Body by Breath® Immersion
Established 2015
View program websitePurpose
Body by Breath® explores the science behind the diaphragm-vagus nerve connection and delivers a series of exercises that train and modulate your body for profound relaxation, increased body awareness, and mind-body connectivity. This is a resilience-building practice.
What to expect
This 3 Day Immersion provides you with multiple embodied explorations that create the conditions needed for profound relaxation, increased body awareness, and mind-body connectivity. You’ll find a treasure chest of new practices to enhance your life. Each day includes a movement-based workshop, educational lecture, and interactive PowerPoint Q/A session.
Learn:
1) The anatomy and physiology of stress relief and the new science of the vagus nerve
2) Explore your diaphragm and breathing techniques
3) Practical meditation methods for everyone
4) How to create effective relaxation for yourself and your students
5) Roll Model® Therapy Ball Techniques to speed up relaxation and relieve pain
Style/Lineage
Jill Miller is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, athletics, and pain management. Jill is known as the Teacher’s Teacher and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm-shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally. As the creator of some of the world’s best mobility tools, she has crafted original programs for Equinox, Golf Digest, 24 Hour Fitness, YogaWorks, and numerous professional sports teams. She and her team of 500+ teachers help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics, and recovery.
Core competencies
AYC allows each school to state and evaluate the competencies each student acquires
By the end of this program, graduates will be able to…
- Describe the anatomy and physiology of stress-relief, including the Diaphragm-Vagus Nerve connection.
- Explain the physiology of the diaphragm and its importance in posture, digestion, coughing, and elimination.
- Describe the anatomy of the Vagus Nerve and the three zones we can stimulate it in: Supra-clavicular, Thoracic, and Subdiaphragmatic.
- Explore more then 10+ practices to mobilize, release, and strengthen the diaphragm.
- Practice body-based meditation techniques that are accessible to all
- Teach simple body-based meditation techniques that are accessible to all
- Guide students to use Roll Model® Therapy Ball Techniques to hasten relaxation and pain relief
- Guide savasana with an understanding of the vagus nerve, that help clients experience a body wide parasympathetic cascade of relaxation.
Requirements
Program evaluation
- Written exam
There is a 45 question multiple choice exam
AYC Verification
This program will grant the following AYC CE badge after you verify your credential.
Pranayama / Breathwork
Body by Breath® Immersion
Jill Miller
18 hours
Additional Information
Materials needed for this course (not included in tuition) The Body by Breath Book and the Body by Breath Combo
CECs available: 18 IAYT CECs and 15 NPCP CECs. This course is eligible for 12.5 Transfer Credits to Prema Yoga Institute’s IAYT-accredited Yoga Therapy Certification.
Program Faculty
Featured Faculty
Co-founder of Tune Up Fitness Worldwide and creator of the formats Yoga Tune Up®, The Roll Model® Method and Body By Breath. With more than 30 years of study in anatomy & movement, she is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, massage, athletics, and pain management. Jill is known as the Teacher’s Teacher and has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm-shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facilities. As the creator of some of the world’s best mobility tools, she has crafted original programs for Equinox, Golf Digest, 24 Hour Fitness, YogaWorks, and professional sports teams. Her programs help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics, and recovery. Jill has presented at conferences and symposia worldwide in the fields of yoga therapy, fitness, fascia, pain, athletic performance, and mental health. She has the rare ability to translate complex physiological and biomechanical information into accessible, relevant moves that help students transform pain, dysfunction, and injury into robust fitness. Jill is a former anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal and has been featured in The NYTimes, Wall Street Journal, Prevention, Shape, Men’s Journal, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, on TODAY Show, Good Morning America & the Oprah Winfrey Network. Her video collaborations with Tom Myers, Katy Bowman, Kelly Starrett DPT & Jen Esquer DPT have been embraced worldwide. 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 Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience. Jill is also a contributing author on the topic of self-myofascial release in the textbook Fascia, Function and Medical Applications as well as Safe and Sound by Dr. Stephen Porges. Based in Los Angeles.
Up-front pricing and policies
Format
Attendance
Online only
Structure
Cohort
Minimum hours of instruction
18 hours
Total time commitment
3- 10 days
Program fees (USD)
Estimated total cost
All details are subject to change; confirm on program website
AYC verification fee
AYC verification fee
One-time. Payable to AYC.
40% goes to Tune Up Fitness, 10% to the Give Back Fund, 50% to AYC Operations