BODY BY BREATH

Our breath is an indicator of health; but it is compromised by stress, disease, air pollution, global instability anxiety, immobilize ourselves at desks, in cars, and on couches. Reversing bad breathing habits is life-changing, and you can harness your breath for health so that every aspect of you rebounds toward optimal function.

Powerhouse author Jill Miller is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and a world leader in applying fascial research to novel breathing strategies that literally change the foundational texture of the fascia and other tissues. Her scientifically supported methods reduce stress, balance posture, adjust scar tissue, improve performance, and transform the nervous system. In BODY BY BREATH she gives the reader all of the tools to harvest the power of breath for optimal physical, mental, and emotional health. Simply put, this book shows how to map the way you breathe and identify which parts of your body are helping or hurting your breathing efficiency, from foot to face to feelings. BODY BY BREATH will help develop more body awareness and trigger a cascade of positive effects, including: - improved digestion and sleep - enhanced cognitive function - an elastically strong core - supercharged recovery power - pain and injury self-help Miller shows how to treat breathing and self-massage as forms of self-care, with a treasure chest of new tools and practices to incorporate into your daily life that help transform your relationship to trauma. BODY BY BREATH is complete with a step-by-step guide to each exercise, full-color photos, and real-life success stories from people who have used Jill's techniques. It also includes a special section for pregnant women that shows how to utilize breathwork for performance and recovery before, during, and after childbirth. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy and movement, Jill Miller 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. 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 The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men's Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women's Health, Yoga Journal, and Self and on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is the creator of dozens of programs, 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. She is a contributing author on the topic of self-myofascial release in the medical textbook Fascia, Function and Medical Applications.