077: Jill Miller - Sitting Is The New Smoking | Fascia, What Exactly Is It? | Yoga Tune Up Therapy Balls
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
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
Related links:
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Jill Miller - The Roll Model (book)
Jill Miller's website (Yoga Tune Up)
Follow Jill Miller on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Listen to Katy Bowman previously on TUHP (episode #064)
Katy Bowman - Don't Just Sit There (book)
Active Release Techniques (ART)
Nibmor - organic and natural dark chocolate bars
Habits app for iOS (*no longer available)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:13.2 | Welcome to the 77th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast |
| 0:14.3 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:16.6 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:19.5 | Today we have on the show with us |
| 0:21.5 | Jill Miller and Jill is just a whole wealth of |
| 0:26.0 | information in the world of fascia, muscles and tuning the body up so it's performing at its best. |
| 0:34.3 | So Jill is the creator of yoga tune-up therapy balls and we get into |
| 0:39.0 | the different types of balls and what they're used for in the interview today. She studied of she's pioneered connecting the fields of fitness, yoga, massage, and pain management. |
| 0:56.3 | So she's like the glue that brings all those worlds together. |
| 1:00.6 | Her first book, The Role Model, came out in fall 2014 and Jill again is just such a wealth |
| 1:07.6 | information. You guys are going to love this. And now a little shout out to our show sponsor, Sun Warrior. So Sun Warrior is proudly a sponsor of the new Habits |
| 1:19.0 | app, which I'm hoping all you guys are hearing about. |
| 1:23.0 | You know, we've been launching it on social media. |
| 1:25.0 | We had a mini-cast that we want you to go back to. |
| 1:28.0 | And Jessie and I'm just so excited to be working with Sun Warrior |
| 1:31.0 | on a regular basis, you know know their products are amazing. We use |
| 1:34.0 | them consistently. I hope you guys are integrating them into your healthy |
| 1:37.1 | routines using the Classic Plus protein, the Oramus Super Greens, the Liquid Light, and yeah, just always send them lots of love because they're |
| 1:46.1 | always sending us lots of love. So a little bit more about our Habits app. We're just so excited |
| 1:52.0 | to have launched this and you know it's the new year we're about three days |
| 1:56.0 | into the new year and I myself have started to use my own app to help me |
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