“Your posture follows you like a shadow, and it has a ripple effect into everything you do – how you walk, stand, breathe, and train.”– Jill Miller Posture. What IS it, really? You know it’s distinctive – you can easily and…
“The diaphragm is the most important muscle we have. There is no if, and, or but about it.” That’s a bold statement from Brian MacKenzie, author and founder of Shift (formally known as Power Speed Endurance) and the Health and Human…
The most important time to be able to skillfully breathe could very well be during the (laborious) miracle of birth. Jill Miller, creator of the brand new online video program Roll Model Mama, is well acquainted with this need. She personally…
Last week, I talked about the Yogic Complete Breath in Yoga Tune Up® Savasana and its affect on reducing anxiety. In this section I am going to discuss proprioception, another major component of Yoga Tune Up®, and how it relates to…
It’s almost poetic the way the diaphragm parachutes its way through our torsos. Floating and sheet like, it is the transverse plane’s sweetheart. For the 15 years that I have been an actor and yoga teacher, I have often been confused by…
To honor National Yoga Month, we’re releasing four Yoga Tune Up moves that will support your yoga practice. Our first stretch focuses on the hips and legs. Much of daily life impacts our walking patterns. Excessive sitting can turn our strut…
I’m a couple weeks away from “D” day (Delivery day) and physically pregnancy has been a gift. First trimester aside, I am still teaching multiple classes per week, I can walk for several miles, and I sit on the floor to…
Considering we’ll likely take 20,000 breaths today, the understated muscle the diaphragm deserves attention. “When the diaphragm stops flexing, air stops moving. After four minutes of that, pieces of the brain start to die. Folks who bravely survive muscular dystrophy — a genetic…
Two experts in body mechanics meet in the middle, the middle of the body that is. Watch and see how Dr. Kelly Starrett, DPT of www.MobilityWOD.com and Jill explore the respiratory diaphragm. Every athlete, yogi, golfer, singer, mother, father, sister, brother,…
