Vinny Colandrea aka "The Reverb Yogi" joins JP & Steve to explain how he uses sound and vibration to guide people out of mental loops and back into present awareness. He defines his work as intentionally redirecting attention so people can “open the space to heal themselves” rather than being stuck in repetitive narrative talk therapy.

He traces the arc of his practice from childhood music, through listening to teachers like Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle, to a turning point when a gong bath produced a deep experience that pushed him from hobbyist to practitioner. He describes buying bowls and gongs, slowly building gear, and being invited to play at yoga classes before committing more fully to the work.

Vinny talks about keeping a firefighting career while developing sound work — he frames both as service, and describes bringing gongs into the firehouse to normalize different expressions of masculinity and presence. He emphasizes blending identities rather than forcing a split between “work” and “life.”

The episode covers both experiential and practical terrain: what a sound session feels like, how people often arrive skeptical and leave surprised and expanded, how sound helps people step out of story and into “timeless inner awareness,” and why physical vibration can feel viscerally different from recorded sound. Vinny explains instrument choice and notes that many of his gongs sit in the low bass range producing a bodily vibration you don't often feel in everyday life.

He also shares practical daily practices and technologies that support presence: Shambhavi Mahamudra (a 21-minute Sadhguru practice he does), using driving or running as opportunities for awareness, and simple prompts to pull attention into the present. Vinny describes entrainment (the grandfather-clock metaphor) — how a room’s dominant energy pulls less-stable energies into sync — and how holding calm leadership in a room changes outcomes.

Vinny addresses plant medicine and psychedelics with nuance: he’s seen powerful, useful experiences (ayahuasca, psilocybin, cacao), stresses intention and setting, and shares a specific ayahuasca retreat where diet and careful preparation allowed medicine to convey precise insights. He frames plants as tools that can expand pathways to presence when used responsibly, not as escapes.

You can find Vinny on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/reverb_yogi/

View his upcoming events here: https://bio.site/reverbyogi

And his website here: https://www.reverbyogi.com/

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