The Daring to Rest Podcast

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

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.   Resources: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/67

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

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

Karen reads and discusses a recent rest note that she wrote to the Daring to Rest community on why the world will be saved by the Rested Woman.   Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/64

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

Sleep specialist Dr. Rubin Naiman joins Karen on the podcast to talk about his unique perspective on sleep, dreaming and awakening. In this episode we take a look at the world today and how we can sleep better and recognize the crucial role dreams play in good sleep and waking life.   Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/62

Karen is talking to the Daring to Rest teacher trainers in our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women about the impact of rest on women's lives, the practice of yoga nidra, why Daring to Rest's facilitator training is much more than a yoga nidra teacher training program, and how Daring to Rest is a unique approach to women's leadership. Whether you're considering our facilitator training or...

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...

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...

In this episode, Karen talks about how rest and relaxation are different, the seven types of rest by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, the concern we mostly focus on active forms of rest, and how rest tells us everything we need to know. Resources for this episode can be found here:  https://daringtorest.com/podcast/58    

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

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

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

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 tend...

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 re...

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

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

Tracee Stanley is a teacher of yoga nidra, meditation and self-inquiry practices and the author of the book, Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity . In this episode, we dive into the practice of yoga nidra, how the messages we receive about rest present obstacles to lying down, and how to get rest when you don't have time to rest. Tracee also shares a delightful story a...

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 wor...

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 toda...

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 situ...

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 se...

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 o...

Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, goes on another rest rant answering the question: "Is rest the new mindfulness?"   To view the resources for this episode visit: daringtorest.com/podcast/44