniel asks Jonni to bring us up to speed on the history of 1 Giant Mind. Jonni reflects on his encounter with the Dalai Lama that shifted the trajectory of 1GM from a science based endeavor gathering data on mass meditations, back into the heart. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth &...
Feb 20, 2021•24 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In our final episode of season 2 our guest Sarah asks about the importance of community and the role it plays in our pursuit for self knowledge, belonging and having impact in the world. Jonni shares his view of how community forms the basis for all of it. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes w...
Aug 20, 2020•15 min•Season 2Ep. 13
In this ep our guest Shaunn asks Jonni’s perspective on using substances for accessing higher states of consciousness. Jonni shares a view of the pro’s and con’s the need to be honest about why we would trade them. Then Shaunn asks a bonus question for Jonni’s take on meditation reaching a critical mass in the mainstream. Both answers may not be what you would expect. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content t...
Aug 16, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Our guest Rachael asks for Jonni's perspective on the lack of racial diversity in the wellness industry. Jonni welcomes the highlighting of the issue and encourages everyone to have the difficult conversations around creating equality in the world and then asks Racheal what she sees as a solution. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth &am...
Aug 13, 2020•13 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Our guest Harriet asks how do we break the habit of getting caught up in the doing so that we can come back to Being. Jonni explains that going against the mainstream requires being uncomfortable and requires diligence to resist the powerful pull of that current. He then shares about the power of action that is driven from a state of Being and the effect it has. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take...
Aug 09, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Our Guest Nat Brooks describes the challenge of being more conscious and aware in her workplace environment and questions if staying in her role in TV industry will slow down or stop her personal growth. Jonni points out that she is uniquely positioned to be a champion for change. Remaining in the place of need can actually accelerate and assist that personal growth but reinforces the need for her to be patient in her approach. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studi...
Aug 06, 2020•11 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this episode our guest Cimarra asks for some advice on maintaining a meditation practice while being confronted with the emotional turbulence that can come with working through past trauma. Jonni encourages Cimarra to remember the reason why we are meditating and points out that the first phase of healing and recovery can be the purging of emotion, stress and agitation. A key take away was the importance of being surrounded by community to support us in our experiences. 1 Giant Mind is evolvi...
Aug 02, 2020•16 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Our guest Lindon has been using the 1 giant mind app for a few months with great effect and asks Jonni what to expect from deepening his understanding and experience of meditation by learning with a teacher and how to bring the family along. Jonni offers insight into the intelligence that is structured within our awareness. How meditation enlivens our capabilities and the knowledge of how to fulfill our desires. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundred...
Jul 30, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Our show producer Dan explains his familiarity with the way our thinking can seemingly create fear in the body more easily than love chemistry and asks, why are we afraid of love? Jonni highlights that it isn’t necessarily thinking that creates the body sensations that we refer to as fear, nor absolutely body sensations that create fear based thinking. He suggests the solution is the resolution which comes through acceptance of the thoughts and feelings whilst connecting to our deeper experience...
Jul 26, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Our host Skye Tipler asks “Why do I avoid my second meditation”. Jonni asks her to explain the reason she thinks she avoids it which reveals an underlying fear that becoming all that is possible might render her irrelevant in her role in life. Jonni unpacks the reasons why we self sabotage and place an upper limit on our potential such as fear of rejection or failure before explaining the exponential benefits we gain from the second meditation of the day. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jon...
Jul 23, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Our guest Sam asks if we need to cultivate a level of non-attachment in response to the amount of suffering in the world. Jonni speaks about the need for us to stay connected and practice compassion in place of detachment, understanding that the individuals acting in ignorance are part of a larger problem and not the source of it. He also points out that contributing to the solution will set our frustration at ease knowing that we are acting to bring positive benefit to the world. Growth happens...
Jul 19, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Rachael asks if her ability to witness her experience and quickly move through emotional difficulty with a knowingness that everything is going to be ok is preventing her from feeling on a deeper level. Jonni offers the perspective that if we are “doing the work” any suppression of emotion will be short lived and that if the intelligence of the body is suppressing emotion that it is for good reason. Rachael then asks a follow up question about the body struggling with stress while the mind is cl...
Jul 16, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Our guest Emily asks for a clear definition of Enlightenment. Jonni describes Enlightenment as a knowingness of oneness and reveals the importance of this an experience directly and not just an idea to be contemplated on the level of thinking. He presents the concept of human awareness as being infinite in its nature and describes how we’re all working out how to be infinite while existing within finite boundaries. Racheal poses a very interesting connecting question, do we still feel emotions i...
Jul 12, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome back! Our guest Allie Oishi asks “If we are all at our essence, love. Why must we go through struggles, pain and suffering to find our way back to our nature of love? Jonni shares a perspective that this life is one of many on a journey to reveal the truth of who we are. Moving from a sense of separation into connection and unity of life. Jonni suggests that our personal suffering is an extension of the suffering that we inflict on the planet and it’s inhabitants. But zooming out further...
Jul 08, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
"What do you make of the generational shift?" asks Leslie Hoffman, President of the New York City Open Center . From Boomers to Gen Z, the range of students, teachers, and wellness practitioners has never been so diverse as today. But in the modern, stressed out world, holistic life has become a survival mechanism, rather than a way of enlightenment. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever de...
Nov 16, 2018•22 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Has meditation been ruined by the mainstream? Alida Brandenburg, a daring brand strategist and former Director of Social Media at Refinery29, talks about the commodification of the wellness world. This is an increasingly relevant topic and Jonni delivers a response that trades the cynicism for an outlook of grace and personal responsibility. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into...
Nov 09, 2018•20 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Jesse Israel, founder of The Big Quiet and a certified meditation teacher with 1 Giant Mind , asks: Can you teach meditation even if you struggle with stress and anxiety yourself? Jonni explains that meditation teachers don't need to be perfected humans, because the role is not to sell perfection but to teach an elegant process of self-discovery. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper...
Oct 26, 2018•22 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Alida, a digital strategist and the daughter of a Zen Buddhist priest, inquires about how to live a life where we’re not attached to results but also still be someone who is ambitious and seeks to excel in their life, studies, and career. Does meditation inherently make us passive, or can it help us be passionate, dedicated, and even more engaged with the world around us? 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge conte...
Oct 19, 2018•23 min•Season 1Ep. 27
How do we truly heal and recover after a period of self-loathing and self-harm? Aloynka, a Russian born journalist and television personality now living in the US shares her challenges as she recovers from a life-threatening eating disorder. The deepest truth emerges in the end and results in one of the most powerful and insightful 1 Giant Mind podcasts to date. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take...
Sep 28, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Alida Brandenburg (digital brand strategist, of a Zen Buddhist household) asks: in times of anxiety or depression, how can one still prioritize a daily meditation practice? We examine the way that personal goal-setting and resources such as friends, family, and even certified professionals, can give us the capability to keep our practice in difficult moments. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take yo...
Sep 21, 2018•23 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Can we change our thoughts with thought alone? Caroline asks Jonni what role meditation plays in shaping how and what we think. In this episode we consider the problems of over-identifying with the “thinking mind” and we explore how meditation leads to a deep form of human intelligence. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolutio...
Sep 14, 2018•16 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Leslie Hoffman (president of New York's Open Center ) asks Jonni why we can't stop the chatter in our heads. 1 Giant Mind is evolving!! Check out Jonni's new project Ritam Studio . With hundreds of hours of courses and knowledge content to take you ever deeper into understanding and supporting your growth & evolution. Stacks of movement classes with Carla Dimattina to strengthen and align so everything can flow. Try for free today head to ritam.studio...
Sep 07, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 23
