A 5 month online certification program for women who want to share the power of rest, weave it into your work, and step into your own rest leadership
Welcome, Rest Sister.
We are living in a time where everyone is busy, and few of us know one person who is rested.
This way of modern life is unsustainable.
And yet…most of us feel shame when we rest.
Our self-worth is often tied to output.
We feel we have to earn time off.
We only know ourselves in the story of “doing.”
Striving, hustling and busy.
Most people do not know what rest looks like.
We have forgotten the art of “being.”
We need a new RESTED way.
A way that honors slowing down and laying down.
A way that supports our wise and wild selves.
A softer way - that is also viewed as strong.
A gentle way.
And we need Rest Guides to lead the way.
That’s where you come in.
Ever sit with a client or offer a program and…
…wish you had a way to help people feel deeply rested?
…feel a little embarrassed telling people to rest when you’re exhausted?
…would love offer a transformational deep rest practice that helps people feel calm, peaceful and vibrant - and does the same for you?
Introducing…
The Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women
This certification training a unique rest opportunity for you if you believe in the power of rest and have a desire to lift others out of exhaustion, including yourself.
You will experience and be trained to offer the most transformational rest practice we know: yoga nidra. We help you gain the confidence and understanding to weave yoga nidra into the work you do or create unique rest-centered programs that result in impact and income. You will also practice resting deeply to step into your power as a Rested Woman.
Women who have graduated from this program have brought the power of rest into a wide range of spaces - to people with health challenges, burnout, or navigating exhausting moment in life like parenting, menopause, divorce, addiction, and career changes.
ONLINE & Sisterhood
This training is online so women all over the world can take the training from the comfort of their home. (Study with us in bed, if you’d like). We’ve been training women online to become Daring to Rest Facilitators for seven years; we know online learning can be transformational, and that you will make lifetime Rest Sister connections with other women around the world who share a passion for the power of rest.
Who is this training for?
You are a woman who believes rest matters, and that when people are rested their households are more rested too.
You believe ‘busy and tired’ is becoming the norm, know this is unhealthy, and you want to play a part in doing something about it.
You know that when one person becomes rested they influence the next generation, and you want to help people break the cycle of fatigue and claim a rested legacy.
Whether you’re a complete novice or already trained in yoga nidra, this training will meet you where you are and support you to gain confidence to create rest-centered offerings.
Each year we welcome women around the world from a wide-range of backgrounds that include wellness practitioners, therapists, yoga teachers, yoga nidra teachers, bodyworkers, nurses, life coaches, reiki practitioners, teachers, and mindfulness coaches.
Many women who join us have no previous experience - they simply believe in the power of rest.
(We also have many trained yoga nidra teachers join us who want to learn our Daring to Rest™ method & feminine leadership perspective)
Testimonials
“ This program exceeded my expectations. Before I took the program, I noticed a lot of my clients were unable to reach their health goals because they were exhausted and didn’t have capacity. Helping people to feel rested feels like it gets at the foundation of the problem. I am now creating a well-rested world one woman at a time. ”
“All women who come to my practice are exhausted from their lives. I have this deep wish to give them the possibility to rest. To make space for rest. Because rest is so healing. This training gave me the skills to do this. It has enriched my life on a very deep level.”
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.”
Brené Brown
We have a book to help you teach.
Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody’s book, “Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation” is an ideal guidebook to use in your rest programs or rest coaching sessions.
It is the only rest and yoga nidra book written exclusively to help women rise up rested.
Yoga nidra is a transformational sleep practice and state of consciousness that has been proven to rest your brain and increase your creativity, ability to learn, reduce stress, feel calm and fall asleep easier.
You will practice yoga nidra throughout this training and learn how to teach it to others in phase two of the training.
Praise for the book Daring to Rest
“Karen Brody has put together a framework that makes yoga nidra relevant and accessible to 21st-century women, who may need the practice more than any previous generation. If you feel overwhelmed by living, the techniques in Daring to Rest are a good place to start your journey back to well-being.”
— Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Love
Daring to Rest Facilitator CERTIFICATION TRAINING
Training Details
Duration
This certification training is 5 months online & live starting January 20, 2025 through June 2025.
As a bonus, you will receive 3 months of additional monthly mentorship with Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody and our thriving alumni facilitator community
The Curriciulum
Learn to Teach, Live, and Lead with Yoga Nidra, the Most Supreme Rest Imaginable
(January - June 2025)
Learn to teach yoga nidra and our Daring to Rest™ method as outlined in Karen Brody’s book, “Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation.”
You will emerge with the confidence to lead yoga nidra and be able to create unique rest programs, retreats and weave yoga nidra into the programs and coaching experiences you currently offer.
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Deep Rest Practice - you will begin with a 40 day personal yoga nidra practice as part of our annual Daring to Rest 40-Day program
Mentorship circles to support you to teach rest and deepen into the learning materials.
Facilitation circles to build your confidence as a facilitator. Includes practice and discussion time on each component of yoga nidra
Certification Lab for support to deepen into the training materials, envision a rest program, and create and lead yoga nidra in your unique voice. There are Certification Lab times to accommodate all time zones
The Foundations of yoga nidra, the Daring to Rest method, and how this relates to the Heroine’s Journey
The art of the yoga nidra script
Deep exploration of the 5 koshas
The art of facilitating rest programs and retreats
Introduction to the decolonization of yoga nidra
How to lead a rested and profitable business, including a unique yoga nidra to manifest impact and income.
Our intention is for you to feel deeply rested and create rest-centered programs that support you to have impact, income, and more meaning in your life and work.
Live Sessions
Live sessions Jan-March 3rd meet on Tuesday at 10am Mountain.
March & April we meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Mountain.
Small Certification Labs meet in May & June on Tuesdays at 10am or 5pm Mountain.
*You are not required to attend live - everything is recorded and many women listen to the replays.
Program Hours
This is a 200-hour teacher training. Continuing education credits are available through the Yoga Alliance.
Certification
At the end of the program you will be able to certify as a Daring to Rest Facilitator by October 15, 2025. There are no additional fees to certify.
Why Women Join This Program
“I joined this training to say YES to ENOUGH with the depleted un-rested woman! As a dentist it is so apparent that not having to access deep rest is making the world sick and it is breaking my heart that people do not know about yoga nidra - a simple, easy, and profound way to access to rest.”
“I joined this training to ignite this movement of rest and self-care in urban cities around the Southeast Asia region where I live, incorporate the element of rest into my current forest therapy work and support this work of empowering women.”
Imagine…
AFTER THIS TRAINING
Bring the power of rest into your work
You may wish to offer rest programsin many different areas, such as health and wellness, corporate wellness, parenting, life coaching, and healing. You can use our highly customizable Daring to Rest framework and begin teaching Daring to Rest programs, such as our popular 40-Day and 21-Day Daring to Rest Programs. Or not use our framework and simply weave rest into your current work if you’re a yoga instructor, life coach, breathworker, bodyworker, or therapist – anything that involves a journey to self-discovery and personal growth. The landscape of rest is vast, and you will be taught tools to start your own rest practice or weave into your current work.
Be a part of a much needed rest revolution
We are living in unrested times. It can feel overwhelming to know how to make a difference. Many of us want to help our clients feel more rested and create a rested household, but do not know where to start. Rest is a powerful and much-needed way you can create change.
When you offer rest to someone you often empower them to be the first in their family line to be rested.
The time is now for us to lie down and wake up.
Testimonials
“I have found the training to be much deeper and more comprehensive than what I expected - and have loved the fact that it sees rest as a much broader field than the act of lying down in yoga nidra. Placing rest in the larger context of what it means for women has been so illuminating and invaluable. The training feels so complete.
What comes to mind as I reflect on the training overall, is the permission to live more slowly, to prioritise deliciously resting, to hold myself and to be held tenderly in a beautiful bubble, away from the outside world during our shared time in live classes. The sisterhood and tender container were so healing, beautiful, and I felt so held. Having this space to rest and be was a gift.
Since the training I have been integrating yoga nidra into my existing offerings: working with women to cope with stress, burnout and anxiety - and find serenity within themselves in a chaotic world, as well as integrating yoga nidra in my somatic leadership for women programme as a beautiful doorway to awaken our feminine power.
I have also designed a standalone Daring to Rest yoga nidra programme called Unhurried. It is an invitation for women to live unhurried lives in a fast-paced world. ”
“This training was the greatest gift I have given to myself in years.
While I am a yoga teacher, deep inside I was afraid of relaxing...of doing nothing. I felt a deep longing for rest, but I didn’t allow myself to rest. There was so much shame. There was the idea in my family line that rest is dangerous and makes you so lazy, that you can’t take care of yourself anymore, and that you will loose everything you own, until you die.
In the facilitator training I healed my relationship to my ancestor lines and the exhaustion of the women. The relationship with my mother and my sister improved. I found a new less exhausting way to work with the neurodiverse children, my relationship to my husband and to my best friend relaxed. I am not afraid anymore that something bad will happen when I rest. I give myself permission to rest. My life has changed in so many ways, while resting, nourishing myself, taking care of myself and being the good friend to myself that I needed.”
Here's what our 200-HOUR CERTIFICATION TRAINING includes:
What You Will Receive
7 x 1.5-hour weekly rest circles as part of a 40-day Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Program
12 x 1.5-hour live bi-weekly mentorship & yoga nidra facilitation practice sessions
6 x 2-hour live weekly Certification Lab to lead yoga nidra and integrate what you have learned
6 Audio Lessons with transcripts on how to teach yoga nidra and create rest programs
1 one-on-one mentorship session with your Certification Lab mentor
Masterclasses with yoga nidra luminaries and others on how to hold space and lead a successful soul-driven business
Yoga Nidra Scripts
Done-for-you Daring to Rest curriculums for rest circle and programs.
Resources
Rest-centered book lists, music playlists, articles and podcasts, and microphone recommendations, to deepen your understanding of yoga nidra, rest, and running a profitable heart-centered business.
Deep Rest
You will rest deeply with yoga nidra throughout this program and explore your relationship with rest. We believe the best yoga nidra facilitators teach from what they know in their bones.
Rest Sister Partner
to discuss program content, practice tools together, keep you accountable, and for deep sisterhood connection. While this is optional, women in the program often meet a lifelong rest friend.
Bonuses
Free Alumni Mentorship Circle for 3 months. Three 90 minute alumni mentorship calls with Karen after the program ends to help you integrate the training and continue to receive support to create rest programs and build your rest business. Free for 3 months after the training. “The community of alumni facilitators you've created is priceless,” Hester Brooks, restwithhester.com
Chakra Yoga Nidra Rest Cleanse. Seven restorative Daring to Rest Yoga Nidras aligning with the chakras.
“The times are urgent; let’s slow down.”
Bayo Akomolafe
Investment
EARLY BIRD PRICING
Earlybird pricing is available through Sunday, January 12th
Enroll now and save over $200.
Full Payment (earlybird):
$3,777
8 monthly payments (earlybird):
$497 per month
Refund Policy: If you need to cancel your spot, you can receive a refund minus a 30% administration fee until January 10, 2025. After this date there are no refunds.
We will allow you to transfer your spot to another person within the first month of the program.
These refund terms also apply to payment plans. Choosing a payment plan means you agree to pay the entire payment plan.
Refund requests must be in writing and include your name, a detailed account giving the reason you wish to withdraw, and why you feel a refund should be issued.
Testimonials
“The amount and variety of content in this training was amazing, but the connections and community were so so wonderful and really made the training what it is. ”
“I appreciate the depth and breadth of this training, and the ongoing vibratory message that “rest is revolution”, which has the potential to not only increase our own personal wellbeing and access to our inner well-spring, but also influence and affect our relationships with each other and the world for the better.”
Listen to Our Alumni Facilitators Share About Their Experiences in the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
On the Daring to Rest Podcast
Short Clips from Alumni Facilitators
Your Daring to Rest Teacher Training Team
Karen Brody
Creator & Teacher Trainer, Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
Karen Brody is a rest coach & facilitator, author, mother, and founder of the Daring to Rest community. She is the author of "Daring to Rest," the only yoga nidra book supporting women to claim their power through deep rest. She shares rest practices that weave women's empowerment, yoga nidra, meditation, embodiment, writing, and self-inquiry into experiences that invite women to rise up rested. Inside the Daring to Rest Facilitator & Certification Program, Karen has trained hundreds of women around the world to share the message of rest in their unique ways. She is also the host of the Daring to Rest Podcast where she interviews guests and talks about the landscape of rest and women leadership. Karen has been practicing and teaching about the power of rest for two decades, and has raised her now adult children on rest.
In 2003 she was having severe panic attacks, parenting two small children (one neurodivergent with high needs), and felt completely burnt out. Two years later everything changed. How? Karen discovered yoga nidra and the power of rest. From that moment on she has been passionate about helping people rise up rested, particularly women who often have throughout history experienced systems of female oppression that create obstacles to a rested life. The good news? Having now taught thousands of women to dare to rest, Karen is certain that changing the world with rest is possible and exactly what is needed in these times.
“Learning from Karen and being in community with her feels like one of the biggest gifts of this program. She is wise and also a student of rest and life. I appreciate her so deeply!”
“Karen really knows how to hold a safe and caring space for all. She is gentle, warm and a delight to learn from. I really love her feminine style of leadership.”
Zoe Kanat
Daring to Rest Teacher Trainer
Zoe Kanat is a certified Daring to Rest facilitator, certified meditation and mindfulness educator, and a trained Psychotherapist and Counsellor. She facilitates meditation classes, workshops and teacher training programs in various studios, corporate organisations, and schools in Australia and internationally.
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Zoe shares her guided meditation recordings, courses, and live events on Insight Timer to an audience of 17 thousand followers. She is deeply passionate about the art of relaxation, the ancient meditation practice of Yoga Nidra. She has spent several years personally and professionally practicing and studying in this area. In 2019 Zoe assumed a position on the board of Meditation Association of Australia, the national peak body representing meditation and mediation teachers. She is passionate about sharing the ancient practices of mindfulness and meditation in a direct, loving, and accessible way.
Zoe lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband, son and daughter.
Shelagh Lenon
Daring to Rest Teacher Trainer
Shelagh Lenon thrives in supporting women to come home to themselves through rest, seasonal living, and aromatic rituals of self-care.
She is a certified Daring to Rest facilitator, Veriditas-trained labyrinth facilitator, professional aromatherapist, and ritual artisan. Her professional background includes over twenty years of experience in the field of adult education as a teacher, facilitator, curriculum developer, and online learning specialist. Shelagh has an Honours BA in Sociology and Women’s Studies and a degree in Journalism.
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Her online Rest Garden offers retreats, rest circles, and self-care experiences connect women to the beauty & rhythms of the natural world, to the cadence of their inner gardens, and to the sweet nectar of being.
Shelagh is the mother of two young adult children. She lives in Calgary, Canada with her husband in a 110-year-old heritage home and loves to watch the moon from her bedroom window.
“Zoe is a fantastic mentor and guide, generously sharing her most authentic self. Her warmth, personable nature, and openness made it easy to connect with her and benefit from her experience. The on-the-spot coaching and peer group feedback in Zoe’s Certification Lab was fantastic, providing instant insights and actionable suggestions.”
“Shelagh is truly a rest fairy Godmother. She has held me, supported me, been a cheerleader and she has nurtured and guided me on so many levels. I feel like grateful is an insufficient expression of my appreciation and love for Shelagh.
To witness how she tenderly holds the space in Certification Lab, and supports each of us was so informative and beautiful. Shelagh balances her gentle and compassionate approach with tremendous knowledge and skill. We were so blessed to have her guidance and experience. ”
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Live Sessions are below.
All Times are listed in Mountain Time (New Mexico time)
You are not required to attend live - many women listen to the recordings
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PHASE 1: PRACTICE REST
January 20 - Opening Circle, 10am MT
January 21 - March 3, 2025, Rest Circles every Tuesday 10-11.30am MT
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PHASE 2: TEACH REST
March 18 - April 24, 2025, every Tuesday and Thursday, 10-11.30am MT
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PHASE 3: CERTIFICATION LAB
May 6 - June 10, 2025, every Tuesday either 10-12pm MT or 5-7pm MT
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Yes. All replays will be available within 24-hours after a session ends. Lots of women listen to the replays & love it.
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Yes. Every live session is available as a replay for you to listen to anytime. Material is downloadable and available until December 2025.
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The amount of time needed is different for everyone. However, the minimum requirements typically require 4 hours of your time per week. (This does not include your personal rest practice of yoga nidra and other rest-based practices).
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We strongly encourage women already trained in yoga nidra to join us.
Firstly, this training is much more than a yoga nidra teacher training. You will be immersed in the landscape of rest and receive many tools to work with people to help them become rested.
Secondly, all yoga nidra trainings give a different perspective, and we expect ours will too. Taking more than one yoga nidra training helps you find your yoga nidra style.
Daring to Rest is different from most other yoga nidra teacher trainings because we are more a feminine leadership and empowerment training that includes yoga nidra as a core practice that you will learn to teach. We teach you the history of yoga nidra, and have a deep respect for its roots, but this training is not yoga-focused. It is more leadership and empowerment focused.
You will benefit from learning a method that's based on a book you can use immediately to diversify your offerings and expand your reach. Also, when you join us you'll be a part of a life-long community of women who are passionate about changing the world with rest. You'll receive personal and professional development to support your evolution as a teacher and as a Rested Woman.
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Refund Policy: If you need to cancel your spot, you can receive a refund minus a 30% administration fee until January 10, 2025. After this date there are no refunds.
We will allow you to transfer your spot to another person within the first month of the program.
These refund terms also apply to payment plans. Choosing a payment plan means you agree to pay the entire payment plan.
Refund requests must be in writing and include your name, a detailed account giving the reason you wish to withdraw, and why you feel a refund should be issued.
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All training materials are downloadable and you will have access to our portal until December 2025.
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Certification Requirements
Attend live or watch the recordings of all live sessions.
Lead one live yoga nidra experience in your online Certification Lab.
*While we would prefer you lead yoga nidra inside the Certification Lab, we understand it is not always possible and can make an exception to submit a yoga nidra recording to your certification mentor.
A short essay or audio on your rest story and why you are passionate about sharing the message of rest.
Read the book Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Meditation by Karen Brody
Complete the short reflection questions for Modules 1-5.
Submit the 40-Day Program Feedback Form, Teach Rest: Reflection Form, Facilitator Feedback Form & The Certification Completion Form. These forms can be found in your Certification Lab circle section in this portal.
All certification materials must be submitted by October 15, 2025.
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We get it - professional trainings are an investment. Here are your options if you have limited income.
We have a 9-month payment plan option available to help lower the immediate financial pressure. If you need a longer payment plan click here to contact us. We will work with you.
We also offer three partial scholarships. You can learn more and apply for a scholarship here. The scholarship deadline is December 10, 2024.
While we encourage being bold and taking a leap of faith if you feel called to join us, we do not encourage joining us if you are not able to pay your monthly expenses.
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No. There are lots of women who take this training and work with people of all genders. Every Daring to Rest program can be tailored to women, men, children, and non-binary folks.
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Maybe. Most women who take this training want to teach, but some love the topic so much that they want to take this training for the advanced teachings and personal transformation. There is no requirement to teach. First rest, then teach when or if you want to.
More Questions?
We’re happy to answer any other questions you have. Click here to contact us.
It’s time to build a rested world together.
Become a leader in the rest revolution.