Booty Kicking Ballerina Podcast

Welcome to the Booty Kicking Ballerina podcast — for dancers, by dancers. Whatever your dance style or background, you’re welcome here.

I’m Rachel Jenks: retired pro ballet dancer, injury prevention coach, and always a dancer. After decades learning to heal from the inside out, I’m passionate about helping dancers take back their story.

Join me and my guests as we get honest about the realities of a dancer’s life — from shin splints to self-doubt — and share what it really takes to thrive... for a lifetime.

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Listen in as Rachel Jenks shares her story, insights, and nuggets of wisdom as a guest on these podcasts.

From podcast guest episodes, to online events, to in-person keynotes and workshops - Rachel Jenks is an in-demand public speaker and author. Event hosts and audiences describe her as inspiring, engaging, and insightful. Popular topics include: her story of healing (from injury, eating disorders, perfectionism and self-hatred), identity, healing our relationships with our bodies, intuition, and self-love.

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Tight Hips?

Do you see why merely addressing symptoms is not enough? When it comes to tightness in our bodies…the default advice is to stretch. But stretching by itself does not address a muscle imbalance.

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Do You Know What Your Knees Need?

I was about 16 years old when my knee issues began. We were in rehearsal for a big upcoming performance at the Lilac Festival…a performance I was GIDDY with excitement about.

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Crunches and Sit-ups don’t strengthen your core??

Sometimes I wonder if our core feels the same way. Like “thanks for the gift, but do you actually know me?”

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Mobility and Musings

I very quickly saw how the injuries that ended my career could have been prevented entirely…if, as a professional dancer, we had been treated not only as artists, but athletes.

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