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

Jan 6, 2016

01:05:50

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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