{"id":25949,"date":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-staging.saatva-node-stage.tsc-starts-coding.com\/how-to-have-sleep-retreat-at-home\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T18:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T18:47:57","slug":"how-to-have-sleep-retreat-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saatva-node-stage.tsc-starts-coding.com\/blog\/how-to-have-sleep-retreat-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Have a Sleep Retreat at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

All of the stress and anxiety you’re experiencing these days<\/a> can do a serious number on your ability to get a good night’s sleep. The solution: Incorporating relaxing activities<\/a> into your nighttime routine to help prep your mind and body for bed. Enter the “at-home sleep retreat.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While travel is out of the question for the indefinite future, you can still enjoy the benefits of a sleep retreat without leaving your house. Here, learn more about sleep retreats and how to create the experience on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a sleep retreat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sleep retreats are luxury resort stays focused on improving your sleep quality. \u201cWe live in turbulent times where stress and pressure are part of the daily routine,” explains Laurent Odillard, director of sales and marketing at the Shanti Maurice Resort & Spa on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, which offers a five- to seven-day Shanti sleep package<\/a>. \u201cBut people are becoming more conscious about their well-being, and sleep is a part of that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a sleep retreat, you might work with sleep specialists to identify what’s disrupting your sleep, eat and drink according to a sleep-promoting diet<\/a> designed by nutritionists, or follow a schedule led by holistic health professionals, yoga and meditation instructors, or massage therapists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shanti sleep package, for example, includes yoga classes, breathing exercises, reiki massage, sleep therapy, and more. At another retreat at the Lanserhof<\/a> in Germany, a sleep medicine and chronomedicine package provides an in-depth sleep health evaluation including a 24-hour heart rate variability measurement as well as a sleep lab screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kind of intervention could have long-term benefits too. A one-week wellness retreat improved mental health and lowered blood pressure<\/a>, with benefits lasting six weeks, per a 2017 study in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to create a sleep retreat at home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Top-notch sleep retreats can be expensive: A five-night sleep retreat at Six Senses in Bhutan<\/a> costs $1,460 per person, while a four-night stay at Peak Health<\/a> in the Swiss Alps begins at $2,260. (And that’s before you factor in airfare.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news\u2014especially since none of us is jet-setting off to a luxury resort anytime soon\u2014is that there are numerous mini-luxuries and sleep science insights you can easily bring into your own home. Here’s how to prime your sleep space, body, and mind for better rest, sleep-retreat style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spend a little bit of time and energy to create a sleep haven<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While falling asleep to waves crashing on a nearby shoreline sounds nice, there are other ways to evoke the soothing minimalism of a seaside getaway. You’ll just have to do a little legwork (it’ll pay off!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n