Your mind isn't broken — it's just still awake. Deep Rest gives you guided sleep meditations that work with your body's own wind-down system, not against it.
Get 3 free sleep meditationsThe harder you try to fall asleep, the more awake you feel. That's not a character flaw — it's your arousal system doing its job at the wrong hour. The way out isn't effort. It's a practiced, guided release.
A gentle voice gives your thoughts somewhere to settle, so they stop circling. You don't fight the thoughts — you let them be tucked in.
A slow body scan "turns off the lights" muscle by muscle — the same practice studied in clinical sleep research.
Use it nightly and your body starts associating the voice with sleep. The meditation becomes your off switch.
"Mindfulness meditation appears to have a role in addressing the prevalent burden of sleep problems among older adults" — a randomized clinical trial found meditation improved sleep quality more than standard sleep-hygiene education. Black DS et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2015 · See also: Kabat-Zinn's MBSR body of research on the relaxation response
Before You Sleep (10 min) · The Body-Scan for Deep Rest (15 min) · Racing Mind, Quiet Heart (12 min). Sent straight to your inbox — listen from your phone, in bed.
Yaakov Shepherd has taught meditation and contemplative practice in Jerusalem for over two decades. Deep Rest brings his guided sleep practices — refined with hundreds of students — to your night table. Every track is grounded in established relaxation research and recorded with one goal: that you reach the end of it already asleep.