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

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Fueled to understand the science behind her students’ energetic transformations served as the inspiration for Body by Breath. Jill shares, “I needed to find out WHY people felt so much better on every level by using my approach, and in researching it all, I was able to distill the elements that lead to these well-being transformations.” 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. 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. 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.

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. Dr Hutchinson and Professor Johnson are based at the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre where they are carrying out research to help people with breathlessness, as well as work raising awareness of the difficulties breathlessness causes and what can be done to help people live well with breathlessness. This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest — to help you achieve The thing that’s really exciting is that we can directly influence the vagus with the pace of our breathing, with pressure in the different zones the vagus innervates, through position and through humming or singing,”states Miller.The Body by Breath methodology is different. Built on four pillars – Breathe, Roll, Move, and Non-sleep Deep Rest – exercises support the attainment of conscious relaxation through these tools – and with other principles including the “5 Ps” of Parasympathetic Bliss: Perspective, Place, Palpation, Pace of Breath, and Position. Learn new perspectives on the vagus nerve and explore multiple ways to stimulate the vagus to deploy a bodywide parasympathetic cascade. 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 Brain

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 . Explore resilience research including integrated perspectives on breath’s role in recovery through the autonomic nervous system and fascial network Resources to stimulate your OFF switch and take the inward journey towards conscious relaxation with less distraction from anxiety Bridge Lifts are a highly effective way to enhance breath, stretch the diaphragm and activate the relaxation response. This exercise from Jill will become your instant breath classic.

Even though breathlessness can have a huge effect on your life, it can be hard for other people to understand. This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest to help you achieve Body by Breath also describes the vagus’ role in communication and social engagement, as a predictor and protector against cancer, glucose regulation, inflammation, and emotional stress including anxiety, fear, and PTSD – and against Long Covid. 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.”

Body by Breath’ is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the power of breath for enhanced well-being and improved physical performance.I’ve followed Jill Miller for a long time, and everything she releases is impeccable. The hours of research and practice that she puts into her efforts is surely astounding. Why HIIT Works: The Cardiovascular Benefits and how Precovery, Recovery and Self Massage are Key to Injury Prevention Article Body by Breath may offer a more tolerable way to move towards mindfulness and empower the relaxation response than traditional, still-based meditation. Andy Galpin,professor of Human Performance, director of the Center for Sport Performance at CSU Fullerton, and bestselling author of Unplugged Engage with new fascia science and practice rolling with Roll Model® balls to hasten relaxation and pain relief.