Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical & Emotional Resilience: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience

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The text can be perceived as advanced, making it less accessible for novices seeking a more straightforward approach. When Jill Miller began writing The Roll Model, her first book, she sent out a call to action through her community: share your stories with me. The response was huge, and Jill spotted a common thread through practitioners’ incredible stories of healing. Many rollers were able to support physical well-being through soft tissue self-therapy, and, more markedly, all practitioners reported strengthened their emotional resilience . As the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and the creator of Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method, she has over 30 years of experience in anatomy and movement. Known as the Teacher’s Teacher, she has trained numerous movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists in her groundbreaking self-care fitness programming, which is used in athletic and medical facility programs worldwide.

People with breathlessness tell us that it affects their lives in several ways. It can make it difficult to manage your everyday activities. It can also make you feel frustrated or frightened. But the good news is that there are many things that you can do to cope, so that you can live well with breathlessness. Stress is not the only body thug. T he Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) named Long Covid the #1 disease to watch in 2023. Both Long Covid and Stress share a common quality: the potential to manifest tensional changes in the diaphragm and impact all of the physiological processes that revolve around the breath. The Diaphragm – Your Second BrainThe issue is, states Miller, “If your diaphragm is stiff for either known or unknown reasons, in other words, muscular or fascial restrictions in the neighborhood of the diaphragm, you may have a challenge inducing the relaxation response. So much of the book focuses on being able to manipulate, massage, and adjust tensions, either known or unknown in the neighborhood of the diaphragm.” Many of the exercises in Body by Breath directly touch the diaphragm, others affect the breath through the vagal nerve pathway.

Jill has been a part of our extended family since 2004, and her teachings have been seminal in shaping both our philosophy here at YogaSource, as well as the functional and therapeutic applications of modern-day yoga. Body by Breath is a blueprint for working through the physical and emotional storms caused by trauma or injury. It’s like Jill gives you a giant warm hug of facts about navigating your body and mind, and then she holds your hand to guide you step by step through practices to build physical and emotional intelligence. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t benefit from this book." The only vegetables book you'll ever need reveals hundreds of ways to cook nearly every vegetable under the sun. Til and Whitney talk with self-care expert Jill Miller about her new book "Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience" and other topics including: Breathlessness can make daily activities difficult and stop you from being able to get out and about. It’s very normal to feel frustrated and isolated if you find you can’t do the things that you used to do. Many people tell us that it makes them feel overwhelmed, depressed and anxious. It can change your relationships with people and can make you fearful for the future.Our twenty-first-century bodies are bombarded with more arousing stimuli than at any other point in evolution. The lure of electronic devices and the harnessing of our brain by the internet and a twenty-four-hour society has made anxiety-related illness more prevalent than ever.” The 3-Day Body by Breath Immersion (formerly the Breath & Bliss Immersion) will provide you with multiple embodied explorations that create the conditions needed for profound relaxation, increased body awareness, and mind-body connectivity. You’ll find a treasure chest of new exercises and practices to enhance your well-being and those of your clients & students. Learn from industry thought leaders who guide you to build your own tool box of applicable exercise programs and self-treatment strategies, for your own use, or with others you may coach or teach. For many, deep states of conscious relaxation may seem out of reach, but NSDR is, Miller shares, “done really as the cherry on top for when you work your way through the other tools that have attenuated and adjusted your tolerance for relaxation, so that non-sleep deep rest actually is very fulfilling. And by the way, our non-sleep deep rest is not a traditional, upright, stillness type of meditation.” Jill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the self-care fitness formats Yoga Tune Up® and The Roll Model® Method. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, athletics and pain management. She is known as the Teacher’s Teacher and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally. As the creator of some of the world’s best mobility tools, she has crafted original programs for 24 Hour Fitness, Equinox, YogaWorks, and numerous professional sports teams. She and her team of 500+ trainers help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics and recovery.

Because it takes direction from both the somatic and the autonomic nervous systems, the diaphragm is the link between the conscious and unconscious minds;” and, Jill adds, a healthy diaphragm is important to well-being. Jill quietly and poetically describes the reasons behind why she chose to include visual and experiential content, why she felt both were necessary, “The diaphragm is already in the dark.”Discover the latest findings in breath and fascia research and get the most out of breathwork practice by including more of your body’s parts in the mix

Train and modulate your body and nervous system for reduced stress, improved mobility, and whole-body resilienceDiscover the latest findings in breath and fascia research and get the most out of breathwork practice by including more of your body’s parts in the mixMap the vast reach of the diaphragm and feel how it intermingles with everything in your body. Launch a parasympathetic cascade in your clients and build their endurance for the relaxation response She has presented case studies at the Fascia Research Congress and International Association of Yoga Therapy conferences. She has the rare ability to translate complex physiological and biomechanical information into accessible, relevant moves that help her students transform pain, dysfunction and injury into robust fitness. Jill is the former anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine and has been featured in Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show and Good Morning America. Jill is regularly featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is the creator of dozens of DVD’s including collaborations with Tom Myers, Katy Bowman and Kelly Starrett DPT. She is the author of the internationally bestselling book The Roll Model: A Step by Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility and Live Better in your Body and contributed a chapter on SMFR to the medical text book Fascia, Function and Medical Applications. Based in Los Angeles, CA, she is a wife and mother of two small children and is currently writing her second book. Body by Breath‘ is an extensive guide that delves into the profound impact of breath on overall well-being. Emphasising the importance of breath in our daily lives, the book presents over 100 practical techniques and exercises to harness the connection between the body and breath, optimising physiological function.Jill is known as the Teacher’s Teacher and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm-shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally. Use a hand-held battery-operated fan (If Covid-19 remains a risk, then don’t use the fan if there are people from another household present.) This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest—to help you achieve Why HIIT Works: The Cardiovascular Benefits and how Precovery, Recovery and Self Massage are Key to Injury Prevention Article