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Join host & Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody and a circle of extraordinary women from Sisterhood 10 of our Daring to Rest Facilitator Training as they reflect on their journeys as rest leaders, yoga nidra facilitators, and students of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training. You’ll hear honest stories of stepping into rest leadership, navigating burnout, and breaking generational cycles of overwork and self-denial. Stay to the end for participants’ favorite rest words! This episode is ideal for any women craving inspiration, rest, and a powerful reminder that rest is a radical, loving act. It’s also ideal if you’re interested in joining our next Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training in January 2026.
Show Notes
Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training for Women - starts January 19, 2026. Details are here.
Show Guests
Malica Ahmad
Malica Ahmad is mom to Jalen, a Daring to Rest® Facilitator, Thrive-Certified Wellness Coach, and Tiny Habits® Coach helping women release sugar, exhaustion, and old narratives of “doing” so they can reclaim their energy, confidence, and feminine flow. After 25 years in Corporate America, Malica’s own journey through burnout and healing redefined her leadership, anchoring it in rest, faith, and radical self-compassion. She now weaves rest as an integral part of her health coaching practice, because health is holistic, and how can we truly be healthy without rest? Through her coaching, Malica guides purpose-driven women to lead from alignment rather than hustle and to embrace rest not as a reward, but as a sacred right. You can learn more about Malica here or connect with her at hello@malicanahmad.com.
Roxanne S. Almas, MD, MSPH
Dr. Roxanne S. Almas is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital whose practice centers whole-person care, family partnership, and trauma-informed healing. Fluent in French and proficient in Spanish, she brings cultural awareness, equity, and deep listening to her work. Certified in Daring to Rest® Yoga Nidra and trained in Narrative Medicine, she explores how rest and storytelling support resilience in healthcare. A writer and poet, her reflections on healing and clinician well-being have appeared in Bioethics Today and KevinMD, and one of her poems was adapted into a film for the Breathe: Honoring Voices of Healthcare series. Dr. Almas promotes creative expression and a “rest ethic” as essential to cultivating compassion and sustaining care. Outside of medicine, she finds joy in writing, gardening with her family, and discovering the sacred in everyday life. You can learn more about Roxanne here or contact her at roxanne.aga@gmail.com.
Tonya Clark
Tonya Clark is the founder of Mend + Abide and Mindfuled, sister brands devoted to restoring wholeness in education, leadership, and life. Through her school-based leadership coaching and wellness practices, she helps educators and executives integrate rest as a strategy for renewal and sustainable impact. Her Yoga Nidra and mindfulness offerings invite others to slow down, listen deeply, and lead from softness without losing their spark. You can learn more about Tonya here.
Michelle Leck
Michelle Leck is the founder of Yin Essence Well Being Australia, a soft-landing for women to re-awaken the feminine life force energy from within, through embodied rest practices that soothe the nervous system, harmonize and realign with your most present and true self. The invitation and guidance is to remember what you have always known, and that it can be found in the slow, in the simple, in the rejuvenating, deeply fulfilling pace of deep rest. Michelle is a woman in tune with the seasons and cycles of a living world, a mother of two girls and a Breast Cancer thriver. After a long history of ‘pushing on’, in a culture that values productivity over rest, She now crafts and guides meditations, rest practices, ritual and ceremony. In addition to this, Michelle creates nourishing spaces for women to slow down, tune in to the rhythm and cycles of life, feeling their own unique rhythm emerge, and guidance on how to continue to receive their own inner truth and wisdom. From here liberation begins. Learn more about Michelle here or find her on Instagram @yin_essence_ or Insight Timer - Michelle Leck-Yin Essence.
Charmaine Renée
Charmaine Renée is a Breathwork practitioner, Daring to Rest® Yoga Nidra Facilitator and Rest coach who’s walked a long and winding path of healing decades of chronic burnout and disconnect from her body’s signals. A final debilitating burnout in 2018 changed the course of her life and career forever. Through the breath, nervous system regulation, and deep rest, she found her way off the hamster wheel of her conditioning back home to her essential self, and heart’s wisdom. She now supports other women in reclaiming self-liberation, embodied wisdom and joy through rest and the easeful path. You can learn more about Charmaine here or on Instagram @charmaine.renee.