Coaching practices for Yoga Sleep Routine

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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’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
• I lie down to rest but my body stays revved
• I only ever rest once I’ve already burned out and crashed

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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Make deep rest a regular practice
   Schedule short rest sessions consistently rather than only in crisis.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
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. 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.
8. 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
9. Use non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) for a midday reset
   A 10–20 minute NSDR or yoga nidra session restores alertness without the grogginess of a full nap.
   Morning Light Anchoring
10. Guided body scan into deep rest
    Follow attention slowly through the body to drop into a relaxed, conscious state.
    Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery

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