Sleepcare Stories — meditation

There are binaural beats designed to help with stimulus or achieve a beta state, an active and alert state or alpha state, a relaxed state while awake. For falling asleep and achieving a deep sleep, we want binaural beats which promote a theta state of mind, which is a drowsy state of light sleep where we dream. From theta we then want to enter a delta state of mind, a deep state of the unconscious mind where regeneration lives. Or, simply put, delta equals deep sleep.

Anxious and can’t sleep? Stressed out at work? Feeling depressed? Try out yoga nidra, a deep meditative practice! Katie Stewart, a yoga nidra expert, reveals the common fallacies around the art and how to use it for sleep. 

Beyond the Sheets: Peggy Sealfon, Personal Development Coach & Author, on Acknowledging Fear for Improved Wellness Peggy Sealfon is an author and novelist [her latest book, Awakening: A Novel, won a Firebird Book Award], a personal development coach, motivational speaker and a student and teacher of body, mind and soul alignment. Simply, she is a force awakened in an intersectional wellness world.  In our conversation, Peggy explains the importance of boundaries and acknowledging fear when it comes to stress and anxiety management, particularly when it comes to work/life balance. She notes a huge part to mitigating stress and anxiety is...

Daniel Poulin is a visionary, plain and simple. With over 30 years of strategic leadership, innovation and advocacy, Daniel is poised to lead and change the industry for the better.  In our last Beyond the Sheets conversation of 2020 (we did it, folks!), Daniel discusses accessible wellness and what that looks like for spas, hotels and the community as a whole. He dives into the impact of COVID-19 on our social wellness and the importance of social interactions on our health. And, we, of course, talk about sleep and how it is the most crucial element to extending one’s life...