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 transformational 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 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, a deep dive 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
Lifetime access.
No previous experience is required to take our facilitator training. You simply have to be a woman with a passion 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 support to weave deep transformational rest into your work, create rest-centered programs & retreats, and become the rested woman and rest leader you need, your household needs, 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 yoga nidra, a deep transformational rest practice. 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 doing what you love.
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 others to a supremely rested place.
“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!”
Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training
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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You have lifetime access. (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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The amount of time needed is different for everyone. Having said this, typically women tell us it takes a minimum of 5-7 hours per week. This includes the time you rest.
It typically takes 18 weeks to complete the entire training - although you can go at your own pace.
You have lifetime access.
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The Live monthly Facilitator Mentorship Circle with Karen takes place on 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 and she will answer them on the coaching call.
You have free access to this monthly facilitator coaching for one year from 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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Yoga nidra is a sleep-base meditation and a state of consciousness known as yogic sleep.
To practice, you lie down, listen to a guided voice, and are taken into a supreme state of relaxation.
Yoga nidra is more than deep rest - it is transformational, working beyond the ego mind and softening years of exhausting patterns and beliefs. This allows you to lie down and wake up to your most vibrant self.
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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 supports you to teach yoga nidra. 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 women’s empowerment focused. (For example, we connect the yoga nidra experience to the Heroine’s Journey!)
You will benefit from learning a method that's based on Karen’s book Daring to Rest. This enables you 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 free personal and professional development for one year 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 yoga nidra, 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. We slowly offer the content so as to not overwhelm you.
It typically takes 18 weeks to complete the training.
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 are eligible to receive a certificate of completion after you finish the training for no extra cost.
If you’d like to professionally certify, this is possible for an additional fee.
All materials must be submitted within 3 years of the time you enroll in 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 are interested in the training and why you need a scholarship. We determine scholarship on a rolling basis.
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Women who:
Currently run a heath or healing business.
Are therapists, coaches, and anyone else who offers emotional and mental support.
Have their heart set on helping people experience deep transformational rest.
Offer rest programs already and want to add what we feel is the #1 practice that needs to be in every rest program.
Already teach yoga nidra and want to diversify your learning experience and find your yoga nidra style.
Want to learn a rest empowerment framework that’s backed by a book.
Love yoga nidra and want to immerse yourself in these teachings. For you, it’s personal - right now, you do not see yourself teaching yoga nidra.
Believe people deserve rest - and want to offer a rest practice that will change lives.
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Someone who isn’t interested in developing a person yoga nidra practice.
Someone looking to be quickly teaching yoga nidra. We focus on embodiment first, then we teach you yoga nidra. This is not a weekend yoga nidra teacher training.
Someone who is not interested in depth. This training invites you into a deep conversation about yoga nidra, the power of rest, and living and working with rest at the center.
More Questions?
We’re happy to answer any other questions you have. Click here to contact us.
About the Teacher
Karen Brody
18 Years.
500+ Women Rest Leaders.
Served deep rest to over 15,000 women | Author of Daring to Rest, the only yoga nidra book for women | Host of the Daring to Rest Podcast | Mother of 2 young men raised on rest
The women I love working with most are passionate about rest. You’ve got a deep feeling that rest is the remedy we need right now, that it is the medicine you need, and you have clients who are exhausted and in urgent need of rest. You are searching for a rest direction, support to live and work with rest at the center, and you can never quite find the right community.
I get it. I built Daring to Rest from my personal passion to rest into a rest business that has helped women around the world be the first rested woman in their lineage, with the Daring to Rest book as the first step.
The challenge to become a confident yoga nidra teacher is not how hard you study it. It’s that you need to embody it. Because the best rest leaders embody what they teach.
In the Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training, I’ll show you how to confidently lead yoga nidra, love yoga nidra, and embody yoga nidra, so you can step into the rest leader of your dreams. (And have more impact and income - something so many women who offer rest practices need help with!).
I love yoga nidra, and can’t wait to teach it to you.
“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!”
Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training
What Awaits You
Develop a Deeply Rooted Rest Practice
Experience the transformative power of yoga nidra for yourself. You'll deepen your personal practice, explore the five koshas that guide us into the state of yoga nidra, and strengthen your connection to your own embodied wisdom. This inner foundation becomes the ground from which you teach, lead, and live.
Learn to Confidently Guide Yoga Nidra
Receive the tools, training, and practice needed to skillfully lead yoga nidra experiences for others. You'll learn how to guide yoga nidra with confidence, create your own scripts or use our scripts, and understand the science, history, and healing potential of yoga nidra.
Teach from Karen Brody’s book, Daring to Rest
One of the most unique aspects of this training is that you'll learn to teach from Karen Brody's pioneering book, Daring to Rest, the first yoga nidra book written specifically for women. You'll complete the training with a proven framework that helps women understand their exhaustion and find their way back to themselves through yoga nidra. The book can serve as a guide for workshops, book groups, retreats, coaching programs, and transformational rest experiences, giving you both a structure to teach from and a powerful resource to recommend to your students.
Explore the Landscape of Rest
Go beyond yoga nidra and immerse yourself in the larger conversation of rest. You’ll be introduced to themes on rest to help you deepen how you hold space for transformation through rest.
Learn Rest-Centered Business and Leadership Skills
Learn how to share your work in a way that feels aligned and authentic. You'll receive guidance on creating and marketing rest offerings, growing your confidence as a rest leader, and building a practice that supports both meaningful impact and sustainable income.
Receive Live Mentorship and Sisterhood Support
For one year, you'll be part of the Facilitator Mentorship Circle, receiving monthly coaching and support from Karen Brody. You'll also join a global sisterhood of women committed to bringing rest into their communities, families, workplaces, and the world.
Enjoy Lifetime Access to the Training
Return to the material whenever you need it. Many women revisit the training again and again as their teaching evolves, their life changes, and their relationship with rest deepens.
Join a Global Sisterhood of Rest Leaders
Become part of the Daring to Rest lineage of Rest Leaders. Karen has trained women to guide yoga nidra for fourteen years, and graduates are leading rest classes, retreats, trainings, coaching programs, and communities around the world.
“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.”
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 people with health challenges, burnout, and in life’s most demanding seasons — parenting, menopause, divorce, addiction recovery, and career change.
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, like 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. A medical doctor finished this training and started a Rested Healer program for physicians. A recovery coach has added yoga nidra into what she now called Rested Recovery.
The possibilities are endless. 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 with yoga nidra, 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 and working continues to unfold long after the training ends.
It’s our joy to support you as you bring the power of deep 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 me - with my loved ones and my work.”
“ 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.”
“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. ”
“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.
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 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.”
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.”
“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.”
Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training
Add deep transformational rest to your life & work
“This training was the greatest gift I have given to myself in years.”