The Daring to Rest Podcast

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 eve...

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.  A s a young woman growing up within a Tongan family Florence often felt lost because she didn't know anyone else who looked like her...

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 wisdo...

Host Karen Brody reads her rest note "Women: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore" and talks about the topics of rest, women's voices, and writing.   Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/90  

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 curi...

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.    Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.co...

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 ther...

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 li...

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. Trac...

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 t...

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 Amer...

In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life.   Resources at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/82  

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

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

 Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast a mother and daughter who have been in the Daring to Rest community join Karen to share their rest stories. You'll learn about their mother-daughter rest bond, and how rest has impacted their lives.   Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/79  

It's obvious, even without the statistics, that there are a lot of exhausted people. That's why a 2017 tweet by Netflix raised Karen's rest feathers. Listen to her rest rant on capitalism's investment in our fatigue and how we can't stop over-eating on the most seductive "chocolate cake" of these tired times.   Resources for this episode: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/77  

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

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 Certific...

All we want is to love and be loved. In this 15-minute episode, Karen reads her email to the Daring to Rest community on why rest is love and shares additional thoughts on oxytocin - the hormone of love - and ways we can receive and give more love.   Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/75    

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...

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

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

What happens when you are "tired as f*ck"? For bestselling author Caroline Dooner, she chose to address her exhaustion by spending two years intentionally prioritizing rest. In this episode, listen to her conversation with Karen on burnout at the hands of diet, self-help and hustle culture.  Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/71

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

What if our  doing  came from a place of  being? Especially in times of turmoil. Listen to a rest note with Karen on rest, women's bodies, leadership, and why staying in your body is more important than ever today.   Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/69