Yoli Maya Yeh shares with us her thoughts on the sacred destruction happening in our world today, particularly how it relates to racism and White privilege in the yoga world, classroom inclusion, and yoga nidra. She provides a perspective on yoga nidra that you may have never heard before, and is

Anyone who practices yoga nidra knows it can feel like being in a sanctuary. We a lot about this sanctuary – that it’s a space that’s soft, and even playful. But are you choosing to lie down from a place of freedom, where you’re at the center, or are you, often unknowingly, allowing a system to take your power? In this podcast Uma Dinsmore Tuli and Yoli Maya Yeh call us to reclaim sleep and yoga for planetary healing, justice and freedom.

When women honor our menstrual cycle, we access our feminine power. But we simply can’t unlock that power if we don’t stop to rest when our body needs it. Today, Barbara Dopfer joins me to discuss the parallels between yoga nidra and the Red School’s inner maps of menstrual cycle awareness.

We think of power as the ability to assert ourselves in the world and manifest what we want. But Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer contend the ultimate power lies in our capacity to trust rest. Today, they join me to discuss the magic of menstrual cycle awareness on the feminine path to power.

Bestselling author Jennifer Louden joins me to talk about her new book, "Why Bother: Discovering The Desire for What's Next." We’re in a huge “Why Bother” moment right now, reckoning with what we care about, and what it means to live and to engage in our lives. Have you been playing it safe, and this pandemic pause is coaxing you to believe that you can live a new more satisfying story? Join us on this episode for this daring conversation.

Sleep and dream specialist Dr. Rubin Naiman gives us a rest-perspective on COVID-19 and the current pandemic that has forced people around the world to stay in their homes to prevent the spread of the virus. Is this a “call to rest” moment? Are we in a waking dream? And what’s the number one way we can build our immunity right now? When you’re forced to rest, you can tune out or tune in. What if this is our moment to tune in? Listen in and join us for this unique discussion.

How many times have women stayed silent throughout history? What if rest was a remedy to help us speak up? On today’s episode, to celebrate International Women’s Day, I talk about how rest helps us reclaim our voices. This episode, and the yoga nidra that accompanies it, was inspired by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ piece, "How to Silence a Woman: Retrieving Her Voice." Here's to the rise of your well-rested - and no longer silenced - woman.

How would you describe your relationship with your body? Many of us struggle with feelings of disconnection or shame, and we only allow ourselves pleasure in the form of reward for or recovery from hard work. Today, Mary Lofgren joins me to discuss the power of sensual living as a pathway to fulfillment.

In this special Rest Stories Series, Karen and ten Certified Daring to Rest Facilitators, tell their rest stories, explain what rest means to them and why they are so passionate about teaching yoga nidra to others. Throughout the month of January, we’ll be telling our rest stories. Listen in to discover why yoga nidra is “more than a fancy nap” and why so many women are teaching it to create a well-rested world.

Sloshing around in our inner territory is scary, but there is freedom in the truth. And only by exploring our shadows can we begin to heal ourselves and the world around us. Today, Pixie Lighthorse joins me to discuss her latest book, Goldmining the Shadows, and examine the role of rest in accessing our inner wisdom.

Do you struggle with the creative process? Get stuck in self-doubt? Or have trouble finding time to practice your craft? Today, Nicole Gulotta joins me to discuss how a writer’s life is lived in 10 seasons and explain how we can use these natural rhythms (and yoga nidra!) to enhance our creative work.

In the second grade, my son Jacob was diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning difference that makes it difficult for people to read quickly and automatically—but has no connection to overall intelligence. Today, Jacob joins me to share his experiences with dyslexia, and I explain how yoga nidra helped me navigate raising a dyslexic child.

Today, the Daring to Rest Sisters who attended the First International Yoga Nidra Conference join me to share their top takeaways from the experience. We explore how yoga nidra effectively reorganizes our relationship with our emotions, and that the yoga nidra framework is a jungle gym where we can play, affording our students different entry points to the practice and expanding their opportunities to restore wholeness.

Today on the Daring to Rest podcast I'm taking you inside the most recent tribe in the Daring to Rest Academy. Meet an intuitive astrologer, to a Qoya movement teacher and trainer who is also a reiki master, and a health psychology professor at one of the most prestigious women's college's in the United States. Learn about the creative ways these women are bringing to fruition and dreaming about sharing the message of rest.

As with yoga nidra, liminal dreaming requires us to surrender. To let go and drop into a space of deep relaxation. To have a conversation with the unconscious. Today, Jennifer Dumpert joins the Daring to Rest Podcast to define liminal dreams and discuss how to develop your own practice that supports creativity and problem-solving—and improves your overall wellbeing.

We all have the innate capacity to heal from within. We also live in a world filled with toxins and other stressors that block that healing life energy. Today, Hillary Thing joins me to share her holistic approach to uprooting Lyme and other chronic illnesses and helping patients wake up to their powerful life force!

Are you trying to prove yourself through productivity? Are you addicted to being busy, somehow convinced that your worth is connected to how much you get done? Today, Kate Northrup joins me to explain how to tap into the natural rhythms that are already a part of you and achieve more—by doing less!

In this episode Daring to Rest founder Karen Brody chats from her rest cave about the rest cure, an immensely popular method used on women in the middle and upper classes in the late 1800s in American and Europe who were mysteriously getting sick. Find out why this period in history is important and what women can learn from it to help us take back rest today.

Perhaps you’re considering enrolling in the Daring to Rest Academy, but you want to know more about what to expect. Today, Melissa Barnet, Jo Blackman, Cheri Brown and Barbara Dopfer share their experience as part of Tribe 2 and explain how they are bringing the gift of yoga nidra “sleep” meditation to the world.

We know that being well-rested improves the quality of our lives because we can FEEL it. But what if more women measured the impact of practices like yoga nidra? Today, Dr. Nicole Bowman joins me to share the system she used to track Daring to Rest yoga nidra’s effect on her health and productivity.