Coaching practices for Yoga Before Bed Sleep

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• By bedtime I’m still buzzing from the day and I get into bed wired
• I get into bed and my thoughts start racing in every direction, broad and scattered, and I can’t drop off
• I’m running on fumes after a short night and I can’t actually fall asleep in the middle of the day, but if I could just be talked down into deep rest for twenty minutes I think I could make it to evening.
• The moment I finish moving I’m up and onto the next thing
• My mind won’t stop spinning when I lie down and "just try to sleep" only makes it worse

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. Yoga nidra (yogic sleep) for stress recovery
   A 20-minute yoga nidra practice provides deep physiological rest equivalent in restoration to much longer sleep.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
4. Savasana and the relaxation response
   Lying completely still at the end of a yoga practice triggers the relaxation response — the physiological counterpart to the stress response.
   Yoga for Stress: What the Research Shows
5. Yoga nidra as a wind-down
   Use a yoga nidra session to transition from a busy mind into sleep.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
6. Settle the body with slow breath and stillness
   Pair physical stillness with a slow, extended exhale to deepen the rest.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
7. 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
8. 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
9. Use relaxation training before bed
   Practice a structured relaxation technique to lower physiological arousal before sleep.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
10. Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
    Yoga nidra — popularized in modern form as "non-sleep deep rest" (NSDR) — is a guided practice that puts you in a deeply relaxed, conscious state between waking and sleep, used to recover energy, calm the nervous system, and offset poor sleep. The relaxation mechanism is plausible and small studies are encouraging, but the evidence is still emerging — this is a low-risk recovery practice, not a proven substitute for sleep.

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