
The results of the studies published by the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in 2009, has shown that meditation “can be an effective intervention in the behavioral treatment of insomnia.” Research on 11 healthy participants between the ages of 25 and 45, which focuses suffer from chronic insomnia. The results show that subjects who practiced yoga during the day, had less sleep at night.
Yoga has long been recognized as an aid to better sleep, but scientists are only beginning to examine the claims. In 2004, researchers at Harvard Medical School, people who suffered from insomnia, a system of yoga, which lasted 8 weeks. As sleep quality and length of rest period, participants in the yoga breathing (pranayama), postures, exercises and meditation practices increased.




