Yoga has a number of benefits for your well-being and one of the benefits can be help with sleep.

Yoga Reduces Your Stress

Yoga can help you reduce your stress and has been shown to lower cortisol levels in your brain, which also helps reduce stress. Mindfulness can also reduce your levels of cortisol.

Yoga Helps Regulate the Nervous System

Many insomniacs also suffer from hyperarousal. This means the fight-or-flight response was provoked by something earlier in the day, such as a fight with a partner or working to meet a deadline. Your response is still elevated and even though you may feel tired, the nervous system is still wide awake. Yoga can help people come back to homeostasis faster than those who don’t practice yoga. Even if you pass out from exhaustion when your fight-or-flight system is elevated, you won’t experience restful sleep.

Yoga Helps You Create a Routine

There are important sleep hygiene practices that you should be aware of, such as going to bed and waking up at the same time every day. Yoga helps create a bedtime routine that works for you.

Yoga encourages you to listen to your body, so you find what works for you when it comes to winding down for the night. You may not benefit from the traditional advice you always hear about sleep hygiene, but you can use yoga to find your own solution that works.

Help with Sleep Apnea

With sleep apnea, your breathing stops and starts again, which disrupts your sleep. A cure for sleep apnea is using a CPAP machine to deliver a steady stream of air pressure. With the machine, you will need CPAP cleaner and sanitizer.

However, yoga may also be able to alleviate some of the symptoms of sleep apnea, even if isn’t a cure. Yoga helps to tone, strengthen, and open the upper airway muscles. There are different poses for expanding and stretching the lungs and airways that you can do before bed.

Agnes Green