Jason Nemer: The Benefits of AcroYoga, Play, and Connection | EP 395

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Do you make time for play in your day? In this episode of the Align podcast, Jason Nemer and I chat about the benefits of acroyoga, playing, and connection for our health. While we tend to forget it, humans do need to experience play to feel their optimal selves. We also chat about the concept of the “perfect fit” when it comes to AcroYoga. Jason Nemer is a world-champion acrobat and the Co-Founder of AcroYoga. Jason’s work was featured in New York Times Bestselling author Tim Ferriss’ book, Tools of Titans. What we discuss: 03:20: What does it mean to have space in the body? 08:35: What are meridian lines? 18:04: What is AcroYoga? 21:19: What can people learn about their bodies in this process? 31:13: Does the concept of “perfect fit” exist? 43:13: What are the benefits of “play”? 48:50: Where does DougChiang fit in? 01:10:19: What does it mean to be extreme? To learn more about Jason: Website: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Aline Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander.
0:06.5	This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and
0:09.8	wellness to help you optimize the mind, body, and a movement. Today's conversation is with a very close friend.
0:16.8	His name is Jason Neamer. He is the co-founder of Acro Yoga, which I'm sure most all of you, I would imagine, have heard of.
0:24.8	Perhaps it has graced your existence.
0:27.3	Acro Yoga has been something that has been a pretty large part of my life for the last decade
0:32.3	or so, a little longer than that.
0:33.6	And Jason Neamer was a mythological creature
0:37.6	that I had heard of when I was like 20, I don't know,
0:40.3	22, 23 years old or something,
0:41.9	and that was the beginning of them creating this magical activity referred to as Acro Yoga.
0:47.8	Jason is one of the most interesting human beings on the planet.
0:51.2	He is an Olympic level gymnast has a background with a whole
0:55.8	plethora of different mopodalities of manual therapy and movement particularly in
1:00.5	the gymnastic world and he's just a fantastic interesting complex
1:05.3	human being this conversation goes into a lot of philosophy and do a lot about the
1:09.9	the doubt of ching a lot of philosophical principles interwoven from a movement
1:16.0	perspective with the way that we live our lives. So I think you guys are going to dig
1:20.1	this conversation. I want to thank you guys for leaving reviews on wherever you
1:24.0	listen to Spotify, Apple Podcasts. I'm going to read one from e.g. Wellness and what
1:30.3	they say is health resources for days as a manual therapist and
1:34.8	personal trainer I use this podcast as the main resource when dealing with my
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