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13 Nov 2018
Claiming Your Life: How Women Can Heal Their Pain, Detox and Harness Their Intuition - Ep 09
00:56:29
Oh, the places we go in this episode! Over a decade ago, in my third year on anti-anxiety pills, and one year in to practicing yoga nidra, I hit the “dark night of the soul” and was led to the door of Amy Rachelle at a third floor walk-up apartment building with graffiti on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I was skeptical all the way until I opened the door and looked into Amy’s eyes. Right then, it was clear that this woman would be a guide for me and that she took her role seriously.
What I didn’t know, until this episode, was that Amy had also just gone through her dark night of the soul and begun claiming the role she was being called to play in life. She literally burned down her home to wake up to claiming her life.
In this episode I introduce you my cherished Amy, a naturopath, intuitive healer, and now friend. Amy’s a master at guiding women through detoxes, physical and mental, and in this episode she gives you many tips. We also talk about intuition and how to harness it to address physical health and more.
Get ready to feel like an empowered women and start being good to yourself. Lie back and join me and Dr. Amy for some serious girl talk.
Menstrual Intelligence - Awakening Power, Purpose and Love
00:57:36
Karen speaks with the founders of Red School, Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, about menstruation as a brilliant design for leadership and deepening our relationship with ourselves.
The Courage to Pause, Rest, and Be - with Octavia Raheem
00:56:36
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.
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.
Do crave rest and clarity? Do you want to learn a strong grounding in the philosophy and process of yoga nidra? Do you feel like you’ve been searching for a new focus to your work and want to share the deep rest medicine of yoga nidra meditation with others?
In this episode you’re taken into the Daring to Rest Academy to meet four women from Tribe 1 of the Academy. Learn what it’s like to be a part of the Daring to Rest Academy, from the personal and professional development each woman receives to the solid foundation the Academy provides to take yoga nidra and Daring to Rest out into the world to share with others.
If you’re in love with yoga nidra meditation, feel strongly that women today desperately need rest, and you might want to share it with others, then this episode is for you. Lay back, get yourself something relaxing to drink, and listen now.
Holy Daring to Rest! If you're a highly sensitive person - or empath - this is a must-listen. Empaths are the favorite prey of "vampires" who feed off emphaths' energy and disrupt their lives on every level - physical, emotional and financial.
Make yourself a cup of tea, sit or lay back, and join Karen and Dr. Northrup for a powerful podcast that illuminates a new angle on reclaiming your power.
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
13 Nov 2019
The Interior Life We Yearn For: Tending, Befriending and Integrating Shadow — with Pixie Lighthorse
00:56:42
It’s much easier to ignore the darker parts of ourselves—the wounds, the fears, the biases, the anxieties. Sloshing around in our inner territory is scary, but there is freedom in the truth. And the more we can talk about our shadows without getting defensive, the more we can accept our humanness and start to heal ourselves and the world around us. Only then we can go deep AND go home to ourselves.
Pixie Lighthorse is an artist, healer and author who uses words as medicine to “wander with people through the hard stuff.” Her most recent work, Goldmining the Shadows, primes us for an ongoing inner dialogue with damaging influences (both internal and external), so we can begin the process of liberation and restoration. On this episode, Pixie joins me to define what it means to do shadow work and explains why it’s crucial to explore our own inner territory.
Pixie describes our quest for balance between thinking/doing and feeling/being, offering insight around how to access the most truthful parts of ourselves from a liminal space. She also shares the idea of rigorous honesty, discussing how we can recognize our shadows as they come up, examine our subconscious biases, and avoid the push/pull in our relationships. Listen in to understand the role of rest in accessing clarity and wisdom—and learn how to liberate yourself by accepting what IS.
Key Takeaways
Pixie’s work in wandering with people through the hard stuff
How Pixie defines shadow work and why it’s so crucial
Why Pixie’s best writing ideas come from the liminal space
The quest for balance between thinking/doing + feeling/being
The idea of rigorous honesty and how it impacts relationships
How to examine our unconscious bias without defensiveness
Recognizing shadows when we use absolutes or complain
The danger in overidentifying with our specialization
How we harm ourselves/others out of loyalty to our wounds
Why we can’t access clarity or wisdom when we’re tired
How communication makes room for cooperative experiences
The shadow side of hope and how we use it as a mask
Pixie’s insight around the freedom of accepting what IS
The Liminal Dreaming + Yoga Nidra Connection—with Jennifer Dumpert - Ep 16
00:51:51
As with yoga nidra, liminal dreaming requires us to surrender. To let go and drop into a space of deep relaxation. To have a conversation with the unconscious. So, what, exactly is liminal dreaming and when does it occur? And how can we develop a dream practice around it that supports creativity and problem-solving—and improves our overall wellbeing?
Jennifer Dumpert is writer, speaker and consciousness hacker who teaches the practice of liminal dreaming. She is also the founder of Oneironauticum, a global organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of self-actualization and consciousness expansion. Jennifer’s new book, Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep, offers readers a step-by-step process for creating their own meaningful dream practice.
Today, Jennifer joins me to define liminal dreaming and discuss its characteristic irregular brainwaves. She explores the yoga nidra + liminal dream connection, speaking to the restorative quality of the practice and the best way to facilitate liminal dreaming via slow and deep nidras. Jennifer also explains why scents and smells make excellent oneirogens and shares some of the most common olfactory and auricular allies for liminal dreaming. Listen in for insight on processing liminal dreams to develop your own practice and learn how Thomas Edison and Salvador Dalí practiced liminal dreaming for creativity and problem-solving!
Key Takeaways
The definition of liminal dreaming and its irregular brainwaves
The differences among REM sleep, lucid and liminal dreaming
How liminal dreaming serves as a pathway to lucid dreaming
Where in the yoga nidra map people go into liminal dreaming
The restorative quality of an experience in liminal dreaming
How to process liminal dreams as part of a core practice
The value in focusing on the experience of a dream in your body
Jennifer’s powerful experience with collective dreaming
Why scents and smells make excellent oneirogens for dreaming
The benefit to crafting your own liminal dream practice
How slow and deep nidras facilitate liminal dreaming
The reasons behind the growing awareness of hypnagogia
How liminal dreaming presents in older people + small children
The liminal dream process used by Edison + Dali for creativity
Honoring Your Cycle in a Non-Cyclical World (Part 1): Exploring The Path to Feminine Power with the Red School Founders
00:56:10
In the menstrual cycle, we experience currents of expansion and contraction, activity and rest. Yet we’ve been living in a cultural paradigm built exclusively around expansion and activity (the via positiva). A cultural paradigm that has avoided the via negativa entirely—until now. Now that we have pushed ourselves into a global health crisis, many of us are being forced to stay at home, and whether you're busier now or not, the call to rest and reflect is massive. To foster a deeper connection with our feelings. To ask more difficult questions. To come back home to ourselves.
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer are the cofounders of Red School and co-authors 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 and Sjanie join me to share what called them to this work around menstrual cycle awareness and introduce us to their definition of power as the capacity to be vulnerable and surrender to the unknown.
Alexandra and Sjanie discuss the concept of menstruality, reflecting on the consciousness that evolves from menstrual cycle awareness and wakes us up to our true meaning and purpose in the world. We also explore menopause as a journey of expanding consciousness and reflect on how postmenopausal women can continue to be held in cyclical life. Listen in for insight on honoring your cycle in a non-cyclical world and learn how Red School’s three inner maps of the menstrual cycle can help us understand the current moment in history.
Key Takeaways
How healing herself from endometriosis led Alexandra to her current work
Sjanie’s experience of feeling life flood back when her menstrual cycle returned
How our menstrual cycle connects us to our meaning and purpose
How Alexandra & Sjanie define power as the capacity to be vulnerable + surrender to the unknown
The concept of menstruality as the consciousness that evolves from menstrual cycle awareness
Alexandra & Sjanie’s three inner maps of the menstrual cycle
Map of two vias (activity vs. rest)
Map of four seasons
Five chambers of menstruation
Our collective avoidance of via negativa leading up to the Coronavirus health crisis
The parallels between the current moment in history and the void just before we bleed
Alexandra’s insight around menopause as a journey of expanding consciousness
How women in postmenopause can continue to be held in cyclical life
Sjanie’s explanation of the 1% shift strategy for honoring our cycle in a non-cyclical world
Part 1: Teaching Rest Is My Radical Next Step: Women in the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training Sisterhood 7
00:55:13
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.
Octavia Raheem is back on the Daring to Rest Podcast talking about the power of rest, writing, and her new book, Rest is Sacred. Octavia is a wife, mother, three time author, rest coach, and restorative + yoga nidra teacher - a true luminary in the areas of rest, restorative arts, wellness, and yoga. Her devotion to rest is practical, poetic, and inspirational. Speaking with Octaviais always so deep, real - and fun. Plus, she has the best laugh ever :)
A few highlights in this episode:
We discuss how to navigate feeling like you can't rest or if you're in the "I can't" spin about anything
Why rest is about devotion, not discipline
Octavia shares a song from her book
An essential question to ask yourself over and over that will change your relationship with work
Rest Became The Root of My Healing - with Jaimee Roncone
00:09:26
Meet Jaimee Roncone – certified Daring to Rest facilitator and owner of a Healing Tree Health and Wellness Center in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jaimee is a woman who wears many hats and spent a lifetime helping people live their best lives – but not herself.
Ironically, she trained for years in many modalities to help others with a cancer diagnosis, but when she was diagnosed with cancer she thought the doctors were talking about someone else, not her.
Jaimee has stage 4 breast cancer to the bone of her left hip.
She entered the Daring to Rest Academy knowing this diagnosis, knowing she needed to rest, but not knowing how to stop the doing and helping everybody else. Like so many of us, she had no examples growing up of what rest looked like. And she believed that she did not have time to rest.
Jaimee initially took the Daring to Rest Academy yoga nidra teacher training to help others with cancer – which she now does to sold out workshops at Cancer Connections. But, as she shares ontoday’s episode, “what I did not realize is that Daring to Rest would be for me in the end.”
“With yoga nidra I finally did not have to try to do everything, or be a good girl, mom, or badass woman. I could just be. It was everything. It was the pause and the breath I had longed for.”
Rest became the root of her personal healing – and now teaching.
16 Jul 2021
Healing the Nervous System - with Kimberly Ann Johnson
01:25:59
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.
18 Jan 2020
Rest is Political and We Need It Now - with Claire Garin
00:08:19
Ever feel like for as long as you can remember you’ve been tired?
That’s Claire Garin’s story - tired her whole adult life. Three years ago, she completely changed her life from work in the mental health field that she thought was the root of her exhaustion.
After experiencing a serious earthquake in Nepal, she returned home to France and quit her job, left her boyfriend, and became nomadic. She also then became an entrepreneur very quickly in the energy and dance-related fields.
But, as she shares intoday’s episode on the Daring to Rest podcast, even though she loved what she was doing “whenever I told my story I felt like an impostor. I was so exhausted all the time. I was not able to enjoy my life because I was so tired.”
It seemed crazy to be burnout now that she had the work she loved. “I had it all and I was still the same – exhausted,” Claire says.
With no idea how to rest, even when she took time off, Claire prayed for support. That’s when she found Daring to Rest.
“I relaxed in ways I didn’t know was possible. It is like yoga nidra taught my nervous system what I had forgot.”
Claire’s still a work in progress when it comes to rest. (We all are!).
What she knows in her bones today is that she must share this rest medicine with others. Claire’s now completing her Daring to Rest facilitator certification and working on a project on Sacred Activism. The first module? Rest.
“Rest is a necessity for the collective causes that requires our attention and commitment. Rest is political and we need it now.”
22 Jan 2020
The Power of Intention - with Jo Blackman
00:06:31
Today be prepared to have your heart open wider. In this 6-minute episode, certified Daring to Rest facilitator and magical mama, Jo Blackman, shares how yoga nidra has touched her life and why she now teaches it in New Zealand to mothers.
Jo's poignant story speaks to one of my favorite benefits of practicing yoga nidra regularly: the power of planting an intention. After the birth of her second child and experiencing post natal depression, Jo set herself the intention of something she wanted to be as a mom.
“I am a peaceful, present, positive, patient, playful, pain-free, purple, mindful magical mama.”
She practiced with this intention for three years, and what happened next is something I can't wait for you to hear in this episode. As Jo says, "Yoga nidra brought me back home to my heart, to my essence as a woman, and reminded me of the fact that I am magical." This is why she now share yoga nidra with other mothers at her Heartspace studio in Auckland, New Zealand.
Enjoy, and a big shout out to all the magical mamas!
23 May 2021
Rest Boundaries: The key to more energy and a good night's sleep?
00:15:53
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.
A Conversation on Rest and Yoga Nidra with Sisterhood 8 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
01:43:20
Ever have a conversation you did not want to end? That’s today’s episode on the Daring to Rest Podcast with seven of the women who just led rest sessions at Rest Camp for Women. It’s a conversation on rest and yoga nidra that’s personal, professional, fun, and serious. You’ll hear us talking about great rest books and films and a resty kind of TED Talk. We share our essential rest props. And there are many tender and sweet rest stories. If you’re thinking about the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women, this is a must-listen. You'll hear all seven women reflect on the ways the training impacted them. In a culture that values busyness over rest, this episode is for any woman who wants to put rest at the center of her life and wants to create a world of rested people.
If you are planning to join the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women this year, now is the time to enroll. Early bird pricing ends very soon. You can learn more here and enroll.
07 May 2019
Is Lyme Disease Making You Sick and Tired? with Hillary Thing - Ep 15
00:48:54
We all have the innate capacity to heal from within. We also live in a world filled with toxins and other stressors that block that healing life energy. For those of us suffering from Lyme Disease or any other chronic illness, the key is to identify and treat the root cause of our health challenges and focus on the fundamentals—sleep, hydration, exercise and food as medicine. Leveraging a strategic approach, we have the ability to uproot chronic disease and wake up to our powerful life force.
Hillary Thing is the founder of Uprooting Lyme, a clinic specializing in the holistic treatment of Lyme, chronic stealth infections and complex chronic diseases. She also runs a professional training course, the Holistic Lyme Practitioner Mentorship, to educate health practitioners in the clinical arts of detoxification, immune enhancement and embodied healing. Hillary has two decades of experience as an impassioned practitioner of Chinese medicine, working as an acupuncturist and herbalist and serving patients all over the world.
Today, Hillary joins me to describe how her husband’s illness empowered her to tackle Lyme and discuss the fundamentals of the disease and its associated symptoms and coinfections. She explains why the CDC guidelines for diagnosing Lyme are problematic and shares her strategic approach to treating chronic disease. Hillary also offers insight into some of the specific upgrades she recommends, from detoxification to light therapy. Listen in as Hillary describes her role as a patient’s Health Quarterback and learn how to embrace chronic illness as an opportunity to wake up and own your life force!
Key Takeaways
How her husband’s illness empowered Hillary to tackle Lyme Disease
The factors that block our life force and its ability to heal from within
The fundamentals of Lyme and its related symptoms, coinfections
The regions of the world where Lyme is most prevalent
How Lyme presents differently depending on the species of bacteria
The CDC guidelines for diagnosing Lyme + why they’re problematic
How Lyme has mechanisms for hiding from the immune system
Hillary’s strategic approach to treating a patient with Lyme
How knotty diseases may require a whole-life realignment
Hillary’s three-pronged approach to detoxification
How Hillary customizes treatment around weak organ systems
Hillary’s insight on light therapy (e.g.: UVB, near- and far-infrared)
Hillary’s online and in-person health practitioner training course
How Hillary serves as quarterback of her patients’ health journeys
Part Two - Teaching Rest Is My Radical Next Step: Meet Daring to Rest Facilitators in Sisterhood 7
01:00:23
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!).
Burnout: The Things in Our Lives that Exhaust Us and a Woman's Intentional Two Years of Rest - with Caroline Dooner
01:03:12
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.
Reclaiming Our Voices Through Rest - with Karen Brody
00:30:06
How many times have women stayed silent throughout history? What if rest was a remedy to help us speak up? On today’s episode, to celebrate International Women’s Day, I talk about how rest helps us reclaim our voices. I also recorded a special gift of rest for you with this episode...a nice, long nourishing yoga nidra meditation called "Deep Rest for Women Speaking Up." You'll find it in the resources section for this episode.
International Women's Day - and women's history month - feels like a great time for women around the world to take a nidra nap!
This episode, and the yoga nidra that accompanies it, was inspired by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ piece, "How to Silence a Woman: Retrieving Her Voice." After reading this piece, I started thinking about all the threads between how women have been silenced for centuries and how deep rest helps us retrieve our voice. Today's episode are my thoughts on how rest helps women find their voices and fuels women rising up on issues that are of critical importance in today's world.
We need more women's voices at the table. And we most definitely need more diverse women's voices at the table. I believe rest is the remedy to help us speak up and be heard.
Here's to the rise of your well-rested - and no longer silenced - woman.
Happy International Woman's Day and a big "let's go" to Deep Rest for Women!
Key Takeaways
Women’s rest-history and how we’ve been silenced
Karen finding her voice through yoga nidra
How yoga nidra helps us find our voice
Recommendations on how much yoga nidra to practice
20 Jan 2020
Yoga Nidra: More Than a Fancy Nap - with Michelle Wilson
00:20:02
On this month's Daring to Rest Podcast's Rest Stories series, certified Daring to Rest facilitator Michelle Wilson is in conversation with her husband, Jay, talking yoga nidra and her journey from worn out non-profit manager to a courageous woman Daring to Rest in a world, and especially her midwestern roots, that primarily applauds "hard workers" and believes that "if you’re not doing something productive it didn’t count."
Michelle knows the worn out woman story well. For years, she was always the first person to volunteer for something and pushed herself, over and over again, to the place of exhaustion.
"It’s a lesson that I had to learn a few times over," she shares in this episode.
In 2017, having experienced the magic of yoga nidra a bit, she heard me talk about the rest revolution on a podcast and something I said struck her:
"What would happen if you rose up like a well-rested woman?"
This took yoga nidra to a new level of personal transformation for her and she thought, "I want that for myself. Rest as a lifestyle."
Rest is now a lifestyle for Michelle and yoga nidra, she tells her husband, is much more than a fancy nap.
“My nature was to burn myself out for the sake of pleasing others," Michelle share, "This is the deep underlying belief that yoga nidra is helping to unroot.”
After taking the Daring to Rest Academy yoga nidra teacher training, Michelle has now transitioned for the past year to teaching yoga nidra and yoga fulltime.
“I would not have allowed myself the gift of doing work that I absolutely love and resonate with without Daring to Rest.”
16 Aug 2024
Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business - The Rooted In Rest Series, Ep 1 with Florence Güneri
00:42:02
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.
An Empath's Guide to Thriving in Today's Modern World - Ep 08
00:38:05
Whoa…Sometimes a book shows up just when you need it. I rarely watch the news. I know it makes me feel horrible, but for several weeks over the past month I felt sucked into watching news that broke my heart. Every night, another chapter would unfold on the screen, causing more exhaustion. News replaced my morning yoga nidra meditation for the first week - that’s how much I was caught up in the hypnotic pull of the news. And then Judith Orloff’s book, The Empath’s Survival Guide, showed up and I was reminded of something I already know - that I’m an empath and I need to protect myself. In fact, when the news is so crazy, this is exactly when we need to be UPing all our heart tools, like yoga nidra, not sitting in front of the news drowning our hearts in the pain of the day.
In this month’s episode, Judith and I spend time together talking about everything from:
what an empath is
ways to stay empathic without burning out
a 3-minute heart meditation that can transform a stressful day
a simple stress dial practice to do with your empathic children
we talk about exciting neuroscientific findings explaining the empath experience
how to get rid of emotional hangovers after seeing relatives or from stressful home or work places
why so many empaths are misdiagnosed with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. (this is HUGE - please listen to understand this)
current news and how not to feel so exhausted and anxious.
“You are stronger than anything that’s happening now,” Judith tells us. “Don’t see yourself as a victim."
We can thrive in our lives, women - protection strategies are out there and in this episode Judith offers a ton of them.
If you’ve ever been called “too sensitive” and if you’re looking for concrete tools to navigate modern life, then make yourself something calm to drink, and lean back, and listen.
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.
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.
Inside the Daring to Rest Academy facilitator training: Meet Sisterhood 4
00:55:53
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.
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.
22 Jan 2019
Measuring the Impact of Yoga Nidra—with Dr. Nicole Bowman - Ep 11
00:52:58
"You have to be intentional about measuring and giving yourself time off." - Dr. Nicole Bowman
We know that being well-rested improves the quality of our lives because we can FEEL it. But what if there were more women measuring the impact of practices like yoga nidra? In this episode, I introduce you to a women who has done it.
Dr. Nicole Bowman showed up in the Daring to Rest world one year ago with tremendous enthusiasm to dare to rest, a beautiful spirit, and a knack for data and tracking experiences that make a difference in the world. She is the founder and president of Bowman Performance Consulting, a firm dedicated to culturally responsive evaluation, research, training and technical assistance. An indigenous woman from the Mohican and Lunappe Nation, and a self-described blue-collar scholar, Nicole holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she is a leading authority in the realm of multijurisdictional education policy and Indigenous evaluation.
In this episode, Nicole joins me to explain how she used the 40-day Daring to Rest yoga nidra program to complement her efforts to slow down after knee surgery - and how she continued Daring to Rest and tracking the impact of her experience for one year. She shares the connections between the yoga nidra and indigenous concepts and discusses how Daring to Rest’s idea of ‘chuck perfect’ helps her eliminate the guilt associated with allocating time to rest. Nicole also describes how yoga nidra meditation, and the intention to be a well-rested woman, has enhanced her work, helping her work less and still attract lucrative projects and write in a way that is divinely inspired.
Nicole honors both her personal story of rest and the data. As she says, “The stories of my data are just as important as the data points.” Listen in for insight on how she tracks yoga nidra’s impact on her health and learn how data – and Nicole’s compelling story - elevates the case for deep rest.
By the way, we're releasing this episode on National Day of Racial Healing in the United States because silence on racial inequity is exhausting and must stop. There are lots of links in today's show resources to learn more about these issues and how you can make a difference.
Key Takeaways
How yoga nidra complemented Nicole’s efforts at slowing down
How Nicole struggled with meditation before yoga nidra
The connections between yoga nidra and indigenous concepts
How yoga nidra has become an essential part of Nicole’s days
How the idea of ‘chuck perfect’ helps Nicole eliminate guilt
Nicole’s system of tracking yoga nidra’s impact on her health
How yoga nidra affects Nicole’s heartrate, sleep and work hours
How yoga nidra has improved the quality of Nicole’s ‘inner life’
Nicole’s intention to lead from a place of rest in 2019
How Nicole’s writing was divinely inspired through yoga nidra
How daring to rest has helped Nicole attract lucrative projects
Nicole’s insight on the need for women to hold each other up
Yoga nidra’s potential to reconcile intergenerational trauma
Note from Dr. Bowman: We have many Native women’s causes/websites/social media pages in North America. Here are a few that you could consider donating to if you’d like. Also if you want to follow them you’ll see updates as well as beautiful Indigenous women stories of strength and resilience. I am intentionally speaking that into existence one prayer, meditation, ceremony, yoga nidra session, conference, paper and keynote at a time!
Writing on Empty and Finding Your Voice - with Natalie Goldberg
00:39:35
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.
Show Notes
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16 Jan 2021
Ask Anything
01:11:01
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.
Yoga Nidra Brings Me Closer to My Mission – with Gerda van der Lecq – Postma
00:09:53
How do you make yoga nidra permanent part of your life when you have been tired for as long as you can remember? That’s what certified Daring to Rest facilitator Gerda van der Lecq – Postma has done, despite raising children and a busy career. Bringing yoga nidra into her personal and professional life changed everything. The Daring to Rest Academy helped her to put into the world what she had wanted to do for about 7 years: an in-depth yoga nidra program with her Energetic Shiatsu treatments. “Yoga nidra to me is rest, discharging tension, coming back to what I find really important, and then putting my ideas into the world,” Gerda shares. Listen to the journey of how rest helped her rise into her mission. This story is in Gerda’s native language Dutch. For an English transcript, go to our Daring to Rest podcast page here.
This episode is part of our Daring to Rest "Rest Stories" series.
15 Nov 2024
Rest Leadership: Meet Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
01:04:19
Karen speaks with six newly certified Daring to Rest Facilitators from Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training who recently led rest sessions at our annual online Rest Camp for Women. Hear their stories and why they are passionate about being rest leaders in our world today. This is a conversation for anyone who believes in the power of rest, wants to dare to rest, and women curious about taking our next Daring to Rest Facilitator Training.
Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women and The Way Forward with Gemma Hartley - Ep 05
00:33:32
Whoa - Gemma Hartley had me at FED UP. If you're wondering why you're so tired, have a listen to this podcast to consider the emotional labor you're putting out in your life. Gemma wrote a 2017 piece in Harper's Bazaar that that went viral - as in nearly a million share and over 2 billion clicks. (You read that right!). The piece focused on a hot issue for so many women: how women are typically the ones doing most of the emotional work around the home. Wonder what that is? Make yourself a cup of tea (Gemma's having English breakfast, I'm having cardamom cinnamon), lie down, and join us.
As always, I'd love to hear your comments below or on Facebook or Instagram. Be sure to check out the show notes to read her viral piece.
How to Have an Orgasmic (& Restful!) Birth and Life with Debra Pascali Bonaro
00:58:16
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.
Inside the Daring to Rest Academy with Tribe 3 - Ep17
00:44:42
Today on the Daring to Rest podcast I'm taking you inside the most recent tribe in the Daring to Rest Academy who just finished their Daring to Rest yoga nidra training a couple of months ago.
I didn't realize it until we were all together, but each woman who shares her story on this episode have very different professional background and have journeyed through the Daring to Rest Academy quite differently too. From an intuitive astrologer and soul counselor, to a Qoya teacher and trainer who is also a reiki master, to a health psychology professor at one of the most prestigious women's college's in the United States. I love that rest brought us together, and I hope you’ll enjoy hearing about the creative ways these women are bringing to fruition and dreaming about sharing the message of rest.
The Daring to Rest Academy started as a dream I had to create an online and easy way for women around the world to come together, in sisterhood, to learn how to feel like a well-rested woman, lead like a well-rested woman, and share the message of rest with others. As you'll learn in this episode, inside the Academy we train you in yoga nidra meditation, the Daring to Rest method, and so much more that can't be easily laid out in a bullet pointed list.
It is urgent to have rest whisperers - guides - in our culture planting the seeds of rest. Rest gives us resilience, presence and so many long-term sustainable tools to feel more peaceful. And I believe in my bones that this yoga nidra kind of deep peace within will trickle up to a more peaceful, less-inflamed world.
As Benita shared on the podcast, "I just think how revolutionary it would be if our heads of state started their meetings off with rest, and all our college classes did that too. Imagine how much clarity and power we would have if we were able to step into all the places we come together with a pause."
This is the rest revolution we're building, community by community, at the Daring to Rest Academy.
In this month's episode of the podcast we have lots of yummy conversations like this, and we also give you an idea of what it would be like to join the Academy. Listen in & join us!
Key Takeaways
How it’s possible to enjoy the Academy even if you can’t make the live online mentoring
When the start date of the Academy doesn’t work for you, and why it didn’t matter for Claire and Benita
How the Rest & Digest Phase is missing in our lives and Daring to Rest teaches us to take it back
The power of combining Daring to Rest with the lunar cycles
The yummy combination of Daring to Rest after movement like Qoya
Taking Daring to Rest into college and academic settings
Bringing Daring to Rest to activists to avoid burnout and lead from the feminine
Why we start our mentoring calls in the Academy connecting to our heart, and then ripple out to the world
The importance of creating a well-rested world and spaces where people can rest, from colleges to governments
How deep connection takes place in the Academy even though we are online and not in person
Curing & Healing When You’ve Tried Everything - with Lissa Rankin
00:54:50
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.
What If You Led with Rest? Women's Bodies, Leadership and the Case for Staying in Your Body
00:30:07
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.
The Power of Creating a Rest Legacy - Our 100th Episode!
01:23:02
Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast we are celebrating our 100th episode. 🎙️🎉 We're talking about the power of creating a rest legacy. This episode is in memory of Jaimee Roncone, one of the first Daring to Rest Facilitators.Jaimee showed everyone she touched what a rest legacy looks like - even as she was dying. In this episode I have gathered a few of the OG Daring to Rest Facilitators who knew and loved Jaimee for a conversation on...🛏️ what is a rest legacy? 🛏️ how Jaimee's life and death was an inspiration on living with rest at the center. 🛏️ why a rest practice like yoga nidra is also a death practice.
I recently asked myself what I'm the most proud of about this podcast and this is what my body told me:
I have worked soft on this podcast.
I have let each episode be imperfect.
I have had lots of fun making the podcast.
And I know that this podcast has inspired women to dare to rest and share the power of rest.
This feels like rest success.
I am thankful for all the people who have joined me on the podcast throughout the years. I love having rest conversations. I keep wondering when I won't love it and it hasn't happened yet :)
Our 100th episode represents what I think we do best at Daring to Rest: bring women together for important rest conversations.
As always, I hope this episode impacts you in some rest way.
Thanks for listening to the podcast.
If you've enjoyed the podcast, I'd so appreciate you writing a review or leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. If you don't listen there then please tell a few girlfriends about this podcast.
How to Live Your Life with the Noise and the Peace
00:21:48
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.
On today's episodeDr. Kamilah Majied joins me to discuss joy and justice in the context of black wisdom and Buddhist teachings. We talk about "entering the palace of oneself," the roots of black music and how it embodies what the Buddha talks about, the purpose of freedom, and Kamilah shares how she defines joy.Kamilah is a psychotherapist, social work educator, researcher, activist and consultant on advancing equity and inclusion through contemplative practices. Her new book, Joyfully Just, feels like potent medicine for today's world. I hope you enjoy this podcast and here's to more joy, justice, and rest. They are all freedom activators, and therefore in the same family.
The Barbie Movie and Creating a Fair, Equitable and Rested World with Shalini Sinha
01:05:17
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.
Embracing Your Most Luminous Self with Tracee Stanley
00:56:15
Karen speaks with Tracee Stanley, author of a new book – The Luminous Self - on how to find your luminous self that resides behind all sorrow, the power of our practices to create new patterns and beliefs, the importance of cultivating a relationship with nature and our true nature, and contemplating death and impermanence in a world that plays into these fears. Be sure to listen to the end. Tracee leads us through a profound short practice!
Self-Guided Yoga Nidra - with Jaimee Roncone and Beth Dorman
01:07:33
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!
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
14 Jan 2020
I Trust in Life - with Barbara Dopfer
00:11:23
Meet Barbara Dopfer – a yoga teacher and almost-certified Daring to Rest facilitator in the south of Germany. In this eleven-minute episode, you’ll learn about Barbara’s love story with yoga nidra and why she now teaches it.
Before teaching yoga and yoga nidra, Barbara was always in male-dominated professions: a landscape architect and even a stone mason. But by 2014 she began to “feel like an alien” in this environment and a soft voice said, “This isn’t my home anymore.”
As you know, changing one’s story is not easy. In Barbara’s case, her parents were happy that she I had a good job and she had a big company car. All the things society respects were there, but she felt empty.
Listen to this episode, to learn how she got the courage to take off the happy and strong mask she was wearing to everyone else, and put on her vulnerability mask, start a yoga business and now yoga nidra business, and stop trying to prove anything to everyone else.
As Barbara says, “My yoga practice is growing in a direction I never expected. I’m offering my fourth 40-day Daring to Rest program and the results are astounding.
“Daring to Rest helped me speak my truth to a much bigger audience and I feel that this is just the beginning.”
07 Jan 2023
Anti-Hustle Leadership in Work and Life - with Jadah Sellner
01:04:50
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.
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.
Rest Pep Talk: When You Rest, the World Doesn't Crumble
00:07:16
In this tender rest pep talk, Karen shares a deeply personal reflection on grief, caregiving, and the radical power of rest. If you’ve been carrying too much, doing too much, or doubting your worth because you’re not “doing enough”… this episode is for you.
Why 40 Days of Rest Matter + Karen Answers Your Rest Questions
00:45:39
Karen's on her own this episode talking about why 40 days of rest matters and answering your questions on why we resist rest, the best time to practice yoga nidra for good sleep, how to let grief and guilt go, and navigating an unrested mother while you're trying to be rested.
Creating Space Just for Me to Rest – with Lotus Baker
00:06:14
Meet certified Daring to Rest facilitator Lotus Baker, mother of three girls. When Lotus’ daughter with multiple disabilities began to find her creativity, Lotus realized that she had put her own needs and desires aside for too long. “I had lost that connection to my inner voice that lit me up from within,” she shares. She found Daring to Rest at a time when she was starting her own yoga studio in Miami. Learn what yoga nidra taught her and how she now shares this rest medicine with others.
This episode is part of our Daring to Rest "Rest Stories" series.
17 Jan 2023
Netflix is Messing with Our Sleep: A Short Rest Rant with Karen Brody
00:14:02
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.
Being Your Own Kind of Leader: On Women, Leadership, Rest, and Staying Awake
00:26:23
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.
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
12 Nov 2023
Deep Rest, Yoga Nidra and Inner Mothering with Karen Brody
00:19:59
Karen's back with a short "rest check in" on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, and help others, but also to not abandon our inner selves. Abandoning ourselves is perhaps the number one way we get off the rested path. Inner mothering is key. Come hang out with Karen today as she shares on the podcast about how a practice like yoga nidra can help you mother yourself while lying down. This is the kind of rest revolution we want you to be a part of - lying down to feel rested AND "do the inner work!"
Menopause, Myth and Fairy tales: Reimagining the Second Half of Life with Sharon Blackie
00:56:11
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.
Tracking Wonder: Reclaiming a Life of Meaning and Possibility in a World Obsessed with Productivity
00:55:45
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.
Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms (and Yoga Nidra!) for Braving the Writer’s Path—with Nicole Gulotta
01:00:33
Do you struggle with the creative process? Get stuck in self-doubt? Or have trouble finding time to practice your craft? Writer Nicole Gulotta contends that the life of a creative is lived in seasons, and she believes that we can use these natural rhythms to enhance our creative work. And Nicole uses yoga nidra as a tool to bring ease to the writing process!
Nicole is the author of Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path, the creator of the Wild Words Community, and a Daring to Rest yoga nidra facilitator. She is dedicated to helping writers embrace the season they’re in and use rest to tap into their creative potential. On this episode, Nicole joins me to share her seasonal approach to creativity, walking us through the 10 seasons of a writer’s life identified in her book.
Nicole explains what it means to write in the margins, using her obstacles and opportunities exercise to design a sustainable writing practice. She also offers insight around the value in listening to your body, sitting in the liminal space, and retreating to do deep work. Listen in for Nicole’s formula for the writing cycle of hope and learn how to use yoga nidra as a tool in the writing process!
Yoga Nidra and the Heroine's Journey - with Karen Brody
01:02:32
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.
09 Apr 2022
Is it Possible to End Burnout?
00:15:58
Listen to Karen's 15-minute rest rant on burnout. Her thoughts may surprise you!
27 Mar 2021
The Power of Yoga Nidra and Radiant Rest - with Tracee Stanley
01:03:21
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.
Deep Rest and Gene Keys: A Path to Living, Working and Leading Softly
00:46:02
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.
Reimagining the Landscape of Work with Brigid Schulte
00:56:28
What if changing our relationship with grind culture requires imagining a new story?
My guest today on the Daring to Rest Podcast thinks so.
In the spring of 2014, I had the pleasure of speaking about daring to rest and then introducing the main speaker Brigid Schulte, who had just written her first book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time. The organizers of this gathering clearly got the equation right: the antidote to overwhelm is rest.
Since writing her first book, Brigid, as a journalist and the director of the Better Life Lab, has continued her mission to help us navigate how we live our lives.
In today's episode she speaks with me about her new book, Overwork, and how other people and countries are stepping forward with vision and imagination to tell a new story about the way we work.
Bedtime Stories for Women Who Can't Sleep At Night - Ep 10
00:12:32
“When I lost my sleep, I lost a little piece of my soul.” – Laurissa Wieler
What happens when you lose your sleep? In this episode I introduce you to Laurissa Wieler, who lost her sleep twenty years ago and today is channeling her musings on sleep into a whimsical bedtime stories book for women who can’t sleep. In this episode, Laurissa treats us to three of her stories from the book she’s working on, Bedtime Stories for Women Who Can't Sleep at Night; Tales and Musings for the "Awakened' Woman.
Join us as we talk about insomnia, the impact of yoga nidra naps on Laurissa’s life, and the multi-layered themes within her beautiful stories that speak to the heart of women’s real lives. Laurissa is also a trained Daring to Rest facilitator, teaching women Daring to Rest yoga nidra in her community in British Columbia, Canada.
As always, I’d love to here your comments on this podcast below.
Here’s to Daring to Rest and the rise of the well-rested woman.
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.
28 Apr 2020
Tap Into Your Feminine Power Through Rest—with Barbara Dopfer
01:00:20
Women have our own inner calendar based on the menstrual cycle, and when we honor that cycle, we access our feminine power. But we simply can’t unlock that power if we don’t stop to rest when our body needs it. So, how might we use yoga nidra to hone our menstrual cycle awareness – and post menopause - and tap into our power as women?
Barbara Dopfer is a Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator and the Founder of Yogarten, a studio in Bavaria, Germany. She is also trained in the Red School tradition of using the menstrual cycle to awaken our feminine power. On this episode of the podcast, Barbara joins me to discuss the connections between menstrual cycle awareness and the practice of yoga nidra, explaining how she is applying the three maps of the menstrual cycle in her work as certified Daring to Rest facilitator.
Barbara describes why it’s challenging to access our power as women in a via positiva-driven society and walks us through the map of the inner seasons, sharing how the rest-release-rise cycle of the Daring to Rest method echoes our monthly cycle. She also offers an in-depth look at the five chambers of inner winter, discussing why rest is crucial in capitalizing on the opportunity for renewal in each menstruation. Listen in for insight on using the Daring to Rest concepts of intention-setting and soul whispers as part of your menstrual cycle awareness and learn what YOU can do to tap into your own inner calendar and develop the feeling of being right in your body—just the way you are!
Key Takeaways
How learning to rest during menstruation changed Barbara’s life
How postmenopausal women can follow the cycles of the moon
Why it’s difficult to access our power in a via positiva-driven society
An overview of the map of inner seasons
Inner winter Day 27—Day 5 (Day 1 = first bleed)
Inner spring Day 6—Day 11
Inner summer Day 12—Day 19 (ovulation)
Inner autumn Day 20—Day 26 (pre-menstruation)
The heightened spiritual awareness women experience during menstruation
The parallels between inner spring and listening for our soul whisper
Why inner summer is the time women are called to express themselves
The connection between holding tension and holding opposites
How menstrual cycle awareness can help women with fertility issues
An in-depth look at the five chambers of inner winter
Separation
Surrender
Renewal
Visioning
Clarity/direction
How Barbara is applying menstrual cycle awareness in her work
What we can do to start tapping into our own menstrual cycle awareness
We Effort Everything, But Yoga Nidra is Effortless - with Marcela Iglesias
00:32:25
After significant people died in a three-year span, this is when certified Daring to Rest facilitator Marcela Iglesias found yoga, trained in it, and through yoga she found yoga nidra. “Resting on the ground, at the end of the nidra I started sobbing and didn’t know where it came from - I didn’t realize I needed to do that,” Marcela says. From then on, she made the yoga nidra recordings part of her life. Marcela had practiced lots of meditation before, but there was something different about yoga nidra that led her to want to teach it. Find out why in this conversation between Marcela and a cherished friend and participant in her recent 40-Day Daring to Rest Program.
This episode is part of our Daring to Rest "Rest Stories" series.
17 Aug 2018
When Doctor's Don't Listen to Women's Pain with Abby Norman - Ep 06
01:11:20
Sometimes you don't know why you're reading a book other than the fact that the title has the words "uterus" and "pain" in it. That was my experience when I said "yes" to Abby Norman's passionate new book, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain.
To be honest, when I first started reading it I thought: I'm not too sure I want to read a pain memoir. But about 50 pages in, when I found myself unable to stop talking with my husband at breakfast about the book, I knew I was hooked.
In this episode, Abby and I talk about her health journey, the little that's known about endometriosis and the myths out there (it's shocking), plus we explore why women who talk about their pain are often not believed and what we can do about it.
Get a huge cup of something restful to drink, lay back, and join us. Abby's such a treat!
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.
You're Free - A Conversation about Resting in Unrest Towards Liberation - with Dr. Kamilah Majied
00:52:49
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.
How would you describe your relationship with your body? Many of us struggle with feelings of disconnection or shame, and we only allow ourselves pleasure in the form of reward for or recovery from hard work. What if we could not just make peace with our bodies, but learn to love them and trust their wisdom? What if we made pleasure a regular practice and used it to fuel our creative work? What if we could harness the power of sensual living as a pathway to fulfillment?
Mary Lofgren is the creator ofThe School of Sensual Living, a platform designed to help us become best friends with our bodies by savoring life through the senses. She is a self-described sensual savant, passionate writer, former burlesque sensation, licensed esthetician, experienced Qoya and yoga teacher, and advocate of sensual, embodied living. Mary believes that our bodies can be our greatest allies and most cherished works of art, and she combines her background in movement, mindfulness, beauty and feminine spirituality to help us experience the beauty that comes from being in a body.
Today, Mary joins me to explain how a transformation around her body led her to burlesque and share her view of the experience as a sacrament to the divine feminine. She discusses her take on sensuality as a feminine approach to mindfulness, describing why an aversion to feeling keeps us from being fully present and how we have the tools for fulfillment within the wisdom of our own bodies. Listen in for Mary’s insight on reframing pleasure as source, the fuel that inspires our creative work, and learn how The School of Sensual Living provides a deep level of body-based healing.
Key Takeaways
How Mary’s transformation around her body led her to burlesque
Mary’s view of burlesque as a sacrament to the divine feminine
How Mary sees sensuality as a feminine approach to mindfulness
Why an aversion to feeling holds us back from being fully present
How we have the tools for fulfillment within our own bodies
Using the pleasure of the present moment to be with the unknown
The clarity around Mary’s decision to return to her birth name
Mary’s insight that our bodies have the answers we seek
Mary’s reframe of pleasure as the source that fuels our work
How Mary seeks to provide a deep level of body-based healing
Mary’s understanding of true rest as the act of letting go
Inside the Daring to Rest Academy – Meet 4 Women from Tribe 2 - Ep 12
01:02:11
Perhaps you’re considering enrolling in the Daring to Rest Academy, but you’d like to know more about what to expect. Maybe you’re curious how you might incorporate yoga nidra into the work you already do. On today’s episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, we’re taking you inside the Daring to Rest Academy with a few members of Tribe 2.
Melissa Barnet, Jo Blackman, Cheri Brown and Barbara Dopfer have each taken the training, adding their own flavor to the practice and subsequently sharing the gift of yoga nidra with the world. Melissa has begun incorporating yoga nidra into her coaching practice, Cheri has added it to the offerings at her wellness center, and Jo and Barbara are making it an integral part of their retreats and classes.
Today, Melissa, Jo, Cheri and Barbara join me to take you inside the Daring to Rest Academy, sharing what inspired them to enroll and what to expect when you join. We discuss the community of love and support that is an integral part of the program and the reasons why aspiring facilitators are encouraged to teach yoga nidra from a rested place. Jo and Melissa explain how they ‘practice what they teach’ in the waking world, specifically as mothers. Cheri describes her passion to teach yoga nidra to chronically depleted caretakers and Barbara offers insight on the connection between rest and women’s empowerment. Listen in to understand how the Daring to Rest Academy is not only an investment in your own personal growth, but also an opportunity to build your own yoga nidra teaching practice.
Key Takeaways
What inspired each woman to enroll in Daring to Rest Academy
How practicing rest while you learn leads to deeper understanding
The community of love and support that comes with the Academy
Why instructors are urged to teach yoga nidra from a rested place
How the science of yoga nidra is included in the program
How the participants practice what they teach in the waking world
How Melissa is bringing yoga nidra to the emerging generation
Cheri’s passion to teach yoga nidra to chronically depleted caretakers
Barbara’s dream to marry yoga nidra + menstrual cycle awareness
The connection between rest and women’s empowerment
How Jo is combining yoga nidra + Qoya movement with lunar cycles
How Daring to Rest Academy offers training wheels for new teachers
How the training serves as an investment in personal growth
Social Justice, Inclusion, and Yoga Nidra - with Yoli Maya Yeh
01:26:43
Today’s conversation with Yoli Maya Yeh, an educator and healer working at the intersection of Indigenous Way, Healing Arts & Social Justice, is a conversation we had as part of the Daring to Rest Academy masterclass series. It felt too important a conversation to keep just for our Daring to Rest facilitators.
Yoli shares with us her thoughts on the sacred destruction happening in our world today, particularly how it relates to racism and White privilege in the yoga world, classroom inclusion, and yoga nidra. She provides a perspective on yoga nidra that you may have never heard before, and is adamant that this practice is the secret sauce to transformation and deep healing.
She’s also a proponent of knowing the historical context and structure of yoga practices and then breaking that structure, especially as it relates to making these Euro-centric homogenous practices more inclusive for BIPOC folks.
If you are White and work in wellness, or invest in wellness, Yoli provides you with an understanding of the landscape of this billion dollar industry, why BIPOC folks do not feel welcome, and invites White people to stop thinking your way to transformation, stop the spiritual bypassing, and be willing to go into the suffering so we can all live as one.
Exhaustion comes in many forms. As Yoli says, the typical curriculums have encouraged color blindness at best and tolerance at least. This is not good enough. Today’s episode helps you begin to understand why.
Key Takeaways
Why is yoga nidra a healing practice? Because 100% of the healing lives in yoga nidra.
Once we arrive with enough mastery of the grammar (of yoga nidra) then it’s important that we break the grammar.
Right now we’re in a period of sacred destruction – repurposing, remodeling dismantling.
The euro-centric approach to yoga is an incredibly generic homogenous model…whose goal was to create docile followers.
People of color have never been tracked for leadership, as knowledge holders and innovators.
What white people did was they destroyed their indigenous traditions.
BIPOC folks don’t subscribe to scarcity as an economic model and the heart of capitalism is scarcity.
When Black folks don’t want to come to White people’s yoga workshops, it’s because they don’t want to be racially attacked.
Liberal White people are the most trouble because partial knowledge is dangerous.
Every time you practice yoga nidra you open up the portal to spontaneous healing.
You can’t think your way through transformation – you actually have to do the practices.
The whisper of the moment is that we all are one, but that’s such a dangerous statement.
Resources
Can be found at www.daringtorest.com/podcast/40
12 Jan 2020
Why I Teach Rest - with Karen Brody
01:00:47
In this first episode of our Rest Stories Series, Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody tells her worn out woman to well-rested woman story and why she decided she must teach the transformational sleep practice known as yoga nidra.
It may seem ridiculous to teach people how to rest, but today more than ever - with inflammation causing physical illness in so many people and inflammation of the world threatening our planet - the most simple solution is to show people how to relax their nervous system, and the best rest practice we know at Daring to Rest is yoga nidra. Rest turns out to be much easier said than done as most people have an uneasy relationship to rest. Realities of paying the rent, raising children and the chores of daily life provide few easy moments to take a break. Rest shame is real, leaving us to believe that rest is unproductive, lazy and weak.
Karen Brody, founder of Daring to Rest, and the women who enter the Daring to Rest Academy’s professional yoga nidra teacher training program, know this worn out woman scenario all too well. Most of us were experts in burnout. But then we found yoga nidra meditation and discovered that rest was more accessible than we thought, and that was essential for our survival.
In this special Rest Stories Series, Karen and ten Certified Daring to Rest Facilitators, tell their rest stories, explain what rest means to them and why they are so passionate about teaching yoga nidra to others. Throughout the month of January, we’ll be telling our rest stories. Listen in to discover why yoga nidra is “more than a fancy nap” and why so many women are teaching it to create a well-rested world.
Rest and Women's Leadership - with the Daring to Rest Teacher Trainers
01:01:57
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.
28 Aug 2024
Becoming a Rest Rockstar with Karen Perro - Ep 2 of the Transform Your Life and Wellness Business Series
00:36:34
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.
My son Jacob had his first psychoeducational evaluation in the second grade. He scored in the 110th percentile in critical thinking, but his reading score was in the 2nd percentile. Jacob was diagnosed with dyslexia, a condition that makes it difficult for people to read quickly and automatically—but has no connection to their overall intelligence. In fact, dyslexics are typically fast creative thinkers with strong reasoning abilities. (Think Richard Branson, Albert Einstein, Leonardo DaVinci). But, for many, getting through traditional educational systems are tough. So, how has Jacob navigated the school system with this learning difference? And what have I learned in the process of raising a dyslexic child?
Today, Jacob joins me to share his experience with dyslexia, discussing his ongoing challenges with reading comprehension and the benefits of the multisensory curriculum he experienced starting at age ten. I offer insight around when we realized Jacob had a learning difference and the value in getting your child tested early. Listen in to understand how yoga nidra helped me manage the dyslexia journey with Jacob and learn how he is incorporating the practice into his life at college!
Key Takeaways
How The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity defines dyslexia
The discrepancy between Jacob’s critical thinking and reading scores
The strategies dyslexics use to improve reading comprehension
When we started to realize Jacob had a learning difference
The value in getting your child tested early to access the right services
The concept of parenting with firm kindness to establish boundaries
How The Lab School served as ‘the right island’ for Jacob
The challenges Jacob faced in navigating theatre class
How yoga nidra helped me manage exhaustion during the dyslexia journey
How Jacob is incorporating yoga nidra into his life at college
Jacob’s ongoing challenge around taking longer to read a text
Jacob’s advice on surrounding yourself with the right people
How Jacob wants to make an impact by spreading positivity in the world
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."
29 Jan 2020
Hooked on Yoga Nidra - with Sheri Parr
00:06:07
Five years ago, her daughters almost all off to college, on the eve of being an empty nester, certified Daring to Rest facilitator Sheri Parr realized that she had so much unprocessed grief and she went on a quest to change her life. That’s when she found yoga nidra and was immediately hooked. But how would she stick with it? Through Daring to Rest, she found the answer. In this episode, hear how hooked Sheri is on yoga nidra and how this transformational sleep practice has taught her how to rise from her heart.
This episode is part of our Daring to Rest "Rest Stories" series.
20 Feb 2021
What If Women Were the Storytellers? - with Elizabeth Lesser
01:06:22
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."
Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Ruby Gibson and Kara Big Crow
01:06:46
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
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.
01 Feb 2020
Yoga Nidra: The Quicker Picker Upper - with Barbara Cohen Itzkowitz
00:13:27
Envision that emoji on your smart phone where the person’s eyes are open wide, looking frantic. That was 71-year-old certified Daring to Rest facilitator Barbara without yoga nidra. After retirement she received a diagnosis of an auto immune disease. As a young teenager she was ill with golf-ball sized lymph glands and no one knew what the root cause was. As a child, while Barbara was given positive rest messages, she also received a lot of pressure to get As in school. “I always felt pressure to do more,” Barbara says. The Daring to Rest Academy influenced her to do less and has made a huge a difference in how she sees the world and in being less reactive to everyday life. Today Barbara offers yoga nidra to women in their older years at the end of the yoga classes she teaches. Truthfully, she does not feel well-rested all the time. “I’m a work in progress and feeling emotionally way better than before practicing yoga nidra.” Listen to Barbara’s story to learn how she went from frantic emoji to the one that’s smiling with three hearts.
20 Jun 2018
What's It Like to Dare to Rest? - Ep 04
01:13:25
Tired? Overwhelmed? This is your episode. Join Karen as she talks with Kerry Magnus and Janis Wheeler, two women who have practiced the Daring to Rest 40-Day program with profound results.
Learn about the key features of Daring to Rest - from soul whispers to the Council of Women - and how a continuous practice helps you embrace pain, have compassion for yourself, step into your truth, and feel as though the universe has your back...in an easy way that doesn't involve doing and thinking...just resting.
Learn more about Kerry Magnus (one of the rest sister's sharing her experiences on this podcast)
06 Apr 2019
The Do Less Revolution—with Kate Northrup - Ep 14
00:53:34
Are you trying to prove yourself through productivity? Are you addicted to being busy, somehow convinced that your worth is connected to how much you get done? What if you could tap into the natural rhythms that are already a part of you and achieve more—by doing less?
Kate Northrup is a creative entrepreneur and bestselling author dedicated to helping ambitious women ‘light up the world without burning themselves out in the process.’ Kate launched Origin Collective to support female entrepreneurs in managing their time and energy with grace, and she is the author of the new book, Do Less: A Revolutionary Approach to Time Management for Busy Moms.
Today, Kate joins me to share her definition of doing less, explaining how we can achieve more meaningful results by tuning into the natural rhythms already happening in our bodies. She addresses how the world is designed around the 24-hour hormonal cycle of men and offers insight on applying the phases of the moon, the seasons or your body’s cycle to a given project by way of the Upward Cycle of Success. Kate also discusses the Egg Wisdom metaphor for feminine energy and the value in growing your receiving muscle. Listen in for Kate’s advice on applying the 80/20 Rule in your life and learn how to be your best self—by doing less!
Key Takeaways
Kate’s conscious decision to eliminate pressure with Do Less Experiments
How Kate defines doing less as aligning with our natural, cyclical rhythms
How Kate’s experience during her first pregnancy inspired Do Less
Kate’s theory on how we’re addicted to being busy to prove our worth
How the world is designed around the 24-hour hormonal cycle of men
The four genius phases of a woman’s 28-day hormonal cycle
How to get more done in less time with attention to your body’s energy
How the moon’s phases correspond with women’s cycles + the seasons
How the Upward Cycle of Success defines the four phases of any project
The Egg Wisdom metaphor for what feminine energy is in the world
Why receiving help is Kate’s favorite Do Less Experiment
Examples of how to apply the 80/20 Rule to your business/personal life
Kate’s intention to inspire women to be their best selves through Do Less
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.
The Colonization of Sleep and Yoga - Uma Dinsmore Tuli and Yoli Maya Yeh
01:25:50
When I heard that Uma Dinsmore Tuli had created a campaign to eradicate the abuse of women in the yoga world I knew I wanted to talk about this topic, and the related theme of the decolonization of sleep and yoga. This is a dark truth that has existed for a long time. I’m a firm believer that whenever we meet the shadow the potential for change grows, and this opens a gateway for shadow exhaustion to start lifting from our personal and collective experiences. And, as Uma shares today, if we don’t call it out then “nobody’s daughters are safe in these places.”
I also invited Yoli Maya Yeh, an educator and healer, and a yoga and yoga nidra teacher, working at the intersection of Indigenous Way, Healing Arts and Social Justice, to give us her perspective on the colonization of sleep and yoga for black, brown, Indigenous People of Color. Between these two powerful women, we had an important discussion that I think you’ll enjoy and I hope you’ll share with others.
Anyone who practices yoga nidra knows it can feel like being in a sanctuary and today we talked a lot about this sanctuary – that yoga nidra is a space that often feels soft, and even playful. But we also delved deeper, into the shadow side of sleep and yoga. Both Yoli and Uma asked us to consider whether you are choosing to practice from a place of freedom, where you’re at the center, or are you, often unknowingly, allowing a system to take your power?
On today’s episode, we discuss sleep and the yoga world, acknowledging the colonization of these practices, and explore how to reclaim their essential teachings on healing, justice and freedom.
Key Takeaways
How Yoli used sleep and yoga nidra as a big part of her healing from Graves Disease
The body is equip with it’s own ICU – Intensive Care Unit - and how nidra helps us tap into that power
The playfulness and freedom of yoga nidra
The origins of nidra are not merely in the South Asian practice
Studies in the UK are showing that people are sleeping 40 minutes longer since COVID-19. Why? Because their alarm clocks are not going off
How sleep has been colonized and why decolonized sleep leads to a decolonization of yoga nidra
The moment Yoli discovered she was participating in a colonized version of yoga and what she did to put black, brown, indigenous people of color in the center space and teach from there
The abuse of women in the yoga world and Uma’s Yoni Shakti campaign to call out the harm and call in the help to improve an oppressive system
Why it’s crucial for yoga nidra teachers to practice yoga nidra, receive ongoing mentorship and not teach people sleep they have not seen
Putting Women in Their Place with Megan Park - Ep 03
00:40:41
In this episode, Karen talks with Megan Park, founder ofPutting Women in Their Place, whose mission is to support women candidates to move up the political ladder.
In early 2017, Megan took Karen's yoga nidra program and this led to the birth of Putting Women in Their Place. On this podcast, Megan and Karen talk about yoga nidra and the soul whisper that led Megan to find her deepest calling.
Make yourself a cup of tea, sit or lean back, and enjoy learning more about the power of yoga nidra meditation and Megan's vision for Putting Women in Their Place.
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.
Get ready to shake your yoga nidra pompoms! On this episode, Rest Sisters from the Daring to Rest Academy join me to share our key takeaways from The First International Yoga Nidra Conference. We discuss the theme of unity that pervaded the conference despite the different lineages of yoga nidra represented and reflect on what is a feminine approach to yoga nidra, how we express this in Daring to Rest programs, and Uma Dinsmore-Tuli’s permission to be ‘wild within the structure’ of the practice. I ask about the network versus hierarchy debate posed at the conference, and we offer insight on the idea of post-lineage yoga nidra that allows us to play inside the framework.
We delve into Kamini Desai’s metaphor around being a container for what is rather than identifying with what comes and goes—and describe how yoga nidra effectively reorganizes our relationship with our emotions. We explored concepts from the many yoga nidra rock star teachers we learned from including Indu Arora’s view of yoga nidra as ‘the sleep of realization’ and deep truth. Listen in for insight around emphasizing invitation and choice in the language of yoga nidra and learn how each Rest Sister integrated her profound feelings of gratitude, balance and belonging into life after the conference.
After you listen, tell us your takeaways in the comments below or on social media.
Key Takeaways
The theme of unity and mutual respect at the Kripalu Yoga Nidra Conference
How Uma Dinsmore-Tuli offered permission to be ‘wild within the structure’
The common thread around entering the sacred space through the breath
Why we need more post-lineage yoga nidra (i.e.: network vs. hierarchy)
Kamini Desai’s metaphor around being the ocean rather than the waves
The value of guiding students from timebound to timeless consciousness
How yoga nidra effectively reorganizes our relationship with our emotions
Uma Dinsmore-Tuli’s intro to resources around the history of yoga nidra
Molly Birkholm’s take on bringing yoga nidra to the corporate workplace
The emphasis on invitation + choice in scripts over telling people what to do
How each woman experienced reentry to life after the yoga nidra immersion
Indu Arora’s insight on yoga nidra as the sleep of realization and deep truth
Nina Simons is a women's leadership pioneer and co-founder of Bioneers. She is the author of the book, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. In this episode, Karen talks with Nina about the landscape of yin leadership, a kind of leadership that values spaciousness, nature, relationships, and ritual.
Forced to Rest: A Rest Perspective on COVID-19 - with Dr. Rubin Naiman
00:37:51
On today’s episode, Dr. Rubin Naiman gives us a rest-perspective on COVID-19 and the current pandemic that has forced people around the world to stay in their homes to prevent the spread of the virus. Is this a “call to rest” moment? Are we in a waking dream? And what’s the number one way we can build our immunity? (You may be surprised at his answer!).
Dr. Rubin Naiman is a psychologist, sleep and dream specialist at the University of Arizona, and author of the book, Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming and Awakening. A great friend of the Daring to Rest community, our rest expert, I invited him to offer his thoughts on this moment so we may gain perspective.
When you’re forced to rest, you can tune out or tune in. What if this is our moment to tune in? Listen in and join us for this unique discussion.
04 Sep 2024
How I Run My Rest Business with Karen Brody - Ep3 of Transform Your Life and Wellness Business Series
00:53:03
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.
A Medical Rest Rant for Challenging Times with Karen Brody
00:22:43
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."
02 Apr 2022
Amazing Grace: A Former Roman Catholic Sister Reflects on her Religion, Yoga Nidra and Rest
00:58:01
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!
Sleep, Dreaming and Awakening - with Dr. Rubin Naiman
01:00:08
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.
Do You Know About the Rest Cure for Women? A Girlfriend Chat with Karen Brody - Ep 13
00:47:11
In this episode Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody chats with you from her rest cave about the rest cure, an immensely popular method used on middle and upper class women in the late 1800s in American and Europe who were mysteriously falling sick. Find out why this period in history is important and what women can learn from it to help us take back rest today.
You’ll also hear Karen read from one of her popular monthly “rest notes” and explore threads of women’s empowerment and how yoga nidra meditation can help lead us to solutions for our health, healing and power.
With humor and intimacy, Karen talks about all the layers of rest from women’s past to present. This is the first podcast without a guest! Lay back for some girlfriend chat. We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of Experts Advice to Women by Babara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Healing Night by Dr Rubin Naiman
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Wild Feminine by Tami Lynn Kent
15 Apr 2020
Why Bother: The Call to Discover Your Fully Alive Self - with Jennifer Louden
00:45:36
With much of the world under quarantine, I was wondering if today's episode with bestselling author Jennifer Louden, whose new book Why Bother comes out next week, would resonate with this moment of challenge and unpredictability.
Why should we be talking about desire when everyone is focused on survival?
Here’s why: because if you’re safe, in a stable household, and feel a call to re-evaluate what is meaningful in your life, then this current pause on life as we know it may be the ideal time to discover the desire for what’s next.
As Jennifer says, “If there is a stirring in you that something is being re-evaluated, if there is relief that you are not having to do something that you were doing before quarantine, if there is a feeling that desire has been something you’ve wanted to know for a long time” then the Why Bother book is just what you need to start that conversation.
I’m super-excited for you to learn from Jennifer’s deep well of wisdom!
We’re in a huge “Why Bother” moment right now, reckoning with what we care about, and what it means to live and to engage in our lives. Maybe you’ve been playing it safe, and this deep pandemic pause is coaxing you to believe that you can live a new more satisfying story. And maybe it’s not, but you’d like to get the inspiration to no longer coast through life.
What if during this time of quarantine, we decided to stop putting so much effort into being unfulfilled, judgmental and self-doubting in our lives? Jennifer Louden reminds us that “we can learn do it differently.” Maybe this breakdown moment is just that opportunity to break through to a fully alive you.
Join us on this episode for this daring conversation.
Key Takeaways
How to enter any moment and find the desire for what’s next.
Why we’re not afraid of change, but our brains evolved to keep us defended.
Learn a powerful map to discovering your fully alive self.
Listen to Jennifer share two stories from her book, one about the time she was on Oprah and her lesson on enoughness.
Why desire is a one-word feminist manifesto.
What a healthy relationship with desire looks like and the three parts of desire.
Why the question of “Why Bother” is important for women right now in a pandemic world.
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