FOR BETTER SLEEPS
A series of archival classes with the key word "sleep" and "insomnia" - to help you relax before bed!
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Sleep Audio: Release Tension + Rain ASMR for Sleep (2 hours)
This is an audio guide breath & tension release practice for bedtime. The remaining is a recording of crickets and rainfall deep in the jungle of Nicaragua to help you fall to sleep.
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Sleep Audio: 4-7-8 (7 min)
This audio was filmed in the jungle of Nicaragua. You will be guided through "4-7-8" breath as a means towards sleep. Inhale through your nose for four, hold for seven and exhale out your mouth for eight. This is a downregulaing breath type excellent for sleep and calming the mind.
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Sleep Audio: Tension-Release for Sleep (15 min)
Filmed with the sounds of Nicaraguan jungle, this audio-guide will move through your body to intentionally squeeze and breathe out extra tension at the end of your day. We end with gentle, calming 'CO2" breathing to help lullaby you into deep sleep.
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Audible for nurturing sleep, tension & deep rest (29 min)
This is a part of the men's retreat series, however, anyone can do this practice. The screen is darkened and this is a tension-release practice that may help you drop into sleep. We do a squeeze and relax practice with breath. This is a mindfulness practice as well.
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Nov 20: Body Scan (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) 29 min
This is a form of MBSR - mindfulness based stress reduction. It is a great practice if you're exhausted, feeling heavy, have excess adrenaline - this is a good practice for you. It is supine, the screen will be darkened, eyes closed and a practice of breath awareness.
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Dec 3: Deep Rest & Nidra Set (25 min)
This is a deeply restful practice using intention and breath.
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The Lake Visualization Meditation (14 min: MBSR script)
By Jon Kabat Zinn: This is a guided visualization practice designed to cultivate mental stillness, emotional resilience, and a deeper awareness of the present moment. By visualizing oneself as a lake—held by the earth, reflecting the sky, and experiencing shifting weather—practitioners learn to o...
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Apr 15: Super Chill Yin for Exhaustion & Excess Fire (34 min)
This is a mid-week chill practice for spring, transitions, exhaustion and grounding for excess fire
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Apr 9: Gentle "Get Weird to Feel Normal" Somatic Practice (35 min)
An easy-going practice filled with breath, longer holds, heel thumps, taps ("Neurogenic shakes") Nothing intense - but some easy going movements into your spine, shoulders, hamstrings & movement of holding patterns.
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May 6: Processing Stress: Vagus Nerve Deep Rx (22 min)
This is a restorative practice into the neck and vagus nerve - using breath, sound beginning with a brief neuroanatomy of the vagus. This is a soothing, condensed practice that is excellent for exhaustion, bed-prep, processing stress and anxiety.
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Yoga Nidra/Sleep with Binaural Beats (50 min)
This is a supine/on ground practice. We work from your head to your toes into a state of deep cellular awareness and relaxation - I share music and blacken my screen.
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Yoga Nidra: Deep Rest (35 min) 2022
Yoga Nidra means "yogis sleep" - deep deep rest.
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Apr 1: Four Restful Poses (32 min)
This is a soothing, calming yin practices done with 4-8 breath to encourage down-regulation. This is helpful for balancing stress and tension in your brain body.
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Feb 27: Vagus Nerve & Tension Reset (19 min)
This is a soothing practice using Bhramari to stimulate the parasympathetic wiring & vagus nerve. It is an excellent release for neck tension as well.
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Jan 23: Four Deeply Relaxing Yin Poses (25 min)
A heads up, there is glare with light today - but also pretty sun rise. We do 4 deeply relaxing poses with 4-8 breath.
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Jan 14: Midweek Reset & Restore (31 min)
This is a downregulating and simple restorative practice with a little bit of breath to help calm you body and brain.
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Jan 13: Cleanse & Soothe: Alternate Nostril Breath (28 min)
The intention is forgiveness & self compassion: 2 sets breath of fire followed by Nadi Shodana (alternate nostril breath). This is helpful for downregulation and calming.
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Dec 29: Know Thyself 2026: Deep, Basic Breath Set
"To be unrecognizable" is a new saying in wellness zeitgeist - is the opposite of what this practices suggests. To recognize yourSELF is the ultimate path - this is the invitation today as we slowly close off 2025. We do a basic breath set alternating nostrils and ending with a basic breath of fire.
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Dec 16: Calming & Down-Regulating Breath Set (33 min)
This breathwork practice is calming, slow and deep diaphragmatic engagement using 4-7-8, 4-8, 5-5 and a slow circular breath set to end. This is excellent for adrenal fatigue, calming, slowing down and the opposite of Kundalini breath.
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Dec 8: Calming + Fiery Breath (30 min)
We begin with four preparatory practices: lions breath + a tongue stretch (feels sooo good for headache and jaw strain), Agni Sara (great for digestive system stress) and Brahma Mudra (rich, slow deep breath, releases the neck) followed by upregulating bellows with spinal movements
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Dec 4: Stabilizing Breathwork (29 min)
Today we do the four prep practices I learned from my teacher: jivha Banda, Lions Breath, Agni Sara (for belly) and Brahma Mudra. This practicing is down-regulating and beginner friendly! (And weird!)
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Nov 19: Yin with 4-7-8 Breath (29 min)
Today's practice integrates hips, hamstrings and a spinal twist with an optional breath type that is helpful for rejuvenating and down-regulating your system: 4-7-8 breath
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Nov 5: Gentle Hips Rx (22 min)
This is a gentle grounding practice into the hips, inner groins and hamstrings.
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Oct 28: Ahimsa (Non Violence) + Traditional Breathwork (31 min)
This week I'll be sharing some yogic principles and weaving them into our breathwork. Today "ahimsa" teaches us to practice compassion for ourselves as a practice of non-violence. We do 3 sets of kaphalabhati, 2 sets of slow bellows breath and end with alternate nostril breathing.