Tune Up Fitness® Self Care Blog

Kayleigh Miller is a Yoga Tune Up teacher and a member of the San Antonio Symphony viola section. She enjoys a varied career of performance, teaching, and yoga instruction. In addition to teaching yoga, she maintains a blog on Musicians’ Health and has…

A few years ago, I woke up with a terrible pain in my low back. After a week of trying to let it heal on its own while feebly moving around and not being able to fold forward into spinal flexion,…

There are a handful of ways to turn on your off switch. The more your body meets and saturates itself in the conditions listed below, the more profound your relaxation response while using Roll Model and Yoga Tune Up Therapy Balls…

I once heard a man say “having means nothing, unless you know how to use it”. While this man was referring to his personal ownership of an Olympic sized pool in his backyard, which he never used because he didn’t know…

This entire week I’ve been playing with cross crawl and crawling exercises my private clients, from age 25-75, and have seen rapid improvement in balance, coordination, rhythm, flow, strength, and endurance. (Learn more about the benefits of crawling in my last…

How many times have we all been told that in order to embrace a bright shining future, we must let go of the past? That to move forward with freedom and ease, we must break old habits and patterns, and read…

In my last article, I wrote about how traumatic experiences can store themselves in your psoas and contribute to back pain. My self-care routine now combines varied movement – from Pilates, Yoga, and Yoga Tune Up® to cycling, swimming and even…

The first time I lied down on a Coregeous ball was nine months ago at the Hips Immersion. I hated it. This purple ball of fire made sick, it made me cry and it pissed me off. In fact, throughout the…

On Wednesday, we discovered that the “Cinderella” of our hip flexors, the bi-articular sartorius, could be an over-looked cause of muscular pain at the anterior hip and medial knee. Over and above an acute injury to the muscle, we should also…