The Tune Up Fitness community is filled with leaders dedicated to educating others about human movement, SMFR, and innovative techniques. This month, we interviewed Louis Jackson to highlight his passion and expertise in empowering our community to move better and live healthier lives.
Does the name sound familiar? You may have read Louis Jackson’s forward in Jill’s latest book, Body by Breath: The Science of Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience. Jackson credits Jill Miller with awakening his curiosity about breathing mechanics, gut massage, and proprioception, profoundly shifting his paradigm of how to live and be in the body. This awareness held him through a transformative three-month Ninniku Okyu treatment with Healing Cultures, where he learned to befriend fear and recreate his spiritual paradigm. That led to his current job as the Director of Yoga and Healing Support for Healing Cultures. With 25 years of yoga practice and teaching, he continues to explore this intersection with “intuitive healing.” He’s proud of the strong foundation he’s received from Jill and the gift of creativity it keeps on giving. He’s honored to help others develop their own healing culture and promises not to let his BA from Stanford get in the way.
Tune Up Fitness: What motivated you to start yoga?
Louis Jackson: Years ago in Houston, I lived with a housemate who had a yoga book and began to practice.
Tune Up Fitness: How many years have you been teaching yoga?
Louis Jackson: 25 years.
Tune Up Fitness: What is your No. 1 tip for teachers?
Louis Jackson: Practice for yourself; don’t be a teacher who practices just to teach. Have your own practice and then use your practice to teach a class.
Tune Up Fitness: What is your favorite rollout?
Louis Jackson: Anything dealing with the gut. Sustained compression on the navel with a ball on the belly. I enjoy feeling my heartbeat and experiencing my body breathe.
Tune Up Fitness: What is your favorite Move?
Louis Jackson: Sidewinder and its variations because it reveals so many blind spots and enhances lateral awareness. Adductor slides are also a favorite as they tie into the pelvic floor, revealing the many underlying connections on the inside of the leg.
Tune Up Fitness: How did you first discover breathwork?
Louis Jackson: Jill Miller awakened my curiosity about breathing mechanics, gut massage, and proprioception, profoundly shifting my paradigm of how to live and be in my body.
Tune Up Fitness: What do you enjoy most about teaching?
Louis Jackson: I enjoy helping others develop their own healing culture.
Read “Build a Coregeous EmbodyMap, Starring the Diaphragm” written by Louis Jackson.
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