Get a good night’s sleep by retiring old habits and starting a gentle, bedtime yoga practice, also set your Zen Clock to wake you in the morning relaxed and refreshed with gentle chimes.
Ease into Sleep
The key to healing sleep disorders, Dyer says, is to cultivate healthy habits. “Regularity and rhythm are friends to sleep,” she explains. “Going to sleep and waking up at the same time each day, eating at the same time each day, doing yoga at the same time each day. The more rhythmic your life is, and the less scattershot it is, the easier it is to sleep well.”
Whether you experience chronic or intermittent insomnia, a program of relaxing asana and easy meditation performed at bedtime can help you slow down mind and body and ease the transition into slumber, says yoga teacher and sleep scientist Roger Cole.
And then, when it’s time to sleep, cover your eyes with something that provides both darkness and very gentle pressure, like an eye bag and set your Zen Alarm Clock knowing that you will wake gently in the morning to a chime clock.
By Rachel Brahinsky – Yoga Journal Magazine
Posted in Now & Zen Alarm Clocks, Progressive Awakening, Sleep Habits
