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Your Sleep Guru

Your Sleep Guru™ Podcast  Nature-Based Meditations

Leave your cares behind; you are going somewhere special—an imaginary escape where you can find relaxation and sleep.

Clara Starr's meditation podcast series Your Sleep Guru™ was inspired by her experience of being revived by nature and meditation and a wish to share her practice to help people. Clara uses visualization, a gentle but powerful meditation technique that allows the listener to use their imagination to help them relax and sleep. To date, the series has helped hundreds of thousands of people globally.

Guided imagery is a method that helps with relaxation and reduces stress and anxiety. These recordings allow you to visualize yourself in various peaceful natural environments so you can leave your cares behind you. Oneness with nature is also calming and powerful because nature provides excellent stress relief, allowing you to detach from things that create stress or pain in the first place. As you become absorbed in the details of nature and the landscape, your state of relaxation will deepen.

An imaginary audio immersion

Poor sleep is linked to depression, lack of concentration, an impaired immune system and weight gain, to name but a few things. That’s why a good eight hours of sleep is so important. 

Sleep is essential, wouldn't you agree?

Clara Starr, a narrative artist, grew up in East Anglia in the UK. When she wasn't at school, she explored the beaches, rivers and forests near her family's farm. The experience of spending time immersed in the wild inspired a deep love of nature.  Fast forward to adulthood. After seven years working for a national news network in the United States, Clara had burned out. The stress of deadlines, exposure to the news and working the night shift had wreaked havoc on her health and sleep pattern. At this time in her life, she decided to move away from the city to the Western North Carolina mountains. Here she reconnected with nature and started meditating. Both healed her well-being, sleep disorder and sense of self.

An independent podcast written, narrated, edited and produced by Clara Starr

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Oneness with nature is not only calming but powerful. Nature provides excellent stress relief by enabling us to remove ourselves from the things that cause us stress or pain in the first place.

This ten-part series will help you discover a renewed sense of calm and peace with nature as your guide. Nature provides excellent stress relief by enabling us to remove ourselves from the things that cause us stress or pain in the first place. Discover an alternative approach to direct your mind proactively for positive outcomes through visualization. Available in the Your Sleep Guru App. on GooglePlay and Apple App. Store

Your Sleep Guru Podcast

In this ongoing collection of quotes, I have narrated and added videos to quotes I find particularly inspirational. Please check out all the authors listed here!

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

Edward Abbey Quote 

It's in the morning, for most of us.

Jerry Spinelli Quote

In this relaxing guided meditation, I use water as a metaphor for life.

Meditation about Water

I sit beside the fire and thinkOf all that I have seen

JRR Tolkien Quote

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Ozymandias Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quote by Osho

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote by Howard Zinn

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

Quote by Herman Hesse

The doors to the wild self are few but precious.

Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence or transcendence

Quote by Ravi Shankar

Around us, life bursts with miracles

Quote by Thich Nhat Hanh

A video interpretation from the episode, "Find Relaxation and Sleep at the Lost City of Atlantis."

Excerpt from The Lost City of Atlantis

Video interpretation of a beautiful qoute.

"Part Sun and Moon" Quote by Suzy Kassem

Video interpretation from the episode "The Ancient Oasis | A Sleep Story".

Excerpt from The Ancient Oasis

"Love is Wild" Quote by Osho

Be lulled by experiencing the AURORA BOREALIS (Northern Lights) on the snowy steppes. A video interpretation of the podcast episode Aurora Borealis | A Nature Guided Visualization.

Excerpt from Aurora Borealis | A Nature Guided Visualization

A bite sized reminder to pause and breathe.

A Simple Breathing Meditation

“Be careful what you water your dreams with.&nbsp;Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success."

Well-Loved Quotes

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