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Sleep Guru Sleep Secrets

With Alison Anandi Francis

Concentration, focus, and creativity depend on a good night's sleep and science has proven that if you sleep well you’ll have an opportunity to enjoy life to the full. This course has been designed for anyone with disturbed sleep. I'll provide you with the tools and insights that you need to make changes that will support great sleep. As a result of this programme, if you implement the learnings I’ll be sharing with you, you’ll sleep better, be less reactive, more patient, and happier. You’ll develop the awareness to understand what is serving your health and sleep and how to replace unhealthy habits with more nourishing ones. When you develop good habits, your life and the quality of your sleep will significantly change for the better.

A step-by-step guide with the fundamental knowledge and tools one needs to sleep well.

10 Days

713 students

4.5 stars

11 min / day

English

About this course

Breath Focus

Letting Go Practice

Capacity Building Practice

Meet your Teacher

Alison Anandi Francis

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London, United Kingdom

Alison Francis, also known as Anandi, has been in the wellness field for 30 years. She has appeared in the press in all the major glossies including Cosmopolitan, Women’s Fitness, Psychologies, Daily Mail, In the Moment, Spirit and Destiny, and the London Evening Standard. Anandi is the author of Breathe Better Sleep Better, an Ayurvedic consultant, NLP instructor, Chopra Meditation teacher, breathwork facilitator, senior yoga teacher and yoga teacher trainer, and a yoga philosophy mentee of the late Georg Feuerstein.

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10 Days

713 students

4.5 stars

11 min / day

English

Lesson 1

The impact of sleep deprivation

In this lesson, we will be setting your intentions to get the very best out of this course. We’ll be exploring the true impact of insufficient sleep and how it affects every single organ of your body. We’ll recap on what happens when we do sleep well and what happens when we don’t sleep well.

Lesson 2

How many hours do you need?

In this lesson, you’ll learn about the quantity of sleep you really do need and in particular where sleep fits into your wellbeing as a whole. We’ll also be looking at how Ayurveda views sleep and where it fits into Ayurvedic wellbeing science.

Lesson 3

What are sleep cycles and why are they important?

In this lesson I’ll be taking your through the various sleep cycles and explain why they’re important, and how much you need of each of the sleep cycles. We’re also going to take a look at the two principle sleep hormones and how they work and how you can keep them in balance.

Lesson 4

How to balance your inner body clock (circadian rhythms).

In this lesson, you’ll learn four very simple steps to help reset your inner body clock. You’ll see that if you want to sleep well, you have to respect your natural cycles and the way nature made you. We’ll also look at how your digestion is governed by your circadian rhythm and help your body helps you to stay balanced.

Lesson 5

How sleep deprivation affects the way you look

In this lesson, we’ll look at how sleep deprivation can cause premature aging and how it affects the hormones related to eating. You’ll learn how important it is to take the time to recover when you’re exhausted and how to manage the unconscious tension that accumulates in your body associated with tiredness.

Lesson 6

Resilience and the sleep connection

In this lesson, I’m going to explain why you need to build resilience for good sleep and what good resilience is. You’ll also understand why, if you have very low resilience to stress, you’ll likely not be sleeping very well. I’ll also be explaining why using the breath is such a great tool to manage the nervous system.

Lesson 7

Building resilience and lightness using breath

In this lesson you’re going to learn about the conversation the breath is trying to have with you and how connecting to the breath is like connecting to spirit. You’ll also learn how important it is to be connected to spirit and your inner guid in order to be well and sleep well.

Lesson 8

Moving the awareness and observing breath

In this lesson I’m going to guide you to do a simple breath meditation specifically designed to help you understand that wherever your awareness is, is where the breath goes and what the implications are.

Lesson 9

Simple Belly Breathing for nervous system resilience

In this lesson, we are going to learn about the power of belly breathing. This practice is guided in a compassionate and soft way that anyone can follow.

Lesson 10

Course conclusion and integration

We’ll review what you’ve learned and your intention to get the very best out of this course and look at next steps.