Welcome to this eight-week video series brought to you exclusively by Whole Life Challenge in partnership with Tune Up Fitness. Each week, coach Jill Miller will teach you new movements (and a few things about your anatomy) so you can increase your mobility (and your connection to your own body). These practices are optional and are simply one of the many ways you can accomplish your ten daily minutes of mobility.
Jill Miller Follow Along Mobility Practice: Week 2
Let’s begin by taking a moment to remember our mindset:
- I’m a student of my body
- I’m a student of my breath
- I embody my body
Now, let’s start working with our body. This week’s lesson is called “Align Your Spine,” and as you can probably guess, we’re going to work on that essential part of your body. We’ll check our rotational ability, work with the therapy balls, and do some spinal motion kinematics exercises.
Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with any of those things — just follow along with the video.
Recommended Equipment and Substitutions:
- Yoga Tune Up Balls or tennis balls
- Therapy Ball Plus, or tennis balls
- Exercise or yoga mat
You can purchase Tune Up Fitness equipment at our online store.
She 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. She has crafted original programs for 24 Hour Fitness, Equinox, YogaWorks, and numerous professional sports teams. She and her team of 500-plus trainers help you to live better in your body with an emphasis on proprioception, mobility, breath mechanics, and recovery.
She has presented case studies at the Fascia Research Congress and International Association of Yoga Therapy conferences, and is the anatomy columnist for Yoga Journal. 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 creator of dozens of DVDs, including Treat While You Train with Kelly Starrett, DPT, and 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. Based in Los Angeles, she is a wife and mother of two small children and is currently writing her second book.
