The Align Method

5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life

By: Aaron Alexander CR LMT, Kelly Starrett - foreword

Narrated by: Aaron Alexander CR LMT

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

Use posture and body alignment to build strength, achieve peak performance, reduce pain, and find a new sense of confidence with celebrity manual therapist and movement coach Aaron Alexander.

Good posture is about more than standing up straight: It can change your mood, alleviate pain, rid your body of stressful tension, and may be the difference between getting that raise you've wanted and attracting your ideal mate or not. But in order to reap all those benefits, the body must be properly integrated. Celebrity movement coach and manual therapist Aaron Alexander offers a revolutionary approach to body alignment to build strength, reduce pain, and put you on a direct path to peak performance that is both fun and accessible. 

The Align Method centers on five daily optimizations that can be easily integrated into any workout, mindfulness practice, or daily life activity:
 

• Floor sitting
• Hanging
• Hip-hinging
• Walking
• Nose breathing

A truly aligned life isn't limited to sweating in a gym or stretching in a yoga studio, and Alexander provides the fundamental principles to optimize your physical and mental process in any situation. Blending Eastern philosophy with Western mechanics, The Align Method brilliantly outlines the necessary tools to leverage the power of your own senses and body language to feel more flexible and confident, and details exactly how to reshape your environment for enhanced creativity and longevity. This is the quintessential user's manual to feeling better than you ever thought possible, and looking great while you're at it!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Aaron Alexander (P)2019 Grand Central Publishing

Critic Reviews

"Aaron shares his method for how to approach every day with more strength, confidence, and capability and his heart and compassion shine through." (Kino MacGregor, Ashtanga yoga instructor and founder of Omstars)

"If you've ever wanted to feel more confident, capable, and at home in your body but didn't know where to start, this is the book for you. Aaron shows that by spending just a few minutes on restorative daily practices, you can make the most of every moment and tap into potential you never even knew you had." (Gabrielle Reece, pro volleyball player and co-founder of XPT)

"The first time I met Aaron he was shirtless and barefoot doing a one arm handstand along with some Capoeira moves at Onnit Gym in Austin, TX. Ever since, he has never failed to amaze me, not just with his movement practice, but also with his dedication to helping others reach their full potential. With this book, he becomes your personal coach, and you couldn't hope for a better one." (Jamie Wheal, executive director of The Flow Genome Project)

would recommend to anyone with a body

Aaron Alexander executed this book perfectly. It gives a truly unique perspective on how to treat one's body. With so many books repeating the same things over and over again, this was definitely quite the refresher. Would recommend to anyone with a body

Great Book, but Avoid his Podcast if you Value your Saniity

Loved the book. Learned a lot.

Then, I made the mistake of checking out this guy’s podcast. Now, in fairness, I only listened to one episode, but it just happened to be the one on how EMF radiation is giving everyone brain tumors and how we’re all going to die very quick, very painful deaths because of the electrical outlets in our homes and our WiFi routers.

Even someone with a modicum of skepticism could’ve seen through this obvious scammer’s scare tactics and utter nonsense to the point of not giving the so-called “expert” a platform, but not this author.

Unfortunately, this made me question many of the facts he includes in his book, which, again, I loved.

My advice to you is, if this book sounds interesting, get it! You won’t be sorry. But, stop there. If you go too deep into this guy’s podcast, you may decrease your intelligence far greater than any cell phone radiation might.

Nothing much of value here.

The narrators voice is fine, but he stuggles with emphasis in many parts, this is distracting. content of the book is pretty weak. maybe listen to a two hour podcast and get the same amount of useful credible information. The majority of the book is filler and a waste of time at best, dangerously misleading at worst.

More like a podcast

The book has a bundle of good ideas, although not original as other readers have pointed out. The claims are interesting, a bit exaggerated at times. The problems is that most of the claims are not well supported by hard evidence. They just seem intuitively right. The author quotes research articles at a very superficial level, makes me assume that he doesn’t have any scientific training. With the writing style and the structure of content, this book really just sounds like a podcast.

Great informative book! 5 stars!

I love this audible version of this book. I did buy the paper version as well but with the pdf I dont think I'll keep it! I truly enjoyed this book and listened to it in a couple days!

Listen and Learn to Trust Yourself

This was a liberating experience and has caused me to reimagine my approach to fitness. He simplicity of Aaron’s message is both it’s genius and it’s appeal. It tears away for most of us what will have been year’s of programming that has often been done in the service of someone else’s ego or pocket. Narration is steady yet changes in pitch and tempo when points need to be made. PDFs are useful and accessible. Read the book and check out his podcast!

Must read for the high performer

What really struck me about this book is the level of care in the organization and presentation of this content.
As an Opwel (optimize wellness) coach, I was aware of a lot of this information and have been luckily putting it into self practice and in practice with clients- but to now have 1 resource that contains all of the amazing science and knowledge that this has really is an achievement. So happy to see this crucial information being put out there for the mainstream, and will definitely read this again, and share with all my clients and as many people as I can. Amazing Stuff!! 👍🏼

life coach stuff

surprisingly good. I am going to listen again. I am grateful I now have very good reasons to get my family to do yoga!

Love it!

This book is absolutely wonderful and very eye opening to the truths of movement and it’s effects on the body and the mind. Got hard copy as well!

Excellent book

Gave great information and how to use the information for better health, wellness, and peace

A must- have book for our age.

I bought this because I'd heard Aaron Alexander's Align podcast and was expecting good things but this really exceeded my expectations. This book is a clear, practical guide for how to honour our biology and reclaim health in our modern age, with practical, easily actionable tips for counteracting the problems that modern life, with its bucket car seats, restrictive shoes and clothes, blue light everywhere and the myriad other ways that our convenient lives have negatively affected our bodies and minds. No recommendations for purchasing expensive gadgets, no spending the whole day, every day behaving like a cave man, just practical help, read by the author, who has a really lovely voice. I definitely recommend.

My best audible book yet!

Amazingly informative, well written and interestingly read by Aaron Alexander himself. I couldn’t wait to be able to get time to listen again to the next chapter.

Excellent !

A great book, so many useful tips and insights into movement and human functioning, I would highly recommend.

very useful

even if you only remember a few of the tactics you're well on your way

recycled material

A large proportion of the content is repackaged and rebranded from other books. There is also a good amount of pseudo science

Says it all

More than movement, Aaron Alexander has created a blueprint for a healthful life and enabled life

Needs to be a book

Listening to this simply was never going to work for me. It needs to be read, noted down, underlined - and/or watched. This was a book that really wanted to be a youtube series. As a listen, it become pointless.

Excellent

Arron comes across as really genuine. Very well read and easy to follow. There is a lot of valuable stuff in this book and easy to apply. I would definitely recommend.

Awesome

This is a wonderful compilation of comprehensive, yet easy to use and apply methods, to re align your body and your mind. Aaron has taken the best from many fields of study and put them all together in this awesome book. A must read if you want to maximise your life 🙏🏻❤️

6 stars

This is The Bible for movement and sense of wellbeing, it made profound impact on me. Lean stuff.