I just returned from a truly transformation week in Costa Rica at the ayahuasca-dedicated retreat called Rythmia.
Why did I go? Well, I have a daughter who went and she came back a whole new person. She worked through some issues…it was magical. So I decided to see for myself. Would I also receive a miracle?!
I can positively attest, “I did!” On many fronts. It was truly a magical, ground-breaking week. I have gone from cynic to true believer in this wondrous plant medicine.
I hope you enjoy this video. The humor truly did come from Mother Ayahuasca. Turns out, she’s very, very funny!
If you have any questions or would like to learn more, feel free to contact me at imtoddp (@) gmail (dot) com
I’m working with Rythmia to see if I can provide some discounts for interested friends. Details to come.
greetings greetings everyone my name is
Todd pittner and I just returned from a
onewe week retreat at rhythmia down in
Costa Rica what a transformational week
it was and I'm just gonna give you a
little story right now give you a little
bit of context as to why I'm recording
this video so here we are we go down
there for this iasa Retreat and wow it's
a lot of work I mean it's amazing it is
just amazing if you're watching this I
hope uh my humor doesn't scare you away
uh it's worth it you know it's the shits
but it is worth it but uh why am I
recording this right now it's because on
the fourth during the fourth ceremony I
um man what a hard night that was it was
the mfer of iasa you know it's the stuff
that man when you drink it it sends you
into La La Land really really quickly
those of you who attended you know what
I mean well after about five hours of uh
of of what happens when you're on iasa I
started to come out of it and I started
to kind of feel better and while
everyone else was doing what happens
when you are on iasa you know what I
mean indeed you do I'm sitting there and
I just start standing up and I'm like
checking myself you know I'm not
nauseous I'm I'm I'm I don't have to I
don't have to go to the restroom you
know and I'm just sitting here and I'm
kind of dancing kind of looking around
just kind of taking it all in seeing
some geometric shapes
and then all of a
sudden I hear this voice in my head
telling me a
joke and I just started cracking up it
was funny as [ __ ] and so I just kind of
enjoyed the joke and I started dancing
again and then I Then I then I heard
another
joke it was funnier than the first one I
swear to God it was so funny to me in
that dat now I mean today I don't know
I'm going to share some of these jokes
with you maybe they won't be funny if
they aren't funny then it's not my fault
it's mother aasa's fault but after that
second joke I audibly heard you know
they talk about you go and find your
Miracles well I don't know if my Miracle
is I need to be a standup comedian but
I'm going with it so I heard write that
[ __ ]
down so I presumed it was the jokes so
here I am I have my little notebook and
I go and it's Pitch Black in the room
and I get my little flash light that's
on my keychain and I go in the corner
and I start writing you know I got I got
I got that going on right now you know
because you're seeing double so I'm
sitting here trying to trying to write
and get the jokes down and so then then
one of the worker bees there they come
and admonish me and they tell me that I
can't do that that can't have a light on
during ceremony and they suggested I go
outside so I went outside and there's a
little porch there and I just plop my
butt up and I'm sitting here doing the
oneeyed squint again and I start writing
it down got and another worker be come
up and say no you can't do that do you
have a cell phone I'm like no I don't
have a cell phone and they said well you
can't use a light we're in ceremony I
said well the dude in there just told me
to come out here because I got a journal
mother iasa told told me I got to write
that [ __ ] down don't deny me that and so
we negotiated and she agreed that if I
CED the little light so that if I hit it
with my my thumb it would just give a
little bit of light on my book and so I
just proceeded to start writing down the
jokes that were coming into my head I'm
not kidding you it was a stream of
conscious it didn't come from me I just
enjoyed it like I hope you enjoyed them
but as mother iasa is my
witness I'm G to show you it started
with this page all the way at the
top and I just kept writing and writing
and writing and writing well didn't
write on that page um
and I think they're pretty damn funny so
what am I gonna do I got home and I
thought you know what I'm not just going
to let that die on The Grape Vine I'm
actually going to follow through going
to my home studio um and I am going to
record these
jokes now again I hope you enjoy them
but if you don't you know what I don't
know what to tell you I think those
people who are there are going to
appreciate it and like I said my out is
that if these aren't funny
not my fault mother iasa but if they are
let's give her credit too okay hey
everyone
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the show well I have to say that uh if
you like potty humor I think you're
going to enjoy this video if you don't
like potty humor well you just haven't
been to rhythm yet have
you like a good rash um yeah that's kind
of how I hits you uh it just makes you
go and then you better find a toilet or
a bucket um okay so here we go I'm I'm
just gonna go through from the top the
jokes that started coming to me and uh
we're going to see if we enjoy them all
right here we go ladies and
gentlemen so we landed a group of us got
in a bus and it took about an hour and a
half to get to rhythmia now as we're
driving into the property I look over
and I see this dude walking down the
sidewalk talking to himself in my head
I'm like wow what a weirdo so then on on
on Friday after all of the ceremonies
right um I found myself walking down
that same sidewalk and I saw another
other dude and the dude was not talking
to himself and I'm like what a
weirdo you know what I can't
reconcile
so prior to arriving I spoke to a
counselor over the phone who highly
suggested that we wear all white during
the ceremonies now apparently this had
something to do back in the day just
tradition to where uh if somebody you
know started walking into the Amazon or
whatever that people could see them and
maybe save them but uh so tradition it
was and I brought down my allwhite gear
you know tops bottoms Etc and then the
day prior when they're coach coaching us
up to go into the
ceremony the biggest advice that Dwayne
gave us was when you're on the medicine
never trust a
fart why in the hell are you telling us
to wear all white then huh riddle me
that bad
man hey you know what happens to really
really shitty
people yeah they get reincarnated as a
rhythmia
toilet so if you attended feel good that
you exacted some justice this week
yes so it's really important to me you
know I follow the science right I'm into
empirical evidence and I can tell you
after witnessing four ceremonies that
ultimately end
in uh music and dance that it is
true yeah white men still can't
dance Hey Spirit of full
disclosure I am really really shitty at
remembering
names but iasa to the rescue on Tuesday
night she delivered the first miracle
for me to be able to remember not the
women's names didn't quite get there but
all of the sudden at the end of Tuesday
I could remember every single man's name
is that not amazing
yeah but the interesting thing is they
all have the same name you know what it
is those of you who were there will get
that hey can we brainstorm a little bit
I I have four daughters and of course as
a good dad I equi them with the right
kind of Mace and everything but I was
just thinking coming back from rhythmia
at the end Sally you guys know Sally
she's the one that uh that that that
rebooks and everything she's she's just
she's a a lifesaver she was for me I
I'll I'll talk about Sally a little more
later um but they sell this tinure which
is basically IAS a bottle you just spray
it in the back of your mouth and it's
supposed to help you integrate when you
get back home but I was thinking maybe
there's another use for this can you
imagine I give these to my daughters and
then they're walking down a parking lot
out at night and there's somebody a man
who comes at them aggressively instead
of pulling out the mace pull out your
Iasi tinure go like this squeeze squeeze
squeeze and you know what happens
they're GNA [ __ ]
themselves over and over they're gonna
[ __ ] themselves and you just walk
away and another word from our sponsor
it's
depends I'm wearing them now they're so
so comfortable I can move around I have
great Mobility so when I [ __ ] myself
nobody nobody has to be
inconvenienced nobody has to wait for
the door to open for them to be able to
go in and relieve themselves so the next
time you attend rhythmia please go to
your local Walgreens or CVS and just
pick up some
depends
hey to that cocky dude who was
bragging that he had never thrown up
during any of the ceremonies well I tell
you what
partner you come behind me after I [ __ ]
fire out of my ass come right behind
me who's not puking now
[ __ ] you know I went in there and uh I
didn't want to spend the additional
money for a single room so I got a
roommate hey Eric shout out to Eric my
roommate he's the one that educated me
on the porcelain
twist you know what that is so when you
do iasa and you have to go into the
bathroom and you have your bu you know
you don't have your bucket at first
right because you have to go diarrhea
and you sit down but right when you sit
down you also have to puke so you
go and then you you're back you're back
sitting sitting and then you have to
turn
around what a nightmare so that ladies
and gentlemen is the porcelain
twist and soon to be an Olympic sport
Eric I'm rooting for you you're going to
get the gold
medal and the food how about that
food man all I can say is after eating a
full week of that healthy food at
rhythmia all I can say is where's the
beef When in Rome though you know you
eat what you they serve you but I got to
tell you man that that kind of all vegan
diet did not make me very comfortable
trusting farts this I will tell you this
I
will
okay I owe everyone a big
apology when after the first evening the
first ceremony the next day there were
all of these people who were sharing oh
mother iasa came to me and we sat down
and we had tea we had a little
conversation and she brought me back to
my inner child and I put the inner child
on my lap and mother iasa put on a video
and you know just there were so many
people that had these direct engagements
with Mama iasa and I'm sitting here
thinking man
oh no [ __ ] way you know come on stop
acting people I mean all I saw was a few
geometric shapes in between [ __ ]
myself um but there is there I assessed
there's just no way that these
people you know were telling the truth I
just thought they were all a bunch of
actors trying too hard but then on
Tuesday night on Tuesday
night I take my first cup I take my
second cup I take my third cup and I'm
over there I'm in la la land and I'm
just sitting here thinking I'm kind of
in my fetal position you know because
Ben the counselor said what you want to
do tonight because you're going to be uh
no this was Wednesday night where you're
going to be honoring your mother you
want want to be able to just curl up in
a fetal position and think about your
mama loving you and let the medicine do
the rest well you know I never believed
that mother iasa would manifest so I'm
sitting here I'm I'm I'm just like this
and all of a sudden I saw the I felt the
warmest most loving hand on me just on
my shoulder going like this and I'm like
wow that's mother
iasa and I opened my eyes and I turned
around and and it and it was it was this
beautiful beautiful woman and mother
iasa had this blonde hair and these blue
eyes and I was like I felt bad because I
judged all of those people all of those
people who had similar visions of a real
person
and then mother I Wasa
spoke and it was Sally she said brother
you're
snoring so that didn't last long but I
still believe all of you that you that
you were you were having the I believe
you yes okay you know it's a tightnit
group when just after a couple of days
you feel comfortable you know just
asking asking the woman next to you
Belinda asking her and just saying hey
Belinda I just [ __ ] my pants do you have
an extra pair of panties and she's like
yeah man no worries
here speaking
of I must say that probably my favorite
part about integrating back home uh
indeed is again trusting farts
does that make me
shallow just a casual
observation I don't care whether you're
you're purging water or or or or even by
puking or [ __ ] but after the 15th
whoosh whoosh whoosh you know and then
and then another 23 and a half whoosh
whoosh whoosh whoosh where does all the
liquid come from it's not a joke I'm
just asking I mean that math just
doesn't hunt for me so any of you who
know call me I mean I told myself at the
end of the week after all of that when I
get home I'd better be 10 pounds lighter
otherwise I'm going to reach out and ask
Jerry for a for a full
refund speaking of Jerry how in the hell
did he broke her with the Moon being
able to literally hijack all of the
stars from the rest of the world and
just place them right over his property
right I mean again not a joke it's just
an observation the stars there were just
absolutely amazing I think it's a Jerry
deal anyone other than me make the
Strategic mistake of falling in love
with rhythmia pineapple water you know
at breakfast and lunch uh in the dinner
on the first night I mean I'm just
sitting over there like a like a drug it
you know just taking my my my glass and
going just drinking and drinking
drinking now they had pineapple water
and then they had coconut water
strategic mistake to drink the pineapple
water right why well it's so
acidic so my issue with iwaska my
purging was downstairs you know what I
mean not up here my name's not Ralph it
was down there now with all of that acid
that I I drank during the
day I literally was [ __ ] fire I mean
it's like there was a a blowtorch in my
butthole just mother iasa grabbed it
it's
like so so note to self never do it
again now I stopped doing that after the
second day and day the ceremony three
and four where just normal thanks be to
Jesus hey shout out to those Shaman
right I mean I think the gift shop needs
to actually make some red hats that says
making spitting great again
Shaman you
know it's truly no wonder that people
puke and [ __ ] themselves so much
after drinking iasa why because iasa
truly does taste like ass doesn't it I
mean I don't know I've never made it the
Habit to test eating ass but I'm pretty
sure if I did it would taste a lot like
iasa hey Pro tip Pro tip for you guys
going back if you ever want to you know
feel confident and feel like you are
king of rhythmia what you do is you take
your mattress and you move it over there
so you're right by the bathroom right
because then what happens throughout the
night is you have so many people come by
and treat you with great reverence they
get on their knees they lay their bucket
down and then they put their heads down
and they start praying to you they make
a lot of noises but I just thought it
was cool so all of you who were praying
to me treating me like God I'll take it
thank you now here's a promise that I'm
going to make for you you go to rhythmia
and you attend and you attend all the
ceremonies and you drink all of the
recommended dosages of
iasa and you [ __ ] yourself maybe piss
yourself too and you puke and I'll tell
you theef benefits is that your pants
are going to fit better better it's true
I mean I got back and I backed into a
brand new wardrobe it's awesome so you
know rhythmia is almost an investment
that pays for yourself because you can
rewind in your closet and fit into those
clothes you used to not to you're
welcome there is one more set of clothes
in my closet um which is why I'm
rebooking rhythmia because I think to
fit into those my math is I think I'm 43
and a half shits away from
it so I'll see you
soon yeah my my my wife when I came home
she looked at me and she grabbed my face
and she's like oh my gosh you look so
great you look so bright you look so
bright vibrant I mean you're not red
your eyes aren't red it's truly
remarkable it must have just been magic
there and I said yeah it was um but
really the truth is
honey I'm no longer full of
[ __ ] you know people were giving me a
lot of [ __ ] about laying in the corner
just
moaning but again you have to understand
I was going through severe trauma let me
give you a little bit of backstory and
maybe maybe you can empathize just a
little bit um I worked a lot in
Manhattan and I'll never forget the time
that I flew to Manhattan got off the
plane took a taxi in and I was at this
hotel that was about 50 50 stories and I
go into the um I go into the lobby and
I'm sitting here like okay I got it I
got I got a [ __ ] I got I know I got a
diarrhea like like like i' just been to
rhythmia like I just done a bunch of
iasa I didn't know that then but I know
that now so here I am doing the butt
clinch you know what I'm talking about
and I'm doing the calculus and I'm like
okay I know there is a restroom on the
second floor up that escalator should I
go there now but I had all of my luggage
and everything or do I just it's a
pretty Short Line do I just get my key
and then go up to my room and so I'm
like I think I can do it I just get get
my key so I get up I get my key it's on
the 31st floor and so I'm like but I
take my luggage I'm just scooting over
to the elevator and I go up the elevator
and it takes forever but I have the butt
clinch going you know I get off the
elevator my room is literally all the
way down at the end and so you know the
waddle to where when you're butt
clenching and your waddle one I mean
that was when I'm like I know I'm going
to [ __ ] myself and so I'm like
going right holding it in I didn't want
to [ __ ] myself I was in a suit new suit
that I just bought it was a Canali
and I get to my room and I'm like yes
yes thank you Jesus yes and I put the I
put the key in there and I pull it up
and
it's red
I'm like what
what and you know when you're that at
that point of no
return
yeah thank god oh to to TMI thank God
there was the room there with the ice
machine that I could duck into
um thank God it had a drain I'm going to
stop there but I'm just telling you guys
that was my trauma so when I was laying
down knowing that I was having to go to
the bathroom all that time I was worried
if I would even make it there so can you
just give a brother a break please with
my man I don't know about you but when I
got home I was so tired so tired I came
in it was late it was actually about
1:00 in the morning uh when I when I got
home and I was just like done and I was
able to just scoop myself to the bedroom
and uh jumped in the shower real quickly
because I just you know felt like
airport and uh and I went to sleep and
when I woke
up my wife just comes at me just with
with with
ir I mean my wife's accusing me of
having an affair I'm like what the [ __ ]
what are you talking about just got home
I was in Costa Rica I sent you pictures
I mean come on and she said no all night
long you were just moaning and you kept
saying
USAA who is USA
I don't know but she was hot you know
speaking of [ __ ] porcelain twists
and the
like I wonder what the shelf life is for
rhythmia toilet right I mean it has to
be just totally short I mean I can I can
imagine the toilet salesperson calling
his buddy saying hey Bobby if this Jerry
dude calls you you know wanting a quote
a dozen toilets just uh trust me don't
warrantee the [ __ ] for more than two
and a half
weeks if you've been to rhythmia you get
it you know I'm the dad four daughters a
lot of estrogen in my family and I know
growing up them with them growing up
they kind of went through that phase to
where they liked saying you know if they
ever got teary eyed watching a movie or
something and they'd
say I'm not crying you're
crying right so cute um at rhythmia
though uh there's a little bit of a
Twist it's uh I'm not [ __ ] you're
[ __ ] all right there you go man
again if none of that was funny not my
fault I love yall anyway okay man I hope
you have an awesome
integration back home love you all
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