Tanya Zajdel – Healing Sleep After Trauma

A self-paced, body-based program designed to help you break the cycle of hyperarousal and insomnia, so your body can return to a place of restoration, safety, and peace.

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Tanya Zajdel – Healing Sleep After Trauma

Restore Restful Sleep & Calm Your Nervous System After Trauma

Sleepless nights, racing thoughts, and anxiety-laced exhaustion are more than symptoms—they’re signs that your nervous system is struggling under the weight of trauma. Healing Sleep After Trauma is a self-paced, body-based program designed to help you break the cycle of hyperarousal and insomnia, so your body can return to a place of restoration, safety, and peace.

Guided by world-renowned experts and backed by neuroscience, this course delivers a unique blend of theory and practice to heal trauma at its roots—through the body, breath, and sensory experience. You’ll learn how trauma interferes with the sleep cycle and how to naturally restore deep rest with 10-minute somatic techniques designed to calm the body and regulate your nervous system.

🌙 What You’ll Gain:

Tools to calm hyperarousal and sleep-related anxiety

Nervous system regulation techniques rooted in Polyvagal Theory

Gentle body-based practices to encourage restorative sleep

Somatic methods to reduce nightmares and improve emotional resilience

Reconnection to inner peace, balance, and vitality

A deeper, more supportive relationship with rest and self-regulation

🧠 The Science Behind Sleep & Trauma

According to experts like Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Matthew Walker, and Dr. Robert Stickgold, REM sleep plays a critical role in processing traumatic memories. But for many trauma survivors, the body remains stuck in a state of fight-or-flight, increasing noradrenaline levels and disrupting natural sleep cycles. This chronic state of alertness not only worsens sleep but also blocks emotional recovery and physical healing.

With guidance from trauma specialists such as Dr. Peter Levine, Deb Dana, Dr. Bruce Perry, and Dr. Stephen Porges, this program integrates top-down neuroscience with bottom-up somatic practices to create a holistic path to trauma-informed rest.

🧘‍♀️ 7 Body-Based Healing Sleep Exercises

Each exercise is just 10 minutes a day—simple, practical, and designed to be done in bed or a quiet space to help your body transition into deep rest.

Zen Breathing – Chopping Wood
Ground yourself with rhythmic movement and breath to ease mental tension and prepare your body for sleep.

Zen Bedtime Breathing
A calming breath technique designed to slow your heart rate and quiet the mind.

Deep Sleep Yoga Session
Gentle yoga to relax muscles, release trauma tension, and activate the parasympathetic nervous system.

Therapy Ball Tension Release
Relieve built-up stress in the body using therapy ball techniques focused on muscular relaxation.

Somato Emotional Release
Release stored emotions through subtle, nervous system-based movement to create space for sleep.

Bedtime Neurosensory Repatterning
Reset your sleep-wake cycle with neurosensory stimulation that soothes the brain and body.

What To Do When You Can’t Fall Back Asleep
Practical, immediate steps to calm your system if you wake up during the night and struggle to return to sleep.

🎓 6 Expert-Led Modules on Sleep & Trauma Healing

Deepen your understanding of the complex relationship between trauma and sleep, and gain tools to guide your healing journey.

Module 1: The Relationship Between Trauma, Memory, and Sleep with Dr. Robert Stickgold
Understand how REM sleep processes and stores traumatic memories.

Module 2: Trauma, Sleep, and the Body with Deirdre O’Connor
Explore the two-way influence between the body’s trauma response and sleep quality.

Module 3: The Sleep Cycle & Healing Sleep Difficulties with Deirdre O’Connor
Learn what disrupts sleep post-trauma and how to restore natural sleep rhythms.

Module 4: Healing Sleep Practices: A Practical Review with Deirdre O’Connor
Practical strategies to support sleep recovery rooted in body-based therapies.

Module 5: The Architecture of Sleep with Dr. Alex Dimitriu
Discover the mechanics of sleep and how trauma rewires the nervous system’s rest function.

Module 6: Healing Our Relationship with Sleep with Dr. Alex Dimitriu
Rebuild a compassionate connection to rest and learn how to nurture sleep as a healing ally.

💆 Bonus: Somatic Sensations & Body Scan Guide

Learn to track your emotional and physical sensations through guided body scan exercises. This bonus guide includes:

A breakdown of common trauma-related sensations

Techniques to manage emotional overwhelm

Steps to reconnect with your body’s signals and promote calm

This is more than a sleep course—it’s a healing journey. With thousands of participants worldwide, the Healing Sleep After Trauma program is helping trauma survivors rediscover rest, resilience, and inner quiet.

No prior experience is needed—just a quiet space, 10 minutes a day, and a willingness to begin again with your breath, body, and heart.