#27: Joshua Greenfield | Sound Healing, Musical Ecstasy, & Good Vibrations

Joshua Greenfield is a vibrational healer, professional musician, and teacher of mindful cooking. He is on a mission to teach the world how to tap into their own ability to heal themselves through music.

Today we are with Joshua Greenfield; Professional Musician, sound & vibration healer, and teacher of mindful cooking. Joshua is well versed in a variety of instruments from around the world including singing bowls, hang drums, percussion, djembe, shruti box, guitar, piano, tuning forks, bamboo flute, and a number of others. His mission is to help people overcome fear, anxiety and depression by tapping into their body, breath and voice to explore sound and rhythm in a way that allows them to break through limiting beliefs and heal themselves from the inside out. Sound Healing

I met Joshua at a yoga event where i had formerly performed and he was performing. We share a passion for sharing music with others, and immediately connected. We played some music together that evening, and I knew I wanted to get him on the show. We hadn’t yet had a chance to share much with each other, which is exactly how i like my podcast guests. The more curious, the better the interview. This turned out to be one of my favorite interviews, the amount of similarities in our paths is staggering. In this episode, we discuss the skillsets and entrepreneurial drive that develops from being in a band, the unbelievable power of musical ecstasy, connecting the soul to the body through dance, and much more. We bookended our interview with some improvised sound healing in my living room. Ill share a clip of our session following our discussion. Small disclaimer, we recorded this episode in my home office, which inspires the opening of the interview. I promise you, this isnt an episode on the band phish, so hang in there. Sorry im not sorry…

On a side note, Joshua has created one of the biggest online platforms for teaching mindful cooking and eating and has amassed over one million Youtube followers. It called “The Brothers Green” and its a phenomenal channel. I had no idea until a day before the interview about that side of his life. We don’t touch on cooking in this episode, but do have plans to do a round 2 on mindful cooking in the near future. I really enjoyed getting to know Joshua Greenfield on this episode, and am honored to have him as a new member of the MindMill tribe!

A NOTE FROM SETH

This episode is all about art, music, and expression; and I wanted to share something with you thats been in my thoughts recently. This show has given amazing opportunities to share my own story as well as connect with other passionate humans all over the world. Ive met awesome new friends and been inspired countless times. The resounding theme of the show has really been that all genuine expression is art. Whether its in business, athletics, cooking, parenting or music; all art requires a bold personal stance and action. To me, it means absorbing from your inspirations and experiences, formulating your own passions, and boldly pursuing actions that make an impact. Its never easy, its life’s true challenge, and it dictates our fulfillment. I notice this when Im working on new music, a new MindMill episode, starting a project; anything where I’m diving into the unknown. Theres the fear of rejection and failure, and it can be stifling. The butterflies that swarm my whole body and I want to seek refuge in my Netflix, my instagram, my distraction bubble. This is where its so crucial to take the leap, to go for it, to simply start. I recently heard something so wise; to recognize the butterfly moments as the most important moments in your life. Chances are, when you feel those butterflies, when the fight or flight kicks in, this could be a moment you will remember for the rest fo your life, should you choose to seize the opportunity. You don’t have to be a painter or published author to be an artist. you simply need to find your butterflies, and f ing go for it!

JOSHUA GREENFIELD BIO

Joshua Greenfield is a vibrational healer, professional musician, and teacher of mindful cooking and is on a mission to teach the world how to tap into their own ability to heal themselves through music. He is deeply passionate about helping people feel connected to their inner spirit and internal power through music, food and dance. He has studied vibrational healing with the likes of Tony Nec and Silvia Nakkach, both masters of sound, and has trained in the art of facilitating sound baths, vibrational healing, primal vocal tuning and martial arts dance movement.

Joshua is well versed in a variety of instruments from around the world including singing bowls, hang drums, percussion, djembe, shruti box, guitar, piano, tuning forks, bamboo flute, and a number of others. His mission is to help people overcome fear, anxiety and depression by tapping into their body, breath and voice to explore sound and rhythm in a way that allows them to break through limiting beliefs and heal themselves from the inside out. Joshua has also created one of the biggest online platforms for teaching mindful cooking and eating and has amassed over one million Youtube followers. Having lived in Brooklyn the last ten years, he recently moved to Denver to continue to teach and expand his capacity for the healing arts.

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“While I have prices listed I work on a sliding scale for personal lessons as well as sound healing sessions. For as much as I know an energy exchange is important to solidify any practice, this is a true love and passion of mine that I want to share with others, so please, if you are interested in any of the above, email me with your hopes and let’s make something work that feels equal and fair. www.youenjoylifemusic@gmail.com

Joshua Greenfield has been a professional music practitioner, performer, and sound sorcerer for over 15 years. He created a technique called MAD, which stands for Martial Arts Dance and has developed a unique and simple approach to help YOU unveil your musical gifts, regardless of age, musical abilities or ability to believe in yourself.

Joshua was formerly in a band called Canon Logic, before starting YOU, for ten years while living in Brooklyn, playing guitar, writing songs, singing, learning any instrument that crossed his path and expanding upon his understanding of music. Over the last ten years, while still in Canon Logic, he began exploring a new path, studying vibrational and sound healing, and the powers that music poses. Josh successfully went from being a terrible, weak, and shy singer, tone deaf even, to finding out how to tap into his full voices power and being able to sing with complete and total confidence, write songs on the spot, completely free himself of writers block, and has been teaching others how to do the same things ever since.
He believes that by tapping into your own innate ability to play and connect to music that you can not only cure yourself from self doubt and judgement but create deeper bonds with the people you care about the most in the world as well as feel a connection to all of humanity through a simple, but an all powerful vibration.

Joshua teaches private lessons in the Denver and Boulder Colorado area as well as worldwide through video chat. He also offers personal and group sound healing sessions, and facilitates musical improvisational experiences to help you embody the power you have within yourself through a series of fun and interactive music tools for both beginner and pro. Whether you simply want to harness your internal musical gifts, want to experience the profound powers that sound and vibration can shift in your life, or are a serious musician or life artist wanting to take the next steps in your career and learn from someone who has successfully created his own brand, on his own terms, and amassed over one million followers on youtube (Brothers Green Eats) and played with world class musicians all over the world, Joshua is here to help you.”