Your Circadian Owner's Guide

Six feet of pillow, and your hips finally stay stacked.

If you sleep on your side, your top knee drops through the night and pulls your pelvis out of line with your spine. This is the thing that stops it.

Handmade in New JerseyFour fills, 20 by 72 inches60-night trial
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What you're not sleeping on

The list most pillow makers hope you never read. None of it is in a Circadian pillow.

What you brought home

Your top leg has been pulling your back out of line every night.

Lie on your side without support and gravity takes the upper leg forward and down. The pelvis rotates with it, the lumbar spine twists, and you wake up with a lower back that hurts for no reason you can name.

Size
20 by 72 inches, shoulder to past the knee
Fills
Cotton, wool, kapok or latex
Cover
Organic cotton on all four
Adjust
Full-length zipper
Made
Nobody made this one until you ordered it. Filled and weighed by hand so it does not bunch at one end
To decide
Sixty nights
Something to hold, and something to rest a knee on.
Because you sleep on your side

Something to hold, and something to rest a knee on.

Held along the front of the body, it does two jobs at once: the top arm has somewhere to go instead of collapsing across the chest, and the top knee rests level with the hip instead of dropping. That keeps the pelvis square and takes the twist out of the lower back.

The same four fills, six feet long.
Pick the fill you already know

The same four fills, six feet long.

Organic cotton for dense, familiar support. Wild-harvested kapok for the lightest option. Organic wool if you sleep warm and want it dry. Tree-tapped latex if you want springy and cool. Whichever pillow you already sleep on, the body pillow is available in the same material.

Which pillow is right for you?

Six fills. All adjustable. All handmade in New Jersey.

Circadian Buckwool Hybrid Pillow

Buckwool Hybrid

From $99

Best for: neck pain, combination sleepers.

Two pillows in one. Firm buckwheat and soft wool, each side adjustable on its own.

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Circadian Organic Cotton Pillow

Organic Cotton

From $89

Best for: back sleepers, GOTS-certified organic everything.

Our most tightly packed fiber fill. Holds its shape for years, GOTS-certified organic end to end.

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Circadian Organic Wool Pillow

Organic Wool

From $99

Best for: hot sleepers, dust allergies.

Wicks up to 30% of its weight in moisture. Naturally regulates temperature and holds the air too dry for dust mites.

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Circadian Buckwheat Pillow

Buckwheat

From $89

Best for: neck pain, side sleepers.

Hulls flex and lock to your neck shape. Stays cool all night, and most people get three to five years from a hull load before refreshing.

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Circadian Wild-Harvested Kapok Pillow

Wild-Harvested Kapok

From $79

Best for: chemical sensitivities, vegans, stomach sleepers.

Plant-based and down-like. Hollow fibers are 80 to 90% air, so it stays cool and fluffs up like down.

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Circadian Tree-Tapped Latex Pillow

Tree-Tapped Latex

From $89

Best for: people leaving memory foam.

Slow-pour Dunlop with an open-cell structure that breathes. Light, bouncy, and responsive, it springs back instead of sinking.

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Where it came from

Six feet of pillow is the hardest thing to fill evenly.

A standard pillow forgives an uneven fill. A pillow this long does not, because everything you put in it eventually travels to one end.

Body Pillow, close enough to see the fill itself

  1. Weighed by hand, in sections

    It is filled and weighed by a person rather than blown full by a machine, because careful distribution is the only thing that stops a six-foot pillow bunching at the foot.

  2. The same four fills

    Cotton, wool, kapok or latex, all of them the same material we put in the pillow under your head. The thing you hug all night is held to the same standard as the one you sleep on.

  3. Twenty by seventy-two inches

    Long enough to run from your shoulder to past your knee, which is the span that keeps your top leg from dropping.

Make it yours

It arrives full, and six feet is a lot of fill.

Most people take more out of a body pillow than they expect, because a firm head pillow and a firm body pillow are not the same thing.

  1. Open the side zipper.

    It runs along one end of the pillow, and it helps to work it fully open before you reach in.

  2. Take fill out along the length.

    Pull evenly from several points rather than emptying one end, or it will end up lumpy.

  3. Try it between the knees first.

    Knee to ankle, with the top knee level with the hip. That is the position that decides how much fill you want.

  4. Then try it along the front.

    Arm over the top, knee resting on it. Many people want it softer for this than for knees alone.

  5. Keep what you took out.

    Store it dry. It goes back in whenever you want more.

The side zipper on the Body Pillow, open
How you sleep

Two ways to use it, and most people end up doing both.

Try each for a few nights before deciding how much fill you want, because the two positions want different amounts.

The Body Pillow on a made bed
Between the knees

Knee to ankle

The simplest version. Run it from your top knee down to the ankle so the whole leg is supported rather than just the knee, and keep the knee level with the hip.

Along the front

Arm over, knee on

Hug it along the length of your body with your top arm over it and your top knee resting on it. This is the version most people prefer once they have tried it.

Behind the back

For a half-turn

Tucked along your back it stops you rolling all the way over, which helps if you start on your side and wake up flat.

Keep it for years

Care depends on the fill inside it.

Every week or two

Wash the cover, never the fill

Slip the cover off, machine wash it cold and air dry it, whichever of the four fills is inside.

Every few months

Follow your fill's routine

Cotton wants a shake each morning, kapok a fluff every few days, wool a few hours of sun every few weeks, and latex wants to be kept out of the sun entirely.

Once a month

Rotate it end to end

Once a month, turn it around. It stops one end carrying all the weight.

A body pillow lasts as long as the head pillow of the same fill, which is years. Top it up through the zipper as it settles.

A few last questions

The ones we hear most.

The same one you already sleep on, unless it is not working. Cotton is the most supportive, kapok the lightest, wool the driest, latex the springiest.

It is twenty by seventy-two inches, so it takes up roughly the space of a person. On a Queen with two sleepers it works best hugged along your own side rather than laid across the middle.

A straight body pillow supports the knees, hips and arm well and can be curled behind the back for a second point of support. Some people prefer a C-shape later on; we do not make one.

No. Wash the cover only, and follow the care routine for the fill inside it. None of the four fills should go through a machine.

The rest of your bed

What goes well with this one.

The organic wool pillow

Organic wool springs back rather than packing flat, and the side zipper lets you take fill out until the height is yours. GOTS Certified Organic on the fill and the cover both.

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The organic wool duvet

Wool moves moisture instead of trapping it, which is why one duvet works in January and again in July. GOTS Certified Organic on the fill and the shell both.

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Before you go

That is everything. Sleep well.

Any question at all, write to jacob@circadianrest.com. Jacob reads and answers these himself.