Physical Freedom

Aug 18 2020 15
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Jonathan Mead, movement and embodiment coach, shares useful, and real-world strategies to help you reclaim your flexibility, functional strength and move pain-free. Discover how you can start feeling better in your body, avoid aches and pains and unlock your physical potential. On this show, Jonathan and guests share their stories, fitness motivation, and helpful recommendations so you can build a body allows you to live your best life.

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How a High Performing Mom Reclaimed True Strength in Her Body - Client Case Study with Rebecca Lazaroff

Aug 18 2020 45 mins  
Rebecca is an Embodied Breakthrough client who wears many hats. She’s a project manager, a mom of two kids and 3 animals, a painter and incredible writer who is working on her memoir.But chronic pain began to interrupt her active lifestyle. From lower back and hip pain to migraines from neck and shoulder tension, she wasn’t feeling settled in her body. Her rigorous kettlebell t

Fixing Your Foundations by Slowing Down - Client Case Study with Tiffany Walsh

Jul 29 2020 47 mins  
In this episode, we talk with Tiffany Walsh, an Embodied Breakthrough client who has broken through artificial ceilings and is forming a whole new way of being in the world with her body.Like many others, Tiffany held childhood beliefs of not being cut out for athletic pursuits. But she discovered Crossfit a decade ago, and her ideas of what she was capable of started to change. Wh

Chronic Pain to Physical Freedom - Client Case Study with Hollie Lemin

Jul 14 2020 46 mins  
In this episode, we had the honor of talking with Embodied Breakthrough student Hollie Lemin. Hollie is a passionate human dedicated to overcoming challenges and becoming the strongest version of herself. Hollie is no stranger to challenges. With a family history of arthritis and being told she would suffer the same fate, she felt pain in daily movement from the age of 16, often st

The Power of Slowing Down with Rolfing Expert Mary Bond

May 26 2020 45 mins  
Physical pain is often the reason people seek out body work, and it can also be the catalyst that leads them to greater body awareness.As we discuss with author and certified Rolfing expert Mary Bond, body awareness is useful in learning your limits and capacities. By slowing down and learning to be present in yourself through your body, you give yourself time for more feedback to

Recovering From Fitness Burnout with Kersten Kimura

May 19 2020 43 mins  
Taken too far, even a healthy pursuit like trying to get in better shape or eating healthy can become toxic.So, where do we learn to push ourselves to constantly do more, achieve more, BE more?How do we use overtraining to avoid difficult emotions or areas of life we’re unhappy with?In this episode, we chat with PHD, personal trainer, and burnout recovery coach Kersten Kimura, di

Taking Total Ownership of Your Health with Dr. Brett Jones

May 11 2020 63 mins  
Why can't we outsource our healing to someone else?What's the role of chiropractic work and other hands-on healing? Where do we have to take ownership for our own health and wellbeing?What's the truth about the Coronavirus and when do we go too far in trying to protect ourselves?These are the questions Dr. Brett Jones and I sit down to discuss on this episode of the

Becoming a Better Ally to Your Body

May 06 2020 26 mins  
In this episode we explore a very simple question:How can you become a better ally to your body?In order to heal ourselves, to create TRUE strength, we need to heal our relationship with ourselves, with our bodies. We need to dismantle the hierarchy and learn to let the information and signals not just flow top-down from the mind to the body, but bottom-up, from the body to the min

Sex and Movement with Ev'Yan Whitney

Apr 29 2020 69 mins  
Ev'Yan is here to help you liberate yourself from shame and step into your erotic power.She's here to help you ask the big questions. Questions like...Why does our sexuality often get put last in our lives? Why is it the last frontier we look to liberate?What are the common blocks we face to erotic embodiment? How do we cultivate more pleasure, sensuality, and express it

Rewiring Your Nervous System for Pain-Free, Confident Movement with Todd Hargrove

Apr 22 2020 39 mins  
In this episode, I sat down with one of my movement teachers and mentors, Todd Hargrove. Todd is a genius when it comes to understanding how the body works, the science of pain, and how to move with more freedom.He's the author of one of my absolute favorite books as well, A Guide to Better Movement, which I highly recommend.What you're about to learn:Why having a neuroce

Embodying the Strongest You

Apr 15 2020 20 mins  
There's one thing I know to be certain.Wherever you're at it in life, you want more.And what you think you're capable of, whether with your body or in life, is just a small fraction of your true potential.When things get tough, we all have a choice. We can either collapse and make ourselves small, or we can rise and expand.Today's a special edition of the podcas