The Align Podcast shares insights from renowned experts from around the world in a range of fields focused on improving the mind and body; teaching you all that you need to know to become the healthiest version of yourself.
Aaron Alexander, Host of The Align Podcast, has worked with some of the world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, and celebrities to help relieve pain, improve strength, better flexibility, and ease the mind and body.
The mission is to help you to move through life pain-free through making fitness who you are, not just something you do. To help you to step into your physical potential and drop the baggage of pain and limitation.
I just came upon your video and by no accident as I believe it was My Lord that placed it upon my eyes to watch. I used to have professional lymphatic drainage which pumping was done at both sides same time. I watched other youtubers which teach to do at same time. Always felt better a couple of days after but always lymphatic was blocked. I stopped as my funds were really low. Highly stressed a lot which could had been major issue. Anyways thank you so much, i learnt a lot from your video. So blessed to have been under this teaching and wisdom. Love Australia ❤❤
OK I read a few reviews before typing here to see if I was the only one who felt they had CHEMISTRY. We'll apparently it was obvious & apparently it bothered many of you BUT I FEEL DIFFERENTLY. I Laughed nearly all the way through because they were "FUNNY". Aaron is the 1st interviewer I've ever seen who brought out another very endearing, innocent yet wise, vulnerable, sweet, down to earth TEAL. I loved the 200 brief topics of conversation (as Aaron changed the subject swiftly) but Kudos to TEAL she just rolled on his pace without much time to go deep. I AM MAKING A REQUEST...I would like to see a 2nd or 3rd interview ....I mean "conversation covering more I debt many of the topics such as aliens, war, future of new leaders who are voted hired based on their "awareness," the suck ass normative of all human relationships 😂", parallel Realities, Upcoming Election who is Teal voting for, PALESTINIANS HELLO !! P.S. wouldn't be surprised if you two get hitched 😂 PS...after it ended I said to myself "that was more like watching 2 people have a conversation on a 1st date." It was like watching a movie and I found it funny. Easy to find a million Teal video's being quite serious so nice change of pace to see Teal lighthearted. 😊
interesting interview - definitely took me a little out of my comfort zone and also took me inward to query what I really intuit/know, what is conditioned and what is preferenced. There are several topics that are interesting but not convincing to me. As a listener I'm surprised the topic of STD's didn't come up as a reason to be selective on who and how many partners to have. Also, it's great to study primates but humans have a much different and more nuanced psyche. The age difference is an interesting topic for me because I'm attracted to and attract much younger men. I realize I have a little shame around this and feel this is definitely a cultural conditioning. My dad had 2 younger wives and that was not looked down upon. Actually, it makes since to me for an older woman/ younger man coupling. As far as what's stimulating to someone is very personal - not everyone's nervous system wants to have "scary". That's obvious and proven that some people's brains crave that adrenaline rush , yet it's detrimental for others. I'm much more aligned with what I'm learning about tantra where a deep trust and safe container is the place where most pleasure is found. It also has been said that polyamory isn't so successful for both sexes in the long run. I am skeptical about women wanting lots of partners. I'm not judgmental of polyamorous relationships, and I think that's the exception. Lastly, I disagree with her about porn - I think it's done much harm and led to very unrealistic perceptions. I love that you bring these conversations and it gives me/others a chance to ponder and refine or solidify what is right for the individual.
🧘♀️This podcast is helpful to my work as a Yogatherapist within the Bio-enviro-psychi-socio-philosophical (panchamayakosha) model of care! Integrating proficient physical body systems, subtle emotional energy breaths, thoughtful mature mind qualia, intuitive intelligent intellect zones, and jolly blissful spirit traditions/practices are helpful. Learning protections (kosha) for longevity, vitality, mentality, intellectuality & spirituality is my intention (sankalpa). Thank you I am grateful to come across a holistic approach and information specific to lymphatics🤸♂️
From all the recent interviews, I think she enjoyed this the least, thinking why did she align with a demeaning narcissist (I realize it’s a pleonasm) and doing it for the public only. Well.. if most women are still treated this way, we don’t keep quiet anymore ✌🏻but “it doesn’t matter what you throw at her, she doesn’t change course”.
The man is all bravado. The pain is just under the surface and his belief to just white knuckle it and ignore the warning signs will bite him eventually. Dude needs some therapy.
For many years Drs would look at the puffiness at my collar bone and ask what that’s about. How in the hell do I know? Guess what? My lymph system is a disaster now with lymphedema from my belly to my toes. My feet and legs had to look puffy for anyone to finally pay attention. Were they all asleep in med school? Thank you for fantastic information to add to what I’m learning in physical therapy. 👍
I ABSOLUTELY loved this interview. So many deep spaces were explored with honest, sincere and open communication. Your ability to be comfortable while being vulnerable during self expression is in high reverence Aaron. As well, I enjoyed that you gave Teal an opportunty to be real and herself at the same time. This is one of the best talks I've listened to with Teal. I have been studying for well over 25 yrs...I also 100% agree that we should be teaching by "Being". This was REAL talk....Thank you both...much love to you.
I dont like the title "reptile people revealed". Its just to make more people click on the video. Teal only talks 15 seconds about it and it makes people who are not ready for this discredit her entirely. I also find it rude since Teal opened up in this interview and you (the interviewer even commented on her showing people a different more personal side of her. Its so disheartening how in our world everything valuable has to be slaughtered :-(
Although gay men do share things in common with heterosexual men in terms of sexuality traits like being more interested in casual sex, they are also very similar to straight women in gender traits, so it's not very fair to expect straight men to understand women as much as a typical gay man would. Their brains are wired and function differently. Gay men and women tend to be more efficient at empathising because they were exposed to lower level of testosterone in the utero. They are also more people-orientated in general, where as straight men tend to be more thing-orientated in general. Neuroscientific studies have shown that the brains of lesbians are partially masculinized and gay mens partially feminized. Patterns of brain organisation appear similar between gay men and heterosexual women and between lesbian women and heterosexual men. Gay men appear, on average, more “female typical” in brain pattern responses and lesbian women are more “male typical”. Differences in brain organisation mean differences in psychology and study after study show differences in cognition between heterosexual and gay people. Gay mens brains are also structured like those of heterosexual females and lesbians structured similar to heterosexual mens. Biology, not society, dictates whether we are gender-typical or atypical, and the partners we are sexually attracted to. Even if gay men hide their sexual orientation or atypical gender traits, societal conditioning cannot override biology and the underlining preferences, which is why conversion therapy doesn't work. It's believed that gay men, during some point in fetal life, were exposed to unusually low levels of androgens, which allowed their hypothalamic circuits to develop in a female-typical direction. If testosterone levels during a critical prenatal period are high , the brain is organized in such a way that the person is predisposed to become typically masculine in a variety of gendered traits, including sexual attraction to females. If testosterone levels are low during that same time period, the brain is organized in such a way that the person is predisposed to become typically feminine in gendered traits, including sexual attraction to males. Bisexuality might result from intermediate levels of testosterone or their brains responded to these hormones in different ways. Some parts of gay mens brains is similar to straight women. For example the sexually dimorphic nucleus in the medial preoptic area, known as the interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus number 3 (INAH3is about half the size in homosexual mens compared with the heterosexual mens, and the same size as females. There was marked differences in the left and right amygdalas of straight men and women and in gay men and lesbians, these characteristics were almost entirely sex-atypical; the findings in gay men resembled those of straight women, and the findings in lesbians resembled those of straight men. The connections that link the amygdala to other parts of the brain these connections usually link to different areas in the brains of men and women, and sprout from different hemispheres -the right in men, and the left in women. That was the pattern they saw from the straight volunteers from their study, but the homosexuals showed the reverse pattern. the amygdalas of gay men had more in common with those of straight women - the two halves were well-connected, they had more neurons projecting from the left half (as opposed to the right in straight men) and these neurons connected to the same parts of the brain that those of straight women do. In straight women and gay men, the connections were mainly into regions of the brain that manifest fear as intense anxiety. The regions involved in phobia, anxiety and depression overlaped with the pattern they saw from the amygdala. This fits with data showing that women are three times as likely as men to suffer from mood disorders or depression and gay men have higher rates of depression too. In straight men and lesbians, the amygdala fed its signals mainly into the sensorimotor cortex and the striatum, regions of the brain that trigger the “fight or flight” response. It’s a more action-related response than in women. In straight men and lesbians, the amygdala (which influences our emotional reactions to stress) connects to the sensorimotor cortex and the striatum, parts of the brain involved in the “fight or flight” response. But in straight women and gay men, the amygdala’s connections feed into the anterior cingulate cortex and the subcallosum. In othet brain differences, some of these effects seem to be unique to sexual orientation, such as cortex cortical thickness in the orbitofrontal, cingulate cortex, precuneus, parietal cortex and left occipito-termporal cortex volumetric increase of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus and visual areas as well as the anatomy of the corpus callosum in gay men. The hypothalamus is responsible for the four F’s: feeding, fighting, fleeing, and fornicating. these finding suggested that gay men’s brains were partially feminized, and also, that the foundation of sexual orientation is established by biology. Several small-scale neuroimaging studies have also suggested cross-sex shifts in homosexual men and women in brain responses to putative sex-specific pheromonal compounds. There's also differences in brain activity in arousal patterns. MRI scans showed In straight men the right hemisphere was 2% larger than the left. In straight women, the two hemispheres were the same size. In gay men the two hemispheres were also the same size. In lesbians the right hemisphere was slightly larger than the left. Activity pattern in this region of the hypothalamus have been reported to differ between gay and straight men. A cell group called the suprachiasmatic nucleus was larger in gay men than in straight men. The suprachiasmatic nucleus is concerned with the regulation of circadian rhythms,. The size of this commissure is known to be larger in women than in men Heterosexual men exhibited more gray matter volumes in the thalamus, thalamic and in the cerebellum and premotor cortex than homosexual men. Sexual orientation is associated with distinct changes in brain structure and has strong associations with areas primarily linked to processing and integrating incoming sensory, reward-related, and motor information. Gay men and lesbians can also have gender shifted occupational preferences and also in instrumentailty, empathy, expressivness, and aesthetic/technological interests. Gay men and lesbians are gender shifted in a variety of male favoring-visuospatial traits such as mental rotation, targeting, and navigation, as well as female-favouring tasks such as verbal fluency and object location memory. Childhood gender nonconformity refers to sex-atypical behaviours, interests, hobbies, activity levels, and play partner preferences before the age of 12. 75% of boys demonstrating CGN will grow up to be gay or bisexual. Pre gay children are gender nonconformists in a variety of traits, including phyisical aggressivness, engagement in rough and tumble play and sports, interest and peers they prefer the company of. Rough-and-tumble play, which is behavior typically seen in little boys, is less common in gay men and more common in lesbian women, due to lesser and greater masculinization of the brain. Attraction is the most accurate representation of a person’s true sexual orientation because identity and behavior can be context-dependent .For example, someone may be attracted to the same sex, and therefore be gay, but still be engaging in sex with the opposite sex because they are not yet out of the closet. In other cases, an individual may have sex with someone as a proxy for their preferred choice of partner. The most obvious illustration of this is in prison, where there is lots of same-sex sex going on, but the inmates taking part in it aren’t necessarily gay. People may change the identity labels they use and who they have sex with but sexual attractions are stable over time. Sexual orientation is a pattern of desire, not of behaviour or sexual acts per se. It is not a simple act of will or a performance. Attraction can be based on a number of factors beyond vaginas and penises, including personality, common interests, and chemistry, and that we may be open to dating someone who has physical attributes, like hair and eye color, that don’t necessarily fit our usual type. But all of these characteristics are subsumed within an individual’s sexual preference for men, women, or both. The vast majority of males and females in all societies, across all cultures , in uncivilised tribes and cavemen were and are heterosexual because of biology. In some cultures unmarried women have been sequestered and were therefore invisible to men and unobtainable as sex partners. In such environments, male adolescents were often sought after as sex partners by adult men. Ancient Greece is a particularly well know example. A more recent example is the same sex culture that has existed in Afghanistan under the Taliban where all women are hidden behind their burqas. One Kandahar told the newyork times that he likes boys, but likes girls better but they cannot see the girls to see if they are beautiful. In such cultures, the choice of adolescent boys as partners reflects the facts that these youths, lacking beards and adult musculature, are closer to women in appearance than are adult men. A lot of these men in ancient Greece and Afghanistan are not homosexual in the sense they have a strong preference for males when given the choice of sexual partners. What these cultures do demonstrate is to the degree to which sexual desire and sexual behaviour accommodate themselves to a restricted range of options, just as they do in prisons and other single sex environments today.
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