How To Get Your Body Ready For Sleep With Yoga

In our last article, we talked about some of the most common problems associated with insomnia from the perspective of a naturopathic doctor.

One of the tips was to begin a bedtime ritual to help your body unwind and prepare for sleep.

So today, I wanted to share with you a video to help you do just that.

It’s a yoga video by Yoga with Adrienne, who has a number of yoga videos on YouTube for all sorts of things.

If you like the video in this article, check out the rest of her channel.

But first, let’s talk a bit about yoga.

Benefits of Yoga

Much like naturopathic medicine, yoga’s techniques help promote the body’s innate ability to heal itself.

Like all physical activity, it can help with muscle strength, cardiovascular health, weight loss, and overall flexibility.

But one of the greatest benefits of yoga is its ability to help you manage the day-to-day stress of life.

By incorporating meditation and breathing exercises, it can help take your body out of its mode of heightened stress and awareness (the “fight or flight” response), and return to a state of peaceful relaxation.

Dangers of Yoga

Overall, yoga is considered safe.

However, it’s important to be aware of your own limitations.

If you have recently suffered an injury, or if you have a chronic injury to a certain area of your body, be careful not to push that area too hard.

Likewise, if you haven’t been terribly active lately, you may be at an increased risk of pulling a muscle or otherwise straining yourself.

Yoga isn’t supposed to hurt! If it is, you’re doing something wrong.

While the practice in the video you see below is extremely mellow, any physical activity comes with its own risks.

So be smart and be careful.

Without further ado, the video:

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From there, Dr. Maria will listen to your concerns, and help you understand what you can do to begin improving your health.

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Until next time,

Dr. Maria Cavallazzi is a medical doctor from Colombia where she practiced as a family physician for 8 years until she moved to Canada 16 years ago.