Today I am getting personal with you, talking about how I run my rest business and a few Daring to Rest origin stories to understand how I even had the idea over fifteen years ago to start a business focused on rest. As some of you know, I had a long history of panic attacks. At times I literally felt like a hostage in my home, unable to even open the door without the panic attacks starting again. Today I'm sharing how this shifted, the wild prescription I was given for the panic attacks, why I started a rest business, and what principles have worked well for me to grow my rest business. You'll learn about the yoga nidra and other influences that have gone into creating the Daring to Rest community, and hear a few really funny stories about my road to becoming rested and running a rest business. (At least I think they're funny :) Happy listening! This is the final episode of our Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business series. 

Resources for this episode can be found here: 

daringtorest.com/podcast/94

Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator Karen Perro is becoming a "Rest Rockstar" in Nova Scotia, offering transformational rest experiences that combine the power of rest with her love of nature and her Celtic roots. Her Healing Hammock experience literally sells out within hours. On today's second episode I am thrilled to be speaking with Karen about her growing rest business. Karen talks about everything from her love of practicing yoga nidra in winter storms, combining yoga nidra with flotation tanks, and why, in her words, "yoga nidra is your ticket to Rest Town." Get ready for Karen's gorgeous laughter and hearing how rest has completely transformed her life and business.

Resources for this episode can be found here: daringtorest.com/podcast/93

The struggle to feel rested is real. Is the Barbie movie the answer? After watching the film, I wanted to talk about it here at Daring to Rest because in some ways it felt like an instructive piece on creating a rested life. I also wanted to find a perspective beyond mine. So I invited Shalini Sinha, a gender professor and anti-racist specialist in Canada, onto the podcast today to speak about the film with me. Shalini brings a perspective on the Barbie movie that you probably have not heard yet.

Resources for this episode can be found here:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/84

Today Dr. Ruby Gibson, founder of Freedom Lodge, and Kara Big Crow, executive director, join me on the Daring to Rest Podcast for a passionate discussion about healing intergenerational trauma. 

You'll learn about:

• Pulling up trauma from the roots
• Historical trauma and why the cause for what you are experiencing may be generations removed
• The impact of boarding school & colonization on Native Americans
• Kara's journey to heal her intergenerational trauma through Dr. Ruby's somatic archaeology work
• An exercise to orient you to your body

​May this episode support you to feel more ease.

Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/83

Daring to Rest THE FUTURE IS RESTED t-shirt fundraiser to support Dr. Ruby's Freedom Lodge and their Historical Trauma Recovery Center is happening now until August 26, 2023. Click here to buy a rest t-shirt for a great cause.

In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life.

Resources at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/82

Doula trainer, childbirth educator, and filmmaker, Debra Pascali Bonaro, joins Karen to discuss claiming your power and pleasure in childbirth and life; advice on turning pain into purpose; the importance of sex education; why it’s crazy to put women on their backs to give birth; and what is oxytocin and why it gives us an incredible high. Karen adds her rest lens to this powerful conversation on an orgasmic & restful birth and life.

Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/81

 In this rest note on leadership, Karen Brody takes on the topics of women, leadership, rest and staying awake in a world that wants us asleep to what's keeping us tired. She explores the political resignations in 2023 of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon as examples of women leaders showing us how be our own kind of leader.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/80

 Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast a mother and daughter who have been in the Daring to Rest community join Karen to share their rest stories. You’ll learn about their mother-daughter rest bond, and how rest has impacted their lives.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/79

It's obvious, even without the statistics, that there are a lot of exhausted people. That's why a 2017 tweet by Netflix raised Karen's rest feathers. Listen to her rest rant on capitalism's investment in our fatigue and how we can't stop over-eating on the most seductive "chocolate cake" of these tired times.

Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/77

I am thrilled to have Jadah Sellner on today's podcast, author of a new women's leadership book called She Builds. So many books on business are not written by women and there are few diverse voices. Jadah's mission is to change this and to offer us an anti-hustle way to grow our business and nurture our life. This episode is for women who have...

• felt overwhelmed and unable to focus
• believed that slowing down would destroy your business
• a deep desire to break free of the toxic culture that leads to burnout.

Enjoy!

Happy & restful 2023,

xo

Karen

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/76

It’s my delight to introduce you to three women in this year’s Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training, and the teacher trainer who mentored them. All four women join me on today’s episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast. This is part two of a series called, “Teaching Rest is My Radical Next Step.” This episode is for you…if you’re interested in our next Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training. And this episode if for you…if you’re a woman on a journey to feel rested. (Every facilitator is too!).

Visit the resource section to read bios for the women in this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/series

Learn more about our Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training here: https://daringtorest.com/facilitator

All we want is to love and be loved. In this 15-minute episode, Karen reads her email to the Daring to Rest community on why rest is love and shares additional thoughts on oxytocin - the hormone of love - and ways we can receive and give more love.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/75

This episode is the first of a special series called Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business - The Rooted In Rest Series.

Today's guest is Florence Güneri, a Daring to Rest Facilitator in Australia who took our facilitator training just as the pandemic began. As a young woman growing up within a Tongan family Florence often felt lost because she didn't know anyone else who looked like her, doing the work she wanted to do in the wellness world. So...she decided to be the first! And she decided to focus on rest as essential self care because she knows rest is the foundation for wellness. Florence is now offering: Resting in Joy Retreats, in person Sunday Siestas for women, and 1:1 Sacred Rest Ceremonies that she describes so beautifully in this episode you will want to fly to Australia and get one! You really do not want to miss this episode. Florence is such a gorgeous example of how we can rise up rested and create a rest business of our dreams.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/92

Today's episode is the first of a three episode "Teaching Rest is My Radical Next Step" series. In each episode, I speak with a few women who recently completed the Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training, and the teacher trainers who led their small mentorship circles. Whether you’re thinking about taking our next training, or you just want to listen to a nourishing rest chat and dream into a world where women step forward as agents of change to create a rested world, we hope you enjoy this episode.

Visit the resource section to read bios for the women in this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/series

Learn more about our Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training here: https://daringtorest.com/facilitator

Navigating these times is exhausting. Managing a health issue on top is like exhaustion on steroids. In this episode, Karen reads her medical rest rant email to the Daring to Rest community and then explains why "it's not information that's going to help us move with ease through life, it's our practices."

Step into the world of menopause, myth, and fairy tales in this conversation with award winning writer Sharon Blackie. Host Karen Brody speaks with Sharon on everything from what facing death taught her to the liminal space of menopause and how the archetypal energy of older women in fairy tales can help us claim our power and reimagine the second half of life. 

Resources for this episode can be found here:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/72

What happens when you are "tired as f*ck"? For bestselling author Caroline Dooner, she chose to address her exhaustion by spending two years intentionally prioritizing rest. In this episode, listen to her conversation with Karen on burnout at the hands of diet, self-help and hustle culture. 

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/71

What is the connection between deep rest and the Gene Keys? How can both help you live, work and lead softly? Daring to Rest facilitator Korynn Elliott, a Gene Keys guide, joins Karen to talk about the power of Gene Keys alongside a practice like yoga nidra, and how the Gene Keys voyage is very similar to Daring to Rest’s 3-Phase approach to leadership.

Resources for this episode:

https://daringtorest.com/podcast/70

What if our doing came from a place of being? Especially in times of turmoil. Listen to a rest note with Karen on rest, women's bodies, leadership, and why staying in your body is more important than ever today.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/69

Listen to a short rest note with Karen on giving yourself permission to be tired. Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/68

Listen to Karen's 15-minute rest rant on burnout. Her thoughts may surprise you! 

What happens when you combine a former Roman Catholic Sister, yoga nidra, rest and seventy-eight years of living? On today's Daring to Rest Podcast episode, you're going to meet Janet Frischmon to find out. Janet's been a member of our Rested community at Daring to Rest for a while, and has taken the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training.

In this episode, we explore:

• The connection between yoga nidra and Roman Catholicism

• The dream that led to her leaving her position as a Roman Catholic Sister

• How yoga nidra made her a believer in the resurrection of the body and life ever-lasting

• What qualities are so important to Janet that she'd give up happy

• What rest is revealing to Janet at seventy-eight years old

• Why she feels yoga nidra has been after her all her life

Be sure to listen until the absolute end of this episode - there's a short & sweet bonus audio from our conversation.

As always, please leave a review of the podcast...and I love hearing your thoughts on each episode!

Restfullly onward,

Karen

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/65

This episode is a conversation with Natalie Goldberg on her writer’s block during Covid and how she lost and found her voice when she stopped everything. Natalie’s new book is Writing on Empty. As a writing teacher and author of the bestselling book Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie is known for starting a revolution in the way we practice writing and combining this wisdom with her background in Zen meditation.

Learn more about Natalie Goldberg and her new book here.

Join us for the next Daring to Rest Facilitator Training & Certification Program for Women. Click here.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/64

In this episode, Karen talks with Octavia Raheem, author of the new book, "Pause, Rest, Be." They talk about the courage to rest personally and collectively today, and how rest fortifies our courage. Also, how rest will change your relationship to yourself and others. This episode is a deep exploration of the pause and power of stillness, and why rest is an advanced practice. Join Karen and Octavia in their discussion on why making time for rest matters and learn about Octavia's new book.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/63

Sleep specialist Dr. Rubin Naiman joins Karen on the podcast to talk about his unique perspective on sleep, dreaming and awakening. In this episode we take a look at the world today and how we can sleep better and recognize the crucial role dreams play in good sleep and waking life.

Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/62

Karen is talking to the Daring to Rest teacher trainers in our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women about the impact of rest on women's lives, the practice of yoga nidra, why Daring to Rest's facilitator training is much more than a yoga nidra teacher training program, and how Daring to Rest is a unique approach to women's leadership. Whether you're considering our facilitator training or not, this episode will get you excited to start and stay rested.

In this episode, Karen is talking with Jeffrey Davis, the CEO of Tracking Wonder Consultancy. They talk about what is wonder? How and why it’s important to cultivate wonder. How do wonder and rest intersect? Why does gifting wonder ripple? How can we find the wonder between us in a divisive world? And they explore the Tracking Wonder framework outlined in Jeffrey’s new book, Tracking Wonder. Join us as we connect on how wonder adds more meaning and possibility in a world obsessed with productivity.

Episode 60 Resources: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/60

Today's episode is on Motherline Exhaustion and how connecting with your body helps you break ancestral contracts, set rest boundaries and become a rested woman. Jenny Tryansky, a transformational coach, long-time Daring to Rest community member, and student in this summer's Daring to Rest in-body immersion, interviews Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody about her motherline story and why she feels this is the next level of rest work women need to be practicing.

Resources for this episode:  https://daringtorest.com/podcast/59

In this episode, Karen talks about how rest and relaxation are different, the seven types of rest by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, the concern we mostly focus on active forms of rest, and how rest tells us everything we need to know.

Resources for this episode can be found here:  https://daringtorest.com/podcast/58

Drawing on the work of Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey, Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody discusses the connection between the practice of yoga nidra, the Daring to Rest method and the heroine’s journey, and why now more than ever we need to be on this journey.

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Daring to Rest facilitators talk with Kimberly Ann Johnson about her new book, Call of the Wild, on healing the nervous system, trauma, and how women can gain resilience and heal. Many of the themes are ones we explore in our Daring to Rest community, and exactly why we embrace rest. Enjoy.

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Karen Brody talks with her twenty-two year old son, Jacob. She asks him every rest question she can think of to help moms craft a well-rested family life. You'll also hear an update from Jacob on navigating his learning differences in college while trying to stay rested. It's certainly not easy to raise our next generation on rest, but there are tweaks we can do to help children feel more rested.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/55

Host Karen Brody reads her rest note "Women: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore" and talks about the topics of rest, women's voices, and writing.

Resources for this episode can be found here:

http://daringtorest.com/podcast/90

In this short episode, Karen Brody talks about some of the rest boundaries that have made a huge difference in her life, she reads a recent note to the Daring to Rest community on rest boundaries, and she shares a simple way you can start creating rest boundaries.  If you're not sleeping and you've tried all the sleep science and supplements out there, there's often a rest boundary you're not tending to.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/54

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Karen Brody speaks about rest and motherhood with Matilda Leyser, Jendayi Gantt and Lisa Black . They speak to the shame moms feel to rest, the struggle to get good sleep, and how to become less apologetic about practicing rest. They also discuss the importance of their yoga nidra meditation practice in their lives, what times work best for them to rest, and the legacy of rest they want to model for their children and future generations. Resources for this episode can be found at http://daringtorest.com/podcast/53

On this short episode, Karen talks about the inner child-loving parent-adult dance, a common triple cloak of exhaustion many women carry. And she mentions her IN-body solution and an opportunity to join her for a professional training in 2021.

To get on the waitlist for the Daring to Rest IN-Body professional training, go to this link.

On this short episode, Karen answers one of the most common questions she gets asked from women who have been resting for a while: "Why Am I still So Tired?" Listen in.

Tracee Stanley is a teacher of yoga nidra, meditation and self-inquiry practices and the author of the book, Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity.

In this episode, we dive into the practice of yoga nidra, how the messages we receive about rest present obstacles to lying down, and how to get rest when you don't have time to rest. Tracee also shares a delightful story about the Goddess Yoga Nidra that makes this magical transformative sleep practice feel even more well-suited for women's health and empowerment. 

Resources for this podcast can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/50

In this episode, learn about renowned Jungian analyst Marion Woodman's dream work and experience a dream circle. Karen talks with Sil Reynolds, senior student of Marion Woodman. Sil shares about the 5 stages of a dream, archetypes in dreams, why dreams are important, how to explore your dreams and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness. She also works with three women to help them explore their dreams.

This episode is the audio version of Daring to Dream, a special event hosted by Daring to Rest on International Women’s Day 2021. This event also celebrates a new dream circle inside Rested, Daring to Rest’s community supporting women to dare to rest and dream.

Marion Woodman

Dream work

5 stages of a dream

Archetypes in dreams

Tools to work with dreams

Conscious feminine

Dreams and Yoga Nidra

Resources for Episode 49 can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/49

In this episode, Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of Omega Institute, speaks with Karen about how women have been defined in a certain, often subjugated, way because of many well-known origin stories, like Adam and Eve. Elizabeth passionately presents a plea for women to dig deep to tell new stories about the human experience. We talk about how these storylines written by men influence our values today, how women often unconsciously collude with these stories, the exhausting one-sided view of power, and how new brave stories must come from a place Elizabeth calls "innervism."

Resources for this episode can be found at: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/48

Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, answers your questions! Listen to her thoughts on liminal dreaming, insomnia, chronic pain, aging, how to get teenagers, and younger kids, to sleep better, what to do to settle into yoga nidra meditation if you’re super stressed, self guided yoga nidra versus facilitator-led, and techniques to shield negative energy coming from negative people and negative situations.

Listen in!

Yoga nidra meditation

Insomnia

Liminal Dreaming

Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs

Getting kids to sleep

Pain

Aging

Daring to Rest Method

Soul Whispers

You'll find them here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/47

Karen talks with Dr. Kamilah Majied about meditation as a journey to freedom, the practice of discomfort resilience, and how rest resources activism. Dr. Majied highlights how meditation conflated with stoicism separates us from the joy of meditation. Dr. Majied shares her thoughts on never ceasing to advocate for human lives, and how unrest can increase our capacity to be with our feelings and set powerful intentions for personal and planetary growth.

Meditation

Unrest/Rest

Justice/Activism

Freedom

Equanimity

Power of Crying

Cultural Appropriation

All resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/46

A rest garden, permission to pause, soul rattle and play, paint and rest; these are some of the creative ways women in the Daring to Rest Academy Sisterhood 4, who I believe are the rest doulas we need in the world, are sharing yoga nidra since they completed the Daring to Rest yoga nidra facilitator training.

In this episode, I talk with four women from Sisterhood 4 about what it’s like to take our online Daring to Rest facilitator immersion. We dig deep into the importance of rest, the power of yoga nidra “sleep” meditation, and how taking our facilitator training has impacted their lives personally and professionally.

Listen in if you’re curious about joining our next online facilitator training, or listen in if you want to get rest-inspired and hear multiple perspectives on deep rest and yoga nidra.

To view the resources for this episode visit: daringtorest.com/podcast/45

Have you ever had a health challenge and felt like you tried everything to heal yet you still did not find answers? Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast I am excited to introduce you to Lissa Rankin, a mind-body medicine physician, and the author of Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing. Lissa is on a mission to help people navigate the landscape of healing and curing themselves. As I am sure you know, it can be exhausting to find support out there. Lissa breaks down the light and the dark sides in this episode with the hope of helping you find answers.

Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/89

Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, goes on another rest rant answering the question: "Is rest the new mindfulness?"  

To view the resources for this episode visit: daringtorest.com/podcast/44

In our society, menopausal women are pathologized. There is little dignity around the process, and there are no instructions for how to navigate the sometimes volatile transition. But in truth, menopause is an extraordinary rite of passage. An opportunity to reevaluate who we are and awaken to our true nature.

Alexandra Pope is the cofounder of Red School and the coauthor of Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Path to Feminine Power. On this episode of Daring to Rest, Alexandra joins me to explain how menopause serves as a rite of passage, connecting us to our calling and uncovering who we really are. She describes the physical and emotional suffering many women experience in menopause and challenges us to carve out a little time and space to do the inner work of waking up.

Alexandra shares her personal experience with menopause, discussing what we can do to prepare for the ego death and subsequent rebirth that happens through the transition. Listen in for insight on the language of menopause and learn how to honor the process with rest and recognize menopause as an opportunity to step into your authentic self.

To view the resources for this episode visit: daringtorest.com/podcast/43

Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody reads her recent rest rant on rest and productivity. "If we are resting to be more productive then we are feeding into the same paradigm that's making us all sick and tired."

Yoga nidra is a powerful healing practice, and many practice nidras to navigate challenging situations. But what if we don’t have access to the audio for a guided meditation when we need it most? What can we do to guide ourselves through the practice (or specific parts of it) while we’re on a hike, at the acupuncturist, or in the MRI scanner?

Beth Dorman is training to become a Daring to Rest facilitator and a member of the Rested, Daring to Rest's community for women who want to dare to rest and Jaimee Roncone serves as a certified Daring to Rest facilitator, teaching yoga nidra to ‘cancer thrivers and other worn out people.’ On this episode of the podcast, Jaimee and Beth join me to share their experiences with self-guided yoga nidra, describing how they were each introduced to the practice of yoga nidra and how they made the transition from guided to self-guided meditation.

 Jaimee and Beth explain when they do a full self-guided practice and when they call on individual pieces of a yoga nidra meditation they need in a given moment, sharing the power of yoga nidra to help us heal from trauma and reconnect with our true nature. Listen in for insight around how to imprint the nidras ‘in your bones’ and learn to find your voice, feel into your body, and experience deep, transformational healing—through self-guided rest. This is rest empowerment!

To access the resources for this episode go here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/41

How Beth used yoga nidra to recover from a series of surgeries

Why immersing yourself in guided meditation first is key to successful self-guided yoga nidra

How Jaimee was introduced to yoga nidra during her cancer journey

How the repetition of auditory and visual cues helps us feel the nidras ‘in our bones’

The importance of guiding yourself from the outer world to the inner world

When Jaimee & Beth do a full self-guided meditation vs. calling on pieces they need in a given moment

Beth’s practice of ending self-guided yoga nidra with soul whispers to connect with her true nature

How Jaimee realized that yoga nidra was a form of prayer

How those of us with a history of trauma can use yoga nidra to get out of our heads and into our bodies

How to guide yourself into the strength of holding opposites

Jaimee’s insight on the power of finding your own voice through self-guided yoga nidra

The beauty in finding deep, transformational healing through rest

How we can use yoga nidra to heal relationships from a strong, grounded place