Ironically, I am typing this post at 11:30 at night. This post is about giving your body the rest it needs. Not just resting your body in between good, tiresome workouts, but also getting adequate sleep. Sleep is SUCH an important part of health. Physical, mental, and spiritual health for sure! Resting the body is essential to do in order to reach or maintain wellness. When we sleep is when our bodies recover and rejuvinate. If we don't allow it that chance to do so, we are holding ourselves back in more ways than one.
For the last month and a half, I have not been sleeping very well. I have such vivid and exhausting dreams that when I wake up. I feel like I had just gone to a different world for the night and didn't sleep at all. I was dragging and I was lethargic all day long. I didn't like it. You better believe it made working out that much harder.
I don't know too much about yoga, but the little I do know, I do believe it is a wonderful thing to include in your personal journey to fitness and wellness. While on my quest to find out why my nights were not restful, I found an 9 minute bedtime yoga routine on pinterest. I have since done it a few times before bed, and I swear, it is the bomb! Those nights I actually follow through and do it, I sleep like a baby. Well, a solid-eating, binky-loving, good-sleeping baby. It is wonderful!
Click here to get the full bedtime yoga "workout."
In short, the workout is:
Minutes 0-2: Upside down relaxation
Minute 2-3: Winding down twist
Minutes 3-5: Nighttime Goddess stretch
Minutes 5-7: Child's pose
Minute 7-9: Rock a bye roll
Good night and sleep tight!!! Let that body of yours prepare itself to get it's workout on tomorrow!!! Let me know what you plan on doing for your saturday workout! : )
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