NEW DELHI: New research has revealed that those who want to have the best sleep at night should perform yoga, have sex and take a hot shower. Here in Delhi, regular yoga practitioners agreed, telling Bikyanews.com at a local studio that “we always sleep well.” The woman, 28, married, said that she and her husband will do yoga in the morning and evening. “And you know we have sex and shower almost daily. Have to say I sleep very well.” The ReDormin Sleep Study found that doing yoga can increase a person's sleep by 64 minutes, while sex and a hot shower before going to bed can each give you 6 minutes of extra sleep. Janeen Davidson of Beenleigh's Yoga and More Studio said that having a hot shower cooled the body to an optimum temperature and enabled a person to sleep; she also called making love the ultimate relaxation. She said that the yoga quietens the adrenal responses and cortisol responses and it's a calm practice which brings a person's mind to rest. Ambarissa Stone of the Australian School of Meditation and Yoga Springwood, said that yoga really has three aspects – a person's physical, mental and spiritual state. She said that the first one is that yoga helps to ease tight muscles, increase strength mobility and balance the nervous system. And can help produce better sex between partners. Stone asserted that it also helped mentally, saying that the mind is most often what keeps people awake at night and during yoga it helped them to deepen their breath, which in turn helped them slow down the mind. She added that yoga also helped spiritually and true yoga practise always included an element of meditation. BN
