Nourishing Ourselves With Rest
When we can’t sleep, it could be our nervous system unable to relax and come down from hypervigilance and worry.
This page contains links to some of my many guided practices around sleep and rest.
The links here are to InSight Timer. I recommend Insight Timer because there are no ads and it is one way for you to support my work at no or low cost to you. Most practices are free, the Insight Timer Plus (+) practices and courses are $5/month with an annual membership. I receive nothing for the ads that YouTube puts on my practices and I have no control to turn the ads off. For YouTube, search the same name and it should come up for you.
Breathing and relaxing into sleep
Even Regulating Breath To Calm And Nourish Your Body
5-Minute 5 Point Body Scan Relaxation
Ocean Wave Breath: A Relaxation Visualization
Sleep Story: Walk With Me In The Forest
Relaxing In The Safety Of The Present Moment
Alternate Nostril Breathing: 3 Complete Rounds With So Ham
(helpful a few hours before sleep to calm and regulate)
Sleep Affirmations with ambient music
Sleep Affirmations: Food and Eating, Quiet background +
Sleep Affirmations: Food and Eating, Ambient music +
Sleep Affirmations: Nourishing And Loving My Body
Sleep Affirmations For Worry
Sleep Affirmations: Loving Kind Compassionate Heart +
Affirmations As We Drift Into Sleep +
When thoughts are keeping you awake
Sleep: I've Done What I Can For Now. It's Time To Rest
Resting In Stillness: A Somatic Meditation For A Busy Mind +
Catastrophic Thoughts And Safety(short talk)
Witnessing Thoughts: A Practice To Calm The Mind And Body
Restore Calm And Reset Your Nervous System After Anxiety +
From Nourishing Ourselves with Rest weekly classes
Who am I when I’m not busy? Octavia Raheem Pause Rest Be
Why We Can't Sleep: Rest, Safety, and Our Nervous System
Nightime Tools: for Nightmares and Night Panic
Join our Sunday free community class each week to explore (repeated Mondays at 7PM)