Beat Insomnia Naturally: Inspiration for the week of October 15

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Beat Insomnia Naturally

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Dear friend,

Many of my clients experience insomnia and are pleased to learn that there are effective natural methods for making insomnia a thing of the past.

Often, when someone has insomnia, their subconscious is too full and their mind starts to race when they slow down from the business of the day.  This person may need to seek help through counselling to deal with these subconscious issues.

For others, some sleep hygiene tips and a self-hypnosis CD, kundalini yoga kriya and/or meditation is a lifesaver when it comes to stopping obsessive thoughts and enjoying a restful night’s sleep.

Please read on below, to discover some tips which have helped many of my clients to have a better night’s sleep and wake rested in the morning. 

Joyful Living:

I am pleased to be offering the Chakra Yoga for Joyful Living program again this fall.  It will be held on four Saturdays starting November 7th.

Past students have found this course to be truly transformational, as they learn to apply yoga and meditation techniques to set and achieve goals for all levels of their being.

New website:

Please check out my new, completely redesigned website, still at www.WisdomFromWithinHealing.com.

New features include a calendar of events, resources page, newsletter and weekly inspiration archive, blog, and forum.  Please check out the site, and post a question or comment on the forum.

Thanks to Arvana Robinson of Arvana Design Studios for developing this beautiful, easy to update site.

Your choice:

Weekly yoga classes continue to run on Tuesdays from 9:00-10:30 am and Thursdays from 6:30-8:00 pm.  A book or CD of your choice or a pound of bulk yogi tea is now included with the purchase of a ten class pass.

I look forward to seeing you out for classes and hope that you consider embarking on a systematic program of personal awareness, healing, and transformation with the chakra yoga course.

Save 10%:

Need to quit smoking or other addictive habits, chose healthy lifestyle options, de-stress, or eliminate anxiety and/or depresssion? Book a package of six individual sessions for $540 (regularly $600) when you pay for these sessions upfront. 

Give the gift of health:

For those of you planning ahead for the holiday season, give the gift of health to a special someone with a gift package of six individual sessions; or chose a gift package that includes 10 yoga sessions, a book or CD, and a box of yogi tea.  

Chakra Yoga for Joyful Living starts November 7

 November 7, 14, 28, and December 12 

 Join us on Saturdays, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

• Learn about the seven major chakras, including their physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects
• Balance your chakras through Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, Visualization, Sound, Scent, Colour, Crystals, and Spoken Affirmations
• Develop goals related to each chakra and manifest them
• Create a vision board to support the manifestation of your goals and dreams
• Develop increased strength and flexibility through your yoga practice

Course Includes:

• 24 hours of instruction

• 3 hours activities/day and 

• 3 hours of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation/day

• Full Colour Course Handbook

• Course Texts: The Kundalini Yoga Experience, The Eight Human Talents

• Set of Chakra Crystals

• Chakra Awakening and Balancing CD

When your chakras are open and balanced you have better physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and can live with joy.

Course Cost: $580
Discounted pre-registration $540 (until October 19)
Register early as space is limited.
  

Beat Insomnia Naturally

Some important ways to prepare for sleep include:

• eat your last heavy meal several hours before bed
• eat well and exercise regularly
• consult a Doctor or Naturopath for appropriate nutritional supplements (i.e. magnesium, fish oil)
• go to bed at approximately the same time each night
• have a quiet, dark environment for sleep (melatonin, essential for health, is produced only when it is dark and mostly between the hours of 1-3 am)
• have the same routine one hour before bed each night.

Your bedtime routine could include:

A kundalini yoga kriya to improve sleep: (I have two good kriyas for sleep quality, available for those who want to learn them - ask in class or in a private session)

Left Nostril Breathing: breathe through the left nostril by closing the right nostril with your right thumb.  This cuts off the oxygen supply to the  doing, analytical left brain and sympathetic nervous system, and enhances oxygen supply to the calming, cooling, right brain and parasympathetic nervous system.  This techniques stops obsessive thoughts and calms and cools the body.  Practice any amount of time from 3-30 minutes.

Listen to a hypnosis CD: Just 25 minutes of this form of relaxation improves your overall sleep quality and also helps you achieve the goals which are on the CD.  With regular practice you create new neural pathways in the brain which facilitate living in a more relaxed manner and manifesting your desired reality.  A personalized hypnosis CD can be made during a private session at Wisdom from Within.

Listen to a kundalini yoga chant CD or MP3: All of the kundalini yoga chant CD’s have healing properties.  Most are extremely relaxing and soothing.  CD’s are available in the yoga room at Wisdom from Within Healing Centre.  MP3’s can be downloaded from www.spiritvoyage.com.

Practice Shabd Kriya: Sit in any comfortable posture with the spine straight.  Place the hands in the lap, palms up with the right hand over the left, the tips of the thumbs touching.  Focus the eyes at the tip of the nose with the eyelids half closed.  Inhale in 4 equal parts, mentally vibrating the mantra Sa-Ta-Na-Ma.  Hold the breath, vibrating the mantra 4 times for a total of 16 beats.  Exhale in 2 equal strokes projecting mentally "Wahe Guru".  Continue 3-62 minutes.

(If you cannot hold the breath for 16 counts, start with 8 or 12 counts and build up gradually).

One of my clients, who had been constantly plagued by nightmares and insomnia since he was very young, practiced this kriya for 15 minutes daily, and by the end of 40 days, his sleep patterns had totally changed to getting a full, peaceful night’s sleep.  He continues this kriya regularly and notices that happiness and peace is extending into all aspects of his life.

Yogi Bhajan comments on this kriya: The best time to practice this kriya is every night before bed.  If it is practiced regularly, sleep will be deep and relaxed and the nerves will regenerate.  After a few months, the rhythm of your breath as you sleep will be subconsciously regulated in the same rhythm.  You will think better, work better, share better, love better, and fight better.  This rhythmic mantra will eventually progress so that even in daily activities you will automatically hear the mantra and take on the breath rhythm.

There cannot be enough praise of this meditation and its growth- promoting effects on the personality.  It gives radiance and the radiance gives patience which is the first condition of real love.  In love you give without attention to all the mistakes of another as the sun gives light and warmth to all people.  The incorporation of this practical universality in the personality comes with the disciplined practice of Shabd Kriya. (instructions and commentary from Yoga for People from Whacky Families - Deva Singh Khalsa).

Best wishes for the coming week.

Sincerely,

Lisa Clendening, CYT, MSW, RSW
Wisdom From Within Healing Centre  

Save 10%:  Need to quit smoking or other addictive habits, choose healthy lifestyle options, de-stress, or eliminate anxiety or depression? Book a package of six individual sessions for $540 (regularly $600) when you pay for these sessions upfront.  Please feel free to share this offer with friends and family.