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Karen speaks with six newly certified Daring to Rest Facilitators from Sisterhood 9 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training who recently led rest sessions at our annual online Rest Camp for Women. Hear their stories and why they are passionate about being rest leaders in our world today. This is a conversation for anyone who believes in the power of rest, wants to dare to rest, and women curious about taking our next Daring to Rest Facilitator Training.
Show Notes
Learn more about the next Daring to Rest Facilitator training: daringtorest.com/facilitator
Meet the Certified Daring to Rest Facilitators in this Episode
Pat Cail
Pat Cail lives happily in the mountains of north Georgia with her husband of 54 years. She is a mom, grandmother and great grandmother. Pat became a certified Daring to Rest Facilitator in 2024 and currently offers Daring to Rest yoga nidra classes to her students while playing the crystal bowls. She has taught Kripalu yoga for 22 years (RYT500) and holds an advanced certificate in chakra yoga from Anodea Judith, is a certified restorative yoga teacher, a certified chair yoga teacher, and a certified crystal healer. When she is not doing yoga, Pat loves to walk labyrinths and create mandalas.
You can learn more about Pat here.
Steffi Meyl
I’m Steffi, 57 years old and I live in Germany. I’m a teacher for neurodiverse children and young adults My second love is being a yoga teacher, yoga therapist, and recently teaching yoga nidra as a certified Daring to Rest Facilitator.
I love to combine movement with yoga asanas, breathwork and the deep rest of yoga nidra to create a holistic experience for body, mind, and spirit. I also teach the pure experience of Yoga Nidra and her deep impact of lying down to wake up.
You can learn more about Steffi here.
Aomawa Shields
Aomawa Shields is the Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, a writer, classically-trained actor, and certified Daring to Rest Facilitator. She studies the climates and potential habitability of planets orbiting low-mass stars, using theoretical computer models and observational data. She is Founder and Director of the educational program Rising Stargirls, which encourages girls of all colors and backgrounds to explore the universe using the creative arts. Aomawa loves using her experience to inspire others to embrace their whole selves and full potential. Her first book, Life on Other Planets: A Memoir ofFinding My Place in the Universe, was published by Viking in 2023. She facilitated her first yoga nidra workshop at Caltech in May, and is currently facilitating a workshop this fall semester for UCI Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, and Postdocs in the School of Physical Sciences.She is excited to share yoga nidra with the Princeton University community in February, and with groups of visitors from all over the world under the majestic night sky over the Grand Canyon for six week next fall as an Astronomer-in-Residence. Aomawa loves eating food that is both delicious and nourishing, reading for pleasure, movies, learning Italian, and spending time and traveling with her husband and their nearly 7-year old daughter.
You can learn more about Aomawa here or email aomawashields@gmail.com.
Terri Scherer
Terri Hagar Scherer is a woman in long term recovery and founder of Peaceful Heart Recovery Solutions. Her recovery journey and diverse career over the past 40 years has led her to help many to find their way back to lives of meaning and purpose. She is a Texas certified RSPS, recovery support peer specialist, and group facilitator for Mindfulness in Recovery®. As a newly certified Daring to Rest facilitator, she has created a new and integrative coaching program, Rest into Recovery, an invitation into the spacious container of Yoga Nidra, self discovery and reclamation of a peaceful heart.
You can learn more about Terri here.
Lila Buckley
Lila Buckley is a recovering global development and food policy researcher who spent the last 20 years traveling the world and running herself to the ground. Her burnout came in the form of severe and disabling long covid nearly five years ago. As tired as Lila was, she struggled with the abrupt end to her career and the accompanying guilt and shame surrounding her body’s demand for rest. As an anthropologist, she naturally dove into learning about rest practices around the world, including of her own ancestors. During this journey, Lila found yoga nidra and Daring to Rest, which led her to become a certified Daring to Rest Facilitator in 2024 and join the growing movement to decolonize rest in our modern world. Lila is passionate about creating space for people to rise up rested through meditation, rest, journaling and play.
You can learn more about Lila here.
Ali Schmitt
Ali Schmitt is a mother of three, social worker, yoga teacher and certified Daring to Rest facilitator from Sisterhood 9. Ali has a telehealth private practice where she works with women, mothers and parents to navigate the challenges of caring for themselves while they care for others. Ali teaches yoga nidra to mothers in an online group called The School of MOM and in person north of Boston. Ali is participating in Karen's Rest Path training to become a certified Rest Coach and plans to add Rest Coaching to her private practice in 2025.
You can learn more about Ali here.