Integral Nest is the creation of Alex Pfeiffer

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Name:    Alex Pfeiffer   Certifications:           Bikram's Yoga College of India™                                     Teacher Certification        (LA)                     March 2004          Integral Bodywork™                                              Practitioner Certification (Chicago)                     December 2004          Paul St. John / Neurosomatic Educators™                     Posturology Certification   (Tampa)                     March 2005          Center for Thai Yoga Body Therapy™                     Level 2,  January 2007      (SD)                     Level 1, May 2006          Anusara™  Inspired Yoga & Yoga Therapy                     Inspired Status       (Woodlands)                     March 2007                   (TX)           Yoga Village         :      RYT 200                     Hatha Yoga                (Scottsdale)                     December 2006              (AZ)   608-239-2539 alex@integralnest.com

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The body's natural alignment is vital to a relaxed, spontaneous, free flowing life.  This is true whether you are into meditation, effectively working at the office, or enjoying your family.  Our body grew out of natural processes, so it only makes sense that its vitality would be tied to laws of nature.  Not only will your trip to Integral Nest bring you closer to your body, its sensations, natural alignment, and natural openness, but you will also be educated to maintain your livelihood and track your progress.  The most successful treatment is one that you are involved in and educated in for long term results.   I've learned from the most valuable education and the toughest:  experience of my own chronic pain.

Like most Westerners, my history is one of pounding my body through sedentary desk life, high impact exercise, and emotional repression & stress;  all of which resulted in my own excruciating back pain that put me into a breakdown.  I was  a successful professional who'd overcome many obstacles in his life, but when it came to chronic pain, the answers that were out there on the surface just were not cutting it.  I know where most of you are coming from.  Either frustration or "living with it."

I worked many hours as a fast food cook, a construction worker, and a warehouse worker.  I played and lived for competitive sports.  I spent seven years professionally designing and writing code in embedded systems for aircraft navigation and entertainment lighting.  Like most of us, I thought that as long as I always worked hard, I would be all right in life.  During this time my body stayed (or seemed to stay) healthy.  I didn't think much about it other than "staying in shape" through rigorous exercise with weights, running, and sports.  

Then, without warning, my back gave out.  I went to doctors, sports medicine, specialists, pilates people, and physical therapists.  None of them seemed to be able to help.  The following story (6 pages if you wish to read it) is how I found help and why I wish to bring my experience to help others in the form of Integral Nest.

Best Wishes to all of you searching for all kinds of answers,
                  
                    - Alex Pfeiffer

Journey from Pain

by Alex Pfeiffer

Act I:  Pain

I remember all too well the day my back "went out" for the first time.  I had just turned 26 years old and was in my sixth year as a professional Software Engineer.  In my workouts at the gym, having a beer with my friends, and sitting at work, I noticed my lower back was a little sore, so I started taking it easy for a while.  I didn't think much of it because it just seemed like a normal post workout soreness.  One morning after a night out, I awoke to a nasty pain in my lower back confined to an area about the size of a quarter.  After a couple hours of work, the pain was shooting down both legs, and by noon I had to leave work.  I could hardly sit still or walk.

I went home early and immediately made an appointment at the clinic where I was stared at, poked at, and talked at.  "It'll go away or you'll have back problems for the rest of your life, back pain is not really curable." - I was told.  They also said that posture doesn't appear to make a difference.  The doctors sent me home with muscle relaxants.  The drugs were totally useless; their only effect was to turn me into a stuporous version of the local idiot.   As soon as the effects wore off, I immediately flushed the pills down the toilet.  This was the solution?  It did nothing for my back or pain. I felt hopeless and quite depressed.  I was a young man in the peak of life stuck with an apparently "incurable" pain I would live with for fifty or more years.  I could hardly walk or sit still.  I sobbed and screamed that night over the toilet.  That moment marked the beginning of an intense quest for relief. 

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