Mini-Sleep Retreats
*From the comfort of your own home*
“Practicing true rest is a social statement. In a world gone mad with motion, it’s a subversive act, an act of cultural disobedience. It calls for a substantial personal and even spiritual shift that begins with the willingness to step out of the herd mentality. It invites us to march to a different drum, to the rhythms of nature, including our own true nature…” ~ Dr. Rubin Naiman
- Do you feel T’wired? (Tired and Wired Simultaneously)
- Are you exhausted from not sleeping as well as you’d like?
- Do your eyes and head feel tired or droopy?
- Does your body feel heavy or fatigued?
- Are you having trouble focusing clearly?
- Do you feel a desire to FREE your attention and re-direct it?
If you answered yes to any of the above – your mini-sleep-retreat awaits. 
You can expect:
- A simple yet powerful meditative hiatus from the busy-ness of daily routines
- A short teaching
- A 25-30 minute guided Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep) session – here you may end up paying off sleep debt, if you have any – or just enjoying a deeply rejuvenating, full-bodied meditation experience.
- A quiet breathing space, where you can come home to your own intuitions and deep knowing
Rest and sleep cycles are precious doorways into insight and creativity – yet we live in a time where we are often expected to be in a state of constant activity and production, particularly during the day.
We receive unprecedented stimulation, our senses bombarded with information, our attention constantly pulled in multiple directions outside of ourselves. Displays of embodied rest are often deemed as ‘lazy’ or ‘boring’.
Even at night – our most wise sleep medicine – in many cases, all the lights are on – literally and metaphorically.
My name is Jennifer. I’m a poet, yogini, teacher, mentor, and messenger for the beauty and widsom of sleep.
For more than 10 years, I have been creating live rest/sleep sanctuaries – in private homes, in yoga studios, in my own home studio, in schools and workplaces.
What is a sleep sanctuary? It’s a place people can retreat, in the middle of the day, to lie down and let go into the beautiful ocean of consciousness that is uniquely available in meditative states of rest and sleep – a ‘continuum of tranquility’, stretching from wakeful serenity to the depths of slow wave sleep.
A place where this continuum is acknowledged and given attention – laziness is welcomed, daydreams envelop, naps are celebrated, and deep sleep is as natural as shedding skin, a cloud releasing rain, a caterpillar in its cocoon…