4-week course (90 minute sessions)

Dr Elizabeth English teaches Mindfulness for Better Sleep at Cambridge University. This online course aims to bring her work to a wider audience.

The course covers:

• Your sleep journey: tuning into natural body rhythms, daytime practices to aid nighttime sleepiness
• Getting to sleep: getting to bed ‘procrastination’, healthy pre-bed activities, more sleep practices, sleep cycles
• Staying asleep: cultivating your 8-hour ‘rest opportunity window’, further sleep practices
• Waking up fresh: napping, un-alarmed and inner wake up calls, getting up, tips for fresh wakeful days

Mindfulness for Better Sleep gives you a way to improve your sleep. Mindfulness has much to offer those who wish for more rest, and a better quality of sleep. This course covers the essentials of sleep hygiene. It introduces mindful practices that can help you towards healthy and refreshing sleep at night and more energy during the day. It is also a chance to assess things you do in the day, which effect your ability to rest at night.

Following the course and its practices, you can expect to make significant progress in tackling common difficulties with sleep, such as:

•  Feeling ‘tired but wired’ at night
•  Struggling to get to sleep, or stay asleep
•  Waking up feeling tired and drained
•  Not waking up or getting up when you wish
•  Feeling tired during the day

Groups are friendly and supportive, as we explore the challenges of your night-time 'rest opportunity'. You have the chance to lie down in class for meditations rather like ’napping’. So bring something to lie on if you wish.

Sessions will be held online at 7:00pm-8:30pm UK time, weekly on Sundays. If you need to miss a session, you are welcome to make up the missed session by joining our Wednesday course.