Softly To Sleep: Release The Day For Deep Rest - by Ashley Chymiy

COURSE

Softly To Sleep: Release The Day For Deep Rest

With Ashley Chymiy

Give your mind a soft place to land with this gentle nightly practice for drifting to sleep. You'll discover how to gently disconnect from overthinking, quiet your thoughts at bedtime, ease nighttime anxiety, and return to sleep when you wake. Each night you'll listen in bed, and we'll settle and soothe the nervous system, and use gentle affirmations and imagery to guide you down into rest. Falling asleep before a lesson ends isn't missing out – it's the whole point. By the end of night five, you'll have your own simple ritual you can use any night you need it. Come as you are, to be supported, and to rest while you wait for sleep to arrive. I’ll see you inside.


Meet your Teacher

Ashley Chymiy is a certified mindfulness and compassion meditation teacher living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with her husband, daughter, and rescue animals. She has an MA in Peace Studies, BA in World Religions and Philosophy, and is an ICF-certified (ACC) whole person coach.

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5 Days

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12 min / day

Anxiety

English


Lesson 1

The Sacred Dark

We tend to treat a sleepless hour as time lost. But for most of human history, the deep night was a sacred time: a rare stretch of hours when nothing was required of us, kept for prayer, reflection, and the conversations that don't happen in daylight. Tonight we'll explore the sacred dark, notice what it does to a room and to a mind, and find what it has to offer us.

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Lesson 2

The Settled Mind

Some thoughts keep you awake and spinning your wheels, while others carry you down gently into rest. And the difference is simple but powerful. Tonight we look at sleep-friendly thoughts -- the kind that ask nothing of you but give your mind a soft way to be, and we practice it together. Not emptying the mind. Just giving it better company.

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Lesson 3

The Bridge To Dreams

There are moments just before sleep when ordinary thinking starts to gently fall apart. Thoughts wander, images appear from nowhere, and the mind starts speaking the language of dreams. Tonight, we’ll learn a simple but powerful way to help ourselves find that doorway when we're ready.

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Lesson 4

The Letting Go

Sometimes the quickest way toward sleep isn’t through the mind at all. Your body already knows the signals that mean it’s safe to stop holding on. Tonight, we’ll let the body take the lead and follow it, slowly, toward deeper rest.

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Lesson 5

The Deepest Hour

The middle of the night has a way of making everything feel different. Thoughts can seem louder, worries more convincing, and the mind strangely open to whatever enters it. But this also creates an opportunity when the mind is more receptive to thoughts, dreams, and intentions -- and we have the power to choose. Tonight, we’ll learn how to meet those hours differently, and bring everything from the past five nights together into a practice you can return to whenever you need it.

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