Yoga For Healthy Sleep

Sleeping well is essential to our physical health and emotional well-being. Indeed, it doesn’t take more than a few hours of missed sleep to discover just how closely sleep is linked to our well-being and ability to function well during the day.

Even Shakespeare referred to sleep as a healing balm “that knits up the raveled sleeve of care." Sleep serves many important functions for body and mind: It improves concentration and memory formation, it allows our body to repair some cell damage that occurred during the day, and refreshes our immune system, which in turn helps to prevent disease.  Almost every creature sleeps, and those that do not die young.

In this 2-part course, Dr. Loren Fishman and yoga therapist Ellen Saltonstall will look at the science of sleep and its benefits, and how yoga can help us develop healthier sleep patterns and overcome bouts of insomnia.

• What is sleep? – New Research
• The importance of sleep and how many hours of sleep we actually need
• Why lack of sleep can lead to serious health conditions and the most common conditions affected
• Why sleep changes as we age and how we can protect our sleep potential
• How to distinguish between normal changes to sleep and sleep disorders
• The most common causes of sleep problems and what to do about them
• Yoga practices to help calm the nervous system and induce better sleep
• Yoga postures for common sleep disorders like restless leg syndrome
• Nutritional supplements and guidelines to help facilitate better and deeper sleep

This Course Also Includes These Bonuses! 

• 30 Minute Relaxing Yoga Practice for Sound Sleep: Enjoy a 30-minute yoga practice centered around the key pose sequence Dr. Fishman uses in his medical practice to help people with sleep problems, and breaks it down into a series of long, slow stretches to release stress in the parts of the body where many of us tend to store tension that can interfere with healthy sleep.
• Recordings of Both Sessions: Yours to keep. It’s generally acknowledged that many people only retain 10-20 percent of what they learn in a workshop. You will get the recordings of both sessions (MP3 & MP4), enabling you to go back and listen to the workshop as many times as you like.
• Transcripts of Both Sessions: Ever wanted to refer to a certain part of a course? Even the best note takers miss a point every so often. With the transcripts of the sessions, you can go back and refer to particularly important passages or clarify sections you were in doubt about.

Loren Fishman, MD

After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, spending the year 1973 with Mr. Iyengar in Pune, attending every class, public and private, and taking daily instruction, Loren M. Fishman, M.D., was told “You can teach my yoga.” Dr. Fishman then went to medical school, and at Rush, in a Tufts-Harvard Residency program, and as Chief Resident at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, did indeed teach patients, health professionals, and also learned more about yoga and medicine himself. He has been practicing yoga daily since the year he spent with Mr. Iyengar, has written and edited more than 65 academic articles, chapters and books in the philosophy of science, and Rehabilitation Medicine, his field. His work has been reviewed in articles by Jane Brody, Spine, and a number of international periodicals. He is past President of the New York Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, currently Associate Editor of Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, on the staff at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Treasurer of the Manhattan Institute for Cancer Research, and has a private practice on Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Loren has published two books: Yoga for Osteoporosis with Ellen Saltonstall (for W.W. Norton) and Yoga and Multiple Sclerosiswith Eric Small. For more information about Loren, visit: www.sciatica.org
 

Ellen Saltonstall 

Ellen Saltonstall (E-RYT 500) is a yoga instructor and body therapist based in New York with extensive training in the Iyengar and Anusara methods. She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 40 years. She teaches Bodymind Ballwork, a method of self-massage using rubber balls which she developed, and she co-authored Yoga for Arthritis, 2008, and Yoga for Osteoporosis, 2010 with Dr. Loren Fishman. Her book Anatomy & Yoga: A Guide for Teachers and Students will be released in December 2016. She offers yoga therapy webinars through YogaOnlineU.com, and she teaches nationally and internationally with a specialty in anatomy and therapeutics. She is known for her clarity and depth of knowledge, and her enthusiasm in encouraging students of all levels to find freedom and joy through yoga. Please visit her website at www.ellensaltonstall.com.