Jill Miller is a certified yoga therapist, teacher, co-founder of Tune Up Fitness, and author or The Roll Model and upcoming book Body by Breath. With 30+ years of experience, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of movement and pain management, as well as creating some of the world's best mobility tools. Within our conversation, Jill shared the vast impact of breath on various systems with our body along with insight into how we can improve our stress threshold. We explored the function of the vagus nerve, diaphragm, and so much more.
TIMECODES:
(2:00) - Getting into Yoga & the Fitness Industry
(5:24) - Mental, Physical, Emotional Change Through Movement
(6:38) - The Roll Model Method
(11:44) - Interrelation of Problems & Learning Your Body
(15:00) - Tune Up Fitness / Therapy Massage Balls
(18:31) - Importance of Learning Your Body
(20:29) - Inspiration behind Body By Breath
(22:48) - Breath's Connection to the Nervous System
(25:25) - Managing Stress & Anxiety
(27:29) - Deregulation & Increasing Our Stress Threshold
(32:42) - Vacuum Exercises, Diaphragm, & the 'Vacuum Pose'
(39:43) - WPW Syndrome & the Vagus Nerve
(49:26) - Try This: Internal Metronome Breath
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