Help others (including you) create a rested life - and build a rest centered focus to your work that creates income and impact.
You’re invited to be a part of a rest revolution
We warmly invite you to join this year’s Daring to Rest Coach Certification Program, an empowering and embodied online training for the woman who feels called to root her life and work in rest.
This 14-week live online program is ideal for wellness professionals, rest teachers, coaches, therapists, and any woman who feels called to share the message of rest.
Led by Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody, you’ll learn to teach The Rested Path™ framework in workshops, programs, retreats, and with individual clients. As a certified facilitator, you’ll receive teaching scripts, lesson plans, and the licensing right to use The Rested Path™ name and intellectual property in your work.
Why guiding people to a rest-centered life is essential
The rising rates of burnout, depression, anxiety, and sleep deprivation provide us with a clear picture that people’s lives are not rested - and they need help beyond traditional models.
Rest coaches are the answer. When you are trained in The Rested Path framework, you’ll become a guide to help people create a rested life.
Our Rest Coaching Framework:
The Rested Path
The Rested Path™ is the 3-part framework we teach you inside the Daring to Rest Coach Training. In 14-weeks, you’ll learn how to help people:
Cultivate a Rested Body
Discover their Rested Voice
Take Rested Action
The Rested Path is not just about helping people get the physical rest they need. It’s an embodied framework to help people explore how to step into a new rested story in their life. This framework does not throw facts about rest at people - studies show that alarming statistics mostly do not impact lifestyle change - but rather we invite people to claim their rested power. Because while we know creating a rested life is impacted by outside forces, ultimately becoming rested is an inside job.
When you certify, you will be licensed to share The Rested Path framework. Some Daring to Rest Coaches use the full framework in their work, while others weave pieces of it into their existing offerings with attribution.
Who This Program Is For
This certification program is ideal for women who…
Crave a rest-centered approach to their work — one that is body-based more than mindset and honors your client’s energy, rhythms, and capacity
Have a desire to learn a unique framework and gain a wider toolbox of skills to create rest-centered programs, retreats, and offerings that help people create a rested life
Want to offer The Rested Path in workshops, retreats, and with individual clients - or weave it into your existing programs
Are eager to help clients not just rest, but reshape their lives around rest
Want to expand your work to offer rest-centered programs and coaching opportunities
Believe that rest is revolutionary - and you’re eager to lead with it, in your work and personal life.
Yearn to explore the deeper layers of rest - ancestral exhaustion, rest prescriptions, and the truth and clarity that rises from rest
Feel called to be in the training and doesn’t yet know why - it’s simply a knowing
What our graduates are saying…
““After this training what became so beautifully clear to me as a women’s somatic leadership coach is how powerful working with the Rested Path is to help someone unwind their exhaustion story and identity and open up the space for a profound reset at identity level - what becomes possible when we no longer live within the closed narrative of being limited by our exhaustion or illness? When we allow ourselves to dream of a life that is golden?””
“I am in awe of the course.
As I am of Karen’s ability to create something of such value and beauty. This experience was priceless. ”
“Professionally, using the IN-Body Coaching in this training taught me how powerful it is to slow down enough to feel into each layer of a person’s truth — beyond what’s said aloud. This tool is invaluable holding group retreats and coaching spaces that require safety, nuance, and trust.”
“The Done-for-You Rest Program Templates were perfect for new rest coaches to launch their work into the world. Shedding Ancestral Exhaustion was a deeply powerful process that led to personal breakthroughs. And I love Karen’s teaching - open, authentic, passionate, with a touch of rest glitter.”
“This program exceeded my expectations. Before I took the program, I noticed a lot of my clients were unable to reach their health goals because they were exhausted and didn’t have capacity. Helping people to feel rested feels like it gets at the foundation of the problem. I am now creating a well-rested world one woman at a time.”
“I loved being paired with a Rest Sister during the training - this made my experience more fun and meaningful in the same. We connected and stayed connected even after. Along with being in the live weekly calls - I learned so much from everyone and never felt alone or isolated in my own feelings.
Every woman needs this information about rest and the more people are training and learning about rest, the ripple effect will expand and go further and further. ”
“As a life coach, the IN-Body coaching technique has transformed how I support others finding the answers within themselves. It was the missing link for my coaching business. Mindset transformation often only gets people so far. The people I coach are not used to being in their bodies so - while mindset is a great place to begin - now I am using rest coaching techniques to encourage clients to learn how to communicate with their heart, body and soul. ”
“ I loved that we went through The Rested Path personally doing the practices so we could get a sense of how this will be when others do it. It was so personally healing and helpful - I am excited to share it with others. I loved understanding and feeling the difference between finding my voice, and finding my rested voice. I loved learning about ancestral exhaustion contracts and rest altars. I love having physical things I can do to lead me to more healing, understanding, and rest.
I honestly loved it all! This training was so impactful.
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““Our society offers a pill for this and that - being able to offer people a non-pharmaceutical prescription for a rested life is such a joy. ”
What’s Included?
Live Mentorship + Support
14 live weekly teaching & facilitation sessions with Karen Brody. Plus, you’ll learn The Rested Path with other women in our Sisterhood 3 cohort & practice guiding each other. Every live session is personal, embodied, and supportive.
Licensing Rights: The Rested Path™ Framework
You will be taught our 3-part Rested Path framework for helping clients move from burnout to a rested life. Once certified, you will be licensed to use The Rested Path framework to create workshops, programs, retreats, and individual coaching. You can use the entire framework, or pick tools that weave well into your existing work.
Downloadable Rested Path Toolkit
We provide you with audio teachings on all three parts of The Rested Path. Plus scripts, exercises, and how-to guides that you can use to enhance your 1:1 work, group programs, and retreats.
Done-for-You Curricula
Pre-written workshop, retreat, and coaching program outlines using The Rested Path.
Personal Rest Empowerment
You’ll explore The Rested Path for your personal rest growth — so you’re creating a rested life too.
Bonus 1
3-Day Self-Paced Rested Path™ Retreat
Set the foundation for your journey with this self-paced Rested Path™ retreat, designed to immerse you in 4.5 hours of rest practices, teachings, and tools rooted in The Rested Path™ framework. You’ll receive access in September before the training begins — giving you time to ground, center, and arrive fully prepared. (Value: $297)
Bonus 2
Additional Mentorship for 1 Year
After the training, you’ll receive free quarterly mentorship with Karen and alumni to integrate The Rested Path tools into your life and work. We believe every training needs “postpartum” time.
Earlybird pricing ends September 7
Hi, I’m Karen
Founder of Daring to Rest, author of the Sounds True book Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Meditation, and your guide throughout this program.
I’ve devoted my life to helping women reclaim rest as a path to power.
Since 2008 - long before rest was trending - I’ve supported thousands of women to awaken from burnout and live more fully in their bodies, their truth, and their purpose. I’ve trained over 500 women worldwide to become rest leaders through the deep rest practice of yoga nidra and now rest coaching.
When I started this work, rest was often met with eye rolls or laughter. But today, the world is waking up. More and more people are sensing that the pace of our culture is unsustainable. That hustle is a path to burnout. That something has to change - and rest is the remedy and the beginning.
When I published Daring to Rest, my focus was on the power of yoga nidra to restore women’s energy and help them rise. But over time, women kept asked me after a deep rest experience, “What now?” I realized something essential: women need more than a rest practice - they also need guidance to live a rested life. They need a pathway - and they need guides.
So I returned to a framework I had once taught to new mothers and birth professionals - a three-part journey to connect with your body, reclaim your voice, and take aligned action. When layered with rest, this became The Rested Path™ - Rested Body, Rested Voice, Rested Action - a powerful map not only for healing, but for leading people to their most rested selves.
That’s why I created the Daring to Rest Coach Program: To support women like you to walk The Rested Path for yourself - and then learn to guide others with courage, clarity, and heart.
Whether you want to integrate rest into your existing work or simply live more rooted in rest, this program offers you both the inner tools and outer structure to create life-changing rest offerings - and transform your life to one centered in rest too.
A Bit More About Me:
I’m a mother of two young adult sons raised on rest.
I’m a rest coach, meditation and yoga nidra teacher, and former community organizer.
I’m devoted to creating a world where people are deeply rested and radically empowered - especially women who have long-held threads of exhaustion in our history and ancestry.
If you feel called to join us, I hope you do.
The world needs rest coaches.
xo
Karen
“Karen walks her talk. She embodies advanced rest practice. She curates teachings, poetry and other rest-related things and brings them to the class to share. She listens and honors each woman who speaks. I love how much she loves The Rested Path, and how creative she is at finding ways to bring rest to daily life in a nonjudgmental, kind, and chucking perfect way. But at the same time, in addition to her enthusiasm and humor, she isn’t afraid to go deep, to tread in the murky waters of the ancestors and shadows. She is an inspiring role model for living a rested life.”
The Curriculum
Throughout the 14-weeks you will learn to teach The Rested Path - our unique rest coaching framework.
Each live class is responsive, deeply personal, and includes mentorship, embodiment, and practicing The Rested Path tools.
What we cover
In-Body Coaching: Mining the Rest Gold in Your Body
Healing Your Relationship with Rest Through Rest Story Practices
Rest Clustering, Prompts & Poetry
Rest Altars and Practices for Healing Ancestral Exhaustion
Breaking the Cycle of Fatigue in Your Motherline and Learning to Mother Yourself
Crafting Unique Rest Prescriptions
Creating a Rest Calendar for Oneself and Household
Rested Decision-Making Practices
Offering One-on-One Rest Coaching
Creating Powerful Group Experiences - Workshops, Retreats & Programs - To Design a Rested Life
If You’re Feeling the Call to Be Part of a Rest Revolution…
Enrollment is now open.
We begin September 16, 2025.
Format:
14 online sessions
Plus: 1 year of quarterly mentorship after the program ends
Dates:
September 16 - December 16, 2025
Live Session Times:
Tuesdays 10am-1pm MT
(It is possible to listen to the recording if you cannot attend live)
The Rested Path licensing rights:
Legal license to teach and coach using The Rested Path™ framework
Investment
*earlybird pricing AVAILABLE*
(save $500 off the full enrollment price)
Pay in full (earlybird):
$3,497
3 month payment plan (earlybird):
3 payments of $1,175
12 month payment plan (earlybird):
9 payments of $421
Refund policy:
If you choose to cancel your enrollment, you will receive a full refund within 7 days of the time you enroll minus a $500 cancellation fee. After 7 days, your enrollment is a non-refundable/ non-opt out (of payment plan) investment. If you have any questions before you enroll, please contact us here.
SCHOLARSHIPS:
The scholarship deadline ended on July 31st. There are a few sliding scale scholarship spots in the program. Priority is given to women from marginalized communities and women who are experiencing significant financial need. Apply for a sliding scale scholarship here. We will make scholarship decisions on a rolling basis until July 31st. If you do not receive a scholarship and apply by the super earlybird deadline (July 20) we will honor the super earlybird pricing if you decide to enroll without a scholarship.
Why Join Us?
People need help creating a rested life
You will be trained to help people who are burned out and overwhelmed. There is an urgent need for wellness professionals, coaches, therapists, and rest teachers to offer rest-centered guidance and help people not just learn a rest practice, but sculpt a rested life.
The Rested Path framework gives you a foundational base of direction and content
You’ll be able to use The Rested Path framework in its entirety or as inspiration to create programs, retreats, and coach individuals that lead people to a rested life.
You’ll receive mentorship that’s personal and embodied
Each week of the training you’ll gather in a teaching & facilitation circle with Karen Brody, the author of Daring to Rest and a rest coach for nearly 20 years. Her teaching has been called “open, authentic, passionate, with a touch of rest glitter.”
We asked our graduates to describe this program and here’s what they shared…
“The Rested Path, covering the Rested Body, Rested Voice and Rested Action is a very rich rest coaching framework that covers so many key areas such as working with ancestors, lineage, inner mothering and first and foremost really takes you on that journey so that you get to experience all the multi-facets so that if you choose to share with others you will know exactly what they are going through and how to hold space. Karen creates a very safe container, so this work is psychologically safe and there always is great support from the whole group of like-minded women.” - Benaifer
“This is a journey of reclamation: reclamation of your body and emotions, reclamation of your voice and power, reclamation of your life. This is a guided path towards reclamation of your right to live a rested life, filled with the perfect balance of practical tools and imaginative, dreamy spaciousness.” - Leilani Jefferies
“An immersion of living and learning what it feels like to truly lay down my armor and rest, and then wake-up to living rested, more and more, everyday. Learning alongside a sisterhood of women walking home to living rested together. Everyone coming from a different place, background, and color, leaving with a little piece of one another woven into each of us. Recognizing that no matter where we come from, how old we are and what we do for a living, we are all (women) dealing with the similarities of keeping up, grind and hustle culture, trying to be everything for everybody, and always feeling like it is never enough, we are never enough. Living this way for so long and repeating our ancestral lineage (and story) of what rest was like for those before us, wakes us up to releasing, letting go, the feelings of exhaustion and overwhelm. Finding the freedom and joy with the rhythms of nature and having tools, honing our skills and resources to practice and share with others who want to know what it feels like to live a rested life and still be productive and thrive without sacrificing ourselves in the process. This training is so much more than REST, it is a journey, not just forward but to look back to see how far we've come and let go of past, limiting beliefs that keep us, as women, stuck in our stories, helping us reclaim our voice (our new story) to take action and control of our life and be all that we are meant to be.” - Cathy Sullivan
“The Rest Coach Training was the continuation of coming home to myself—not the version of me who had to hustle or prove anything, but the one who’s already worthy. As someone with ADHD who’s lived in survival mode for years, this training is helping me slow down, listen to my body, and trust rest as a powerful foundation. I’m still shifting, but it’s already changing how I show up—for myself, for my boudoir clients, and for other creatives with ADHD. I’m learning to lead from rest instead of burnout, and it’s reshaping everything.” - Natasha Kaufman
“This program is a reawakening to yourself. I would also say it is about learning how to live and be more rested life in all ways of your life. To me, it is about empowerment because you learn how to strengthen yourself from the inside out. This training helps you find the tone and rhythm that you want for your own life, and how to help others find that as well. Following the rested path isn't just about resting, it's about feeling rested and making decisions from a rested place in all parts of your life. I love the idea of living softer and more authentically. It's about learning how to show up for yourself, cherish yourself, and decide what you want and don't want for your life on your own terms. It starts with awareness. Awareness of what is working and what isn't, what you stand for and don't stand for, what you need and don't need to feel more at rest inside and out. It's about learning what exhaustion contracts or wounds you want to release/heal or let go of from your life/past, and rewriting your story to be free and to start living more in your own version of life. It's about learning what is unrested in your life in order to become more rested. It's learning all these things with tools that we can return to again and again, and at some point you just return to the rested path naturally. You learn how to be more present in your life by learning what feels right and what doesn't because you know the tone of the life that works best for you. A more rested, awakened awareness that lives within you is what I feel this program is about.” - Mary Jameson
“This training is a journey into our own depth, and an invitation to facilitate this tender and empowering work in others. It's a homecoming for women - a return to and remembering of who we are beneath the noise, busyness, all the doing and holding. It’s a permission slip to live the rested, golden life we yearn for and a reclamation of the Rested Woman who lives within each of us.” - Isabelle Griffith
“It's the get out of jail free card...we are not longer prisoners to our the busyness of the grind culture. this program provides a pathway to first a rested body, which creates a more responsive instead of reactive voice which creates healthy rested decisions. It is a design for living.” - Terri Scherer
“This training has cleared the way for me to take up space in the world with rest. It has been a pure ecstasy to find and discover and explore more and more and more. It unfolds over time, so you won't know the fullness of what you get within the program until some time has passed. And in that time, you will change, evolve and create more fully than probably you have ever known before. I invite you to try this training on because it has had a profound effect on my life and I know it will on yours.” - Monique
“This program is a brilliantly designed and thoughtful led process of learning to lead yourself and others to live more of our lives on a rested path. The training is full of tools and rest opportunities. I imagine the experience is unique for each participant because so much of the training is experiential. It's so beautiful to explore rest in community!” - Ali
Frequently Asked Questions
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There will be 14 live calls on Zoom Tuesdays, 10am-1pm MT
September: 9/16, 9/23, 9/30
October: 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28
November: 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25
December: 12/2, 12/9, 12/16
Recordings for all the live calls are available. If you cannot attend live, you can listen later.
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While everyone learns differently, the average time you can expect to give per week is 5-7 hours. This includes the weekly live session and rest time.
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Live attendance is not required. We have trained many women who, due to their schedule, cannot attend live. Every session is recorded and available within 24 hours. (And often earlier). While live attendance definitely enhances your experience, we know life (and time zones) happens. If you are joining live, classes will be weekly at 10am MT on Tuesdays for 3 hours.
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Yes - as long as you provide attribution and follow the guidelines provided when you certify. Many of our Daring to Rest Coaches customize the framework and use parts of The Rested Path - not the entire framework.
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You will not learn how to teach yoga nidra in the Daring to Rest Coach Training Program.
The Daring to Rest Coach Training Program includes learning how to teach several physical relaxation practices, the focus is primarily on teaching you The Rested Path framework with dozens of tools to help people sculpt a rested life - physical, mental, emotional, ancestral, etc.
We believe a yoga nidra teacher training needs to be a training on it’s own because yoga nidra is a practice that needs to be embodied before teaching it - and this happens over time. (We train women how to teach yoga nidra in a 5-month Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training).
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If you choose to cancel your enrollment, you will receive a full refund within 7 days of the time you enroll minus a $500 cancellation fee. After 7 days, your enrollment is a non-refundable/ non-opt out (of payment plan) investment. If you have any questions before you enroll, please contact us here.
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You’ll have access to the course site for one year.
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You will have the opportunity to become a certified Daring to Rest Coach upon completion of the program - for no extra fee. Certified Daring to Rest Coaches receive the legal license to teach, speak and coach using The Rested Path framework.
The following are the requirements to be certified:
Attend live or watch the recordings of all live sessions.
Listen to (or read the transcript) for all teaching audios.
Complete reflection questions from each lesson.
Teach: three short Rested Path experiences (for example, three coaching sessions or group classes using Rested Body, Rested Voice & Rested Action) OR teach a 3-day (or longer) Rested Path program. You must teach all three parts of the Rested Path. Submit a one page reflection on each experience
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In many countries this training is a tax deduction for your business under professional development.
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We’re happy to answer any questions you have about the course. Email us.