If you’ve ever been unfairly accused of waking up on the wrong side of the bed, you know already know how sleep affects our mental health. On any given night, we go through four stages of sleep and each one is a key player in how our brain functions the next day. A good night’s sleep improves our memory and allows us to efficiently process information. A bad night’s sleep can make us feel unmotivated and irritable. And while we all need sleep to improve our mood, not all of us can get it.

One look through history and pop culture tells us that sleep disorders like insomnia do not discriminate. Unsurprisingly, Edgar Allen Poe referred to sleep as little slices of death. Before Tupac was California dreaming, all three Geto Boys’ closed their eyes only to find their minds playing tricks on them. While Gucci Mane can’t sleep simply because he has too much to say.

This Self-care Sunday is all about getting the tools you need to go to bed with intention. Join this special Sleep 101 class and create a landscape of success for the week ahead. #Mosleeplessproblems

💆Self-Care Sundays💆 with Ruthie, Founder of The Rest, at 1:00 pm EST

About the class

If you want to get better sleep in 2022, you might need Sleep 101. In this session, we'll talk about what goes on when you sleep, how it works, and how you can use that knowledge to get better sleep. In the end, we'll have time for sleep practice (a guided nap), where you can use the techniques you learn in this class.

Meet Ruthie

Ruthie Nachmany is the founder of The Rest and a certified sleep coach. After sleeping ~4 hours a night for years, she finally realized how her lack of sleep was undermining her health and happiness while she was awake. As she started the journey of learning how to get better sleep and how important sleep was, she realized how many people also struggle with their sleep, and started teaching “sleep school’, where you can learn about the basics of how sleep works and what you should know about the science of sleep to improve the rest of your life.

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Actually, though, people cycle between 2 major kinds of sleep: NREM and REM. NREM can be further broken down into 4 stages, the 3rd and 4th being deep sleep (otherwise known as slow wave sleep). REM stands for rapid eye movement, and it is the stage when people typically dream.

Did you know that drinking alcohol affects your sleep architecture? Alcohol not only suppresses REM sleep, but also causes you to wake up more during the night, even though you may not remember. That's often why people feel so bad the next morning after drinking; it's because they didn't get enough quality and quantity of sleep.

Samuel Jackson did a reading of this important message.

Did you know that sleep (or at least patterns of reduced activity that resemble sleep) have been found in almost all animal species and even some microbes?

Different species vary widely in how much sleep they need, when they sleep, and what stages of sleep they enter. Birds that migrate long distances seasonally are able to get by on microsleeps of a few seconds since they do not stop for long rests.

Just chibi Lee Subin sound sleeping.

But seriousky tho, i need to sleep too. It's past bedtime already. Lol.

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