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The Sanctuary Sleep School
What is Sleep School?
What Sleep School Covers
What Sleep School Covers
A holistic, therapeutic programme to restore rest, healing, and balance
Sleep School is a compassionate, evidence-based programme designed to help individuals understand their unique relationship with sleep and develop personalised practices that support deep, restorative rest. Combining the science of sleep, therapeutic insight, and gentle mind–body practices, Sleep School helps participants rebuild a healthy sleep pattern that considers their emotional world, nervous system, environment, and lifestyle.
What Sleep School Covers
What Sleep School Covers
What Sleep School Covers
Everyone’s sleep is different. Sleep School creates personalised sleep plans that consider:
- Individual routines and life demands
- Cultural influences and family patterns
- Nervous system responses
- Emotional triggers around bedtime
- Work schedules and daily stress load
- Health conditions or sensory needs
- Night-time anxiety or trauma history
Participants leave with a tailored sleep programme designed to create lasting change through personal insight, gentle habit shifts, somatic practices, and supportive.
Who is Sleep School For
What Sleep School Covers
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Sleep School supports:
Individuals experiencing:
- Insomnia or difficulty falling asleep
- Chronic stress or burnout
- Parenting-related sleep challenges
- Hormonal changes affecting rest
- Emotional overwhelm at night
- High-pressure lifestyles
- Anxiety or overthinking
- Night waking or nightmares
Professionals seeking education for clients or staff:
- NHS staff and doctors
- Mental health practitioners
- Holistic therapists
- Workplace wellbeing teams
- HR departments
- Schools or pastoral staff groups:
- Women’s groups
- Carers
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Sleep School combines:
Therapeutic exploration
- Emotions around bedtime
- Past experiences of night-time fear, loneliness, or overwhelm
- How stress and trauma affect sleep cycles
- Self-talk and internal pressure
- Night-time rumination and worry
- The cultural stories we hold about rest
Body-based awareness
- Breathwork
- Sensory grounding
- Mindfulness
- Gentle somatic practices
- Tension release techniques
- Bedtime down-regulation rituals
The aim is to help participants understand what keeps them awake and what helps them feel safe enough to rest.
Why We Use Sleep Science in Sleep School
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Common Sleep Challenges & How to Address Them
Participants learn not just what to do but why it matters.
- Knowledge reduces shame
- Understanding increases motivation
- Clarity reduces fear around sleep
- Insight helps rewire old patterns
- Awareness strengthens self-compassion
Our teaching blends accessible science with gentle therapeutic framing, helping clients reconnect with their bodies and create sustainable habits.
Common Sleep Challenges & How to Address Them
Mental & Physical Awareness in Sleep Coaching
Common Sleep Challenges & How to Address Them
Sleep School provides practical, compassionate tools for:
- Sleep onset issues
- Disturbed or fragmented sleep
- Insomnia cycles
- Overthinking at night
- Body discomfort
- Emotional activation
- Parenting interruptions
- Menopause or hormonal changes
- Burnout-related sleep disruption
Each challenge is paired with specific approaches, techniques, and reframing practices.
More about Sleep School
Restoring your body, calming your mind, and rebuilding a healing relationship with sleep.
SLEEP SCHOOL
Sleep School is a therapeutic, science-led, and deeply compassionate programme designed to help people understand why they struggle with sleep and how to restore it gently.
Rather than offering quick fixes, Sleep School blends the latest sleep research with emotional awareness, nervous-system regulation, and personalised support — because sleep is never just physical. It is emotional, environmental, cultural, and deeply human.
Every night, the body moves through a series of stages that repair tissues, stabilise mood, regulate hormones, strengthen immunity, and process emotional experiences. When even one of these stages is disrupted — whether through stress, trauma, lifestyle, parenting, pain, or modern overstimulation — sleep becomes fragmented or fragile.
Sleep School helps you rebuild that cycle with kindness, insight, and tools that truly work.
Why Sleep Matters
- Adults need 7–9 hours of sleep, yet up to 1 in 3 people experience some form of insomnia.
- Lack of deep sleep is linked to increased inflammation, low immunity, irritability, cognitive fog, and burnout.
- REM sleep — dream sleep — plays a key role in emotional processing, memory, and resilience.
- Even small improvements in sleep can reduce anxiety, steady the mood, improve focus, support recovery, and increase overall wellbeing.
Sleep isn’t a luxury. It’s a biological necessity — and one of the most powerful forms of therapy available to the body and mind.
What Makes Sleep School Different
Sleep School approaches sleep through the lens of:
✔ Psychoeducation — understanding sleep cycles, hormones, and the science behind rest
✔ Therapeutic awareness — exploring the emotional roots of sleep disruption
✔ Nervous-system regulation — building safety in the body so sleep can return
✔ Environmental changes — creating a bedroom that truly supports rest
✔ Mindfulness + relaxation — softening the transition from wakefulness to sleep
✔ Bespoke sleep programmes — tailored for each person’s lifestyle, culture, and needs
This is not about perfection, strict routines, or forcing the body to sleep.
It is about helping you understand your unique sleep story — and teaching you how to support your body in returning to its natural rhythm.
Who Sleep School Serves
Sleep School is designed for individuals, workplaces, and health professionals who are seeking a deeper, more holistic approach to sleep support. Whether you struggle with falling asleep, waking often, early waking, emotional overwhelm at night, nightmares, burnout, or simply feel “tired all the time,” this programme is designed to guide you step by gentle step.
Sleep School can be delivered as a 1:1 coaching journey, a group programme, or through talks, workshops, and CPD-style webinars for doctors, mental health practitioners, and corporate wellbeing teams.
The Heart of Sleep School
At its core, Sleep School is about helping you feel:
- safer in your body
- softer in your evenings
- calmer in your mind
- more rested in the morning
- and empowered in your relationship with sleep
Because when sleep begins to heal, everything else does too — mood, patience, clarity, resilience, connection, and hope.WHERE SLEEP SCHOOL CAN BE OFFERED
Talks & Workshops
- Community wellbeing events
- Conference sessions
- Women’s circles
- Carer support groups
- Workplace wellness programmes
Webinars & Online Training
- Virtual sleep workshops
- Corporate lunch-and-learn sessions
- Public masterclasses
- Doctor/clinical CPD-style education
1:1 or Group Sleep Coaching
- Tailored sleep support programmes
- Therapy-informed sessions
- Integrated holistic and scientific approach
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Understanding Sleep Challenges
We explore the most common sleep difficulties people face, including:
- Difficulty falling asleep (“tired but wired”)
- Night waking or broken sleep
- Early morning waking
- Stress-induced insomnia
- Anxiety at night / racing thoughts
- Nightmares and emotional dreams
- Irregular or chaotic sleep patterns
- Hormonal or life-stage sleep changes
- Sleep impacted by pain or illness
- Parenting-related sleep disruption
Clients learn how their symptoms relate to nervous system activation, sleep cycles, unmet emotional needs, lifestyle factors, or environmental issues — without shame or blame.