While insomnia can be caused by a wide variety of factors, soothing, calming styles of yoga such as gentle hatha, yin, and restorative are a beautiful way to stimulate your body’s relaxation response, help rebalance your hormonal cycles, and prepare your body for sleep. Often times individuals who are challenged to get to sleep, or to sleep deeply have complicated routines that may take hours to help them drift off every night. In my experience, a few key yoga poses, a cup of camomile tea, a biomat if you have one (or a hot-water bottle on your abdomen), and deep breath-work is all you need for a deep restful sleep. Oh, and your weekly restorative spa yoga class to remind your body how deep it can go, of course ;).
Before going to bed, turn on the kettle for tea (and to fill the hot water bottle), add some lavender aromatherapy, and while you’re waiting for it to boil spend 2-5minutes in one or more of these poses while taking deep belly breaths.
If yoga alone doesn't send you off to sleepy-land you an FDA biomat that you can sleep on all night long is an amazing option. The infrared heat, negative-ions and the soft amethyst energy activate your body’s relaxation response will have you slip into a deep dreamland in no time. It can take as little as 5-minutes if you have the right tools. But if you already sleep deeply, stick to the yoga above and simply visit Inner Truth yoga for your experience of the BIoMat first hand.
The scent of lavender on your bedside and drifting off lying on the warm FDA Biomat wil complete this nightly ease into sleep. Allowing the biomat's infrared heat, negative-ions and the soft amethyst energy activate your body’s relaxation response will have you slip into a deep dreamland in no time. It can take as little as 5-minutes if you have the right tools.
Enjoy the process and treat yourself to the time it takes to get the most from your restful sleep. Whenever it's right, looking forward to seeing you on the (bio)mat during your next restorative spa yoga class for deep, restful sleep.
-Sarah
Before going to bed, turn on the kettle for tea (and to fill the hot water bottle), add some lavender aromatherapy, and while you’re waiting for it to boil spend 2-5minutes in one or more of these poses while taking deep belly breaths.
- Seated forward fold.
- Butterfly
- Legs up the wall
- Sitting and practicing alternate nostril breathing
If yoga alone doesn't send you off to sleepy-land you an FDA biomat that you can sleep on all night long is an amazing option. The infrared heat, negative-ions and the soft amethyst energy activate your body’s relaxation response will have you slip into a deep dreamland in no time. It can take as little as 5-minutes if you have the right tools. But if you already sleep deeply, stick to the yoga above and simply visit Inner Truth yoga for your experience of the BIoMat first hand.
The scent of lavender on your bedside and drifting off lying on the warm FDA Biomat wil complete this nightly ease into sleep. Allowing the biomat's infrared heat, negative-ions and the soft amethyst energy activate your body’s relaxation response will have you slip into a deep dreamland in no time. It can take as little as 5-minutes if you have the right tools.
Enjoy the process and treat yourself to the time it takes to get the most from your restful sleep. Whenever it's right, looking forward to seeing you on the (bio)mat during your next restorative spa yoga class for deep, restful sleep.
-Sarah
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