Sleep Courses
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Join our 4-week course
to reduce stress and anxiety,
quiet an overactive mind,
and improve sleep.
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If you want help with sleep right now,
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free guided sleep meditations.​​​
Hear from Catherine
about the Relaxation and Sleep Course
What you'll achieve in this course
The 4-week course is designed to help people with sleep problems caused by anxiety, insomnia and restless sleep.
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From participating in the course, you will learn a variety of mindfulness meditations for sleep and relaxation, plus other methods, techniques and tips for sleep:
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Calm the mind
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Manage strong emotions
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Cope with sleep insomnia and restless sleep
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Relax if you're unable to sleep at night
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Use napping wisely
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Wake in the morning feeling refreshed.
Course contents
Session 1
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After an introduction to mindfulness, we explore lifestyle changes to help if you cannot sleep, wake up at 3am, and other sleep issues. We practise a Body Scan meditation for sleep to help calm the mind.
Session 2
You will learn a variety of breathing exercises for sleep, together with deep sleep meditations to help you relax and manage strong emotions, so that you can sleep with more ease.
Session 3
Stress, anxiety and sleep issues are often caused by intrusive thoughts, and you'll learn guided visualisations to help you calm the mind.
Session 4
You'll learn more bedtime meditations, including ones to help you develop self-compassion. We explore nightly gratitude practices that can lead to calmer days and more restful nights. ​​​​​​
'The Ultimate Guide to Mindfulness for Sleep'
The mindfulness organisation 'Mindful' have produced an extremely comprehensive article about how mindfulness can help with insomnia and sleep. You can read it here.
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The Mindful approach to using mindfulness meditation for sleep and anxiety, and how to improve the quality of sleep, fits very much with our approach and tips for sleep in the 'Sleep Improvement' course.
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These strategies can help when you:
- are unable to sleep at night
- have trouble staying asleep
- are waking up at 3am or other times
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Here is an excerpt from the article:
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"Sleep is a critical component of overall well-being. It doesn’t just heal your body; it heals your mind. Mindfulness for sleep can help you get a good night’s rest which can change how you interact with the world by elevating your mood and improving your concentration. In our fast-paced world, increased feelings of stress and anxiety can prevent people from tapping into the healing power of sleep.
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With regular sleep deprivation, your attention span, mood, and memory suffer, according to Matthew Walker, PhD, (professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, and founder of the Center for Human Sleep Science.)
Over time, he suggests, sleeplessness could also lead to unwanted weight gain and mood problems.
In up to 15% of adults, insomnia causes daytime distress or impairment, with the risk for insomnia being greater in women and older adults."
​Hear from Catherine about her experience using mindfulness for sleep and insomnia
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I'm delighted to be running this course to help people improve their sleep, as I've found mindfulness meditations extremely helpful over the years with my own sleep.
I usually go to sleep by doing some sort of meditation, either a relaxing Body Scan or a quick gratitude practice, to help with letting go of busy thoughts or emotions, or simple mindful breathing techniques. And if I have trouble staying asleep, am waking up at 3am or wake up earlier than I need, I try and do a meditation before my mind gets whirring!
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Over the years I've developed a useful toolbox of different strategies to help with sleep, and I look forward to sharing my tips for sleep and empowering others to improve their sleep and overall quality of life.
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Getting enough sleep, and good quality sleep, is so important. When I've slept well, I feel more resilient and happier. Good sleep makes a massive difference to my day.​
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Blog posts about mindfulness, sleep and insomnia
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As sleep issues are so common, and it is not unusual to feel you cannot sleep at night, I've written several blog posts about how mindfulness for insomnia and sleep can help. You can read these here:
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Helpful ways to improve your sleep
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Mindfulness for a Restful Sleep
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How to get to sleep, & Harvard Medical School research
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Free taster sessions
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If you'd like to practise some simple mindfulness meditation, we run free online taster sessions on Tuesdays, 9-10am.
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Places on the Sleep Improvement Course are limited so get in touch soon if you'd like to book a place or discuss your sleep challenges and how the course could help.
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