Ep147: Sleep & Dance: How Dancing Can Help Improve Sleep

OVERVIEW

Do you dance or do any kind of exercise? Have you noticed any link between your own exercise and your own sleep? 

In this episode, Dr. Yishan Xu will share with us the direct relationship between sleep and dance. She has been practicing a Tibetan dance routine with a group of doctors for a year now and she would like to share what she experienced and found out personally that helped her with her sleep journey.

You will learn more about insights and studies pertaining to sleep and dancing and how this may help you. Listen in and learn from the expert!

“If you find any type of exercise you really enjoy and keep on doing those, then good night of sleep will come to you naturally, you don’t need to force it.” - Dr. Yishan Xu

Listen in and learn from the expert!

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WHAT WILL WE LEARN

  • 00:01 - Introduction

  • 01:00 - Tibetan Dance routine

  • 01:27 - Study that link of dancing with physical health and sleep

  • 03:07 - 2021 Sweden research with Parkinson’s disease and dance

  • 04:44 - Dance performers and effect of stress to sleep

  • 05:43 - Moderate level of exercise can help sleep and not sleepy during the daytime

  • 06:15 - Arabic exercise reduces symptoms of sleep apnea

  • 06:55 - Exercise can reduce stress

  • 07:49 - Avoid doing exercise nearing your bedtime

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