Karen Brody

Official Bio: Karen Brody

Mom, Author, and Founder of Daring to Rest

Karen Brody is the founder of Daring to Rest, a global movement helping women reclaim rest as a path to healing, leadership, ancestral reclamation, and transformation. She is the author of Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation and the creator of The Rested Path® and Daring to Rest® frameworks.

For nearly two decades, Karen has guided thousands of women to break free from chronic exhaustion through yoga nidra, rest practices, women-centered embodiment coaching and training programs. Her work explores the intersection of rest, the mother wound, caregiving, ancestral patterns, and women's wellbeing.

The host of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Karen is passionate about helping women become the first rested woman in their lineage.

Hi, I’m Karen Brody

— mom, author, and rest coach OG

Greetings,

If you're considering studying with me here at Daring to Rest, I want you to know something: I understand how difficult it can be to become a rested woman when you didn't grow up around rest.

I was raised in an unrested household. My mother carried a tremendous amount of exhaustion, stress, and emotional pain. She was doing the best she could with the exhaustion she inherited, but rest was not something she embodied or modeled. Slowing down felt foreign. Being still felt unsafe. There was always something to do, fix, worry about, or carry.

As a result, I grew up believing that exhaustion was simply part of being a woman.

It took years of burnout, panic attacks, caregiving, and life experiences that brought me to my knees before I discovered another way. This new way - what I now call The Rested Path - happened gradually starting in my early forties, but really got my attention in my fifties while caring for my mother with Alzheimer’s. Facing the challenging reality of being the caregiver of my mother, a woman I love deeply but felt I had to mother all my life, I began to get curious about inherited exhaustion in my motherline. I now understand that my exhaustion did not start with me. I have been carrying not only my own burdens, but also patterns that had been passed down through the women who came before me.

That realization changed everything.

Today, I support women who feel called to become the first rested woman in their lineage. Women who want deep rest yet also sense that a rested life is about far more than self-care. Women who want to break cycles of depletion, reconnect with themselves, and create a different legacy for those who come after them.

Whether you join me to deepen your own rest practice or to professionally train as a rest leader, my intention is the same: to help you remember that another way of living is possible.

A softer way.
A more spacious way.
A rested way.

The path isn’t perfect. Some days we are on a Rested Path, and other days we are not. But what I do know is that if you have no coordinates it is hard to find the path. I teach you the coordinates and this allows you to move away from your rest wounds and become the Rest Heroine of your life.

The world does not need more exhausted women holding everything together. It needs rested women who know how to listen to themselves, trust their inner wisdom, and lead from a place of wholeness.

If that speaks to something inside you, I would be honored help you step onto a more Rested Path.

Here’s to daring to rest,

laying your motherline exhaustion down,

and rising as a Rested Woman.

xo

Karen