Rebel Heart Coaching Podcast

Jennifer Roig-Francolí, The Art of Freedom® Coach, is the Author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller 'Make Great Music with Ease! The Secret to Smarter Practice, Confident Performance, and Living a Happier Life'. Jennifer is an international prize-winning violinist and certified Alexander Technique teacher helping musicians and music-lovers online to break through pain, performance anxiety, and mindset obstacles to personal freedom and artistic success. She has a special interest in supporting women musicians to find balance and joy in their careers and everyday lives.

Honored as a “Rising Star” by TIME magazine, Jennifer’s career as a violinist has taken her to concert halls around the world from a young age, including solo performances at Carnegie Hall and with esteemed orchestras like the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Symphony Orchestra. She has won international competitions and held leadership positions in various ensembles, including the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Apollo’s Fire. She can be heard on recordings with Apollo’s Fire and as a soloist on most digital streaming platforms.

As the creator of The Art of Freedom® Method for conscious living and masterful artistry, Jennifer combines her extensive professional experience as a musician and mind-body coach with a lifelong love of meditation and perennial wisdom.She has taught the Alexander Technique on the faculties of two universities and now specializes teaching touch-free Primal Alexander™ technique online. Jennifer lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and enjoys taking her coaching work with her to faroff places around the world, including a repeat visit to an ashram in southern India next winter.

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Jennifer's book, Make Great Music with Ease! The Secret to Smarter Practice, Confident Performance, and Living a Happier Life, is available on amazon.com. You can connect with Jennifer personally through her website and inquire about her The Art of Freedom® coaching for musicians at www.ArtofFreedom.me, or via Facebook messenger; join her free community for musicians on Facebook; and watch her teaching videos and listen to her music on her YouTube channel, as well as most streaming platforms.

Today we’re talking about the importance of choosing to go beyond your comfort zone. Of course, just like in nature, not every period in our life is meant to be a growth period, but there’s a saying that “if we’re not growing and changing, we’re dying.” I talk about the 2 different types of discomfort and why one is way better to choose than the other. I talk about how you can get beyond your current comfort zone if you want to and why it's important.

Today we are talking about Boundaries Boundaries are created for us, by us. Creating boundaries is complex and ever-changing, and it’s related to how you honor your needs, show love to yourself, protect yourself, & keep yourself safe and happy. I dive into the art and skill needed to navigate the setting and honoring of good boundaries and help you get clarity on if you need to say more YES right now in your life or NO more.

I've been hanging out a lot with my dog Sekoya and her BFF Maji, who's staying with us for a month. When on hikes in nature and even at home, lately I feel so much more closer to my childlike sense of playfulness and adventure, I feel connected with my wild nature, the earth and with the elements. It’s an ancient and sacred relationship we have with these direct descendent of wolves that walk on all fours. So in no particular order, here are some of the themes that have been emerging as I’ve been being with these canine teachers lately.

Today is the last episode in a 5 part series about the elements. The 5th element in Chinese Medicine is Metal, but in Ayurvedic traditions, the 5th element is considered Ether 0r Space. Ether is the source, the original element, from which all the other elements stem. Air, Fire, Water and Earth are formed. from the stability of earth, through the flow of water, the passion of fire, and lightness of air, we reach the element that makes everything else possible: ether or ‘space’. Ether is both nothing and everything at the same time. It’s stillness, yet it’s the very thing that makes all movement and life possible. Ether is space and stillness. It is that which contains and holds. From all stillness comes possibility and movement. Ether is the element that connects us to spirit, intuition, other realms and planes.

Today is the 4th episode in a 5 part series about the primary elements of the natural world that we embody and interact with in our daily lives.

Today is all about Earth. Gaia. Pacha Mamma. Earth element is critical to our wellness as a human being. Earth is our body and our our bones. It’s all the DNA and minerals and bacteria and viruses that make up who we are. Earth represents matter itself, our physical body, and along with it —our finances, the food we eat, and our daily routine. We get dirty in this episode as we dig into how interconnected we are with the earth element.

In this episode, I distill it down to 2 CORE limitations we have in life. These are the main 2 that prevent us from manifesting and creating whatever we want, and it typically falls under one or both of these main umbrellas. There are of course many more related and complex reasons than these two alone, but in the name of simplicity and brevity I cover these two. As you listen, I want you to think about typically what category you tend to fall into in regards to getting, doing, having, or experiencing whatever you want in life. Is it one or both of these.

Today I’m continuing to talk about the element of fire. This is the 3rd episode in a 4 part series about the elements that exist in nature that we also embody in our lives and in our physical bodies. The five elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine and culture are Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal. Each element corresponds with different seasons, emotions, biological functions, organs, directions of energy and meridians (energetic channels). Just as with everything in nature the elements are also interconnected. Each element supports and gives space to the next in the cycle – this is known as the Feeding cycle. (see the outer arrows in the diagram). I talk about all of this and more here.

Here's a link to a diagram of this 5 element cycle:

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/02f-EgQvJ_yvzM4Dit53eFPsA#Five-Elements-of-TCM-Ekhart-Yoga-768x768-1

Today is the continuation in the Elements Embodied series where I"m talking about our interconnectedness with the natural world. Today we are sailing into the AIR element and connecting all of the ways air interacts with all of the other elements in nature and in your life and body.

Today is the first in a series of episodes about some primary elements found in our bodies and on our earth. I will be covering elements that exist within our bodies or that we embody according to several different cultural healing disciplines including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine, and others. Since we are in Cancer season right now in July when I’m recording this, I’m going to start the series today talking about the element of water.I talk about how we are interconnected with nature and not separate from it and how Nature exists within us and that parts of us are reflected in and found in nature.