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Welcome again! Right now I get to share a extremely inspiring dialog with my good good friend Aaron Alexander. Aaron is a pioneering handbook therapist, motion coach and the creator of the Align Method 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 best way he cares a lot about educating and supporting individuals with their our bodies. His background and schooling in understanding the best way our bodies transfer (and have the potential to maneuver) is excellent, as are his enjoyable and contemporary educating strategies.
He coached me by some now well-known acro yoga poses on the seashore in sunny San Diego, and he’s guided me by enjoyable motion flows on many different events as properly wherein I all the time discover myself scared at first, then actually achieved 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 worthwhile sources together with an epic podcast, his e-book the Align Method, and his programs, together with:
- his foundational 6-week alignment course
- his back pain course and
- his knee pain course)
….all of which actually assist individuals stay higher of their our bodies. Be a part of me in welcoming him to the present!
From his site“I consider there’s a direct correlation between our bodily well being and our psychological wellbeing.
If we wish to change the standard of our lives, we first want to alter the best way we transfer by our lives.
How can we try 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 good friend, 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 aware thoughts (12:13)
- Exploring respiratory
- The management of our physique we are able to entry utilizing our breath
- “The place your consideration goes, power flows.”
- Breath as a software to down regulate the stress response
- Examples of utilizing your breath for various functions from The Align Method book
- Aaron’s guided breathing tool (scroll down and enter your e mail to obtain this without cost)
- The Wim Hof breathing technique
Hassle sleeping? Aaron’s suggestions 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 will be present in The Align Method Book
- The best way mild publicity impacts our skill to sleep
- Dr. Michael Breus (the Sleep Physician) listen to my interview with him here
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The significance of motion in context with our resting poses (30:41)
- Our mutual good friend Dr. Huberman and his findings on motion and sitting
- The significance of resting poses for people
- The distinction in trendy human resting poses in comparison with our ancestors
- How the physique responds to trendy 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: Muscles and Meridians
- The archetypal postures of repose
- The hazard of ignoring these motion patterns
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Exploring motion patterns (40:30)
- Turning into conscious of the postures we maintain ourselves in
- Ahead head posture – AARON LINK?
- Aaron’s suggestions for moving into extra of the archetypal resting poses naturally
- Discover extra on this matter in the Align Method book
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 “must be” and “ought to have finished” from your self, and acknowledge you’re a survivor that has come this far and be type, realizing that everybody is combating their very own inner battles.
CHALLENGE 2: Hold for 90 seconds day by day.
- Get your arms up above your head and grasp from a bar to decompress. Take pleasure in some deep breaths. You’ll be able to break up the size of the hangs to complete 90 seconds all through your entire day.
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Arising subsequent: Arising subsequent, I’m very excited to inform you that we’ve got 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 data she shares about women-specific coaching, hormone well being, and diet methods for girls at each life stage are simply so incredible and so related.
She’s obtained a brand new e-book popping out for peri and put up menopausal athletes referred to as Next Level, and in our upcoming dialog we’ll be diving into that, plus a variety of matters about girls’s well being and health that might be completely related to your day by day life! I can’t wait to share it with you.
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