In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Karen Brody talks with her twenty-two year old son, Jacob. She asks him every rest question she can think of to help moms craft a well-rested family life. You'll also hear an update from Jacob on navigating his learning differences in college while trying to stay rested. It's certainly not easy to raise our next generation on rest, but there are tweaks we can do to help children feel more rested.
Rest Boundaries
In this short episode, Karen Brody talks about some of the rest boundaries that have made a huge difference in her life, she reads a recent note to the Daring to Rest community on rest boundaries, and she shares a simple way you can start creating rest boundaries. If you're not sleeping and you've tried all the sleep science and supplements out there, there's often a rest boundary you're not tending to.
Moms and Rest
In this episode of the Daring to Rest Podcast, Karen Brody speaks about rest and motherhood with Matilda Leyser, Jendayi Gantt and Lisa Black . They speak to the shame moms feel to rest, the struggle to get good sleep, and how to become less apologetic about practicing rest. They also discuss the importance of their yoga nidra meditation practice in their lives and the legacy of rest they want to model for their children and future generations.
The Triple Cloak of Exhaustion Women Carry
Why You're Still So Tired
The Power of Yoga Nidra and Radiant Rest - with Tracee Stanley
In this episode, Karen and guest Tracee Stanley, author of Radiant Rest, dive into the practice of yoga nidra, how the messages we receive about rest present obstacles to lying down, and how to get rest when you don't have time to rest. Tracee also shares a delightful story about the goddess Yoga Nidra that makes this magical transformative sleep practice seem feel even more well-suited for women's health and empowerment.
Daring to Dream - with Sil Reynolds
In this episode, learn about renowned Jungian analyst Marion Woodman's dream work and experience a dream circle. Karen talks with Sil Reynolds, senior student of Marion Woodman. We explore dreams, why they are important, how to explore your dreams and why Marion Woodman’s work is particularly accessible to women on a quest for wholeness.
What If Women Were the Storytellers? - with Elizabeth Lesser
Karen talks with Dr. Kamilah Majied about meditation as a journey to freedom, the practice of discomfort resilience, and how rest resources activism. Dr. Majied highlights how meditation conflated with stoicism separates us from the joy of meditation. Dr. Majied shares her thoughts on never ceasing to advocate for human lives, and how unrest can increase our capacity to be with our feelings and set powerful intentions for personal and planetary growth.
Ask Anything
Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, answers your questions! Listen to her thoughts on liminal dreaming, insomnia, chronic pain, aging, how to get teenagers, and younger kids, to sleep better, what to do to settle into yoga nidra meditation if you’re super stressed, self guided yoga nidra versus facilitator-led, and techniques to shield negative energy coming from negative people and negative situations.
You're Free: A Conversation about Resting in Unrest Towards Liberation - with Dr. Kamilah Majied
Karen talks with Dr. Kamilah Majied about meditation as a journey to freedom, the practice of discomfort resilience, and how rest resources activism. Dr. Majied highlights how meditation conflated with stoicism separates us from the joy of meditation. Dr. Majied shares her thoughts on never ceasing to advocate for human lives, and how unrest can increase our capacity to be with our feelings and set powerful intentions for personal and planetary growth.
Inside the Daring to Rest Academy Facilitator Training: Meet Sisterhood 4
In this episode, Karen talks with four women from Sisterhood 4 about what it’s like to take our online Daring to Rest facilitator immersion. We dig deep into the importance of rest, the power of yoga nidra “sleep” meditation, and how taking our facilitator training has impacted their lives personally and professionally.
Is Rest the New Mindfulness?
Menopause as an Initiatory Rite of Passage
In our society, menopause is seen as a problem, and there are no instructions for how to navigate the process. But in truth, menopause is an opportunity to reevaluate who we are and awaken to our true nature. Today, Alexandra Pope joins me to reframe menopause as an extraordinary rite of passage for women.
Does Resting for Productivity Make Sense?
Self-Guided Yoga Nidra - with Jaimee Roncone & Beth Dorman
Social Justice, Inclusion, and Yoga Nidra - with Yoli Maya Yeh
The Colonization of Sleep and Yoga - with Yoli Maya Yeh and Uma Dinsmore Tuli (Copy)
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.
Tap Into Your Feminine Power Through Rest — with Barbara Dopfer
Honoring Your Cycle in a Non-Cyclical World: Exploring The Path to Feminine Power with the Red School Founders
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.
Why Bother: The Call to Discover Your Fully Alive Self - with Jennifer Louden
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.