077: Jill Miller - Sitting Is The New Smoking | Fascia, What Exactly Is It? | Yoga Tune Up Therapy Balls

This week's episode features the creator of the Yoga Tune Up Therapy Balls, Jill Miller. She is the author of The Roll Model, a book that guides you through simple self-massage techniques that will erase your pain and allow you to perform your best. Jill is the glue that connects the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, and pain-management.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the Yoga Tune Up (YTU) Therapy Balls came to be
• Self massage can be used to help emotionally regulate yourself
• The different YTU Therapy Balls and how they work
• Your organs like to be rolled/massaged too
• Fascia, what exactly is it?
• The various ways the YTU Therapy Balls can improve your health
• A great place to start doing myofascial work... your feet
• The secret to resetting your nervous system
• The connection between the muscles in your thumb to shoulder motion + neck pain
• Physio balls don't make a good chair
• Sitting is the new smoking
• Physical inactivity... 4th leading cause of death on the planet
• Yes, you can overstretch your muscles
• Has your ass fallen over to the side from sitting too much?
• Standing all day at your desk isn't the answer
• Sitting may not be the ideal position for meditation
• The 3 zones of breathing and which one is the most relaxing
• We need to stop crippling ourselves with technology
• No YTU Therapy Balls, no problem... you can do myofascial work with objects you already have around your home
• How to find your stretch barrier

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Jill Miller - The Roll Model (book)

Jill Miller's website (Yoga Tune Up)

Follow Jill Miller on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

Jill's YouTube channel

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Katy Bowman - Don't Just Sit There (book)

Active Release Techniques (ART)

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