#414 - Aaron Alexander - Engineer Your Body To Improve Your Mind
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Alexander is a manual therapist and movement coach, founder of the Align Method and an author.
Health & fitness has been broken down into a very compartmentalised, reductionist view. Muscles are trained in isolation, mindfulness practise doesn't occur in the gym, physicality isn't thought of when you sit down at your desk.
I wanted to speak to Aaron to explain how we can take a global, aligned, macro-view of our body's wellness to impact more than just how we look but how we feel, think, sit, sleep, have sex and everything else...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show, my guest today is Aaron Alexander. He's a manual |
| 0:06.0 | therapist and movement coach, founder of the Align Method and an author. Health and fitness |
| 0:12.1 | has been broken down into a very compartmentalized reductionist view. Muscles are trained in isolation, |
| 0:19.0 | mindfulness practice doesn't occur in the gym and physicality isn't thought of when you sit |
| 0:24.2 | down at your desk. I wanted to speak to Aaron to explain how we can take a global aligned macro |
| 0:31.0 | view of our body's wellness to impact more than just how we look but how we feel, think, sit, |
| 0:37.2 | sleep, have sex and everything else. I've trained with Aaron a bunch of times while I was out in |
| 0:43.4 | Austin and his view of training being a complete modality, one way you're trying to improve how |
| 0:50.7 | you move on a daily basis by the movements that you're doing the gym is a bit of a departure from |
| 0:55.8 | what I'm used to and I really enjoyed it so hopefully you take turns away from today. If you |
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