Sleep is the headline. Stability is the story.
Alison Anandi Francis gives journalists and producers a different angle on sleep: not what to do at bedtime, but why capable people stop sleeping well, and what has to steady before they can.
- The Guardian — Appetite for Life“Spend at least 10 minutes before bedtime humming like a bumblebee. It relaxes the mind and nervous system.” view the clipping
- Vogue India“If you’re not on the right path, stuck or going round in circles, it can keep you awake — so you need to make a change.” view the clipping
- Vanity Fair — The A-ListOn the years of insomnia that came before the work, and the turn that ended them. view the clipping
- Harper’s Bazaar — June 2012The sleep retreat in Le Marche, featured in a round-up of boutique bootcamps. view the clipping
- Esquire — February 2014Sleep guidance written for a male readership. view the clipping
- London Evening Standard — The Surrendered BreathIn “London’s Deep Breathers”: “Breathe yourself to sleep with Anandi. Sleep guru and yoga expert Anandi offers a personal breath analysis as part of three-hour lessons on how the breathing mechanism works and why breathing properly helps you sleep better. She teaches the surrendered breath to help clients relax.”
- Psychologies — February 2014“Many people are shallow breathers, which means the sympathetic nervous system is permanently activated.” view the clipping
- Cosmopolitan — May 2014On how much sleep matters to the health of the skin. view the clipping
- Woman & Home — Massage your jaw for better slumber“Try this massage for 30 seconds five times a day before bed, and insomnia could be a thing of the past.” view the clipping
- Woman & Home Online — How to become a morning person“Never go to bed on a full or empty stomach. Eat a big lunch and a lighter, low-carb dinner.” view the clipping
- Women’s Fitness — May 2014Sleep guidance in the May issue. view the clipping
- Get The Gloss — March 2014“Meditating for just half an hour provides more psychological rest than a full night’s sleep.” view the clipping
- OK! Magazine — 28 January 2014“We need at least another hour of sleep every night in the winter. You’re going against nature to wake up when it’s still dark.” view the clipping
- Spirit & Destiny — June 2012“Sting turned me on to yoga” — a first-person account of the route out of beauty therapy. view the clipping
- MSN — 24 February 2014“This creates a deeply healing vibration and relaxes the mind and nervous system.” view the clipping
- MSN Her — Get your zzzz’s with the Sleep GuruOn yoga nidra, and insomnia that begins with an inability to wind down. view the clipping
- SoFeminine — March 2014“Hum like a bumble bee for 15 minutes before you go to sleep. This stimulates serotonin.” view the clipping
- The Good Web Guide — January 2014“Watch those shopping-list thoughts come into your mind, and float away again.” A bylined piece on meditation. view the clipping
- Arab Women — Beauty SleepA bylined piece on the connection between insomnia and the inability to lose weight. view the clipping
- West London Living“Her mission in life is to help everyone enjoy a sound night’s sleep — naturally.” view the clipping
- Psychologies.co.ukOnline commentary on sleeplessness. view the clipping
- Dr WellbeingSleep commentary. view the clipping
- Fifty & Nifty — Santa snores“Sleep is absolutely vital to health and in the hierarchy of importance, it’s like water.” view the clipping
For the record
Alison Anandi Francis is an Internal Stability Expert and the creator of Sleepology by Anandi®. Her work starts from a premise most sleep advice misses: sleep is not the problem to be fixed. It is the outcome of a system that is either stable or compensating. She works with people who are capable on the outside and running on effort underneath. Her diagnostic method reads breath, nervous system, rhythm, digestion and load alongside measurable markers.
Alison has thirty-five years in wellbeing, twenty-three of them in yoga, breath and Ayurveda, and has led residential retreats since 2008. She is the author of Breathe Better, Sleep Better and Teaching Breathwork, the creator of the Inner Stability Index, and President of Helping Hands for India. She works privately with a small number of clients each year and hosts retreats at Casa Anandi, her home in Le Marche, Italy.
Alison Anandi Francis is an Internal Stability Expert, creator of Sleepology by Anandi® and author of Breathe Better, Sleep Better. She works with capable people whose sleep has become unreliable, steadying the system that sleep depends on.
Alison Anandi Francis, Internal Stability Expert, thesleepguru.co.uk
Angles she brings
- Why capable people sleep badly. They function well by day and run on effort at night. It rarely shows up as a sleep problem first.
- Why sleep hygiene stops working. When the system is carrying too much, routines cannot override physiology.
- The breath and sleep. Certain breathing patterns keep the nervous system on alert. She explains what changes when they settle.
- Waking at 3am. What night waking says about load and rhythm, and why it is a pattern rather than a bad night.
- Sleep trackers. When measurement helps, and when chasing a score keeps people awake.
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