Your Sleep Guru Podcast

Clara Starr

Trouble falling asleep or managing stress? Your Sleep Guru is your destination for guided sleep meditations, bedtime stories, relaxing nature soundscapes, and binaural beats—crafted to support deep, natural sleep and inner calm. Each episode transports you to tranquil landscapes through soothing narration, ambient music, and immersive natural sounds—from forests and oceans to mountains and deserts. Perfect for winding down, falling asleep fast, or creating a peaceful moment in your day. New episodes released twice a week. What you’ll hear: • Guided sleep stories and visualizations • Deep sleep meditations • Nature soundscapes • Music-based relaxation tracks • Healing frequencies and binaural beats Support your sleep even more If snoring—your own or your partner’s—disrupts your rest, I’ve partnered with The Snorinator®, an upright-sleep pillow designed to help improve airflow and reduce snoring. Subscribe to the Your Sleep Guru™ app for ad-free listening, exclusive content, and full access to sleep stories, courses, soundscapes, and guided visualisations. Try the app today on the Apple App Store or Google Play for instant access to the complete library. You can also visit the Your Sleep Guru™ online store for exclusive merch designed especially for listeners.

  1. **Bonus Episode**: Breathwork for Sleep & Anxiety Relief (Tim Thomas)

    1D AGO

    **Bonus Episode**: Breathwork for Sleep & Anxiety Relief (Tim Thomas)

    In this Bonus Episode of Your Sleep Guru Podcast, Clara is joined by breathwork and sleep specialist Tim Thomas, founder of the Breathwork in Bed app, for a practical conversation about calming the nervous system and supporting restorative sleep. If you feel exhausted but can’t fall asleep, struggle with nighttime anxiety, or find your mind racing at bedtime, this episode offers simple, powerful tools you can use immediately. Tim shares breathwork techniques to reduce stress, ease insomnia, and help the body relax into deeper rest — including a reset practice that can calm you in just three breaths. In this interview, you’ll learn: • Breathwork for insomnia and anxiety relief • How to regulate the nervous system before sleep • Practical bedtime breathing techniques for deep rest • Why sleep is the foundation for healing and resilience • How the Breathwork in Bed app supports better sleep through guided breathwork This episode is ideal for anyone searching for breathwork for sleep, nervous system regulation, stress relief, insomnia support, and relaxation techniques for nighttime calm. Listen now and discover how a few intentional breaths can help you unwind, settle, and sleep more peacefully. To explore more of Tim’s work, including his guided breathwork tools for sleep, nervous system regulation, and nighttime anxiety relief, you can find links to the Breathwork in Bed app and his resources below:   https://breathworkinbed.com.au/   https://www.instagram.com/breathworkinbed/   https://www.facebook.com/breathworkinbed   https://www.tiktok.com/@breathworkinbed?   https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettersleepbetterworld/

    1h 2m
  2. JAN 28

    Forest Bathing Sleep Meditation | Cedar Grove Relaxation

    Step into the hush of an ancient red cedar forest in this immersive guided sleep meditation inspired by the calming practice of forest bathing. This relaxing bedtime visualisation gently transports you to a sacred woodland grove, where towering cedar trees, soft ferns, and the earthy scent of the forest create a natural atmosphere of peace and stillness. As you wander along a quiet trail, you’ll encounter a cool mountain spring, sunbeams filtering through the canopy, and the soothing presence of flowing water. Forest bathing — a wellness practice rooted in Japanese preventive healthcare — has been shown to support relaxation by lowering stress, calming the nervous system, and fostering deep emotional restoration. This episode offers the next best thing to being there in person: a sensory-rich journey designed to help you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and unwind fully at the end of the day. Perfect for listeners seeking: Guided sleep meditation for deep rest Forest ambience and woodland relaxation Stress relief and anxiety reduction Nature-based visualization for insomnia Peaceful bedtime storytelling Calming waterfall and cedar forest soundscapes Support the Podcast Your Sleep Guru Podcast is completely independent, created and produced by one person. When you follow the show, leave a review, share an episode, or listen regularly, it signals to podcast platforms that this content matters — and that helps it reach more people searching for sleep support. If you’d like even more ad-free episodes, extended soundscapes, and exclusive guided content, you can also find everything inside the Your Sleep Guru app. Thank you for being here, and for supporting independent creation!

    1h 5m
  3. JAN 24

    Costa Rica Night Coast: Ocean Waves & Light Rain for Deep Sleep

    Unwind to the natural sounds of a Costa Rican coastal night, where steady ocean waves roll onto shore as light rain falls softly in the background. This immersive nature soundscape is designed to support deep sleep, nighttime relaxation, and uninterrupted overnight listening. The slow rhythm of the waves combined with gentle rainfall creates a calm nighttime atmosphere that helps the nervous system settle and the mind quiet. This episode is well-suited for falling asleep, staying asleep, meditation, or quiet rest at the end of the day. A quick note that really matters This podcast is 100% independent. There is no network, studio, or company behind it—just one creator making and sharing these episodes. When you follow the podcast, like an episode, or leave a rating, it helps podcast platforms understand that this content is valuable. That simple action allows the algorithm to recommend the show to more people searching for sleep sounds, ocean waves, rain sounds, and relaxation audio. These small actions make a real difference in helping this podcast grow. Want more like this? The Your Sleep Guru app includes: Longer, uninterrupted nature soundscapes Guided sleep stories and visualisations Binaural beats and healing frequencies Curated nighttime playlists The app is available on Apple App Store and Google Play, and it's the best way to support this independent work and access deeper sleep content. Thank you for listening and for supporting independent creators.

    1h 1m
  4. JAN 19

    **Bonus Episode**: Quiet Strength — Equanimity & Emotional Resilience with Margaret Cullen

    This special bonus episode features an in-depth conversation with Margaret Cullen, a licensed psychotherapist, longtime meditation teacher, and author of the new book Quiet Strength: Finding Calm, Clarity, and Resilience in a Turbulent World. Margaret has spent more than four decades studying and teaching mindfulness, compassion, and emotional resilience. She was one of the early certified teachers in Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program and helped develop Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) at Stanford School of Medicine alongside Thupten Jinpa. She is also a fellow of the Mind & Life Institute and an advisor to the Global Compassion Coalition. In this thoughtful conversation, we explore the often-misunderstood quality of equanimity — the capacity to meet life’s joys and challenges without becoming overwhelmed, reactive, or emotionally shut down. We discuss: • What equanimity really is (and what it is not) • How equanimity works alongside mindfulness • Why suppressing emotions increases suffering • How emotions move through the body when we don’t interfere with them • The role of “feeling tones” in emotional reactivity • Staying emotionally engaged without burnout • Practicing compassion while maintaining boundaries • Finding inner steadiness in an increasingly turbulent world The episode concludes with a gentle guided equanimity meditation, offering listeners a direct, experiential way to cultivate calm, clarity, and emotional balance. 📘 Quiet Strength: Finding Calm, Clarity, and Resilience in a Turbulent World 📅 Publication date: March 10 📖 Available now for pre-order HERE: Learn more about Margaret’s work, access free mindfulness and equanimity practices, and sign up for her newsletter at: www.margaretcullen.com This bonus episode is offered as a reflective companion to your regular programming — an invitation to pause, listen deeply, and reconnect with a sense of inner steadiness.

    57 min
4.4
out of 5
63 Ratings

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Trouble falling asleep or managing stress? Your Sleep Guru is your destination for guided sleep meditations, bedtime stories, relaxing nature soundscapes, and binaural beats—crafted to support deep, natural sleep and inner calm. Each episode transports you to tranquil landscapes through soothing narration, ambient music, and immersive natural sounds—from forests and oceans to mountains and deserts. Perfect for winding down, falling asleep fast, or creating a peaceful moment in your day. New episodes released twice a week. What you’ll hear: • Guided sleep stories and visualizations • Deep sleep meditations • Nature soundscapes • Music-based relaxation tracks • Healing frequencies and binaural beats Support your sleep even more If snoring—your own or your partner’s—disrupts your rest, I’ve partnered with The Snorinator®, an upright-sleep pillow designed to help improve airflow and reduce snoring. Subscribe to the Your Sleep Guru™ app for ad-free listening, exclusive content, and full access to sleep stories, courses, soundscapes, and guided visualisations. Try the app today on the Apple App Store or Google Play for instant access to the complete library. You can also visit the Your Sleep Guru™ online store for exclusive merch designed especially for listeners.