The global hospitality brand, COMO Hotels and Resorts, is now working closer than ever before  with COMO Shambhala, the COMO Group’s luxury wellness brand, to provide hotel guests with  new tools to get their sleep on track. 

From enhancing cognitive function to strengthening the immune system and increasing emotional  wellbeing, the power of quality sleep can be profoundly transformative. But as we cross time  zones, and squeeze more productivity out of our wakeful hours, sleep deprivation has the constant  potential to undermine our health. Our circadian rhythms — the body’s internal clock naturally  aligned with the cycle of day and night — are easily disrupted. 

This brand initiative to promote better sleep is now being rolled out at the new COMO Metropolitan  Singapore — a 156-room hotel in the heart of Singapore, at COMO Orchard on Bideford Road.  

Interior architect Koichiro Ikebuchi has worked with COMO’s calming, natural colours to create  serene, cocoon-like havens to promote healthy sleep-wake cycles. 

The hotel features SleepHub® technology in COMO Suites, as well as Cairnhill Rooms booked as  part of the new ‘Suite Dreams’ offer launched online this month.  

With over 10 years of scientific research, the SleepHub® uses neuroscience and psychoacoustic  sound technology to gently steer the minds through optimal sleep cycles — helping us fall asleep,  stay asleep, and wake up refreshed by retraining the brain in natural and healthy sleep patterns. 

At COMO Shambhala Singapore’s flagship wellness premises on COMO Orchard’s fourth floor,  hotel guests also have access to two AirPod™ hydroxy mild hyperbaric wellness devices, which  deliver a proprietary combination of oxygen and molecular hydrogen to create an environment  where you receive 50% more oxygen compared to breathing air. This technology is an excellent  way to fight jet-lag and enhance the quality of sleep.

COMO Shambhala’s aromatherapy-based product line now includes COMO Shambhala Sleep  Essential Oil, Balm, and Linen Spray. Available from the COMO Shambhala e-Shop, as well as select  COMO Hotels and Resorts boutiques worldwide, these products all use the same high-quality blend  of relaxing chamomile and lavender, blended with sandalwood, cedarwood and sweet orange.  

The balm, rolled on the neck and temples, works best when combined with the COMO Shambhala  habutai silk eye pillow, which is weighted with flaxseed. The light pressure helps lower the heart  rate — a phenomenon called the oculocardiac reflex. It also stimulates the vagus nerve, from the  brain into organs in the neck, chest and abdomen, activating the rest-and-digest system.  

Heavy meals can disrupt our sleep; our bodies have to work harder to process the food while  we try to rest. Guests may now enjoy nutritious, lighter, all-day dining selections from the COMO  Shambhala Kitchen, available at COMO Cuisine on the second floor of COMO Orchard. Staples  include the easily-digested yet satisfying Green Goddess Soup, featuring spinach, watercress,  basil, parsley, young coconut water, raw honey and lemon juice greens and rich in minerals  understood to lower blood pressure, relax the musculature, and improve sleep duration and quality. 

These delicious, nutrient-packed meals for better sleep are found in the COMO Shambhala  cookbook, The Pleasures of Eating Well, which includes numerous inspirational recipes, including  the classic COMO Shambhala ‘Sleepytime Tea’.  

‘The COMO Shambhala recipe I rely on whenever life gets busy and my sleep routine starts to  waiver is this night-time beverage,’ says COMO Group’s consultant nutritionist, Eve Persak:  ‘Almonds are considered one of the richest sources of glutamic acid — a precursor of GABA, the  calming neurotransmitter (brain chemical) that lowers anxiety and supports sleep. Almonds are also  a natural source of melatonin, the hormone which induces sleep at day’s end. Cinnamon is shown  to lower norepinephrine (the neurotransmitter associated with alertness and arousal) and raise  serotonin (another neurotransmitter associated with elevated mood and feelings of wellbeing). A  good night’s rest is nothing short of medicinal, and well-timed, therapeutic nutritional choices can  help make it possible.’