Meditation Podcast

In this episode, Roy sits down with Yossi Montrose, founder of Performa Ball, who has spent more than two decades developing a physical coaching methodology built on controlled instability and stability ball training. Yossi shares how he grew up with a hearing impairment, was bullied from his first day at school, and carried that into a collapsed posture, constant pain and a complete loss of confidence. He describes finding the stability ball at a gym and how it changed his posture, breathing and presence. He also tells the story of learning to regulate himself well enough to stay calm with a lion at a nature reserve in South Africa. Roy and Yossi talk about choosing the right ball size and quality, why schools and offices have swapped chairs for balls, how movement calms children with ADHD, and how sitting on the ball can bring more energy, better sleep and relief from back, knee and shoulder problems. Yossi explains the 3,500 exercises he has created and where listeners can find him.

Timestamps

0:02 – Introducing Yossi Montrose

About Yossi Montrose

Yossi Montrose is the founder of Performa Ball and has spent more than two decades developing a physical coaching methodology built on controlled instability and stability ball training. His work looks at how balance, composure and adaptability shape the way people perform under pressure, and it is aimed at founders, executives, leaders and speakers who need to stay steady while circumstances change. He is also a posture and confidence coach and has given many talks while standing on the ball.

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#MeditationPodcast #YossiMontrose #PerformaBall #StabilityBall #ControlledInstability #PostureCoach #ConfidenceCoaching #MindBodyConnection #Breathwork #SelfRegulation #Wellbeing #Movement #HealthAndWellness #ThePodfather

In this episode, Roy sits down with Elke Scholz, a registered psychotherapist, internationally registered expressive art consultant and educator, and internationally certified EMDR therapist, to talk about anxiety, trauma, expressive art therapy, and what it actually takes to love your life. Elke shares her own journey with undiagnosed anxiety, how EMDR therapy helps the brain release the energy trapped in traumatic memories, and why slowing down and getting present in the body matters more than any technique. She speaks candidly about how expressive art can help both children and adults process grief, trauma, and bullying, and walks through her own daily gratitude and grounding practice that has kept her grounded for over twenty years.

Timestamps

0:02 – Welcome and guest introduction

About Elke Scholz

Elke Scholz, MA, RP, REACE, is a registered Psychotherapist, an internationally registered Expressive Art Consultant/Educator, and internationally certified EMDR Therapist. She is the well-known author of the 3rd edition of Loving Your Life, internationally available and teen friendly. Elke has also launched Anxiety Warrior Vol 1 & 2, both with powerful tools for the journey to emotional freedom. Elke manages her own anxiety and believes strategies to lower anxiety levels can be accessible and easy for people. As an Energy Rich Vitality Specialist living with passion and abounding energy, Elke is excited to announce her new webinar "Energy Rich: Overcome Exhaustion, Win with Vitality" and her audio meditation series based on her book, Loving Your Life.

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#MeditationPodcast #Anxiety #EMDR #Trauma #ExpressiveArtTherapy #Mindfulness #MentalHealth #Grief #SelfHealing #Gratitude #AnxietyWarrior #LovingYourLife

Flames of the Heart Meditation by Paul Boulton

I interviewed Paul on Episode #317

About Paul Boulton

Paul Boulton is a professional psychic reader, psychic therapist, author, and mentor, and the creator of Targeted Energy Focused Tapping (Targeted EFT), with over 20 years of experience helping people and children worldwide reduce stress, heal trauma, and navigate life's challenges. He uncovers the origin of stress related to a person's issues, blending intuitive and practical insight to help clients create lasting positive change. His clients have included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, police and paramedics, teachers, actors, parents, and former nuns and priests.

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#MeditationPodcast #Psychic #Tarot #Palmistry #EnergyHealing #TappingTherapy #EFT #Spirituality #TraumaHealing #Intuition #Consciousness #InnerWork

In this episode, Roy sits down with Paul Boulton, a professional psychic and therapist from Australia with over two decades of experience, whose client list has included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, and even former nuns and priests. Paul traces his story from an intuitively attuned childhood, through a difficult schooling experience, to firewalking at 1,100 degrees and studying under influential figures in the consciousness field. He introduces his concept of the "pre-incarnation contract" — a framework he uses in his therapeutic work to help clients understand the challenges they carry — and speaks candidly about the categories of trauma and violation he works with most often in his practice, and why he developed his own therapeutic tapping method, Targeted EFT, after finding tarot and palmistry alone weren't enough to help clients move forward. Roy volunteers for a live reading on air, and Paul walks through tarot spreads and palmistry in real time, connecting what he sees to Roy's recent recovery from a spinal injury and his approach to relationships. The conversation closes with Paul's home energy-shielding practice and where to find his work.

Timestamps

0:02 – Introducing Paul Boulton

About Paul Boulton

Paul Boulton is a professional psychic reader, psychic therapist, author, and mentor, and the creator of Targeted Energy Focused Tapping (Targeted EFT), with over 20 years of experience helping people and children worldwide reduce stress, heal trauma, and navigate life's challenges. He uncovers the origin of stress related to a person's issues, blending intuitive and practical insight to help clients create lasting positive change. His clients have included CEOs, doctors, psychologists, nurses, military personnel, police and paramedics, teachers, actors, parents, and former nuns and priests.

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#MeditationPodcast #Psychic #Tarot #Palmistry #EnergyHealing #TappingTherapy #EFT #Spirituality #TraumaHealing #Intuition #Consciousness #InnerWork

In this episode, Roy sits down with Brian D. Ridgway, "The Spellbreaker" and founder of Level 5 Mentoring, alongside Abigail Morgan, CEO of Level 5 Mentoring and a 27-year veteran of the coaching world. Brian shares the extraordinary story of January 3rd, 2011 — the day he hit total rock bottom, about to be homeless with his pregnant wife and two kids, and experienced an awakening that instantly transformed his relationship with his own mind. He unpacks where the "Spellbreaker" name actually came from, walks through his Five Paradigms that he says govern how every person on the planet experiences their inner world, and lays out his "Five Spells from Hell" framework — the mental patterns he believes quietly run beneath most people's stress and stuckness. Abigail shares her own turning point — 27 years deep in the coaching industry, including 8 years running Martha Beck's practitioner training program, and how a decades-long physical pain vanished in a single 10-minute session with Brian after years of other practices hadn't touched it. For anyone drawn to stillness and inner work, this conversation offers a different lens on what actually releases tension held in the body and mind. They close with how this applies to parenting, to animals, and where to start if a four-day retreat in Hawaii isn't realistic right now.

Timestamps

0:02 – Introducing Brian D. Ridgway and Abigail Morgan

About Brian D. Ridgway

Brian D. Ridgway, known as "The Spellbreaker," is the founder of Level 5 Mentoring and author of the #1 international bestseller Break Your Self-Help Addiction. After 17 years of childhood abuse and decades of financial disaster, relationship trauma, and a suicide attempt, Brian experienced a life-changing awakening on January 3rd, 2011. Since then, his method — called Spellbreaking — has helped over 265,000 people across 84 countries.

About Abigail Morgan

Abigail Morgan is CEO of Level 5 Mentoring and a 27-year veteran of the self-help and coaching world. After investing over $750,000 in her own healing journey, training extensively under Martha Beck (Oprah's coach), and running Martha Beck's practitioner training program for over 8 years, Abigail found that even the most advanced coaching modalities left her deepest issues untouched. She discovered Brian's work a year and a half ago, closed her own company to take over Level 5's practitioner program, and became CEO nine months ago.

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#MeditationPodcast #InnerStillness #Healing #Mindfulness #Consciousness #SelfHelp #Trauma #PersonalTransformation #InnerWork #Presence #Liberation #Mindset

In this episode of The Meditation Podcast, Roy sits down with Jon Paul Crimi — Breathwork pioneer, celebrity trainer, and sobriety coach based in Bend, Oregon. Jon Paul shares how his late friend Matthew Perry first introduced him to Breathwork, how a single session sent him "down the rabbit hole," and how he transformed a niche, mystical practice into a grounded, results-driven method that's now certified over 3,000 instructors worldwide.

The conversation covers the science behind "tetany" (the hand-cramping sensation common in circular breathwork), why Jon Paul's mouth-breathing technique differs from nose-breathing methods like Wim Hof, how trauma stored in the nervous system gets released through the breath, and why he believes breathwork produces results comparable to psychedelics — without the logistical downsides. He also opens up about his own sobriety (26 years), his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, his experience bringing breathwork into corporations like Nike and LinkedIn, and how to spot unqualified instructors in an unregulated industry.

What we Discussed

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Guest — Jon Paul Crimi:

#Breathwork #MeditationPodcast #BreathworkHealing #TraumaHealing #NervousSystemRegulation #SomaticHealing #Sobriety #EmotionalResilience #StressRelief #AnxietyRelief #GriefSupport #MindBodyConnection #ConsciousBreathing #SelfLove #HealingJourney #Mindfulness #WellnessPodcast #MentalHealthAwareness