Good sleep is essential for good health.
Having trouble sleeping greatly affects both our mental and physical health. This is a problem that affects over 60% of the adult population, and the number of insomnia are increasing. Few realize that by implementing some simple changes in your daily habit patterns, diet and listening to guided meditations with special frequencies can eliminate insomnia and help you sleep better.
Good sleep is essential for good health.
Having trouble sleeping greatly affects both our mental and physical health. This is a problem that affects over 60% of the adult population, and the number of insomnia are increasing. Few realize that by implementing some simple changes in your daily habit patterns, diet and listening to guided meditations with special frequencies can eliminate insomnia and help you sleep better.
In this course, you will get all the knowledge and tools to greatly improve your sleep and cure insomnia. We have combined all the best breathing, meditation and sleep training knowledge out there and have put it in this amazing course. Learn some simple yet powerful techniques to fall asleep quickly and easily and wake up well-rested, full of energy for the day.
This course consists of:
- Guided breathing & meditation sessions
- Science about sleep
- Yoga Nidra for sleeping
- Diet & Nutritional advice
- Understanding insomnia
- Physical exercises
- Sleep journaling
- Brain Enhancing Audio® sessions for sleeping
- Creating better habits to improve sleep
- Ultimate Sleeping Course workbook
Meet your instructor.
Michaël Bijker is the best-selling course creator of breathwork, QiGong and meditation courses on Udemy with over 50.000 students and his courses are among the highest-ranked on Udemy. His teachings have transformed the lives of thousands of people around the world. Michaël has practiced mind training and meditation since the age of 14 and studied QiGong and Yoga since having to recover from a severe car accident that happened in the year 2001. By the powerful methods of QiGong and Yoga and the grace of God he was able to recover from injuries of which medical professionals considered he would probably not heal. Since then he has been committed to helping others to learn these wonderful techniques as well that will not only give health, focus and strength, but makes us realize what we truly are and what our true calling is.
He has been traveling around the world encountering knowledge for his passion for body and mind work, especially Meditation, Yoga, Qi Gong and breath-work. His teachings has helped many from all over the world. Focusing on training mind and body to help each person to get to know it's real nature and essence and to free your mind. He now teaches yoga, meditation, breath work and mind training in Portugal.Michaël is a certified 800hr (certified by YogaAlliance) teacher with a yoga therapy certification from Paramanand institute of yoga sciences & research, Indore. where he studied under the loving and wise guidance of Dr. Omanand - Guruji.
Here is what Udemy students say about Michaël's courses in over 9.000 ratings & reviews. :
"The course became part of my daily meditation and self-care process. I love that the sleep Course is logically built, one subject on top of another, Michael is calm and kind and logical."
"Great teacher and brilliant course - useful, educational, practical, inspirational and potentially life-changing. Thank you for making this available. "
"This course will guide you, inspire you and take your life to the next level of Love, Joy, and Inner Peace. The most powerful course I've done so far. Thank you Michaël."
"Great course and the teacher is fantastic. Simply the best meditation course I have ever taken. Sublime. "
"Michael has created a wonderful program that melts all of these practices together in a comprehensive sleep program. His smooth voice and wise words make listening to the sessions relaxing, thought-provoking and, for me, the incentive to continue a daily routine under his guidance as well as individual sessions on my own throughout the day. Well done."
"Amazing teacher and a life-changing course. Thank you so much for making this beautiful program filled with so much awareness and love."
Welcome to the Ultimate Sleeping Course. In this course you will:
- Learn 5 techniques to still the mind
- Learn the techniques to sleep deep and profound
- Understand the workings of mind & emotions
- Learn about diet and nutrition for good sleep
- Create healthy and wholesome habitual patterns
- You will get 7 guided meditations & 4 Brain Enhancing Audio files
- Journaling assignments to start implementing some profound changes in your life
Why do we sleep? What happens when we sleep? Why is it sometimes not possible to sleep? In this video Michaël Bijker will expain you all about the facts of sleeping!
When we sleep we go through different cycles and stages of sleep. For some people there can be a disfunction in the creation of certain hormones and neurotransmitters, making it unable to sleep well. We will have a deeper look at sleep cycles and stages in this video.
To sleep well in the night it is essential to have good habitual patterns in your life. In this video you will learn all about the importance of good habitual patterns and how to start implementing them in your life.
Your brain, and all systems in the body, work better when you feel relaxed, happy and healthy. To be able to sleep well, your brain must produce the right hormones and neurotransmitters. Therefore it is very important to take some time every day to find joy in your life and feel more energized.
Your daytime is a preparation for the night, and the night is a preparation for the day. By implementing some simple, yet powerful changes in your daily life, you will make a great difference for how well you sleep.
When you wake up, it is good to go through some routines that will help you to start your day well! In this video Michaël will go through 5 simple, yet powerful routines to start your day in the best way possible.
When you go to bed, it is good to go through a routine to let go of the day and to really prepare mind and body for a good night rest. Here are some key points to do this well.
You are what you eat. The food that you eat a great impact on your whole state of mind and state of body. Every cell in the body is build up from the food that you have been eating. We will look at the importance of good diet and how to implement healthy eating habits.
Some foods are very activating for your nervous system. Other foods will calm you down. It is essential to know what foods and drinks can make you have a wonderful sleep or a restless sleep.
Your body consists of trillions of cells, few know that around 40% of the number of cells is actually cells from microbes and bacteria. Your body is a wonderful living symbiosis of different organisms!
A video explaining all about the use of sleeping medication.
Many people are under the assumption that drinking some alcohol before sleep will help them sleep better. A lot of studies have shown the opposite is true. Learn more about why that is.
A clear and concise overview of the best vitamins and minerals in foods that help you sleep better. Print it out, hang it on your fridge.
In this video Michaël will explain how mind and emotions can greatly affect the quality of your sleep. There will be an explanation as well about how to clear the mind and emotional system to feel more inner peace and inner stillness.
There are 2 main modes of the central nervous system: Rest & Digest, and Fight or Flight. We will take a deeper look into this and see how we can influence our own nervous system to prepare for good sleeping.
An overactive, worrying mind cannot rest. Therefore it is very important to understand the workings of stress and worrying so we can calm and still the mind easily.
The mind can always be busy and full of ideas and thoughts, for some this creates a sense of restlessness. There is a simple, yet powerful way to clear the mind. In this video Michaël will explain all about that.
As some of you know, deep breathing exercises can greatly help to bring the mind and body into a deeply relaxing state. In these videos you will learn how to breathe with your full lung capacity.
A deep breathing relaxation tutorial. Lie down on your back and have a pillow, book or your hands on your abdomen and follow the instructions carefully.
Session 2 of this deep breathing relaxation tutorial. Lie down on your back and have a pillow, book or your hands on your abdomen and follow the instructions carefully.
In order to breathe deeply one can do a simple, yet powerful breathing technique to open up the breathing muscles even more to create more breathing space.
A very powerful, ancient Hawaiian technique to clean the emotional system and mind. Get in a comfortable position preferably with headphones on.
Brain Wave Audio - Sleeping Rain
Simply lie or sit down in a comfortable position, use your headphones and enjoy the healing journey. These audio tracks will bring your mind and brain into a state of relaxation and sleep.
How can isochronic tones and binaural beats improve my brain?
At the root of all our thoughts, emotions and behavior lies the communication between neurons within our brain. Masses of neurons communicating with each other cause synchronized electrical pulses that produce brainwaves. Isochronic tones and binaural beats are so-called brainwave entrainment or neural synchronization techniques that use pulsing (background) tones and frequencies to cause the brain to synchronize its dominant brainwave frequency with an external stimulus to achieve the desired state.
Brain Wave Audio - Cosmic Sleep
Simply lie or sit down in a comfortable position, use your headphones and enjoy the healing journey.
relax How can isochronic tones and binaural beats improve my brain?
At the root of all our thoughts, emotions and behaviour lies the communication between neurons within our brain. Masses of neurons communicating with each other causes synchronised electrical pulses that produce brainwaves. Isochronic tones and binaural beats are so-called brainwave entrainment or neural synchronisation techniques that use pulsing (background) tones and frequencies to cause the brain to synchronize its dominant brainwave frequency with an external stimulus to achieve the desired state.
Brain Wave Audio - Rest in the forest
Simply lie or sit down in a comfortable position, use your headphones and enjoy the healing journey.
relax How can isochronic tones and binaural beats improve my brain?
At the root of all our thoughts, emotions and behaviour lies the communication between neurons within our brain. Masses of neurons communicating with each other causes synchronised electrical pulses that produce brainwaves. Isochronic tones and binaural beats are so-called brainwave entrainment or neural synchronisation techniques that use pulsing (background) tones and frequencies to cause the brain to synchronize its dominant brainwave frequency with an external stimulus to achieve the desired state.
It is important to keep the body fit and healthy. This '5 minute workout' is a simple and effective way to do just that.
There is a wonderful ancient Tibetan practice used by Tibetan monks to strengthen and open up body, mind and energy system. These are 5 movement and breathing techniques that take only 15 minutes that will greatly improve mental and physical health.
A longer 50 minute session with a 10 minute talk about implementing the habit of gratitude in your daily life. This is followed by a gentle yoga session to open the hips and a breathing & meditation session.
In this longer session Michaël will guide you through a very gentle and profound stretching and breathing session in the style of Yin Yoga. It is a great way to go into a deeply relaxing state and bring balance and healing into mind and body.
Deepen your knowledge about breathwork and meditation! It will improve your life in all aspects.
Deepen your ability to meditate. Meditation = medication and when one can become master of their mind, life becomes som much more joyful, peaceful and satisfying!
QiGong a gentle and powerful ancient Chinese method of movement, breathwork and meditation to train mind and body. This is a session in which you can feel the great power of these methods.
This is a short 15 minute session of breathwork, movement and meditation in which you will feel how you can greatly alter your state of being in a matter of minutes.
A 40 minute long webinar session to help you make some profound changes in your life.
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