In this episode, Karen explores the math of creating a rested life and offers a gentle rest invitation to recognize the tone of rest in your day and return to it, again and again.

In this special Mother’s Day episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast Karen honors the joy and complexity of motherhood and guides you through a gentle 20-minute 61-point rest practice, inviting you to release burdens and reconnect with your true nature.

What if your exhaustion isn’t a personal weakness, but a sign you’re working in a system that quietly burns through its people - especially women? In this powerful conversation, Karen talks with Dr. Consuelo Grier, a mother and higher-ed leader whose life brought her to the edge of burnout and into the deeper truth of burn through: what happens when institutions use us up faster than we can restore ourselves.

In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, a rest note, Karen returns from her winter rest sabbatical to explore what it means to dare to rest in the Year of the Fire Horse - a time marked by speed, intensity, and rapid transformation. As truth and shadow surface quickly in our world, including recent revelations about spiritual and wellness leaders, many women are feeling both activated and exhausted. Karen asks: In a galloping year like this, how do we stay grounded and keep from burning out?

Pause with Karen for a gentle New Year’s “rest audit”—exploring what to release, what to claim, and why softness might be your greatest strength. Settle in for rest reflections, deeply personal stories, and inspiration to start your year - or any season of your life - with more rest beside you.

Join host & Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody and a circle of extraordinary women from Sisterhood 10 of our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training as they reflect on their journeys as rest leaders, yoga nidra facilitators, and students of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training. You’ll hear honest stories of stepping into rest leadership, navigating burnout, and breaking generational cycles of overwork and self-denial. Stay to the end for participants’ favorite rest words! This episode is ideal for any women craving inspiration, rest, and a powerful reminder that rest is a radical, loving act. It’s also ideal if you’re interested in joining our next Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training in January 2026.

Discover how Human Design can help you understand your unique energy, make more rested decisions, and find a more restful, authentic way of living. In this episode, one of the world’s leading experts in human design Erin Claire Jones shares practical insights into different energy types, the importance of rest, and how understanding your design can transform your work, relationships, and personal growth.

What if rest is exactly what grief needs? In this short rest pep talk, Karen shares a personal story of loss and explores how rest becomes a lifeline—especially when the world expects us to keep going. If you're holding personal or collective grief, this one's for you.

Curious about rest coaching? In this episode, Karen is joined by three Daring to Rest Coaches to explore what it means to guide others through The Rested Path. A conversation full of insight, inspiration, and the deeper layers of rest.

What 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 and the barriers that keep us from true rest. Together, they explore how rest can be deeply personal, radically political, and profoundly healing.

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.

In 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.

The Rested Mother Series shares 5 powerful short rest stories from Daring to Rest Facilitators who chose rest in the midst of motherhood, grief, burnout, and healing. These mothers dared to pause, listen, and reclaim themselves through yoga nidra and deep rest. You are invited to hear what happens when a mother rests—and rises rooted.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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. I so enjoy being in conversation with Octavia.  Her devotion to rest is practical, poetic, and inspirational and she is always so deep, real - and fun. 

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.

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. 

On today's episode Dr. 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.

What if changing our relationship with grind culture starts with telling a new story? In this episode Brigid Schulte speaks with us 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.

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. 

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.

This episode is the first of a special series on the Daring to Rest Podcast called Transform Your Life and Your Wellness Business - The Rooted In Rest Series. As a young woman growing up within a Tongan family Florence Güneri often felt lost because she didn't know anyone else who looked like her in the wellness world. She decided to become the first. Listen to her journey to creating a thriving life & business rooted in rest.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

Karen's back with a short rest check on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, but also to not abandon ourselves. How does the practice of yoga nidra and inner mothering intersect? And why does it matter? Come hang out with Karen as she talks about how a practice like yoga nidra can help you mother yourself while lying down. That's the kind of rest revolution we're talking about!