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!
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.
“When I lost my sleep, I lost a little piece of my soul.” – Laurissa Wieler
What happens when you lose your sleep? In this episode I introduce you to Laurissa Wieler, who lost her sleep twenty years ago and today is channeling her musings on sleep into a whimsical bedtime stories book for women who can’t sleep. In this episode, Laurissa treats us to three of her stories from the book she’s working on, Bedtime Stories for Women Who Can't Sleep at Night; Tales and Musings for the "Awakened' Woman.
Join us as we talk about insomnia, the impact of yoga nidra naps on Laurissa’s life, and the multi-layered themes within her beautiful stories that speak to the heart of women’s real lives. Laurissa is also a trained Daring to Rest facilitator, teaching women Daring to Rest yoga nidra in her community in British Columbia, Canada.
As always, I’d love to here your comments on this podcast below.
Here’s to Daring to Rest and the rise of the well-rested woman.
Oh, the places we go in this episode! Over a decade ago, in my third year on anti-anxiety pills, and one year in to practicing yoga nidra, I hit the “dark night of the soul” and was led to the door of Amy Rachelle at a third floor walk-up apartment building with graffiti on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I was skeptical all the way until I opened the door and looked into Amy’s eyes. Right then, it was clear that this woman would be a guide for me and that she took her role seriously.
What I didn’t know, until this episode, was that Amy had also just gone through her dark night of the soul and begun claiming the role she was being called to play in life. She literally burned down her home to wake up to claiming her life.
In this episode I introduce you my cherished Amy, a naturopath, intuitive healer, and now friend. Amy’s a master at guiding women through detoxes, physical and mental, and in this episode she gives you many tips. We also talk about intuition and how to harness it to address physical health and more.
Get ready to feel like an empowered women and start being good to yourself. Lie back and join me and Dr. Amy for some serious girl talk.
SHOW NOTES
Private Intuitive Naturopathic Session with Dr. Amy
Vipassana (10-Day Silent Meditation retreat that Dr Amy mentions she did twice)
Whoa…Sometimes a book shows up just when you need it. I rarely watch the news. I know it makes me feel horrible, but for several weeks over the past month I felt sucked into watching news that broke my heart. Every night, another chapter would unfold on the screen, causing more exhaustion. News replaced my morning yoga nidra meditation for the first week - that’s how much I was caught up in the hypnotic pull of the news. And then Judith Orloff’s book, The Empath’s Survival Guide, showed up and I was reminded of something I already know - that I’m an empath and I need to protect myself. In fact, when the news is so crazy, this is exactly when we need to be UPing all our heart tools, like yoga nidra, not sitting in front of the news drowning our hearts in the pain of the day.
In this month’s episode, Judith and I spend time together talking about everything from:
what an empath is
ways to stay empathic without burning out
a 3-minute heart meditation that can transform a stressful day
a simple stress dial practice to do with your empathic children
we talk about exciting neuroscientific findings explaining the empath experience
how to get rid of emotional hangovers after seeing relatives or from stressful home or work places
why so many empaths are misdiagnosed with depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue. (this is HUGE - please listen to understand this)
current news and how not to feel so exhausted and anxious.
“You are stronger than anything that’s happening now,” Judith tells us. “Don’t see yourself as a victim."
We can thrive in our lives, women - protection strategies are out there and in this episode Judith offers a ton of them.
If you’ve ever been called “too sensitive” and if you’re looking for concrete tools to navigate modern life, then make yourself something calm to drink, and lean back, and listen.
Do crave rest and clarity? Do you want to learn a strong grounding in the philosophy and process of yoga nidra? Do you feel like you’ve been searching for a new focus to your work and want to share the deep rest medicine of yoga nidra meditation with others?
In this episode you’re taken into the Daring to Rest Academy to meet four women from Tribe 1 of the Academy. Learn what it’s like to be a part of the Daring to Rest Academy, from the personal and professional development each woman receives to the solid foundation the Academy provides to take yoga nidra and Daring to Rest out into the world to share with others.
If you’re in love with yoga nidra meditation, feel strongly that women today desperately need rest, and you might want to share it with others, then this episode is for you. Lay back, get yourself something relaxing to drink, and listen now.
SHOW NOTES
The Daring to Rest Academy (Tribe 2 enrollment is open through Sept 23)
Sounds True Insights on the Edge podcast with Karen on Daring to Rest
Kate and Mike Show podcast with Karen on Daring to Rest
Free Rest Cave Guide
Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming and Awakening by Dr. Rubin Naiman
Four Rest Sisters on this podcast: Nikki Harrison, Dr. RaShon, Autumn Saunders, and Nicole Henderson
Sometimes you don't know why you're reading a book other than the fact that the title has the words "uterus" and "pain" in it. That was my experience when I said "yes" to Abby Norman's passionate new book, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain.
To be honest, when I first started reading it I thought: I'm not too sure I want to read a pain memoir. But about 50 pages in, when I found myself unable to stop talking with my husband at breakfast about the book, I knew I was hooked.
In this episode, Abby and I talk about her health journey, the little that's known about endometriosis and the myths out there (it's shocking), plus we explore why women who talk about their pain are often not believed and what we can do about it.
Get a huge cup of something restful to drink, lay back, and join us. Abby's such a treat!
SHOW NOTES
Abby's book, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
New York Times review of Ask Me About My Uterus.
Susan Sontag, Illness As Metaphor essay
Maya Dunsenberry, Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women
Endometriosis resources: EndoWhat?, Endo Warriors, Citizen Endo (Noemie, this project, and the app were mentioned in the book!), Endometriosis Foundation of America
If you want to dive deep into the endometriosis research Abby recommends GLOWN.
Jackie Kennedy; Caroline Kennedy's book, She Walks In Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
Photos of Abby and Book: Karen Olson
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