The Roll Model: A Step-by-Step Guide to Erase Pain, Improve Mobility, and Live Better in Your Body

In May 2009 I had the privilege of travelling to Santa Monica to train in person with Jill Miller for an entire week. Jill is an amazing woman with a fire and passion to help others that you don’t often see. During the training she introduced the students present to the Yoga Tune Up Therapy Balls. Back then Jill was in the early days of experimenting and developing ways of using them. Fast forward 5 years, much hard work, exploration and discovery, and she has gifted us with an amazing self-care, self-maintenance manual, “The Roll Model”. The premise of this book is simple: All human beings should be able to perform necessary maintenance on themselves. This book will teach you *how* to perform that self-maintenance. Self-maintenance is possible when you learn how to unlock and release tissues in your body that have become “sticky” or “glued down” leading to pain or reduced range of motion; when you learn what correct posture looks like and how to acquire it; when you learn how to breathe fully, easily and comfortably; and when you learn how to “down regulate” or “reset” your autonomic nervous system, shifting it from “flight or fight” mode to “resting, digesting, and repairing” mode. This book covers all of this and much more. At the heart of the book are many detailed, beautifully photographed sequences showing exactly where and how to place the YTU Balls on your body to release tightness and strain. There is a chapter that teaches you how to create optimal posture. There is a chapter that teaches you how to breathe correctly and a chapter on how to down regulate your stressed nervous system. In addition this book will teach you through your own tactile exploration how to embody your own anatomy. What is happening beneath your skin? How are you put together? Through working with “The Roll Model” you will discover all this and much more. It is a kinesthetic introduction to the place where you live: your own body! This is an amazingly thorough book packed with information that will expand your understanding of your body on so many levels. Jill has incredible breadth and depth of knowledge and it is all here for you to help you. She is also an excellent writer for this book is never dry or boring. It is fun, playful, and as mentally engaging as it is physically transforming. You have so much to gain from reading and working with this book and the YTU Therapy Balls ... and so much discomfort and pain to lose! I can confidently say, *this* is the bible of self-care and self-maintenance! I have been self-employed as a massage therapist / bodyworker since 1996, and a yoga teacher since 2006. I use the YTU Balls with my clients as self-care tools and with my students to help them roll away their aches, pains and discomforts. PLUS I use the balls myself on a daily basis as a part of my own self-care, self-maintenance practice. I believe in the use of the YTU Balls because they work. They simply work. Be kind to yourself - learn how to take care of your body so you can enjoy your life more fully. Learn how to perform necessary self-maintenance so that the next time you wake with a sore or stiff neck you know how to fix it, or the next time your back aches you know how to find relief, or the next time your arm throbs from too much typing you know how to undo tightness. Put this book and a set of the YTU Balls in your shopping cart and get ready to transform your life! :)

Are you a slave to pain? Are you afraid that this current diagnosis is permanent? Whether you’re in chronic pain, have a recurring injury, or regularly require pain medications to get through the day – there is a solution. The key, believe it or not, is as simple as picking up a copy of The Roll Model by Jill Miller. I am proud to call Jill my mentor, teacher, and friend – and you can easily appreciate the more than 16 months she spent writing The Roll Model as you flip through 432 pages that are filled with the science of the body, it’s structures, and how to erase your pain in easy to follow steps with beautiful illustrations and pictures. Yep, that’s right – you are a self-healing organism and already have the tools needed to HEAL your body fully and completely. Regardless of how long you have been in your current state, with some understanding of how the breath and body intermingle, you can improve the overall state of your body. From the way you stand, to how you move, to how you sleep, you will learn everything you need to know to rebuild your body in these pages. Jill has boiled down what you need to know about fascia, soft tissues, breath mechanics, and my personal favorite – self-massage with Yoga Tune Up® Therapy Balls. My life was changed forever when I met Jill and began to learn about self-care and soothing my tissues and nervous system with my breath and therapy balls. I have since spent years learning all I can about the body, fascia, and pain physiology in trainings, books, and hands on studies. I have become a student of my body, but the process was not quick and easy. Man, how I wish this book was out 3 years ago! Instead of learning it my way – grab a copy of The Roll Model, read it for yourself, and begin your own process of discovery and healing. The book sums up what I have spent years studying with descriptions that are so clear, anyone can understand them. From reading The Roll Model, I am able to finally grasp complicated biomechanical concepts that my university professors could never make sense of. The Roll Model goes above and beyond any book or DVD out there – instead of following choreography, you will learn how to take the next steps to rehabilitate your body – without doctors, surgery, or pain pills. Don’t’ believe me? You simply need to read the Roll Model Success stories within these pages of people who have used the method to recover from botched surgeries, soothe debilitating anxiety, and recover from intense physical and emotional abuse to know that this stuff WORKS. For those who are experienced at movement mechanics and myofascial self-care, The Roll Model does not disappoint. I have learned new techniques with the therapy balls that are so creative and out of the box, I don’t think I would have ever come up with them on my own! I have also learned additional ways to describe the body to my clients that will be easier for them to digest. Pain is an epidemic – we all know someone who is currently suffering from chronic pain or perhaps you are the one currently battling chronic pain. But I promise you; there is something you can do to change the outcome and trajectory of your life. All it takes is 5 minutes a day and a pair of balls…

Fantastic book. Essential, if you need to take responsibility for your own health and fitness.

Heel duidelijk en goed boek. Veel en goede foto's. Goede uitleg. Ik ook de therapy ballen van Jill Miller gekocht. Na zeven jaar pijn kom ik van mijn pijn in mijn linker been af. Wat een verlichting. Samen met mijn osteopaat heb ik oefenining uitgekozen die goed voor mij zijn. Een aanbeveling!

I cannot say enough good things about this brilliant book!! This is The Best Guide out there for "fixing the issues in your tissues", getting yourself out of pain, improving your movement, your mobility and your all-around health! We are all equipped to, and have the ability to, heal ourselves. This book will teach you How To Do It!! As a yoga teacher I discovered Jill Miller and her Roll Model Therapy Balls over six years ago during the Toronto Yoga Conference. After just one workshop with the balls I felt a relief in my hips that I had never before experienced and I knew that I had to bring them back to my studio - for both my classes and for my students to purchase. They went like hotcakes (as I knew they would) because after just one roll-out with the balls you cannot help but feel deep relief in your body!! We all "knead" it! We all suffer from our chronic bad habits - poor posture and gait, slouching over the computer, driving and/or sitting with our spines in flexion (curved and rounded), sitting too much, repetitive strains from our work days, texting….or from working out in the same way, with the same routines using the same muscles day after day without variation or attention to rest, recovery and relieving built up tension in those overworked muscles. Or maybe you've had an accident or suffer with a chronic illness - whatever your need, This Book WILL Help You! And not only is this book filled with hundreds of pictures and instructions to guide you through routines that will take you into every nook and cranny throughout your whole body, it is also filled with inspiring, heart-warming stories of people who have not only healed their bodies, but healed their souls and spirits too! These practices will empower you to relieve your own pain (no matter how chronic) and leave you in a state of down-regulation and parasympathetic relief and peace. With this book Jill Miller will touch both your heart and your body. Bravo Jill Miller!!

Ein großartiges Buch mit wertvollem Inhalt für jeden, der sich mit Verspannungen und gewissen "Zipperlein" herum schlägt. Und auch für jeden ambitionierten Sportler, der der etwas für seine Beweglichkeit und allgemeine Performance tun möchte. Nachdem ich einiges von Jill Miller im Internet gesehen und ein paar ihrer DVDs ausprobiert hatte, habe ich mir dieses Buch gegönnt. Mittlerweile ist es ja auch auf Deutsch erschienen, ich hoffe es ist gut übersetzt, kann dazu leider keien Aussage machen. Die Originalausgabe jedenfalls ist ein großer Fundus erstklassiger Informationen, mit denen sich das Wohlbefinden im eigenen Körper steigern und viele Probleme durch falsche und einseitige Alltags- oder Sportbelastungen beseitigen lassen. Das Druckbild ist toll, das Papier fühlt sich hochwertig an. Was ich etwas überflüssig finde, sind die typisch amerikanischen "Success-Stories", aber manch einer mag das vielleicht oder findet es motivierend. Von daher schon okay. Zur Umsetzung enpfiehlt es sich, eine gute Yogamatte und zwei Yogablocks zu besitzen. Außerdem braucht man mindestens zwei Tennisbälle und einen weichen Kinderspielball. Jill Miller enpfiehlt natürlich Ihre eingene Ballserie, aber es geht für den günstigen Einstieg auch so. Die Bälle von Jill Miller sind mittlerweile auch in Deutschland erhältlich, hier enpfehle ich einen genauen Preisvergleich, da ich schon Preisunterschiede von über 100% zwischen verschiednen Shops gesehen habe! Ich habe das Buch auch inzwischen schon einige Male verschenkt, gebe also eine klare Kaufempfehlung.

Ho comprato la versione ebook e devo dire ottimo acquisto! Lo posso leggere sia su kindle (con figure in bianco e nero) sia da pc con l'applicazione dedicata (illustrazioni a colori). Completo perchè: ci sono esercizi da fare, ci sono testimonianze di persone che hanno risolto alcuni tipi di dolore, ci sono spiegazioni circa la fascia (intesa come tessuto connettivo, elastico e plastico e ricco di recettori nervosi) del come agiscono gli esercizi di "rullaggio" sulla fascia e come si innesca il meccanismo di distensione anche a livello nervoso, dove il dolore a volte ci impedisce di allungare, muovere bene. Lo consiglio, anche se in inglese, accessibile e stimolante. Alcune palline le ho trovate da Decathlon. Iniziamo oggi stesso!