Restful Sleep

06/02/2026

Hot off the press 🔥
Full article on: https://open.substack.com/pub/restfulsleep/p/sleep-as-a-barometer-of-relationship

05/02/2026

What can your sleep tell you about the state of your relationship?

Sleep doesn’t lie.
The ability to let go into sleep is a direct reflection of how our nervous systems interact with the world around us.

It has the potential of telling you how relaxed and safe you feel next to your partner.
Can you unclench the tensions of the day next to the human you are sleeping with?

It’s never as straightforward as that as so many factors influence our sleep.
But it’s an interesting question that in sleep coaching often uncovers dynamics often swept under the rug.

Full article on sleep as a relationship barometer, with science-driven insights, coming up soon on my freshly revived Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/restfulsleep

P.S. I couldn’t actually post a poll in this post, so would love to hear your experiences in the comments ⬇️

27/01/2026

What do you think hurts your sleep the most?

14/11/2025

Have you ever wished you could wake up inside your dreams?

I’m hosting a 3-hour experiential workshop where you’ll learn a gentle, science-backed approach to lucid dreaming — perfect for beginners or anyone who’s had “almost lucid” moments and wants reliable guidance.

You’ll discover how to:
🌙 Remember more dreams (consistently)
🌙 Increase dream vividness
🌙 Use lucid dreaming techniques in a way that feels natural
🌙 Stay calm and stay lucid once it happens
🌙 Build a simple 14-day lucidity plan you can follow at home

This is a grounded, somatic, nervous-system-friendly introduction — no hacks, no sleep disruption, just a clear path to lucidity that works with your body.

👉 All details & tickets here:
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/lucid-dreaming-a-skill-everyone-can-learn-tickets-1964220193474

If this calls you, I’d love to have you there. ✨

What if part of your night could be conscious, creative, and healing? Learn how to lucid dream in this 3-hour workshop open to everyone.

16/10/2025

The most advanced training ground you’ll ever have ⬇️

In lucid dreams, you can practice anything you want: from public speaking to sports to creative expression, and your brain activates the same neural pathways as if you were practicing in waking life.

Your dreams aren’t a passive movie. They are a living space where your mind and body can work together to learn and grow.

If this peaks your interest, join my free learning platform through the link in my bio ⬆️

30/09/2025

You might not speak the language of your dreams yet, but they are not nightly visual gibberish.

Dreams are non-linear, symbolic, complex beings that, when listened to consistently, start painting a clear picture of the undercurrents of your unconscious.

Our fears, desires, beliefs that guide our behaviours are all there, on the stage of our dreamscape. And the better we know them, more easily can we make choices that align with who we want to be, and not with who we are historically.

Join my free platform for resources and discussions on dreamwork, lucid dreaming, sleep health and embodiment.
Link in bio ⬆️

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30/09/2025

Most of us know this one: big deadline, busy brain, you finally drift off… and a 3 a.m. nightmare yanks you awake.
Next day you’re foggy in meetings, snappier than you’d like, and behind on the work that matters.
Nightmares are common in stressful seasons of life: new projects, layoffs, illness, breakups. They don’t just steal rest, they chip away at focus, patience, and confidence.
The good news: you can change this gently with the following techniques:

Evidence-based Imagery Rehearsal Therapy (IRT) has you rewrite the dream while awake and practice a safer ending until your brain learns it.
Exposure, Relaxation, and Rescripting Therapy (ERRT) pairs relaxation with rescripting so it’s easier to settle after a bad dream.
And Lucid Dreaming Therapy, sleep-first, lucidity-lite skill that includes simply noticing you’re in a dream and choosing a softer response, also shows promise when taught carefully.

You don’t need a perfect routine.
Tomorrow morning, jot three quick notes from your dreams before you touch your phone—people, places, feelings.
Later, spend five minutes outlining one recurring dream in neutral language and give it a calmer ending you can believe.
At night, dim the lights, slow your exhale, and remind yourself: “If a dream gets intense, I’ll use my new ending.”
If awareness shows up in the dream, keep it simple—turn toward the scene, call in a helper, or walk to a safer room.

If you do wake from a nightmare tonight:
feel your feet, breathe out longer than you breathe in, whisper your new ending once, and let yourself drift back.

I help people make nights feel safer and days feel clearer—with or without lucid dreaming.
If you want a plan that fits your life, book a free discovery call. If you prefer to learn with others, join my free online platform for prompts, mini-experiments, and support.
(Link to the full article + both links in the first comment.)

What’s one small change you’re willing to try tonight?

16/09/2025

If your brain won’t switch off at night, what if you could help it—from inside a dream?

There’s a gentle skill that can help: lucid dreaming (simply: realizing you’re in a dream while the dream continues).

Why this matters for your sleep
Less bedtime anxiety --> Knowing awareness can show up in dreams gives you a sense of control.
Fewer scary dreams--> You can learn to soften or redirect them.
More creativity--> Dreams become a safe sandbox for ideas.
Better self-understanding--> You see what your mind is processing—without forcing it.

What the science says (plain English)
In the vivid-dream stage, trained sleepers use a simple eye signal to say “I’m dreaming now.”
Researchers ask easy questions and get answers via those signals while people are still asleep.
Brain scans show dreamed actions light up movement areas, so this isn’t woo-woo, it’s measurable.

Start gently:
On waking, jot 3–5 quick dream bullets (people, places, feelings).
Bedtime phrase to repeat to yourself: “If I’m dreaming, I’ll notice and soften.”
One relaxed daytime check-in: “Am I dreaming?”
If you wake near morning, briefly rehearse noticing you’re dreaming, then roll back to sleep.

To read in-depth on the newest research on lucid dreaming, as well as recommendations on how to start, read the full article (link in the first comment).

I help people make nights restful and nighttime consciousness a tool for their personal growth, with or without lucid dreaming.
• Want a tailored plan? Book a free discovery call.
• Prefer to learn together? Join my free online platform for prompts and mini-experiments.
(Links in the first comment.)

09/09/2025

Anti-Hustle 🥷
We’ve been sold a lie.
Powering through is not a virtue.
Overriding our health and signs of exhaustion is not something to celebrate.

I take one-minute breaks to lay down on the floor and let its firmness soothe me.
Or I might sit for a minute in the sun. Focus on the rustling leaves.

What type of micro rest makes you feel human again?

Join the free platform dedicated to sleep & dreams for tips on how to live a more rest-inspiring life.
🔗 in bio ⬆️

19/05/2025

What if your dreams weren’t just for you?

Imagine sitting around a campfire, not the literal kind, but a glowing space made of presence and ritual.

You tell a dream, and instead of trying to decode it alone, you're held in the company of others.

Somebody sees an image differently from how you do. Someone else has dreamed something similar. And together, we begin to remember: your dream is also our dream because consciousness speaks through all of us.

This is the spirit of the Dream Circles I’m opening up: weekly, 90-minute live online gatherings where we come together to share, listen, and explore the meaning and insights of our dreams.

These circles are grounded in Jungian dream interpretation, symbolic and archetypal exploration. and practices from Tibetan Buddhism, the Toltec tradition, and other wisdom paths.

But more than anything, they are about community-supported insight, because while I facilitate the space, the real wisdom often emerges from the collective.

What to expect:

▫️ We open with a short embodied practice to ground and transition toward the dream space (and support your pre-sleep rhythm)
▫️ One or more participants share a dream
▫️ We reflect and offer gentle interpretations as a group
▫️ You leave feeling more connected to yourself, your inner world, and the mythic thread running through all of us

📅 How it works:

▫️ 90-minute live, online sessions (not recorded, for privacy and presence)
▫️ The day of the week rotates occasionally, so more people can join
▫️ Drop-in format — you can come to one or many
▫️ Fee per session
▫️ Open to all: whether you’ve been tracking dreams for years or haven’t remembered one in months

Curious but not remembering dreams yet? You can still join a circle and simply listen, often that alone will begin to unlock recall.

You can also start your dream exploration with the 40-Day Nighttime Consciousness Challenge on the free community platform, where I share daily practices to gently reconnect you to the dreamworld: https://www.skool.com/restful-sleep/about

If this speaks to you, come sit by the fire.

05/05/2025

You may be a dreamer, self-proclaimed non-dreamer, great sleeper, insomniac…there will be practices everyone can benefit from to sleep more deeply, have better dream recall, become lucid, gain insights from dreams. Simple but powerful practices. Join in on the (still free!) learning platform: https://www.skool.com/restful-sleep/about

20/03/2025

Summer of 2017, I fell in love.
With my own body, that is. I was at the Being Gathering festival in Portugal, going from one high-energy workshop to another as if I was the Duracell bunny. 🐰
Doing big, “loud” movement practices such as partner acrobatics and rock climbing was my only modus operandi. Slowing down never even crossed my mind.
Until I accidentally made my way into a workshop that seemed so painstakingly slow that I at first thought I would lose my mind.

And lose my (controlling) mind I did, in the best possible way.
It was an Awareness Through Movement workshop, part of the Feldenkrais Method, taught by .
We spent most of the time rolling on the floor, exploring movement in very subtle ways that were nonetheless pregnant with information about where I was holding tension, what were my habits and what others possibilities were available to me.

The practice required me to let go, let go, let go. Do less. And then do only 10% of that.
And in that space of subtlety, I regained a sense of appreciation for my body, for the intelligent ways it kept finding allostasis, easier pathways of movement with every new input it received.

I moved with more ease and grace. My anxiety lessened. I met someone new who I was sharing a body with.

A love was born.
I had to know more. With no hesitation, the following winter, I enrolled in the 4-year training held by

Due to Covid, my training ended up being a 7-year journey into not only a very intimate relationship with my body, but a discovery of new ways to relate to those I work with.

I learned how impactful our choice of words is.
How empowering touch feels like.
How to keep shedding judgment as a practitioner and approach movement education as an equal-footing conversation, rather than a “I am the one with knowledge, and you learn from me” power dynamic.

Today, I completed the training.
But this is when the real education starts. From now on, every single one of you I will be working with, online and in person, will be my teacher.

May the new chapter begin 🌬️