Karen Brody

Official Bio: Karen Brody

Mom, Author, and Founder of Daring to Rest

Karen Brody is a rest and women’s empowerment coach, yoga nidra teacher, author, and the founder of Daring to Rest—a global movement helping women reclaim rest as a source of power, healing, and wholeness. She is the author of Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Meditation, and the creator of the Daring to Rest™ Method and the Rested Path™ Framework. Through Daring to Rest programs, Karen has taught tens of thousands of women yoga nidra and how to create a rested life. She has also trained women around the world to guide others on a journey to rest through her Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator and Rest Coach training programs. Karen is the mother of two young adult sons raised on rest.

Hi, I’m Karen Brody

— mom, author, and rest coach OG

I believe the world needs women rest leaders.

Before I created Daring to Rest™ eighteen years ago, I was a woman running on empty. I was a mother of two young boys, an over-doer chasing deadlines, and a longtime anxiety sufferer. I looked like I had it all together, but inside, I was deeply exhausted.

I didn’t need another productivity hack or green juice.

I needed rest — the deep, transformational kind.

And that’s when I found yoga nidra meditation in 2005.
What started as a desperate search for a nap turned into a radical awakening. I began resting deeply. I began remembering myself. And I started rising - more rested, clear, and rooted in my power.

This journey didn’t just change my life, it transformed my family. As I began to rest, my children gained a more present, grounded mother. I wasn’t constantly in survival mode anymore. I was able to model what it looks like to value rest, set rest boundaries, and live in alignment with my body’s wisdom. In choosing to dare to rest, I broke a generational cycle of exhaustion that ran deep in my mother line. I stepped out of the story of the over-giving, depleted woman — and into a new legacy rooted in ease, wholeness, sovereignty, and care.

Of course, none of my journey has been perfect. There’s no perfectly rested woman on the planet. I am certainly not. At Daring to Rest, we encourage women to chuck perfect and keep centering rest in their life.

I’ve been a trained yoga nidra teacher since 2008 with iRest and then certified in I Am Yoga Nidra. I’ve now shared this work with tens of thousands of women around the world, developing two powerful frameworks along the way: Daring to Rest™, rooted in yoga nidra meditation, and The Rested Path™, a series of rest transmissions to live a rest-centered life. I’ve trained women to teach yoga nidra and offer Rested Path coaching to their exhausted clients and communities. I’ve spoken on stages and podcasts, and written the book Daring to Rest. I’m the host of the Daring to Rest Podcast. But more than anything, I’ve listened to women’s stories of burnout and helped them take the brave steps they need to create a rested life.

I’m not here to promise that rest will make life magically easy. I’m here to tell you this: You are not crazy - you are exhausted. And you’ve been living in a world that thrives on your exhaustion. You deserve a rested life.

What if you were the first woman in your lineage to be a Rested Woman?

If you feel called to join us at Daring to Rest, I’d be honored to welcome you into our Rest Sisterhood.

xo

Karen