Yoga Tune Up Classes London,ON

12/04/2025

We are all connected even rolling out your feet and ease neck pain for some. Listen to our wide leader Jill❤️

11/25/2025

Are you looking for a reset? Do you want to live better in your body? Do you want to see how your inner thoughts or programming is creating pain in your body? Join me as we listen to our bodies so we can nurture and tend to areas where we might be holding stress. Learn about your body so you have tools to overcome anxiety, plantar fascia, shin splints, rotator cuff injuries and more. Come and leave feeling inspired, and empowered to heal yourself with the unBALLievable tools to do so.

11/13/2025

Are you struggling with chronic pain? Plantar fascia? Tight hips or even piriformis syndrome? Check out this workshop which will empower you with tools to release tension and live better in your body.

08/30/2024

Shop Self Care Products & Gifts: Massage balls, online fitness videos, educational courses, and best-selling books on resilience building exercises.

05/17/2022

Try Jill’s suggestion out! Looks delicious and better for the cervical spine.

05/16/2022

SELF MASSAGE THERAPY BALL WORKSHOP
Come experience the power of self-massage, and work out the issues in your tissues!
Saturday, June 11th, 9am-12pm at 468 Wellington St. London, ON.
Therapy balls ($20 value) are included in the registration.

04/11/2022

Hard Rollers+ Vibration vs. Soft Balls and No Tech.

One of our trainers has an opportunity to work with a pro sports team who use pricey hard vibrating tools as their self-myofascial release tool. He’s wondering how he can compete against such fancy tools with a bag of squishy grippy Roll Model balls.

People love splashy tech-laden gadgets. I get it. They seem more clinical with all their flashy lights, different settings & edgy packaging.

But are they really worth it?

Vibration is a great application. It can quickly move fluid into & out of areas, it can stimulate a variety of proprioceptors/mechanoreceptors in the area that respond to vibration. This can create a temporary numbness that may allow you to roll into an area that was previously painful. Vibration tools work quickly on the nervous system but they are typically large & encased in very hard materials to protect you from the motor.

The “LARGE & HARD” variables tend to be problematic when it comes to servicing the multiple tissues that you’re trying to administer therapy to.

Hard tools tend to initiate a protective muscle bracing response. The autonomic nervous system will engage muscles that are targeted by a hard tool to protect itself. Thus, HARD often makes you feel pain where the tool is rolling, because you feel the muscles in that local area bracing against the pressure.

Hardness does not equal depth when it comes to tools.

Softer tools mitigate the muscle bracing response & allow for the soft tool to actually find the tissue target and mobilize fascia to promote glide. Roll Model self-massage tools grip & compress tissues & because of their softness are able to mobilize tissues in & around joints where movement matters most.

Soft Roll Model balls also enhance proprioception at every level due to being able to sneak into small recesses where mechanosensors can be contacted & stimulated for proprioception gains. Larger hard tools bypass these regions - and the body protects against having hard tools dive into such spaces in the body.

Roll Model Balls are also portable, and don’t need plugs or chargers.

04/05/2022

Listen to Jill we love her and she is smart!!💜

03/24/2022

03/22/2022

We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but sweating does not remove toxins from your body.

While this claim circulates regularly among ‘wellness influencers’ and ‘alternative practitioners’, it is a myth.

We sweat to regulate our body temperature: as our body heats up, sweat glands release water (and some salts). When that water evaporates off our skin, it has the effect of cooling our body down.

We have sweat glands all over our bodies, and the degree to which a person sweats and in which locations is affected by individual physiology. This is also why utilizing antiperspirants is not harmful by inhibiting sweating in your underarms, as you regulate your body temperature all over your body.

But no, sweating does not release toxins, flush toxins, or detoxify your body. Your kidneys, livers, intestines, and lungs do that for you. Toxins and metabolic waste products are filtered out and released from your body through exhalation, urination, and f***s.

Wellness myths abound – this is a particularly common one. While sweating is important for your body’s physiology and often goes hand in hand with exercise (which is also good for you), it does not serve to detoxify your body.

Sources:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1080%2F23328940.2019.1632145
https://www.piedmont.org/living-better/the-health-benefits-of-sweating
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/EP086112
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/sweat
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32124007/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29745799/