S2 – 13: Aligning the Physique, Thoughts, and Motion with Aaron Alexander

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Welcome again! Right this moment I get to share a very inspiring dialog with my good pal Aaron Alexander. Aaron is a pioneering handbook therapist, motion coach and the creator of the Align Technique which is a information to utilizing posture and physique alignment to construct power, obtain peak efficiency, scale back ache, and discover a new sense of confidence in your self.

We first met a number of years again and I instantly felt I had discovered a kindred spirit in the way in which he cares a lot about educating and supporting individuals with their our bodies. His background and training in understanding the way in which our bodies transfer (and have the potential to maneuver) is excellent, as are his enjoyable and contemporary instructing strategies.

He coached me by some now well-known acro yoga poses on the seaside in sunny San Diego, and he’s guided me by enjoyable motion flows on many different events as effectively wherein I all the time discover myself scared at first, then actually completed from seeing what my physique is able to.

As a coach, his technique unpacks our self-imposed limitations and affords up new frameworks, each psychological and bodily, to assist us expertise extra pleasure, extra alignment, and extra freedom in our lives.

He places out so many precious sources together with an epic podcast, his guide the Align Technique, and his programs, together with:

his foundational 6-week alignment course
his again ache course and
his knee ache course)

….all of which actually assist individuals reside higher of their our bodies. Be part of me in welcoming him to the present!

From his website:

“I consider there’s a direct correlation between our bodily well being and our psychological wellbeing.

If we need to change the standard of our lives, we first want to vary the way in which we transfer by our lives.

How can we do this? Align our thoughts, physique, and motion. The basics are easy, and I’m right here to show you.”

On this episode, you’ll uncover:

Meet my pal, Aaron Alexander (0:51)

The historical past Aaron and I share
Aaron’s philosophy on the physique

The physique as a efficiency instrument (2:04)

What performing can imply for the physique
The luggage across the phrase “carry out”

Aaron’s insights from his contact improv workshop (6:48)

What contact improv is
How Aaron sees it in relation to communication
How efficiency can undermine improv
The artwork of deep listening

Breath because the bridge between our autonomic nervous system and the acutely aware thoughts (12:13)

Exploring respiratory
The management of our physique we will entry utilizing our breath
“The place your consideration goes, vitality flows.”
Breath as a instrument to down regulate the stress response
Examples of utilizing your breath for various functions from The Align Technique guide
Aaron’s guided respiratory instrument (scroll down and enter your electronic mail to obtain this without spending a dime)
The Wim Hof respiratory technique

Bother sleeping? Aaron’s ideas for the Aligned Night might help you (19:43)

What NOT to do
Reviewing the actions of the day
Letting go of the efficiency facet of sleep
Extra sleep instruments might be present in The Align Technique E-book
The best way mild publicity impacts our capacity to sleep
Dr. Michael Breus (the Sleep Physician) hearken to my interview with him right here

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The significance of motion in context with our resting poses (30:41)

Our mutual pal Dr. Huberman and his findings on motion and sitting
The significance of resting poses for people
The distinction in fashionable human resting poses in comparison with our ancestors
How the physique responds to fashionable resting poses
The low hanging fruit of optimum motion patterns that may have a huge impact on our well being
All of the biohacks on the planet can’t make up for ignoring optimum motion patterns

The worth of taking your physique by its full vary of movement (37:21)

Philip Seashore: Muscle tissue and Meridians
The archetypal postures of repose
The hazard of ignoring these motion patterns

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Exploring motion patterns (40:30)

Changing into conscious of the postures we maintain ourselves in
Ahead head posture – AARON LINK?
Aaron’s ideas for moving into extra of the archetypal resting poses naturally
Discover extra on this subject in the Align Technique guide

The significance of play (44:37)

The system of the mind devoted to play
How that system impacts our state of rest and the parasympathetic response
Examples of play
How play and communication intersect
How play advantages our well being

This Week’s Problem [51:05]

CHALLENGE 1: Have compassion for your self with the place you’re.

Take away the “ought to be” and “ought to have performed” from your self, and acknowledge you’re a survivor that has come this far and be form, figuring out that everybody is preventing their very own inside battles.

CHALLENGE 2: Dangle for 90 seconds each day.

Get your arms up above your head and cling from a bar to decompress. Get pleasure from some deep breaths. You may break up the size of the hangs to complete 90 seconds all through the whole day.

Join with Aaron Alexander

Arising subsequent: Arising subsequent, I’m very excited to let you know that we have now the one and solely Dr. Stacy Sims coming again for spherical 3 of our present! She’s one in every of my hottest visitors and the knowledge she shares about women-specific coaching, hormone well being, and diet methods for girls at each life stage are simply so improbable and so related.

She’s received a brand new guide popping out for peri and put up menopausal athletes known as Subsequent Stage, and in our upcoming dialog we’ll be diving into that, plus a variety of matters about girls’s well being and health that will probably be completely related to your each day life! I can’t wait to share it with you.

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