Sleep Well Workshop
Shift from from wired and tired to deeply relaxed and ready for quality sleep in this immersive workshop.
In the Workshop we’ll explore all the tools you need to bring yourself quality sleep through the night and daytime practices to replenish your energy.
Experience gentle movement targeted at helping you to sleep, breath-focused meditation to calm a busy mind at night and deeply relaxing restorative yoga to re-energise in the day.
Take away a package of resources including videos, a sleep audio and a comprehensive sleep checklist.
This workshop will help you to sleep well and replenish your daytime energy with:
Restorative Yoga to facilitate deep rest & relaxation, renewing your energy in the daytime and simple micro practices to lift your mood especially when it dips in the afternoon.
‘Brain dump’ journalling techniques to mentally digest unprocessed thoughts so that they don’t wake you up in the middle of the night.
A gentle pre-bedtime sleep sequence to ease tight muscles and joints, preparing your body for sleep.
A breath focused meditation to calm and settle your mind.
A soothing yoga nidra guided relaxation to experience the blissful floating feeling that occurs just as you fall asleep.
No yoga or meditation experience needed or level of fitness required. Only the ability to get onto the floor for some gentle floor movement.
Experience the shifting of your nervous system from an activated and awake sympathetic (fight & flight) state to deeply restful parasympathetic (rest & digest) mode, helping you to slip into restful quality sleep, maintain it through the night and feel revitalised the next day.
An intro to Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga
Yoga nidra is a guided relaxation practice, (nidra means ‘sleep’) and includes a body ‘scan’, (where attention is directed around the body), breath awareness, sensory experiences and visualisations, all of which facilitate deep restfulness and wellbeing.
Yoga nidra is usually practiced lying down but any restful position is okay too and the practice usually takes 15 - 20 minutes.
When the purpose is to fall asleep, there is no guidance in coming back to a wakeful state and the practitioner drifts seamlessly into deep slumber.
Restorative yoga is the use of props to place the body in positions of comfort and ease to promote deep relaxation and wellbeing. The poses or positions are much more varied than in yoga nidra and are held for 8-20 minutes as the body and mind need time, comfort, quiet, stillness and warmth to drop into a relaxed state.
Both practices take you from an activated state of your nervous system, into a relaxed, restful state, slowing brain waves down into the sort of patterns we see in deep sleep.
What people are saying
What people are saying
‘Thanks for last night’s workshop. The time I spent propped up against the wall in the sleep meditation was so relaxing.
I fell asleep quickly that evening, and unlike most nights I slept through to 6.15’.
Pat
‘The sleep workshop was very helpful. I did wake up in the early hours but I think the exercises made it a lot easier to go back to sleep. I was noticeably less ‘wired’ than I usually am when I wake in early morning’.
Martha
‘I slept so well that evening after the workshop!’
Pierre
Although I haven’t done any yoga before, and don’t have the right yoga leggings, I enjoyed your workshop so much.
I‘ve been using the guided relaxation audio at night to help me fall asleep. Thanks very much!’.
Christine
The details
£30 On Demand Workshop (1 hour 30 mins)
Includes the full workshop recording
Plus a pack of resources:
Restorative Pose Set Up (Video)
Sleep Sequence (Video)
A yoga nidra guided sleep relaxation (Audio)
A Sleep Well Check List (Pdf)
