Mind & Body Solutions to Help You Fall Asleep

Our lives are filled with distractions, worries and responsibilities that can take us miles away from the task at hand—getting restful sleep. But sleep is also essential to helping us deal with these myriad stimuli. When we sleep our minds begin an important process of filtration; unimportant information is "erased" and important information is locked into more permanent memory. Infants, who are acquiring information at a faster rate than at any other point in their life, sleep the most.

Get a head start preparing your mind for sleep with meditation and yoga.

Meditation
Instead of popping pills, meditation uses breathing and chanting techniques to channel the body and mind into a state of deep relaxation. It is said that very experienced yogis are more at rest in meditation than most people are in their deepest sleep. This is one reason they tend to live so long.

Our Meditation CDs provide instruction and inspiration for emptying your mind and focusing on the here and now.

Yoga
If meditation is a little too ‘zen’ for you, try our Yoga CDs. Practicing yoga before bed eases your body into the stillness of sleep and brings you back to the present by making that crucial mind/body connection.

We recommend a Beginner’s Guide to Yoga CD by Shiva Rea. Shiva Rea teaches vinyasa flow yoga worldwide and is known for rejuvenating the ancient practice of yoga for modern practitioners in creative and dynamic ways. According to Rea, yoga removes the arrogance that fools us into thinking our problems are important, and instead allows us to focus on the primary gifts of life—our breath, our heartbeat, our sleeping bodies.

There is yoga for everyone. Namaste.