experience the magic in-person
sleepy time stories
for grown-ups and inner kids
You deserve ease.
You deserve to be tended to.
Come experience an evening of quiet well-being:
ABW is proud to present Sleepy Time Stories, a beautiful 1.5 hour immersion, hosted at Body Mind You Holistic Wellness. It combines powerful elements of collective healing, original storytelling, somatic grounding tools, and an integration of play and creative expression.
Walking out, every part of your life may feel a little easier, your heart more open, your energy gentler. More than anything, you’ll learn to stop denying yourself essential nourishment.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
8:00pm - 9:30pm
at Body Mind You Holistic Wellness, Business bay, dubai (Google Maps link)
Ticket Price: AED 275
Book early, dears, because spaces are super limited.
What people are saying:
“ 👏👏 🙌 🔥 ❤️ wow, the space you offer is such a gift ✨
It literally met my inner child’s need to be cared for warmly through story and wisdom.”
“This is not just a story experience. It is an integrated mind, body, sensory, artistic, spiritual experience.”
“I can’t recommend these sessions enough 😌”
“Her grounding tools helped me release stress I didn’t know my body has been clinging to. It’s been a relief to shed some of it.”
“It was such a beautiful evening! I loved every moment of it ✨”
“Your voice was so soothing, I drifted off through most of the stories.”
WHAT TO EXPECT inside each sleepy time story session
❋ Grounding & containment toolsI will guide you through a few supportive and easy-to-follow somatic and creative grounding tools (movement, drawing etc.) to help you step out of fight-flight and step into a lighter, more present headspace. Preparing you for an evening of truly restorative rest.
❋ Healing power of gatheringGathering with others is a powerful form of co-regulation. Community — particularly, safe community — is medicine. If you’re used to holding yourself and others up, this is an invitation to let your hair down and let the room hold you.
❋ Magic of storiesCome hear soothing and soul-nourishing animal stories, that include generational unlearning, connecting back to nature & signaling safety and belonging to the body — all serving as gentle reminders of our inalienable rights on this earth.
about the original sleepy time stories
I grew up with tales of obedience, discipline and operating inside strict lines. The stories I write for Sleepy Time are different — they are an examination of our inheritance, unlearning, and building new worlds from care.
The creatures you meet will fall, fail, stumble, learn, soothe and guide, modeling ways of being in loving relationship to self and other.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Please WhatsApp the BMY Front Desk +971 524 601 061 or email support@abetterwhere.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
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You’ll receive a confirmation email with all the event details in your inbox within 1 business day.
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Expect to walk into a space where you are not expected to perform any version of you. Everything is optional here.
We arrive, do a gentle check-in, and ground together. Following that, I share an optional expression prompt and read a Sleepy Time Story or two. We end with reflection and a check-in. -
If for any reason you are unable to attend the session, please note that refunds are not possible once the booking has been processed on Stripe.
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR
Hi, I’m bhoomika!
I’m a writer and compassionate facilitator whose life’s calling is to use stories to help hold and heal our most tender parts.
Over the last six years, I have walked the path from cynical to trusting, building capacity in my nervous system, and setting myself free, with support from Somatic Experiencing, Art Therapy, Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS & other modalities. I have been to the darkest places inside myself and healed them, built immense capacity, and learned an incredible amount about the environmental care, relational attunement and nervous system regulation it takes to set ourselves free.
I built Sleepy Time Stories because I know what it is like to care without being cared for, and inversely, I know how transformative it is to be held with love inside intentional supportive groups.
I have been devoted to building communities of all kinds for the last decade. I have an M.A. in Media Studies, from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, which grounds my practice in an intersectional feminist understanding of the world. I’m trained as a Cambridge CELTA certified teacher. I was part of the conference committee for the very first Middle East North Africa Trauma Association (MENATA) Conference in Dubai.