Welcome back! Before hopping into information on meditations for sleep, I wanted to let you know about some very special offerings. For those in town, I will be offering a sleep workshop on Saturday from 10-11:30 at the Center for Healing Arts. We will discuss the plants more in depth, and make some sleepy time tea! The course is $25, including ingredients, and you must preregister to reserve your spot.
For those out of town, I will be offering an online version of the course, which will include a sleepytime tea kit sent directly to you and a tele-conference to discuss the herbal properties of the plants.Normally these workshops go for the low price of $36, including materials, shipping and handling. However, I will be offering a special deal to mailing list subscribers this weekend–so sign up now if you haven’t already!
This is the second-to-last installment in the sleep blog series. Next time, we’ll wrap up with a question and answer session. Please post or e-mail any questions you haven’t sent already by tonight so that I can dig into them tomorrow. One reader question was asking for recommendations for meditations at bedtime. A nice relaxing meditation can really help set the mood for a good night of restful sleep. Here are a few that I like.
Divine Dreaming Meditation Kit
Goddess Leonie always does such beautiful work. I very much recommend her products. The Dreaming Time meditation is a 21-minute long MP3 with Goddess Leonie’s soothing voice, chimes, a singing bowl and Native American-style flute. There’s an extended meditation of equal length included, along with a mini-Goddess Guide to Sweet Slumber e-book. Leonie’s books are always gorgeous–hand-written and illustrated. $24.95
This CD is absolutely gorgeous. A beautiful collection of bedtime stories read by Clarissa Pinkola Estes herself. In addition to original tellings of Sleeping Beauty, the Mouse and the Lion and other stories, Estes also discusses archetypal figures like Sandman and Mother Night. She touches on renewal, enchantment and transformation in this collection. $10.85 + shipping
This kit comes with a sleep booklet that touches a bit on Ayurveda, helping you learn what sleep remedies are specific to
Found yourself counting sheep lately? Well, with the Good Night Sleep kit from Hay House, you can send them back to the pasture. This turquoise-hued treasure box was designed to help those with insomnia as well as those simply wishing to sleep more deeply and feel your body type. It also includes a dream journal, essential oils and a meditation CD. The cards are beautiful and informative, and I liked the dream journal and booklet. I did not find the CD sleep-inducing, however, and the unlabeled oils were stuck everywhere. So consider this a provisional recommendation. $19.96 + shipping.
Again, please send any sleep-related questions by tonight, or post them in the comments. I’ll be wrapping the series up with just one last post tomorrow.
