Physical Freedom
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -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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Episodes
How a High Performing Mom Reclaimed True Strength in Her Body - Client Case Study with Rebecca Lazaroff
August 18, 2020 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBRebecca 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 training program encouraged her to move in a way that just didn’t feel right. She felt stuck and knew what she was ...
Fixing Your Foundations by Slowing Down - Client Case Study with Tiffany Walsh
July 29, 2020 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn 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. While putting her body through the paces, she faced recurring shoulder pain that eventually became excruciating ...
Chronic Pain to Physical Freedom - Client Case Study with Hollie Lemin
July 14, 2020 23:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBIn 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 struggling just to get out of bed in the morning. She stopped going to the concerts she loved because even stand...
The Power of Slowing Down with Rolfing Expert Mary Bond
May 26, 2020 21:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBPhysical 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 take place. We talk with Mary about our movement starved bodies in this digital age, and how our tunnel of a...
Recovering From Fitness Burnout with Kersten Kimura
May 20, 2020 01:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBTaken 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, discussing the need to examine our mindset and deeper foundations. Kersten explains the spectrum of burnout,...
Taking Total Ownership of Your Health with Dr. Brett Jones
May 11, 2020 23:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBWhy 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 podcast. We also talk about a simple practice you can do every day to take charge of your own healing journey. Listen i...
Becoming a Better Ally to Your Body
May 06, 2020 19:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBIn 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 mind. We need to yes, learn to listen, but also to UNDERSTAND what the body is trying to tell us. To honor and...
Sex and Movement with Ev'Yan Whitney
April 29, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBEv'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 through our movement? These are the topics Ev'Yan Whitney, my wife, and I dive into in this special edition of the ...
Rewiring Your Nervous System for Pain-Free, Confident Movement with Todd Hargrove
April 22, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn 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 neurocentric perspective is critical to understanding why pain and tension hang around. How pain sensitivity is learned fr...
Embodying the Strongest You
April 15, 2020 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBThere'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 podcast I don't think you'll want to miss. This is one you'll want to share as well. Because I believe motivation and hope is a c...
Within Crisis There is the Greatest Opportunity
March 25, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBWe're being cracked open right now. We're being reminded that we don't have as much control as we like to think. And perhaps most importantly, we're being reminded that one day, we will die. Of course, that reality is always there, but it's hard to not look at right now. Within this crisis and reminder of our death (whether in old age or much sooner) we are being tuned to what really matters. We're waking up to who we really want to be and know we are deep down inside. Many of us are choo...
The Mindset You Need for Physical Freedom with Dr. Shante Cofield
March 04, 2020 17:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBIt's not every day you meet someone as incredibly skilled, humble and generous as Dr. Cofield. She's been educating people for years on how to rebuild their foundations, reclaim their physical freedom and now, helps other coaches and teachers thrive making an impact in the world. If you're wanting to rebuild your body and wake up feeling like the strongest version of yourself, you need a strong mindset to help you stay consistent through any challenges that come up. In this episode, we ta...
Integration, Deep Healing and Movement for Trauma Recovery with Jane Clapp
February 05, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIs deep healing really possible with your body even if you've experienced trauma or injury? Or are you just left with to cope with whatever scars that life has given you? In this interview with trauma and movement expert Jane Clapp, we explore how to heal your body on a deep level and why it's essential to bring embodiment into your healing journey. We also talked about the importance of structure, routines and isolating key areas of the body to get them working properly again, but not for...
The Power of Labeling Yourself with Jon Yuen
January 29, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBWait. Aren't labels supposed to be a bad thing? Well, maybe. But sometimes we're just afraid to really own what we want to be or know we are deep down. We're afraid of the expectations from others, we're afraid of really owning what we want, we're afraid of... ourselves. In this conversation with Jon Yuen, movement trainer and teacher, we dive deep into how to create more freedom in your body. Not just from a purely physical perspective though. We talk about the mindset, beliefs and culture...
Building a Healthy, Aligned Body Without Quitting Your Day Job
January 22, 2020 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBHow do you integrate healthy movement, connection, and realign your body without quitting your day job? In this episode of the podcast, I sat down with Aaron Alexander to talk about his new book The Align Method, where he shares his insights from over a decade working with clients on how you can reclaim your natural mobility and strength. This isn't your average "sit up straight" and "drink more water" kind of prescription either. We get into the importance of auditing your movement throu...
The Missing Foundations of Physical Freedom
January 14, 2020 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB003 - Focus is everything. There are over 1.5 billion results for back pain with a simple Google. So, how do you know what you need to focus on in order to reclaim your physical freedom? In this episode of the podcast I lay out five simple keys that if implemented, will help you start moving better today. They will help you rebuild your foundations and get moving in the right direction, cutting out all the noise of things you "could" be doing. If you're wanting to unlock your physical pote...
A Strong, Flexible, Pain-Free Body Starts With...
January 04, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MB#002 - What's the number one key to a strong, flexible, pain-free body? It starts with... trust. Now, that might sound unconventional, but it's true. If your body doesn't trust you to move safely it's going to respond with pain and tension. This is your body's way of guarding. Listen in on this episode as I share with you my insights from working with hundreds of students over the last 5 years to reclaim their physical freedom. We talk about how to rebuild trust and the number one habit you...
Welcome to the Physical Freedom Podcast!
December 28, 2019 22:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MB#001 - We did it! We started a podcast. Well, I started the podcast, but it's because you guys kept bugging me to do it. So... you're welcome. :) For real though, this episode is more of the "typical intro" stuff. I share with you the background story behind starting the show and a little of my journey to reclaiming my physical freedom (spoiler: it hasn't been easy). Lastly, I give you guys a really valuable micro-practice at the end that I think will be really helpful if you're wanting t...