
Tune your bedroom to support high quality, uninterrupted sleep and improve physical health, mental health, cognitive and physical performance, and emotional intelligence.
Assess your bedroom using the Best Environment for Sleep checklist and document disturbances from light, sound, temperature, clutter, and mattress comfort to improve sleep.
Maximize melatonin by keeping the bedroom at one lux or less, using blackout curtains or a comfortable eye mask, and minimizing blue light from LEDs and skylights.
Maintain dark sleep by using one lux or less; for safety, keep incandescent lighting at 10 lux or less to protect melatonin, cover lamps, and use bedside or clapper-triggered options.
Use earplugs or sound masking, like white noise and pink noise, and nature sounds, to keep your bedroom quiet for deeper sleep. Close windows and curtains to muffle outdoor sounds.
Set your thermostat to drop to about 60-65°f (18°c) about an hour before bed. Keep the room cool through sleep, and use heat-wicking fabrics or devices if you wake hot.
Improve bedroom air quality with an air purifier to reduce wildfire smoke. Control dampness with a dehumidifier and temperature; keep doors closed at night to sleep and lower apnea risk.
Choose a comfortable mattress that supports healthy sleep, checks for divots and heat retention, and considers memory foam, latex, adjustable options, or hypoallergenic covers.
Adjust bedding to control temperature with multiple thin blankets, choose natural breathable fibers like cotton, and use properly sized pillows to maintain neutral spine alignment for side or back sleeping.
Keep the sleep space clean to minimize dust mites and histamine; wash sheets weekly, launder fabrics quarterly, vacuum behind furniture, replace pillows every 2 years, and mattresses every 10 years.
Create a calm, sleep-focused bedroom by keeping workspaces out of sight and using folding screens or fabric to visually separate sleep from daytime tasks.
Use a phone-free bedroom strategy to improve sleep by turning off notifications, keeping emergency contacts reachable, placing the phone outside the room, and using a low-emf battery-powered alarm clock.
Explore how bed partners and pets shape sleep health and apply tips on different schedules, mattress firmness options, and separate bedding to harmonize sleep.
Identify and implement essential bedroom tweaks for temperature, darkness, sounds, mattress, bedding, and clutter control, using a practical worksheet to optimize sleep across all rooms, with seasonal and travel adjustments.
One of the first and most immediately impactful strategies we use to sleep well is to improve our bedroom. Often people are shocked by how much a negative impact their bedroom has on their sleep. This is because during sleep we’re not entirely unresponsive to the environment, but instead still somewhat connected. For this reason, it’s important to optimize your bedroom, so it completely supports restful sleep, rather than being a challenge to overcome. An ideal bedroom is how to increase deep sleep naturally.
In this step-by-step class you will learn all the elements that make for an ideal sleep space and good nights. These evidence-based recommendations are founded on the best, current, sleep science to help you get the sleep you need.
First off, you’ll do a comprehensive assessment of your bedroom. Then we’ll go through each component of a sleep-healthy space, discussing both the physiology and psychology of sleep that can be impacted by that component. Next, you’ll learn actionable strategies to improve each factor. An example is the light level – did you know there is a formal medical guideline for how dark your bedroom should be? Not only that, but we’ll teach you easy ways to measure the light level so you can set it just right. You’ll also learn sounds to help you sleep.
After going through the 10+ factors necessary to make your bedroom an ideal place to have a great night, you will implement these recommendations and begin to see improvement in your sleep. Once you’ve gained this knowledge and skills, you’ll be able to quickly make any bedroom more conducive to restful calm sleep, even when traveling!