Fast Asleep, Wide Awake

Sleep problems aren’t created when you put your head on the pillow. Everything you do during the day – every thought, every behaviour, every choice you make – can impact on how you sleep at night. Dr Nerina Ramlakhan, a physiologist and renowned sleep and energy expert, has worked with people for over twenty five years. Combining this professional experience with academic and personal insights, she shares her view that sleep problems are not just about sleep but rather about how we deal with life and its inevitable challenges. In this ground breaking book, she goes beyond traditional sleep methods to examine the true causes of sleep problems.

Fast Asleep Wide Awake shares a unique and highly practical process for accessing deep and restorative sleep and shifting your energy from survival energy to a more sustainable and vibrant source of energy that we all have access to.Using tools and techniques based on Western science and Eastern practices learn how to sleep deeply and find the energy to embrace life’s challenges with courage and optimism.

About the Author

Dr Nerina Ramlakhan PhD is a physiologist and sleep and energy expert. Nerina works with the Capio Nightingale Psychiatric Hospital in London on their sleep, energy & physical health programmes that are designed to support mental wellbeing. She also runs regular sleep/energy workshops for women recovering from cancer at the Haven Centre in Fulham, London.Nerina uses her academic background in physiology, philosophy and psychology to guide her teaching, but her approach is highly practical. She has a strong belief that everyone can live a healthy and more fulfilling life by tapping into and nurturing their deepest inner resources – even in these hectic times that we live in.

Her work, both with individuals and organisations, is dedicated to helping people to create greater balance, vitality and peace.Nerina’s work has recently been featured in The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Express, The Guardian, New Scientist, The Evening Standard, The London Paper, Woman & Home, Healthy Living, Red and Psychologies Magazines. She has talked about power napping on the Radio 2 Chris Evans show and has appeared on This Morning, GMTV, CNN and more recently, SKY NEWS talking about technology addiction. Nerina is also the sleep advisor to the Silent Night bed company.

She has written a book called ‘Tired But Wired’ June 2010. Nerina writes a regular blog for The Huffington Post.