FOR BETTER SLEEPS

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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FOR BETTER SLEEPS
  • Apr 9: Relax Fear & Restore (30 min)

    This is best practiced after today's fear-releasing breathwork. It is a shortened restorative sequence helpful for releasing tension.

  • Apr 6: "Broadcast" & Manifest (Advanced Breath) 30 min

    I reference the throat region "purification" of the throat, the area from which we are broadcasting information via our voice & inner voice.

  • Mar 28: Advanced: Release Stress Breath (32 min)

    This practice is not suitable for beginners. It requires an open mind! Or willingness to try. It is invigorating, cooling/intense bellows and Wim Hof styles + integrates visualizing the colors of the Northern Lights into your brain-body. This is breathwork to move overthinking, negative mindset ...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Restorative Quiet Breath / Pre-sleep breath set (30 min)

    This practice is extremely calming and may be helpful to do before bed - or to deeply relax midday. We do R and L side nostril breath, followed by alternate nostril breath and ending with breath of fire.

  • July 3: Relax & Rejuvenate (30 min)

    This is a dynamic restful practices including inner groins, SI joint and low back releasing, supine poses, cat-cow, lunging with longer holds - it's not as long/sleepy of a yin practice - we hold poses for a maximum of ten breaths.

  • Sleep Rx: Restore Yin + Meditation/Nidra for Sleep (50 min)

    We do a 35 min yin class into the hips and spine, followed by a body/scan guided yoga Nidra that is superb for deep relaxation or bedtime.

  • Snow Day: Breathwork, Yin & Nidra (80 min)

    This is a treat of a practice blending 30 min of breathwork, into a yin practice + lying down meditation. This is great for deep rest, rejuvenation and the end of a day for sleep

  • Oct 1: 7pm Soothing Restorative: Hyper-vigilance to Mega Relaxed

    Recommended pre-sleep or if you're exhausted midday. An 80 min restorative class with attention to the inner gaze, quiet movements and moving from a state of hyper-arousal (stress/anxiety) to getting grounded.

    Pigeon prep, forward folding and a belly release is included as well.
    Have a blanket...

  • Yoga Nidra: Deep Rest (35 min) 2022

    Yoga Nidra means "yogis sleep" - deep deep rest.

  • Deep Rest + Hips + 30 min Body Scanning Nidra (60 min)

    This is a deeply relaxing guided practice using music and a blend of body scanning and nidra (yogis' sleep).

  • 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.

  • Pineal Gland Breath Set (30 min)

    Today's breath practice includes breath of fire + practices said to stimulate the pineal gland which is important for our sleep wake cycle.

  • April 16: Sleep Apnea/Snoring/Nasal vs Mouth Breathing Lesson + Practice

    A brief 7 min lecture on science behind mouth vs nose breathing. We experiment between the right and left nostrils.

  • The Story of Breath: Day Seven

    Class Overview:

    Today we begin with Q & A and a 20min talk from Joe Dispenza that ties together all of what has been taught in the last few days.

    - We follow it with a pranayama practice designed integrate the proposed theory of pulling energy up to the brain, via the cerebral spinal fluid and...

  • Feb 3: Intense Pranayama (More advanced, not for beginners)

    This is a busy and active pranayama set. There are ten parts to that are said to align with the "ten bodies" of our human experience. It is not a calming set while doing it, but will create a ripple of calm for your day. Expect a lot of bhastrika or bellows breaths - that quickly oxygenate the bo...

  • Oct 13: Fall Yin Practice: Hamstrings & Adductors (Inner Thighs)

    Light candles, get cozy, put on some quiet music. Have a strap available. We begin with an opening mantra Asato Ma (Darkness to Light) mantra.

    - Heating breath work to start
    - Supine Hamstring sequence
    - Inner groins/adductors
    - Supine Glutes sequence
    - Meditation with your hands as a healing r...

  • Kriya for Conquering Sleep (Shortened Sequence - 30 min)

    This is a bit of an odd sequence designed to help with sleep issues. It is meant to be 60 min long. A few tips for breath and insomnia near end of sequence.

  • Sept 30: Vestibular Asana for fighting Cyber Fatigue & Building Trust (70 min)

    This practice encourages closing your eyes for the development of the eyes/ears/brain connection in balance. Especially if you are someone who gets car sick easily - you might also suffer from cyber fatigue. Many people have this as screen time has increased with covid. Not good! Strange side eff...