Helen Roijen-Jacobs

Helen Roijen-Jacobs is the founder of Vrij van Pijn Zijn (Free from Pain), a Netherlands-based practice and movement that helps people reconnect with themselves by learning to read the signals of their own body. Her work sits at the meeting point of physical health, emotional awareness and lasting personal change.

Trained as an oedema physiotherapist, she is a Pain Reset Method practitioner, a trauma release and breathwork coach, and a Progressive Mental Alignment practitioner. She lived with chronic pain herself, and that experience shapes how she works: from years of guiding people through chronic pain, stress-related complaints and a dysregulated nervous system, she developed an approach that brings together clinical science, body awareness and deep self-reflection. Her central conviction is that the body is never working against us. It is continually trying to bring us back to who we actually are.

Through one-to-one programmes, online courses, books, lectures, podcasts and retreats, Helen guides people from surviving to genuinely living. For Astrela she contributes on chronic pain, nervous system regulation and the connection between body, emotion and awareness.