Coaching practices for Walking Meditation Before Bed

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• I get into bed and my thoughts start racing in every direction, broad and scattered, and I can’t drop off
• By bedtime I’m still buzzing from the day and I get into bed wired
• I lie down tired but my mind keeps spinning and my body stays switched-on, so I just stare at the ceiling
• Every night before bed looks completely different depending on my mood
• I’m lying in bed tired but still keyed up

Practices that may help

1. Pre-sleep trataka for insomnia and mind-calming
   A ten-minute trataka session in low light before bed draws scattered thoughts into a single point.
   Trataka: The Yoga Practice of Fixed-Gaze Meditation
2. Evening yoga routine for sleep
   A gentle 15-minute yoga sequence 30–60 minutes before bed lowers cortisol and core temperature to accelerate sleep onset.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
3. Box breathing as a sleep-onset tool
   Use the equal-cadence pattern in bed to lower arousal and shorten the time to sleep.
   Box Breathing, Made Practical
4. Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
   A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
5. Use 4-7-8 breathing as a sleep-onset ritual
   Four to eight cycles in bed before sleep reduces physiological arousal and supports the transition into sleep.
   4-7-8 Breathing, Made Practical
6. Yoga nidra as a wind-down
   Use a yoga nidra session to transition from a busy mind into sleep.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
7. Progressive muscle relaxation to lower physical arousal
   Systematically tense and release muscle groups from feet to head to lower the physiological arousal that blocks sleep onset.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
8. Use PMR to wind down for sleep
   Run the sequence lying in bed to lower physical arousal and ease the transition to sleep.
   Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Made Practical
9. Settling into restful alertness
   Allow the body to reach deep rest while the mind stays quietly awake.
   Transcendental Meditation (TM)
10. Working with sloth-and-torpor (thina-middha)
    Dullness and sleepiness in meditation require energising antidotes, not more settling.
    The Five Hindrances: Diagnosing and Working with Meditation Obstacles

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