Add Deep Transformational Rest to Your Programs, Retreats, and Coaching
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training is a 100-hour self-paced teacher training for women where you’ll learn to practice, teach, and embody the deepest rest imaginable
“ 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. ”
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training is a self-paced online program for women who want to dare to rest for themselves and share deep rest with others
With our support, you’ll deepen your practice and understanding of yoga nidra, gain the confidence to teach and share this practice with others, and have a self-healing practice for life.
FROM LEADING WITH HEART TO LEADING WITH HEART & DEEP REST
You know it’s time to give people deep rest
And this takes investing in a rest practice that makes a difference
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training is designed to teach women coaches, teachers, facilitators and visionaries to lead yoga nidra, a life-changing deep rest practice …
And transform your work to meet the most urgent problem of our time: exhaustion.
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training
Experience
A self-paced 100-hour online yoga nidra teacher training for women. Begin anytime.
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Deep Rest for You
The training begins with deep rest for you - a 40-day Daring to Rest yoga nidra practice and journeying through and learning about the five koshas, the primary components of a yoga nidra experience.
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Learn to Teach Yoga Nidra
Dive deep into the foundations of yoga nidra, the components of a yoga nidra script, and gain confidence to facilitate yoga nidra. You’ll receive scripts to start leading.
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The Daring to Rest Method
Our three-phase roadmap helps you teach yoga nidra and create powerful rest programs as a form of embodied leadership with rest at the center. You’ll discover how the Daring to Rest method and yoga nidra connect with the Heroine’s Journey to guide you personally and professionally.
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Professional Essentials
Rest-centered business and leadership strategy, your rest story as your leadership story, deep dives into the Landscape of Rest to broaden your education, and templates to help you start teaching.
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Monthly Coaching
Live group coaching every month for one year with Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody and Daring to Rest Facilitator Alumni
No previous experience is required to take our facilitator training. You simply have to be a woman with a hunger for rest - personally, professionally, globally.
When you are helping people thrive…
Rest is the Foundation for Health and Healing
🌀 You know your clients need rest, but you do not have many rest practices to offer them
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🌀 You offer lots of rest practices - like asana yoga, dance - but no deep rest practices
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training meets you where you are and provides a place where you will learn directly from Karen, with her 18 years of experience offering deep rest to women, and with our support you’ll to weave deep transformational rest to your work, create rest-centered programs & retreats, and become the rested woman and rest leader you need and the world needs.
“All women who come to my massage 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.”
“I have attempted other teacher training programs before, mainly focused on somatic practices, and was never able to complete them. I applaud Karen for creating a program that’s both very deep but also practical to learn from. I am deeply appreciative of being part of this program and this work.”
“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.”
You are making a difference in people’s lives.
But now you want to add deep transformational rest. You want to share the foundation of self love and care with the people in your life.
Your relationship with rest has been up and down over your life, and you can now see more clearly how deep rest centers your wellbeing, those around you, and your clients.
You want to connect the dots of your work, to root and give foundation to your own practice and relationship with rest, and to share rest with the people in your life, personally and professionally.
And this takes undoing the hustle culture mentality that prevails in our culture, adopting a bigger picture focused on deep rest as an antidote to deep exhaustion, and receiving the skills to share deep transformational rest with others. This is the support we will provide in the Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training.
The Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training is not a yoga nidra teacher training to get you quickly teaching. It’s an embodiment journey and a sisterhood of women rest leaders you grow with.
It becomes the community you need to have more impact and income.
It’s the bridge to not only a rest centered business, but a rested life.
We help you feel deeply rested in your bones and lead from this place, in your work and life.
“I loved how doable this training was presented. I became someone who fully believed I could teach rest to others. And I am doing it!”
Investment
Full Payment: $2,497 US dollars
Payment Plan options are available when you click on the link below
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If the training does not feel right for you a full refund is possible in the first 7 days after purchasing the training. We must receive your request in writing by email in the first 7 days.
After this time, there are no refunds.
These refund terms also apply to payment plans. Choosing a payment plan means you agree to pay the entire payment plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
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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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Facilitator coaching is the first Thursday of every month from 10-11.30am Mountain Time. (12-1.30pm Eastern / 5-6.30pm UK).
Replays are always available in our portal. If you cannot attend live you can always email Karen your questions 24 hours before and she will answer them on the coaching call.
You have access to this monthly facilitator coaching for one year after the time you purchase the facilitator training. After that, there is an option to continue receiving coaching for a small monthly fee.
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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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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 rest transformation. There is no requirement to teach. First rest, then teach when or if you want to.
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There are two phases: Practice Rest and Teach Rest.
If you’d like to see the entire curriculum reach out to us HERE and we’ll email it to you.
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You will have forever access in our portal to all training materials. (As long as Daring to Rest exists or we get rid of our portal, which we have no plans to do!).
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Certification Requirements
Attend live or watch the recordings of all live sessions.
Lead one live yoga nidra experience in your live online Certification Lab or submit your yoga nidra and script to us if you cannot attend a Certification Lab.
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.
All certification materials must be submitted within 3 years of the time you begin the training.
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Each year we offer several partial scholarship spots for women of color, the Global South, or who are experiencing unusual financial hardship. If that’s you, send us an email HERE telling us why you need a scholarship. We determine scholarship on a rolling basis.
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More Questions?
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About the Teacher
Karen Brody
I am excited you interested in the Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training.
I’ve been on a mission for decades now to train women to become rest leaders. To me, it’s ideal women’s work: we get to experience the rest medicine we offer, deliver it to others, dismantle toxic grind culture, and build the rested world we want to live in.
I’m a mom of two young men in their twenties who were raised on rest, I’m the author of the only yoga nidra book written just for women: Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Meditation.
If you feel called to add transformational deep rest to your work and life, then I hope you’ll join us inside the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training.
I will help you dare to rest and pass on the gift of rest to others.
Here’s to your rested future,
xo
Karen
“Learning from Karen 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!”
After the Training: Bring Daring to Rest Into Your Life and Work
Professional Transformation: Bring the Power of Rest Into Your Work
Graduates have brought Daring to Rest into spaces supporting health challenges, burnout, and life’s most demanding seasons — parenting, menopause, divorce, addiction recovery, and career change.
One graduate — a pediatrician — created a Rested Healer talk for doctors and presented it at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual conference. Leadership coaches have introduced rest programs in corporate spaces. Therapists and coaches are integrating yoga nidra into private sessions. Healers are combining yoga nidra with their creative offerings, offering deep rest and soul collage. Women’s wellness practitioners are offering retreats and rest programs for women. Academics are bringing rest to universities through student programs and faculty trainings.
Wherever you feel called to lead, rest belongs.
Personal Transformation: A Homecoming to Yourself
This training doesn’t just change how you lead — it changes how you live.
As you journey through deep rest, you’ll begin to release layers of exhaustion and return to your natural rhythm. You’ll feel more grounded in your body, clearer in your choices, and more connected to what truly matters.
Many women tell us that a softer, steadier, rested way of living continues to unfold long after the training ends.
It’s our joy to support you as you bring the power of rest into your own life — and the lives of those you serve.
Eliza, Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator, leading yoga nidra at a retreat in Portgual.
“This training has completely transformed the way I see the world, approach my everyday life and the way I see my work.
When it comes to rest and the impact it’s had on my work in the world, it has been so incredible enlightening and expansive to weave rest into my work in the women’s health space. It feels like I was weaving with fibers going only one way before and that now rest has provided the fibers to weave in the opposite direction, building an entirely new texture and strength to my work textile. It again, feels like rest was the missing element that has shifted everything.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you, I cannot wait to step further and further into the frequency of rest the remainder of my life. ”
“From the moment I began this training, something deep within me began to soften, awaken, and return. The Daring to Rest Facilitator Program has been more than a certification - it has been a sacred remembering.”
“I joined the facilitator 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.”
Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator Karen Perro setting up her consistently sold-out Healing Hammocks rest program in Nova Scotia.
Ways women are offering yoga nidra after they complete the Facilitator Training:
Weaving yoga nidra into a Rested Recovery Program
Creating a Rested Healer program for physicians
Offer deep rest for clients in coaching and therapy sessions
Offering Daring to Rest in corporate environments
Leading Daring to Rest programs for teachers, professors, students, and staff at schools
Adding yoga nidra to menstrual and menstruation leadership programs
Weaving yoga nidra into naturapathic & aurvedic healing protocols
Offering a sold out Healing Hammock program and Deep Rest & Celtic Wisdom
Lead rest retreats all around the world
Leading women’s Rest Circles
Combining yoga nidra with their indigenous practices to create Rest Ceremonies
Meet Florence, trained Daring to Rest Facilitator
Meet Karen, Certified Daring to Rest Facilitator
“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. ”
“ I am grateful for the depth and integrity of this training. It was truly everything I hoped it would be and more. I came away feeling supported, seen, and inspired. Not just as a facilitator, but as a woman learning to live and lead with rest at the centre.”
Listen to Our Alumni Facilitators
“I joined the facilitator training to ignite a 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.”
Inside the Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training You’ll:
Learn how to teach Yoga Nidra - a guided sleep-based meditation and deeply restorative state of consciousness. You will be able to confidently lead yoga nidra.
Learn Daring to Rest Method — a powerful yoga nidra and heroine’s journey inspired framework to helps you teach, lead, and live from a deeply rested place.
Explore how to weave deep rest into your existing work or create new, rest-centered offerings, retreats, and programs that align with your purpose.
Be supported monthly by Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, and a global sisterhood of Rest Leaders — women who are redefining success, leadership, and culture through the power of rest.
“This training was the greatest gift I have given to myself in years.”
Add deep transformational rest to your life & work
“Karen’s work, Daring to Rest, this training, have changed my life in so many ways. I approach my life and leadership from a Rest Perspective, now and forever. A million thank you’s.”