Nearly one-third of Americans are sleep deprived according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other studies have linked the lack of sleep to depression, a weaker immune system, memory and cognition issues, as well as obesity, high blood pressure, and fatigue. The CDC calls this pervasive lack of sleep a "public health epidemic.” In “Why Am I So Tired?” Pamela will review the root causes of sleep deprivation, the effects of insomnia, how lifestyle impacts all of it, and how diet, yoga, and meditation can help.
In this workshop we will discuss sleep, restorative rest, the power of naps, movement/exercise, yoga, mindfulness, the stages of sleep, brain waves, meditation, nutrition, stress, trauma, anxiety, and aromatherapy.
Some topics that will be considered are:
- How to fall asleep without the use of pills
- How to handle life’s distractions
- What you eat matters
- Dealing with the busy mind
- How to stay asleep and enjoy uninterrupted restful sleep through the night.
- Food and movement: the best time for great sleep
- Know what to do to help your body back to sleep
Using the latest yoga and sleep data, this workshop includes
- Personal sleep-assessment via promoted questions so participants are more aware of knowing what’s helping and what’s harming their sleep.
- A yoga nidra practice to get more restful sleep.
- A greater understanding of why sound, quality sleep is critical.
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Recommended props: To come.
Pamela Stokes Eggleston, MBA, MS, C-IAYT, E-RYT-500, is the Director and Faculty of the Kripalu School of Integrative Yoga Therapy. She is also the Founder of Yoga2Sleep, and Member of the State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners at the Maryland Department of Health. Pamela is a contributing editor of Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans and Yoga and Resilience: Empowering Practices for Survivors of Sexual Trauma. Pamela’s writing and work has been featured with Yoga Therapy Today, Gaiam, Military Spouse Magazine, Yoga Journal, Mantra Yoga and Health, Essence, the Huffington Post, and on Ellen and MSNBC. She is the author of You Are the Pendulum: Poems and Practices for an Unsettling World.
Learn more about Pamela at yoga2sleep.com.