Practicing yoga before bedtime is a terrific way to release everything you’re holding onto mentally or physically before sinking into a peaceful night of deep sleep. Incorporating a relaxing yoga practice into your nighttime routine may improve the quality and duration of your sleep.

The combination of moving with concentration on breath helps to put worries away while working on nervous system when stretching leg muscles. Any type of stretching is related to a comfort zone of your nervous system. And when the nervous system is concentrating on something that requires a lot of resources, especially survival resources it turns off the white noise which is stress and anxious thoughts.

So, Yoga postures for anxiety are best practiced before bedtime when we are left with our own thoughts. Try this sequence and let us know in the comments the difference that you experienced