Aaron Alexander
Host, The Align Podcast. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Aaron Alexander is a manual therapist, movement coach, and the founder of The Align Method. He hosts The Align Podcast and authored the book The Align Method.
1shows
1appearances
28statements
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Everything Aaron Alexander said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Alexander: Breathwork provides broader tension relief than direct manual therapy
“If a person is coming in, and they're tight, and their traps are tight, and their jaws tight, and their hands tight, and all that stuff, For you to just go in and start, like, banging away, chipping away at their shoulders, it's fine, it will have effect, but …”
Alexander claims floor-sitting cultures have minimal hip and knee osteoarthritis
“Like, so, so the places in the world that spend time on the ground with regularity, where it's just normal,
They have minimal to no incidence of osteoarthritis in the hips, in the knees, pelvic floor dysfunction is like, you know, not so much a thing.”
Alexander: Knee Pain Should First Be Treated Through the Feet
“If a person experiencing knee pain, the, and I was treating them, the first thing I would do would be work with their feet. Like, bar none, hands down.”
Alexander: Puffed-chest body language signals insecurity rather than true alpha confidence
“A person that is, is pronounced, like, chest out, all that stuff, beta. So that's a person that's trying to be alpha, and they feel insecure, and they're trying to project out, I can hurt you know, I'm confident.”
Alexander: Altering environmental culture changes cells more than directly altering internal chemistry
“If you want to change a cell in a Petri dish, you don't do anything to the cell, you change the culture that it resides within.”
Alexander: Poor posture in yoga classes exacerbates practitioners' stress
“Where I ever go to a yoga class or ever go to a breath work place or whatever, people are breathing, they're going through the different techniques, but they're not actually aware, they haven't been educated on the mechanics of how to breathe. And so this is j…”
Alexander: Movement retraining is required to sustain bodywork benefits
“So first you do the bodywork stuff, and I do a combination of like, you know, you see me do like acro yoga and a bunch of weird stuff, and then the manual techniques, and then integrating that with movement, and the movement's what kind of like, it's like pres…”
Alexander: Breathing is the foundational regulator for stress and sleep
“Breath is, like, the foundation of everything. You know, so if you are feeling stressed out chronically, if you're feeling like sleep is challenging for you, if you're chronically having like tense muscles, hypertonicity, your breathing is going to be the foun…”
Alexander: People naturally attune breathing to the room's calmest, most dominant person
“The cadence of a person's breath is something you will naturally start to attune to, and you're going to attune to whoever's the most like alpha in the room, you know, and typically the most alpha person hopefully is the most calm person because they're relaxe…”
Alexander: Physical Flexibility and Range of Motion Improve Deal Closing
“If you want to be successful in your business or your closing of deals, for you to have the capacity to have the flexibility and range of motion with your facial gestures and with your body language, And with your, the movement of communication, that will allo…”
Alexander: Evaluating resumes on heavy clipboards subconsciously boosts perceived trustworthiness
“When people hold like a, when they read a resume of someone and it's from on a, like a heavy, thick what's it called? Clipboard. They will perceive the resume as being like weightier and more sturdy and like more trustworthy.”
Alexander: Holding warm beverages causes people to perceive others as warmer
“There was research done with people holding a cold beverage versus holding a warm beverage. If those were holding, this is very clever. I mean, you guys didn't do this intentionally. But me holding a warm beverage Right now, based on the research, would cause …”
Alexander: 'Faking it until you make it' creates tangible physiological change
“And so it's actually like a real, structural, tangible thing, the faking it until you make it. You're creating physiological change in that process of quote unquote faking or faking anything.”
Alexander: Dance Classes Provide the Same Lymphatic Benefits as Passive Massages
“You don't need a lymphatic massage. You can literally just, like, go take a dance class.”
Alexander: Premature babies grew twice as fast with brief daily massage
“What they did was they introduced, it was just 15 minutes, if I remember correctly, 15 minutes of little like baby massage twice a day. And they found that the babies were able to grow it was, I think it was like two times faster. And they're eating the same a…”
Alexander: Partner Dancing Staves Off Cognitive Decline Better Than Other Activities
“There was a research done from Albert Einstein Medical College that they were measuring which type of activity would be the most effective for staving off cognitive decline, and they found by far dance to music with a partner Is the best thing a person can pos…”
Alexander: Panoramic vision signals the autonomic nervous system to relax
“Your eyes, when they are going into a panoramic view, I either like they're taken in the whole room, you're kind of like just spacing out. That is sending a signal to your autonomic nervous system that it's safe to be calm.”
Alexander: Great teammates fluctuate fluidly between alpha and beta roles
“Most people are not permanently alpha. They're alpha for a while, and then they're beta for a little bit, and then they're alpha for a while. That would be like a good teammate.”
Alexander: Psychological safety and daily fulfillment drive sleep better than biohacks
“Like if you feel safe, if you feel loved, if you have like Joie de vivre. You're looking forward to your day tomorrow. You had a great day where you feel gratified, and you feel like you exhausted yourself in the best possible way. You probably sleep really go…”
Alexander: Worked with Aaron Rodgers on Achilles rehab
“I was working with Aaron Rodgers at the time. So I went through all of his rehab and such during the season that he tore his Achilles, and Laird is neighbors with Aaron, and so we reached out to them and to went, go over and just like do some pool training”
Alexander: Exhalation triggers parasympathetic activation and slows heart rate
“What's happening when you exhale, it's actually causing your diaphragm to raise up, and it's causing the blood vessels in and around your heart to get a little bit smaller, which causes your heart rate to slow down. It's called, ah, sinus respiratory arrhythmi…”
Alexander: Building interpersonal trust triggers unconscious physical and breath mirroring
“You're naturally going to do to bridge connection with somebody is you're naturally going to start to mimic their breathing pace. Right? So that's something that's pretty interesting. You're going to naturally start to mimic their facial gestures. You're going…”
Alexander: Lymph Nodes Are Concentrated in High-Movement Joints for Locomotion Drainage
“One of the things that's really important is we have these waste management systems in our body, called our lymphatic system, and the places where your lymphatic system has the high concentration of lymphatic glands Are in places of a high volume of movement. …”
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