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

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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. If your heart isn’t pumping enough oxygen-containing blood around the body, your body responds by breathing faster to try to get more oxygen into your body, making you feel short of breath.

It also includes a special section for pregnant women that shows how to utilize breathwork for performance and recovery before, during, and after childbirth. Arielle Schwartz Clinical psychologist, and author of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook among other books on trauma recovery. This feedback loop travels through the vagus to the brainstem and ends up slowing down your heart rate, constricting the blood vessels and slowing down your breathing.Body by Breath helps you connect interoception into your fascial system as well, but all these practices are subtle. Jill is a true innovator but first and foremost she’s, as she usually says in her trainings, a student of her body. An anthem to interconnectedness, each verse of By Breath celebrates one of the four elements and then brings them all together as One in the easy-to-learn chorus that invites harmonizing. You can still breathe under this pressure, but it slowly whittles away at your health, impacting every system of your body. If you have struggled with traditional meditation practices because remaining still spikes your anxiety and leaves you feeling agitated and fidgety, Body by Breath presents innovative alternatives designed for your unique nervous system.

She lives in Park City, UT, where she enjoys teaching weekly classes, being outdoors and spending time with her husband Michael, her 7-year-old daughter Maya, and her dog Jet. Jill is the former anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine, is a contributing author on self-myofascial release in the medical textbook Fascia, Function and Medical Applications and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, and on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her new book, Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resiliencewill be published inFebruary2023. Now she poured through countless testimonials that her therapeutic soft-tissue approach not only amplified physical wellness, but bestowed practitioners with renewed emotional resilience and an improved overall sense of well-being. The illustrations, graphics, and writing style combine to seamlessly float the reader back and forth between wonder, inspiration, and self-guided application.With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, Miller has developed fitness programming for major gym chains such as Equinox, 24Hr. The book centres on four core exercises for building resilience: breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest, offering a wide range of benefits like increased power, endurance, enhanced self-regulation skills, and relief from pain, among others. Being myself a yoga teacher, studying with her changed my teaching and Opened my mind to so many possibilities, as a body can move.