Breath is a universal vital sign displaying your health; it&;s a tool you can employ anytime and anywhere. But in the modern era, breath is under attack from stress, disease, air pollution, global instability, and the environmental trappings of progress that immobilize our bodies at desks, in cars, and on couches. You can still breathe under this pressure, but it slowly whittles away at your health, impacting every system of your body. 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.
Jill Miller is the co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and a foremost thought-leader in applying fascial research along with novel breathing strategies that literally change the foundational texture of your 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 you all of the tools to harvest the power of breath for optimal physical, mental, and emotional health. This book shows you 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.
You&;ll 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
Jill shows you 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.
Embrace your innate power of breath to unlock recovery, embodiment, and resilience.
About the Author
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.
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.
She lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and two children.
Industry Reviews
"When I began talking and teaching about breathing, the first person I invited to that work was Jill Miller. There are very few people who have a black belt of understanding in the biological experience; she sits in a class of her own. Jill's understanding of the role of breathing in being human and its applications cannot be replicated. She already has changed the landscape of the oldest movement practice we know (yoga) and is now making sense of its foundation. If you are interested in truly understanding how our breath works with us or without us, this is the most important book to date on the subject."
-Brian Mackenzie, human performance specialist and author of Unplugged and Power Speed Endurance
"It is a wry comment on our current condition that we need to be taught how to walk, run, stand, and even breathe. Nevertheless, the research shows the cost of not teaching humans these simple but lost arts is disease and disengagement. Jill Miller has distilled her years of practical work in the field into a reference manual for the modern therapist, parent, or human that respects our intelligence and covers the field with assurance and, best of all, effervescent humor and disarming honesty."
-Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains
"Body by Breath is an extraordinary read. A gifted teacher, Jill Miller masterfully weaves together important physiological concepts with clear diagnostics and resulting actionable protocols. The illustrations, graphics, and writing style combine to seamlessly float the reader back and forth between wonder, inspiration, and self-guided application. Body by Breath is as comprehensive as any academic course or textbook-yet also dedicates hundreds of pages to walking the reader through a guide to building a personalized protocol."
-Andy Galpin, professor of Human Performance, director of the Center for Sport Performance at CSU Fullerton, and bestselling author of Unplugged
"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!"
-Dr. Arielle Schwartz, clinical psychologist and author of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook
"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."
-Dr. Theresa Larson, PT, DPT, CSCS, Marine Corps veteran, and author of Warrior
"At a time when the culture demands us to take in more and more, the pandemic made us afraid to inhale, and respiratory illness-from asthma to apnea to COPD-are everywhere, Body by Breath arrives like of breath of fresh air to give us the inspiration we need to find more freedom, comfort, and vitality in the most basic of physical acts, which is the first thing we do when we come into this world-breathe!"
-David Lesondak, BCSI, ATSI, FST, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and author of Fascia: What It Is and Why It Matters
"Body by Breath is a complete manual to positively inspire you. Jill Miller's thorough and thoughtful book is packed with clear explanations, exercises and gorgeous, helpful visuals. Body by Breath is the 'how to breathe well' textbook you wish you'd read years ago."
-Katy Bowman, MS, bestselling author of Move Your DNA and Rethink Your Position
Body by Breath is an essential resource for all bodies, including athletes; educators; yoga practitioners; those who struggle with pain, injury, anxiety, or the effects of long-term COVID; or anyone who wants to cultivate greater skills for self-regulation and healing. With an eye toward science, Jill Miller provides theoretical explanations and embodied exercises to help us understand and experience the impact that deep, deliberate, and targeted breath has on our physical, emotional, and psychological health and wellness. As a yoga teacher and practitioner, I will use this thorough and well-researched book to not only enrich my understanding but as a resource within my own programming.
-Seane Corn, author of Revolution of the Soul
