Body by Breath’ by Jill Miller is a comprehensive and valuable guide that explores the profound impact of breath on overall well-being. The book provides practical and achievable exercises, supported by science and practice, to harness the connection between the body and breath. Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. We raise money to research cures and treatments for the world’s biggest killers. Learn more about us

Learn novel exercises to help your clients, and you, achieve enhanced performance and amplified recovery While people can endure weeks without food or water, a few minutes without breath can be fatal. Our breath goes beyond mere survival; it significantly impacts our life’s quality, serving as a powerful tool for relaxation, health, empowerment, and overall well-being. Breathing forms the core of our existence and profoundly affects both our physical and emotional well-being.Doctors, nurses and physiotherapists can help you manage your breathlessness. Speak to your GP about your symptoms – they may be able to refer you to a local exercise class for people with heart conditions or to a clinic to learn more about managing breathlessness. The onslaught of information and pace of the modern world, coupled with the residue of a global pandemic has taken a serious toll on our physical and emotional wellbeing, while often taxing our healthcare system to its limits.

Engage with new fascia science and practice rolling with Roll Model® balls to hasten relaxation and pain relief. 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 vagus is an important nerve for regulating your heartbeat, rate of respiration, and digestion. The vagus turns the dial down on our sympathetic, fight-or-flight response and ramps up our relaxation response,” Jill explains. 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. Are you dealing with shortness of breath? Breathlessness experts Dr Ann Hutchinson and Professor Miriam Johnson explain what causes it, how you can manage it, and where to get support.The vagus nerve is the major nerve of the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS) that stimulates the relaxation response . Activating our PSNS stimulates our internal compound pharmacy, a cascade of internal responses that support healthy immune function, recovery, and overall well being – without any unwanted side-effects. If this sounds familiar to you, there are simple things that you can do, which many people with breathlessness find helpful. For example, try to stay active, so your muscles stay strong helping you to do everyday activities more easily, without feeling as breathless. Try to remind yourself that feeling breathless will not harm you. What are the different types of breathlessness?

This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest —to help you achieveThe 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. All your basic metabolic demands can be reduced to whether your trillions of cells can transport gases across their membranes to use oxygen (02) as fuel and exchange it for the waste product of carbon dioxide (CO2). The movement of 02 and CO2 across cell walls requires the presence of extra CO2 as a transporter of sorts.” Your breath’s motion is your body’s primal life rhythm. Your breath shapes your body as well as your mental “shape” and outlook. Body By Breath gives you newfound ways of harvesting the muscular, fascial, and neural power that drives respiration and put you in the driver’s seat of self-regulation. 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. These conditions may cause breathlessness for different reasons. 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.

Resources to stimulate your OFF switch and take the inward journey towards conscious relaxation with less distraction from anxiety In Body by Breath, Jill has given us the user’s manual for the human body that we have all been waiting for. Many of us are seeking guidance to help us restore a sense of balance as we navigate the mental, emotional, and physiological impact of the pandemic. Jill explains the science of breath while making a complex topic both understandable and usable in our everyday lives. Throughout the book, you will receive experiential practices that invite you to embody the material and enhance your well-being. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Bravo!” 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 . This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest —to help you achieveJill Miller, C-IAYT, ERYT, is a renowned figure in the world of fitness, yoga, and pain management. Breath becomes compromised by stress, disease, and the environmental trappings of progress; you can still breathe under this pressure, but it leads to poor breathing habits that slowly whittle away at your health. In Body by Breath, bestselling author Jill Miller takes you on a journey through your breathing body and presents more than 100 step-by-step techniques and practices to help you master the body-breath connection and reset your physiology. We also know that for some people breathlessness goes on for a long while after having Covid-19. Your Covid Recoveryhas helpful information about this. This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest — to help you achieve Some studies suggest that between 17% and 53% of the total population is stillness-based meditation intolerant. For these restless meditators who find stillness near impossible, Body by Breath provides tolerable options of managing the relaxation response through movement, breath, roll outs, or exercises.