Alexander: Poor posture in yoga classes exacerbates practitioners' stress
Aaron Alexander · How to Complete Overhaul Your Health in 2025 | Aaron Alexander · Jan 8, 2025 · at 1:21:16
Aaron Alexander, somatic specialist and host of The Align Method, explains why mainstream breathwork and yoga practices often fail due to flawed biomechanics.
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“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 just like this gaping thing that I've seen for like any time I go to a yoga place, I'm like, you guys, your guys' posture is in such a way that you're actually exacerbating the very state that you're coming in here to sort out.”
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