The Align Method: 5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, a Sharper Mind, and a Pain Free Life

by Aaron Alexander (Read by), Kelly Starrett (Contribution by)

Overview

Aaron Alexander, founder of Align Therapy, reveals how posture and body alignment are powerful tools for building strength, achieving peak performance, reducing pain, and approaching the world with a new sense of confidence.

Aaron Alexander, host of The Align Podcast, delivers the first book to make easy performance trend that is taking top athletes, fitness junkies, and longevity medicine practitioners by storm. The Align Method is a way to age-proof your body, using movement techniques inspired by yoga, martial arts, chiropractics, and more. Listeners gain massive long-term health benefits, toned muscles, new ways to alleviate pain, a faster metabolism, reduced anxiety, better sexual performance, and increased energy.

This program centers on five daily optimizations that can easily be integrated into a workout, mindfulness practice, or just daily life:

• Floor sitting,
• Hanging,
• Hip-hinging,
• Spine stacking, and
• Noose breathing.

These small adjustments can help reinforce messages of strength and well-being at a cellular and a hormonal level, guaranteeing increased physical health.

Longevity medicine and exercise is a growing trend with audiences that range from fitness enthusiasts, biohackers, and the aging. Everyone has a way into the topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781549129117
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	12/24/2019
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.50(h) x 5.00(d)

About the Author

Aaron Alexander CR, LMT, CPT is an accomplished manual therapist and movement coach with over 13 years of professional experience. He is the founder of the Align Movement, an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care that has helped thousands of people out of pain and into health. He hosts the top-rated Align Podcast featuring the biggest names in movement and wellness. Aaron’s clients include Hollywood celebrities, Olympic/professional athletes and everyone in between. He teaches workshops and speaks at events all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

"Improving your health and well-being can seem daunting, but really it's a matter of making better decisions on a moment-to-moment basis rather than drastic changes. If you let Aaron guide you as he has me, you'll have the tools to dramatically boost not just your brain health but the quality of your whole life."—Jim Kwik, CEO of Kwik Learning

"This is a fabulous book. I don't know anything quite like it.
All systems in the body require movement for optimum health. Competent movement that is neither too much or too little, and of the right type is the key. Aaron
Alexander masterfully weaves together a formula for successful pain-free living."—Professor Stuart McGill, Author of Back Mechanic

"Movement is an important part of achieving high level wellness that is frequently neglected. Align is a wonderful compilation of suggestions to help your body work for you, rather than against you. A valuable resource to help you attain the body you have always wanted."
—Dr. Mercola, founder of Mercola.com, most visited natural health site

"Sometimes to move forwards we have to first look back. This book will help you cut through the health and wellness hype and return to the basic principles of what it means to be a fully alive human being."—Mark Sisson, New York Times bestselling author of The Primal Blue Print and Primal Kitchen

"'Culture is not your friend' once said Terence McKenna. The day to day life we deem normal involves a form of unseen physical specialization where our movement behavior consists mostly of sitting, standing a walking a few steps, a predicament I
have coined as 'movement poverty.' With his brilliant book, Aaron provides us with a stimulating perspective and a simple yet effective method to get us back into better motion, health, vitality and physical freedom."—Erwan Le Corre, founder of MovNat and author of The Practice of Natural Movement

"This is a one-stop guide for how to bring your life back into balance and approach every day with more strength, confidence, and capability."
—Kino MacGregor, Ashtanga yoga instructor and founder of Omstars

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