The 5 Daily Movements Overview
Lesson 1 from: Align Method: Move Your Way to a Stress Proof LifeAaron Alexander
The 5 Daily Movements Overview
Lesson 1 from: Align Method: Move Your Way to a Stress Proof LifeAaron Alexander
Lesson Info
1. The 5 Daily Movements Overview
Lessons
The 5 Daily Movements Overview
03:56 2Body Archetypes and How to Counteract Them
06:27 3Floor
07:30 4Couch Stretch
02:39 5Breathing
15:07 6Hip-hinging
10:52 7Hanging
07:22 8Walking
14:29Lesson Info
The 5 Daily Movements Overview
(upbeat music) So would you guys believe me If I suggested that the healthiest cultures on the planet don't spend any time in the gym? They end up doing things like we're gonna be sharing in this program now, so things like I'm doing right now as I'm communicating with you, I'm opening up some space in my ankles, and my knees, and my hips, I'm circulating all the vital fluids throughout my body. And that looks a lot more like the human condition of healthier cultures around the world. So we're gonna show you how to do that. Welcome, guys. My name is Aaron Alexander. I'm the author of "The Aligned Method". I'm the host of the Aligned podcast. And I've been working with clients for the last 20 years to help them resolve issues around pain and aches that they may have in their body. Just feeling generally claustrophobic, uncomfortable, stuck inside their own skin. And upon working with clients throughout my career, something that I've noticed is we do these sessions, we oftentimes achie...
ve seemingly amazing results. And then the clients end up coming back in a week, or two weeks, or maybe a month, with similar issues repeating again, reoccurring. And so the difference of the way that we work with clients now, through The Align Method, and through this program that we're gonna present to you in a moment is changing, not just the way that we exercise, or the specific rehab or prehab movements that we do, but really tapping into the way that we live our lives. So throughout this course, we're gonna focus on five simple fundamental movements to improve your health throughout the day. The first thing that we're gonna be educating you on how to do is how to effectively spend time on the ground. So the healthiest cultures on the planet spend time on the ground. Those that do have minimal to no incidence of osteoarthritis of the hips, of the knees. And they're generally more vibrant, well-circulated human beings. Because these are natural tuning mechanisms of getting up and down off of the ground. As you're going through these ranges of motion, you're opening up space in the feet, in the ankles, in the knees, in the hips, in the spinal segments. And so that is gonna be a crucial thing to start to implement in our daily lives. It's just getting up and down off of the ground. The next thing that we're gonna focus on is how to breathe effectively. So we're going to go through how to start to leverage your breathing patterns to make you feel either down-regulated, or calm and relaxed, or upregulated and feeling stimulated, like you just drank a cup of coffee. So that is gonna be a crucial tool to augment your felt state and also improve the function of your entire body. The third thing we're gonna focus on is how to cultivate leverage from your hips. What the heck does that mean? Your hips are the most robust joint complex you have in your entire body. And the way that we're going to start to cultivate a little bit of strength and leverage and support from that area is educating you guys on how to hinge from the hips. This is something that it would've behooved culture if we had learned this as young people. But we're learning it now and it's gonna improve our lives dramatically. The next simple tactic we're gonna start to implement in our daily lives is hanging. So why the heck does hanging matter? Our shoulders, one, if you wanna look at it from an evolutionary perspective, they seem to be built to brachiate or hang. We have long clavicles, the shape of our hands, the relationship of our radiuses and our ulnas, and the whole dimension of our body is really structured to hang. Outside of evolutionary speak, no matter what the heck your belief systems are, your body is structured for that. And when you go into that range of motion, it starts to unbind and unstick some of the impinged patterns that manifest as a product of spending a lot of time hunched over a computer, looking into a cell phone, and literally blocking the full access of potential that you have to your body. So the simple practice of hanging and how we're gonna teach you how to do it is gonna start to change your whole posture and also the way that you think, the way that you feel, and the way that you breathe. The last thing that we're gonna focus on is walking. Walking is one of those things that is certainly undervalued in modern culture. If you look at, once again, the healthiest cultures around the planet, or you look at any, maybe the Hadza of tribes, people in Tanzania, or any kind of hunter-gatherer culture, more like, you say, say human culture, as opposed to like modern technological culture, they are out and about, walking with great regularity. Why that matters is it's a simple mechanism or tool to circulate all the vital fluids throughout our body. It's a beautiful way to start to integrate all of the, both hemispheres of the brain. It's a great way to consolidate our thoughts and consolidate our memories, helpful with creativity. It's helpful with so many different things, mobilizing all of your joints. And so we're gonna break down specifically how to do it better and why it matters.