Engineer Your Body To Improve Your Mind - Aaron Alexander - #414

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Aaron Alexander. He's a manual therapist and movement coach, founder of the Align Method and an author. Health and fitness has been broken down into a very compartmentalized, reductionist view. Muscles are trained in isolation, mindfulness practice doesn't occur in the gym, and physicality isn't thought of when you sit down at your desk. I wanted to speak to Aaron to explain how we can take a global, aligned macro view of our body's wellness to impact more than just how we look, but how we feel, think, sit, sleep, have sex and everything else. I've trained with Aaron a bunch of times while I was out in Austin and his view of training being a complete modality, one where you're trying to improve how you move on a daily basis by the movements that you do in the gym, is a bit of a departure from what I'm used to and I really enjoyed it so hopefully you take tons away from today. If you haven't already got the Modern Wisdom annual review template, then you can go and pick it up right now for free by going to chriswillex.com/review. It is the exact process that I use every year so that I review the last 12 months, learn the lessons and then make a plan for what is coming. That's chriswillex.com/review.
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