We explore how to incorporate ancestral health principles into our sleep routine to achieve maximum benefits from our sleep cycles. We look into all the ways ancestral cultures used grounding, metabolism, light, temperature, sun exposure and circadian rhythm synchronization to enjoy a kind of sleep we have been dreaming of.
In 2019 I wrote a short guide called The Art of Sleeping Outdoors: For Vitality, Health and Freedom. It has lived on this site as a ten-page PDF ever since. This page is its home: the guide’s own sections, lightly updated, and what has changed at Lucky Sheep® since. Read or download the original 2019
The Art of Sleeping Outdoors: The 2019 Guide, Updated Read More »
Can you breathe inside a sleeping bag? With down or synthetic fill the honest answer is no—you will wake up humid and colder. With a wool sleeping bag the answer changes, and that change is one of the biggest wool sleeping bag benefits in cold weather: you can pull the bag over your head, breathe
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How much does a wool sleeping bag weigh? Ours run from 4 lb to 15 lb depending on the bag, the size and the loft. The one you would carry — the Rewilder in Standard 2″ loft, field rated 20°F — is 4 lb / 1.8 kg, which is about three times the weight of
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A sleeping bag liner is a thin sleep sack you slip inside your bag — or sleep in on its own on a warm night. Made of merino wool it adds about 10°F to any bag, keeps sweat and skin oil out of the insulation, and is the one part of a sleep system that
Sleeping Bag Liner Guide: Add 10°F to Any Bag Read More »
The best non-toxic sleeping bag is the one whose materials you can name all the way down — fill, shell, liner, thread and zipper — because you spend eight hours a night with your face on the collar, breathing whatever it gives off. I sewed my first one because I had become allergic to my
Best Non-Toxic Sleeping Bag: What to Look For (and What to Avoid) Read More »
A wool bedroll is the oldest sleep system there is: something that sheds weather on the outside, wool on the inside, rolled up and tied in the morning. The cowboys had it right, and so did the old-timers I learned from. The Lucky Sheep® wool felt bedroll is the updated version, 4 lb of dense
Wool Felt Bedroll: The Cowboy Sleep System, Updated Read More »
There is a revolution going on…many people are going outdoors to sleep. For some it is to get the primal benefits of grounding and negative ions, for others it is a necessity to find a place to rest away from off-gasing chemicals in modern homes and electrical wiring and WIFI. Whichever it is, the common
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Wool bedding does one thing no other fibre does as well: it takes the moisture you give off every night into the fibre itself and hands back a little warmth, so the air next to your skin stays steady instead of swinging between clammy and cold. Merino sheets are the easiest place to start—merino wool
Wool Bedding: Why Merino Sheets Sleep Cooler, Drier and Quieter Read More »
People ask me how to sleep outside as if it were a technique. It is closer to a homecoming. The benefits of sleeping outdoors—deep sleep, clear mornings, a body that stops fighting the night—come from letting the natural environment in rather than sealing it out, and the same simple system works whether you are sleeping
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What we wear may influence more than our temperature and comfort. The human body operates through electrical signals, and the fabrics touching our skin have their own electrical properties. Could the materials we wear and sleep in affect how our bodies function? This question has fascinated me for years. Through my experiments sleeping outdoors in
How Fabric Affects the Electricity of the Body: Natural vs. Synthetic Clothing Read More »
