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The Daring to Rest PodcastHow to Rest When You Don’t Know How: A Conversation with Ximena VengoecheaWhat does it really take to feel rested in a world that rewards burnout? In this powerful conversation, Karen Brody talks with Ximena Vengoechea—author of Rest Easy and The Life Audit—about cultivating a rest ethic, the barriers that keep us from true rest, and the liberating power of both active and passive rest. Together, they explore how rest can be deeply personal, radically political, and profoundly healing. Resources for this episode can be found here: daringtorest.com/podcast/1102025-06-2158 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastWhat If Slowing Down Makes Us Better Humans?In this episode, Karen explores how urgency erodes compassion—drawing on the Good Samaritan Study, neuroscience, and a personal story that still sits with her. A woman-centered reflection on rest, guilt, and reclaiming our humanity through pause. Show notes: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/1092025-05-3113 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastYoga Nidra for Inner Mothering: A Gift of Rest for YouIn the closing episode of The Rested Mother Series, Karen offers a gift of deep rest: a guided Yoga Nidra meditation centered on inner mothering—a powerful rest practice for anyone longing to feel more held, rooted, and resilient. Before the meditation, Karen reflects on why connecting with our inner mother is essential on the path to becoming a rested woman. Whether you were well mothered or not, inner mothering allows you to offer yourself the unconditional love, care, and compassion you may have missed—and to rest from a place of wholeness. This practice is f...2025-05-1040 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastRest Pep Talk: The Cliff, Thelma & Louise, and The Call to Rest When life pushes you to the edge, you don’t have to carry it all — you get to rest. In this short Rest Pep Talk, Karen Brody shares a personal story of choosing rest during a cliff’s edge moment, and inspiration from the film Thelma & Louise. Resources for this episode: daringtorest.com/podcast/102 2025-04-2810 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastRest Pep Talk: When You Rest, the World Doesn't CrumbleIn 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. Resources for this episode: daringtorest.com/podcast/101 2025-03-3007 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastWhy 40 Days of Rest Matter + Karen Answers Your Rest QuestionsKaren'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. Resources for this episode are here: daringtorest.com/podcast/982024-12-2645 min
Free To Be MeEpisode 29: A Radical Rest Revolution with guest Karen BrodyHost, Karen Pawley, interviews Karen Brody, founder of the community Daring to Rest. Karen Brody emphasizes the importance of rest and introduces Yoga Nidra as a powerful sleep meditation practice that leads to deep rest and transformation. Karen Brody shares her personal journey from experiencing chronic panic attacks and exhaustion to discovering Yoga Nidra, which profoundly improved her well-being. She highlights the challenges of overcoming societal pressures that undervalue rest and explains how rest can help reclaim one's true nature, often lost in our fast-paced, productivity-driven culture.
The conversation touches on the heroine’s journey concept from Ma...2024-12-121h 02
The Daring to Rest PodcastRest Leadership: Meet Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator TrainingKaren 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. Resources for this episode can be found here: http://daringtorest.com/podcast/97 Information on our Da...2024-11-161h 04
Orgasmic BirthThe Power of Rest to Help Women Give Birth and Dare to Claim Their Power with Karen BrodyEp 120 Description: “When you know what you stand for, then you can know what you don't stand for, and you can start to make those boundaries to be more on a rested path than off a rested path.” —Karen Brody Rest is not merely a luxury, but a vital necessity for our well-being. When we prioritize rest, we open ourselves up to profound personal growth and the possibility of profound transformation. Discover how the power of rest can unlock new levels of resilience, creativity, and connection within ourselves in this week’s episode. Kar...2024-11-0638 minThe Daring to Rest PodcastHow I Run My Rest Business with Karen Brody - Ep3 of Transform Your Life and Wellness Business SeriesToday 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...2024-09-0453 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastBecoming a Rest Rockstar with Karen Perro - Ep 2 of the Transform Your Life and Wellness Business SeriesCertified 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...2024-08-2836 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastWomen: Let's Not Keep Our Mouths Shut Anymore - a rest note with Karen BrodyHost 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 2024-06-1514 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastYin Leadership - with Nina SimonsNina 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.com/podcast/88 2024-03-0848 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastDeep Rest, Yoga Nidra and Inner Mothering with Karen BrodyKaren'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...2023-11-1219 min
Dreaming the LightDaring to Rest in Times of Crisis with Karen BrodyWhy do we need to rest, especially during times of crisis? Today, I'm speaking with Karen Brody, a Yoga Nidra Teacher and Trainer, Rest Coach, and the author of "Daring to Rest." Karen has dedicated years of her life to teaching others the significance of passive rest and how we can authentically connect with ourselves and our bliss body through the practice of Yoga Nidra. You can find more information about her work, offerings, and book at https://daringtorest.com/.----I'm Joanna, the creator behind Blue Lotus Queendom. I have a deep fascination...2023-10-2946 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastEmbracing Your Most Luminous Self with Tracee StanleyKaren 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! Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/85 2023-10-0756 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastHow to Live Your Life with the Noise and the Peace 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 2023-06-2121 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastHow to Have an Orgasmic (& Restful!) Birth and Life with Debra Pascali BonaroDoula trainer, childbirth educator, and filmmaker, Debra Pascali Bonaro, joins Karen to discuss claiming your power and pleasure in childbirth and life; advice on turning pain into purpose; the importance of sex education; why it’s crazy to put women on their backs to give birth; and what is oxytocin and why it gives us an incredible high. Karen adds her rest lens to this powerful conversation on an orgasmic & restful birth and life. Resources for this episode can be found at: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/81 2023-05-1158 minThe Daring to Rest PodcastBeing Your Own Kind of Leader: On Women, Leadership, Rest, and Staying Awake In this rest note on leadership, Karen Brody takes on the topics of women, leadership, rest and staying awake in a world that wants us asleep to what's keeping us tired. She explores the political resignations in 2023 of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon as examples of women leaders showing us how be our own kind of leader. Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/80 2023-04-0826 min
The Daring to Rest PodcastMother-Daughter Rest Bonding 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 2023-03-181h 03The Daring to Rest PodcastNetflix is Messing with Our Sleep: A Short Rest Rant with Karen BrodyIt'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 2023-01-1714 min
The Menstruality Podcast69. Claiming Rest and Working Soft in Menopause (Karen Brody)For many years Karen, the founder of ‘Daring to Rest’ experienced severe panic attacks. It wasn’t until she started a deep rest practice that she learned how to meet her anxiety with grace and she hasn’t had a panic attack since. During her menopause process, this devoted practice of rest enabled her to clearly feel her ‘no’ and ‘yes’ in her body, process the rage arising and listen for what she needed to navigate this almighty transition. In our conversation today we explore:How rest at menopause helps...2023-01-1259 min