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."
