About Me

or How I Came to be a Sleep Coach

As far as I remember I was a great sleeper and never had any problems with sleep. By itself, this would not be anything special, but on every group travel I noticed other’s struggle, or better yet - all others noticed my control over when and especially how fast I can fall asleep. Not only that, they were significantly astonished when they saw me be able to fall asleep (and continue with it) in a few minutes regardless of my surroundings or even my previous activity.

​I have been able to fall asleep and sleep/nap as long as it was allowed or possible in all moving vehicles (trains, buses, cars, airplanes), crowded places (stations, airports, beaches), types of bed/accommodations (tent, raw floor, chairs, hay, couch, table), position (tilted, sitting, back, side, stomach), regardless of other predispositions such as previous nourishment (spicy or heavy food). An important note here is that the sleep was not achieved because I was sleepy or fatigued, or due to some other external factor or stimulus, but because I decided so on reasons of wanting to add some extra sleep to my day for the sake of either enjoying the sleep, to experiment with dreams or to just reenergize myself.

Now you could stop me here and say “Yes, but you are natural”. Perhaps I did have some good predispositions and have, after years of conscious development of this skill, internalized it so that now works extremely efficiently. However, after careful self-observation, I have noticed that the process I follow is like a skill – the same as riding a bike, playing an instrument, mastering a sport, or a language. It is very systematic and once practiced correctly, simple. Even more importantly – it is learnable. So in this sense, being a naturally good sleeper is something anyone can learn.

After perfecting the art of falling asleep and sleeping, I decided to experiment with early awakenings. In the beginning, it was more of a requirement in order for me to finish my morning sports routine (I jogged almost every day before classes). Although in the course of time the motives for and the type of morning routines changed, I persisted and kept refining the method. Eventually, I was curious how much extra time I can win each day with this approach and at one point moved my waking time to 4.15 am. Although I did wake up, it was, as you might imagine, clearly an overshot. I completely crashed my sleep rhythm and gave myself truly insufficient time for proper recovery. Nevertheless, it was a learning experience as I gained very good knowledge as to how much time I require each night and what is possible and what is not.

During my endeavors, I shared such and similar self-experimentations with my colleagues who found them quite fascinating. Moreover, I often noticed that not all of my listeners had such control over asleep, or how to get out of bed in the morning. Although I did always help them with my advice, I never perceived sleep could even be a serious problem.

At least not until later on stumbling upon an article about how many people have problems with sleep that were similar or even more severe to those of my colleagues. This depended on which statistic I looked at but averaged around one out of four in the Western world. I was shocked! This is enormous! So many people? I could hardly believe it. An additional punchline was the fact that the majority of them even do not realize they have a problem as they have (willingly or unwillingly) gotten used to it! This was the second shock for me. Especially since I knew how simple mastering your sleep can be. So I decided to take action.

I knew that my skills and experience were a good basis, but helping an acquaintance is something, helping a stranger whom you do not know that well is something different. Therefore I decided to learn more about the topic of sleep and all areas that are connected with it – who knows, perhaps I could improve my own sleep even further. I jumped deep into various scientific articles, self-help, and other books and publications with the goal to upgrade my knowledge base and discover additional findings on areas that were the most relevant and beneficial for my cause – ie. to help others get better sleep. The methodology was then further refined via one-on-one coaching sessions.

The outcome was the Sleep Coaching Course. It helped many so far and I know it can help you as well.

Alex (Aleš) S.