Dr Elizabeth English began meditating as a student in 1983. Three decades later, she was appointed as Cambridge University’s first ever Mindfulness Practitioner. Her courses are the subject of research published in The Lancet showing significant benefit to students, and are now also offered more widely online (www.elizabethenglish.life). Elizabeth draws on four decades of personal meditation practice and her ordination within a Western Buddhist tradition, as well as her doctoral research at Oxford, where she studied Buddhist meditation texts. She is also a certified teacher of Focusing, Somatic Experiencing and Nonviolent Communication. She spends much of her time singing and writing, both poetry and prose. Her second ‘gentle guide' to meditation was published last 2023: Into the Flow: A Gentle Guide to Mindfulness Meditation. 

Better Sleep with Mindfulness

Mindfulness has much to offer those who wish for more rest, and a better quality of sleep. This online course introduces mindful practices that support refreshing sleep at night, and give you more energy during the day. Attending a course is particularly effective for re-setting healthy sleep patterns. Focusing on sleep over time has a cumulative effect. As you practise sleep-related skills, your system re-learns what it already knows and wants. With the support of the group, you embed new conditions which encourage sound and restorative sleep.

Through the course, you are likely to make significant progress in tackling problems, such as: feeling ‘tired but wired’ at night; struggling to get to bed, or fall sleep, or stay asleep; waking up or getting up fresh. Specifically, Better Sleep with Mindfulness covers:

• Getting to bed ‘procrastination’, tuning into natural body rhythms that tend to sleepiness and sleep
• Getting to sleep, healthy pre-bed activities, daytime practices to aid nighttime sleep, sleep cycles
• Staying asleep, going deeper with sleep practices, awareness of dreams, and 8-hour ‘rest opportunity window’
• Waking up easily, with effective day-time naps and energy-boosters for fresh and wakeful days.