Online Seminar: Yoga for Sleep and Sleep Disorders: Science, Research and Application
£60.00
Date:
Tuesday, September 3rd - Wednesday, September 4th 2024
Time:
6.30pm - 8.30pm (each day, UK time)
We are delighted that Dr. Sat Bir Khalsa, leading yoga researcher and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, is returning to the Minded Institute in London to hold a live, two-part online workshop: Yoga for Sleep and Sleep Disorders: Science, Research and Application.
Description
Join leading yoga researcher, sleep researcher, and Harvard University Medical School Lecturer, Dr. Sat Bir Khalsa as he shares insights about sleep disorders and how the therapeutic application of yoga for sleep can improve sleep quality, length, and therefore, overall well-being. There is an increasing recognition and knowledge about the value of sleep in both physiology, psychology and human performance. Unfortunately, as the pace of life becomes busier and busier, people are restricting sleep to their own detriment, just as heightened stress is also increasing the burden and prevalence of sleep disturbances like chronic insomnia.
Recent statistics suggest up to 1/3 of the adult population suffers from a sleep disorder. The overall impact of insomnia as well as other sleep disorders on a person’s life are profound and range from mental health issues to cardiovascular ones to autoimmune conditions and many more. Helping individuals to improve sleep quality, therefore provides far-reaching value for clients and students. Medical treatments for insomnia are limited and there is a growing movement towards behavioural approaches. The multifaceted system of yoga offers the benefits of a behavioural treatment, while directly targeting the nervous system and reducing stress, that is so deeply entwined with sleep problems.
Through a detailed understanding of sleep and sleep disorders, yoga professionals and health professionals learning basic yoga techniques, are well-placed to provide bespoke yoga practices that can significantly help with sleep improvement. This 4-hour workshop (spread across two consecutive evenings) with Sat Bir is a unique opportunity to learn from a world expert. Dr. Khalsa will describe the characteristics and importance of sleep to mental and physical health and performance, the underlying causes of insomnia, provide an overview of the well-known behavioral treatments for insomnia, and provide specific yoga practices which may be beneficial for this disorder and for improving sleep quality in general.
Teacher
Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. is the Director of Yoga Research for the Yoga Alliance and the Kundalini Research Institute, a Research Associate at the Benson Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, a Research Affiliate at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has conducted research on yoga and yoga therapy since 2001 and has been a practitioner/instructor of Kundalini Yoga since 1973.
Sat Bir’s research has evaluated yoga for insomnia, chronic stress, and anxiety-related disorders, and in workplace and public school settings. He works with the International Association of Yoga Therapists promoting yoga research as scientific director for the annual Symposium on Yoga Research and as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy. He is medical editor of the Harvard Medical School Special Report Introduction to Yoga, and chief editor of the medical textbook The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care.
Location
We use Zoom to host these online trainings, for those who do not yet have an account, please visit http://zoom.us and sign up for a free account. Please also test your computer audio and visual to ensure they are working prior to the training start time.
You will receive a zoom link and password in your confirmed booking email, which will come from: info@themindedinstitute.com