Reset, Replenish and Recover
Join Jonni Pollard and Carla Dimattina at The Sanubari Resort in Sumba, Indonesia for a 5-day transformative retreat
May 4-9 2025
Reserve your spot below
A Life-Changing Experience
Introducing The Reset Retreat, led by Jonni Pollard, a spiritual therapist, and Carla Dimattina, a holistic physiotherapist, with over 50 years of combined expertise in optimizing physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Jonni and Carla bring together their unique modalities to offer you a transformational retreat that promises deep and lasting change.
What to expect on
The Reset Retreat:
Deep rest and recovery from stress and fatigue from your daily lives
Learn the powerful Vedic meditation technique that you will have for life
Skillfully guided sessions to uproot stubborn old beliefs and habits that keep you locked in cycles of undesirable behavior
A complete revolution in the way you experience your body, how you move and what real alignment feels like
A perfect balance between classes/workshops and free time to enjoy the resort
Delicious farm to table food, designed to help you cleanse and detox
Feel mentally and emotionally balanced and physically recharged and strong
An achievable take home program that is transformational
Delicious plant based farm to table meals
Intimate retreat size, max 20 people, couples and singles
Join a group of
like-minded people also ready for a powerful Reset!
Limited spots available
A Typical Day at
The Reset Retreat:
Morning movement class with Carla
Learn to meditate course for new meditators
Advanced techniques for existing meditators
Breakfast
Workshop with Jonni on identifying and breaking undesirable beliefs and habits
Free time (hot/cold therapies, surfing, treatments, beach horse riding, time out poolside in your own villa)
Lunch
Techniques for deep stress release and expanded awareness
Workshop with Carla about the power of correct posture and movement and its influence on the mind
Free time
Dinner
Beach fireside chats
The Location:
The Sanubari Resort, Sumba Island
Sumba stands as an untouched jewel in Indonesia’s archipelago.
This remote island promises raw beauty and an authentic encounter with cultural heritage being the home of one of the world’s last living megalithic cultures, the Marapu.
The Sanubari is a resort of understated luxury with the perfect balance of remoteness and comfort in this quintessential paradise.
Our retreat will be a total buyout so it will be just our group occupying the entire resort.
The Sanubari is a boutique resort of 15 villas, each with their own pool, set on 2km of pristine beachfront within a lush 100 hectare ancient reserve.
The luxurious minimalist design of the resort makes the most of this stunning location of empty white sand beaches, turquoise waters and rolling hills.
Sumba is a land that time forgot, home to ancient spirits, proud warrior tribes and a touch of magic – making it the perfect location for The Reset Retreat.
Join us here in May 2025
An Investment in yourself
There are 4 categories of rooms to suit your preference. Beachfront villas and Garden View villas. Each villa comes with a private pool except the beach front studio. The 2Bdr Beachfront Villas are very spacious and come with private bathrooms. One of the rooms is beach view and the other is garden view. Each are priced accordingly. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.
More details about the rooms:
1BR Beach Front Villa -Single
These are the Premium Villas at the resort. A single bedroom over looking the infinite turquoise horizon, private pool and generous living area.
1BR Beach Front Villa -couple
These are the Premium Villas at the resort. A single bedroom over looking the infinite turquoise horizon, private pool and generous living area.
Garden Villa Studio - Single
This spacious studio villa has a magnificent view across the rice fields up into the surrounding hilly jungle. Each Garden Villa has a private pool.
Garden Villa Studio - couple
This spacious studio villa has a magnificent view across the rice fields up into the surrounding hilly jungle. Each Garden Villa has a private pool.
2BR Beach Front Villa Ocean View - Single
This room has an ocean view in a very spacious 2BR shared villa each with large private bathrooms, shared living space and a private pool for the villa.
2BR Beach Front Villa Ocean View - Couples
This room has an ocean view in a very spacious 2BR shared villa each with large private bathrooms, shared living space and a private pool for the villa.
2BR Beach Front - Garden View - Single
This room has a garden view in a very spacious 2BR Beachfront shared villa, each with large private bathrooms, shared living space and private pool.
2BR Beach Front Villa Garden View - Couples
This room has a garden view in a very spacious 2BR Beachfront shared villa, each with large private bathrooms, shared living space and private pool.
Beachfront Studio - No Pool - Single
This studio villa has a magnificent ocean view with no private pool.
Beachfront Studio - No Pool - couple or shared
This studio villa has a magnificent ocean view with no private pool.
About Jonni
Jonni has been studying, practicing and teaching within the Vedic tradition under the guidance of masters for over 30 years.
After a series of powerful spiritual experiences in his late teens, he travelled to India to make sense of what was unfolding within him. In the coming years, he realized his deepest spiritual nature and that his greatest gift was his insight into himself and the ability to guide others out of suffering into their power.
Jonni is most well known as the founder of 1 Giant Mind, having taught over 1 million people through their ‘learn to meditate’ app. In the last decade, Jonni has mainly occupied his time in private practice as a spiritual mentor. During this time he has refined a system that he refers to as ‘Veda Therapy’, a spiritual based psychotherapeutic approach to healing trauma and awakening the authentic spiritual experience, It is a fusion of ancient yogic practices, Vedic knowledge and modern psychological models.
Over the past 5 years he has spent a lot of his time investing in a core group of students refining his systems of teaching in collaboration with Carla. Now they are sharing their work publicly.
About Carla
Carla is a holistic physotherapist with an artful focus on functional movement and the integration of the spiritual and emotional layers that present in the body. With a doctorate in Physiotherapy graduating from Melbourne university, Carla has worked around the world honing her unique approach and elevating her clients to new levels of physical and emotional wellness. Eternally curious and committed to her own personal growth, Carla has studied under many masters of movement within the martial arts, yoga and clinical pilates. The exposure to eastern movement disciplines opened her fully to the intrinsic relationship between body mind and emotions and their impact on facilitating healing with her clients.
For 12 years, Carla ran her own private clinic in New York, quickly earning a reputation as one of the most sought after practitioners and someone who could get incredible results where other practitioners and pathways had not been able to. Training up a team of physiotherapists in her unique approach Carla worked with the biggest names in business, film and music often travelling with them across the world as an integral part of their team.
Her collaboration with Jonni added deeper layers to her approach enabling her to push the boundaries with her clients, helping them facilitate their own transformative healing journey. Carla’s work has evolved into a unique system that embraces mind, body and emotions and through one on one sessions as well as classes, supports her clients to skilfully open up to both the knowing but also the physical embodiment of all three systems functioning as one.
Carla challenges her self on all levels, constantly advancing her work through her own practice and personal break throughs. She now runs her private in person and online clinical practice and teaching studio with Jonni in Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia.
FAQs
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The cost varies depending on the accomodation you choose. Please refer to the investment section above for prices and payment links.
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Flights to and from Bali and Tambolaka, One on one sessions with Jonni and Carla and Massage treatments – otherwise we have you covered!
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Yes, all of your food is included. We have curated the menu to support our retreat programming by optimizing energy and detoxing the body. Showcasing indigenous Sumbanese ingredients and seasonally available local produce you will enjoy a selection of nutrient dense, vitamin rich plant based foods.
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Yes, there is the option to book one-on-one sessions with Carla and Jonni for an extra cost. Please see options below:
One on one/Couple private mentoring sessions with Jonni
These sessions enable you to address more intimately any themes that you would like Jonni’s perspective on. They are a perfect opportunity to confront the great challenges in your life that require deeply considered insight to support you transitioning through it. It is also a great time to enquire about more personal spiritual matters. The hour sessions will leave you feeling empowered and equipped to continue with a great sense of confidence and capability.
One on one session with Carla
These sessions will provide you with greater insight into your body, it’s mechanics and patterns that may be causing you tension, pain and susceptibility to injury. Carla will assess and treat your body with hands on manual therapy techniques and teach you specific movement sequences to address your body's needs.
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The retreat begins on Sunday May 4 at 2pm at The Sanubari Resort. All attendees are required to arrive by this time for our first group gathering and orientation.
It is recommended that you arrive in Bali no later than Saturday May 3 and take the 50 minute flight from Bali to Tambolaka airport on the morning of May 4 (or before).
The team at The Sanubari will be at the airport to greet you and take you on the 90 minute drive from Tambolaka (TMC) to West Sumbas enchanting coastline of the resort.
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All payments will be non refundable. To mitigate any concerns, we recommend taking out your own travel insurance to cover you for unforeseen circumstances.
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No, transport is included in the retreat cost! You do not need to hire a car, we will provide transportation from Tambolaka airport to the hotel and again upon return to Tambolaka airport.
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Yes, it is encouraged you make the booking at the time of registration to ensure there is availability as it is a small boutique resort
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The fullness of our program requires that you stay within the property during the retreat. There is free time during the day to utilize the facilities at the resort and participate in activities like beach horse riding, swimming with horses and surfing but there is not much to do outside of the resort (certainly no good shopping!).
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We will do our absolute best to cater for most requirements. Upon booking, please let us know what your dietary needs are and we will let you know.