Wake-up dance meditation
Dance for Clearing the Energy – Shaking it off
As part of the Sensory Sleep System we have some upbeat funky sounds for you to dance to. Or indeed it could be any of your favourite music, but something that gets your feet tapping and your heart beating.
The best time to get hot and sweaty on your home dance floor is the morning – wake yourself up with a 20 min fast paced boogie, enliven your day, get your heart pumpin’ and endorphins flowing.
Dancing, movement, working out and exercising are all great for your body and mind – and can also help you get a good night’s sleep.
There is plenty of solid evidence that exercise does, in fact, help you to fall asleep more quickly and improves sleep quality – sleep and exercise have a bidirectional relationship. In other words, optimising your exercise routine can potentially help you sleep better, and getting an adequate amount of sleep may promote healthier physical activity levels during the day.
Exercise is an effective way to treat many differing sleep disorders and has been shown to increase low-wave sleep. This is your deep restorative sleep phase. Exercise also decreases sleep onset so it takes you less time to fall asleep it can also increase sleep duration so you can sleep longer.
But, for some of you, exercising too late in the day can interfere with how well you can then rest at night. In some, the stimulation of endorphins created by aerobic exercise can create brain activity not conducive with falling asleep. Thus we recommend a morning session.
Exercise also raises your core body temperature. “The effect of exercise in some people is like taking a hot shower that wakes you up in the morning.”
It is good to bear in mind that you may need to leave a couple of hours, at the end of the day, exercise-free to allow the brain time to wind down, just on case you were planning any late nightlate-night kitchen raving!
Elevation in core body temperature signals to the body clock that it’s time to be awake. 30 to 90 minutes after exercise, the core body temperature starts to fall. The decline helps to facilitate sleepiness.
Exercise also stabilises mood and can decompress the mind.
The key thing here is to really lose yourself in the music, let your body go, dance like no-one is watching and have a really good time moving your body as freely and wildly as you please. So switch on the music audio, play it through a speaker, if you have one, and give yourself as much space as possible and go wild!
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