Sleepy Nights is a calming podcast designed to help listeners of all ages slow down, settle their minds, and ease into sleep.
Each episode offers a gentle mix of guided imagery, relaxing stories, breathing exercises, body relaxation, mindfulness, and soothing reflections. Some nights may take you somewhere peaceful through imagination. Others may help quiet racing thoughts, release the stresses of the day, or simply give your mind something soft and comforting to follow as you drift off.
Get comfortable, turn down the lights, close your eyes, and let the day fade away.
Missing someone, feeling homesick, feeling alone, or simply having a hard time can become much stronger at night. This gentle guided imagery meditation takes you through a peaceful garden at dusk, where familiar memories and small lights remind you that connection does not disappear just because someone isn’t beside you. Carry a little feeling of home with you as the garden and your body settle into sleep.
19 Oct 2026
The Library
A peaceful, imaginative journey through a library filled with fascinating books, forgotten stories, and endless possibilities. Explore the shelves at your own pace, choose the books that draw you in, and settle into a cozy chair as your mind gently unwinds and drifts toward sleep.
28 Sept 2026
The Lighthouse
When fear or uncertainty makes everything feel stormy,imagine a lighthouse standing steadily beside the sea. This guided meditation uses that image to help you remember that feelings can move and change around you without carrying you away. You can stay grounded while the waves roll.
21 Sept 2026
The Blanket Body Scan
Let your attention move slowly from the top of your head all the way down to your toes while imagining the comforting weight of a soft blanket resting over you. This body scan meditation helps you notice where you are still holding tension and gradually invites each part of your body to become heavier, quieter, and more deeply supported.
2 Sept 2026
When You’re Anxious About Sleep
This gentle pre-sleep meditation is designed for anyone whose anxiety about sleep makes it harder to drift off. Rather than trying to force sleep, it encourages you to let go of pressure, notice anxious thoughts without engaging with them, and allow rest to be enough. With calming breathing, body awareness, and reassuring reminders, this meditation helps create space for sleep to come naturally.
31 Aug 2026
Tomorrow Can Handle Tomorrow
If your brain likes to start tomorrow before today has evenfinished, this meditation is for you. Through gentle self-talk and simple imagery, you’ll practise putting tomorrow’s worries, responsibilities, questions, and what-ifs aside until morning - because tonight is for resting, and tomorrow is for doing.
30 Aug 2026
Rainy Night in the Attic
Curl up somewhere warm and cozy while rain taps gentlyagainst the roof outside. This soothing sleep story creates a feeling of comfort, shelter, and safety, inviting you to listen to the quiet rhythm of rain while the world outside grows darker and your body grows sleepier.
22 Aug 2026
The Elevator Down to Sleep
Step into a quiet, comfortable elevator and take a slow journey downward, one peaceful floor at a time. With each level, you’ll release a little more tension from your body and a little more activity from your mind. There is nowhere to rush. The deeper you travel, the less there is to do.
21 Aug 2026
When You Feel Sad
You do not have to make yourself happy before you are allowed to sleep. This gentle meditation creates space for sadness without trying to fix it, push it away, or explain it. With the image of rain falling safely outside a warm window, you’ll be reminded that difficult feelings can be present while you are still safe, cared for, and able to rest.
19 Aug 2026
Cloud Breathing
When your thoughts feel busy and your mind won’t seem to slow down, this gentle breathing meditation gives you something soft and simple to focus on. Imagine clouds that drift slowly across the sky, carrying tension and racing thoughts farther away as your body settles into rest.
19 Aug 2026
The Harbour
For nights when everything feels like too much, imaginea small boat coming safely back into harbour. This calming guided imagery meditation helps you unload the expectations, unfinished tasks, worries, other people’s feelings, and responsibilities you have been carrying. The boat is tied securely to the dock, the journey is over for today, and you are allowed to rest.
17 Aug 2026
Five-Finger Breathing
When anxiety feels too big, sometimes it helps to make your world very small: one finger and one breath at a time. This simple breathing meditation uses five-finger tracing, slow breaths, and five calming words (safe, here, rest, quiet, sleep) to give a busy mind something gentle to focus on as your body settles toward sleep.
15 Aug 2026
The Night Train
Climb aboard a quiet nighttime train and let yourself be carried toward sleep. As fields, houses, memories, worries, and thoughts drift past the window, this guided imagery meditation helps you practice noticing what enters your mind without stopping to follow it. You don’t need to steer, know what comes next, or stay awake for the journey. The train knows the way.
15 Aug 2026
The Worry Lanterns
What if you didn’t have to solve every worry before you went to sleep? In this extended guided imagery meditation, you’ll sit beside a peaceful river at dusk and place worries, fears, memories, what-ifs, and difficult feelings into glowing lanterns before letting the current carry them away. Nothing important is being forgotten. You’re simply giving yourself permission to put it down until morning.
15 Aug 2026
The Long Exhale
When your mind is racing and your body still feels switched on, this gentle breathing meditation helps you slow everything down. Using easy, extended exhales and calming reminders, The Long Exhale guides you away from the pressure to fall asleep and toward simply resting, breathing, and letting the day go.
15 Aug 2026
Melting into the Mattress
Sometimes your mind is ready for sleep, but your body is still holding onto the day. This progressive muscle relaxation guides you gently through releasing tension from your feet to your face, helping your whole body feel heavier, softer, and more supported by the bed beneath you.
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