Trouble Sleeping? Try Yoga in Bed
When it comes to my personal health and wellness, there are two things I strongly believe:
1) I need a good night’s sleep to function well and to feel well. For me, a good night’s sleep is 7 to 8 hours.
2) Yoga is the best way to relax and relieve stress.
However, up until I read an article on doing yoga in bed earlier this month, I had never thought to use yoga as a way to get better sleep. But that’s just what Graydon Moffat, a Toronto yoga instructor, is doing.
Moffat found herself waking up multiple times in the middle of the night and getting very little quality sleep. She tried everything—alcohol, warm milk, sleeping pills—and then she tried practicing a few simple yoga poses in her pajamas, in bed. And it worked.
This wasn’t news to our senior editor, Maria Wakem. When I forwarded her the article, she wrote back: “I find that goddess pose (what the woman is doing in this picture) is the best when you can’t sleep. It’s even better when you put one hand on your heart and one hand on your belly—then you let your heartbeat and breath lull you to sleep.”
That’s definitely a tip I’ll use the next time I have trouble getting to sleep.
Read more about how yoga can help you sleep at The Globe and Mail.
—Stephanie Kinnear, web editor
