Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical & Emotional Resilience: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience

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This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest —to help you achieve 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. Dr. Arielle Schwartz, clinical psychologist, yoga teacher, and author of The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook The thing that’s really exciting is that we can directly influence the vagus with the pace of our breathing, with pressure in the different zones the vagus innervates, through position and through humming or singing,”states Miller. In this review, we will explore how the book ‘Body by Breath’ delves into the profound impact of breath and presents practical techniques to optimise our physiological function and improve the way we live.

This book explores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest—to help you achieve Train and modulate your body and nervous system for reduced stress, improved mobility, and whole-body resilienceDiscover the latest findings in breath and fascia research and get the most out of breathwork practice by including more of your body’s parts in the mixMap the vast reach of the diaphragm and feel how it intermingles with everything in your body. Breathlessness can feel frightening, and you may start having thoughts like “I’m going to die” or “I’m upset people are seeing me like this.” This may trigger feelings of panic, which can lead to rapid breathing, making your breathlessness worse. Be a body-by-breath pioneer and explore the science and practice of physical and emotional resilience.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. 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 . 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. Andy Galpin, professor of Human Performance, director of the Center for Sport Performance at CSU Fullerton, and bestselling author of Unplugged

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.

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.” Jill is the former anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal Magazine, is a contributing author on self-myofascial release in the medical textbook Fascia, Function and Medical Applications and has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, and on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and the Oprah Winfrey Network. Body by Breath also describes the vagus’ role in communication and social engagement, as a predictor and protector against cancer, glucose regulation, inflammation, and emotional stress including anxiety, fear, and PTSD – and against Long Covid. 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 Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show and Good Morning America. Jill is regularly featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She is the creator of dozens of DVD’s 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 and contributed a chapter on SMFR to the medical text book Fascia, Function and Medical Applications. Based in Los Angeles, CA, she is a wife and mother of two small children and is currently writing her second book. In the hierarchy of life, breath always wins. It persists 22,000 times daily, but you get to decide whether the way you breathe is to your benefit or detriment.

Or if your heart isn’t working as well as it should, this could cause a build-up of fluid in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. 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. For many, deep states of conscious relaxation may seem out of reach, but NSDR is, Miller shares, “done really as the cherry on top for when you work your way through the other tools that have attenuated and adjusted your tolerance for relaxation, so that non-sleep deep rest actually is very fulfilling. And by the way, our non-sleep deep rest is not a traditional, upright, stillness type of meditation.” This bookexplores four primary types of resilience-building exercises—breathwork, movement, rolling, and non-sleep deep rest —to help you achieve 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.”Throughout the book, ‘Breathe with Me’ boxes introduce exercises to familiarise readers with the concepts discussed. Links to videos and podcasts complement the text, promoting embodied learning and accommodating various learning styles.