The Rest Path
A professional training for women to embody a rested life and guide others into one
An 11-week online journey starting September 9
Welcome to The Rested Path
Expect to become a…
Rested Woman
Rested Path Guide
Rest Leader
Rest Coach
Rested Daughter
Rested Mother
Rested Auntie
Rested Grandmother
“This program is a journey home to self, giving you the tools, space for reflection, and guidance to forge your own rested path, and to help others do the same.”
You Become the Work Before You Share It
There comes a moment when another practice is no longer what you're searching for.
You've read the books. You've attended the trainings. You've gathered the nervous system knowledge that has changed you.
And yet, beneath everything you've learned, another question begins to whisper.
How do I actually live a rested life?
Not only when life is quiet. But in the middle of caregiving... building a business... leading others.
In the middle of an ordinary day.
You realize that what you're longing for isn't another relaxation practice.
It's a way of being.
A way of returning to yourself when life pulls you away.
A way of leading that doesn't ask you to sacrifice your own well-being in order to serve others.
A way of working that feels as nourishing as it is impactful.
Then another realization begins to emerge.
Perhaps the exhaustion you're carrying - and your clients too - isn't entirely your own.
Most women don't realize they're carrying more than their own exhaustion.
They carry the pace, the vigilance, the overgiving, the urgency, and plenty of fatigue-heavy beliefs handed down through generations of women. Women who were rarely invited to rest. Women who loved deeply, gave endlessly, and were shaped by a culture that measured their worth by how much they could hold.
Without realizing it, we inherit more than stories.
We inherit ways of living.
We inherit exhaustion.
The Rested Path helps you recognize what was never yours to carry.
You can lovingly lay down what no longer belongs in your hands.
As you do, something remarkable begins to happen.
Your body softens. Your voice grows clearer. Your choices become more aligned with who you truly are. You stop living from urgency and begin aligning with the tone of rest.
Little by little, the tone of rest becomes more familiar than the tone of urgency.
You discover that rest isn't something you earn after everything is done. It becomes the place from which you live. And when that happens, your life and your work begin to change.
You listen differently. You show up in your household differently. You lead differently. You coach differently. You teach differently.
You become less interested in fixing people and more devoted to helping people remember how to find the tone of rest.
You learn to support them to recognize when they have drifted from this tone of rest, and you have tools to help gently guide them back.
The people you serve feel it. Because you're becoming the work as you are sharing it.
Along the way, you'll gain something else: a clear, embodied pathway for helping women move from physical, cultural and inherited exhaustion to a rested life.
A path you can confidently weave into your coaching, retreats, workshops, programs, leadership, or the work you're already here to do.
This is the invitation of The Rested Path training program.
To get on a more Rested Path. And from that place, guide others along The Rested Path, whether through your coaching, retreats, workshops, programs, or leadership, so they don't simply experience rest, but learn how to return to the tone of rest and build a rested life they can come home to again and again.
Why The Rested Path was Created
A letter from Karen:
Dear Woman Who Needs to Be on a More Rested Path and May Also Want to Help Others Create a Rested Life,
For many years, I believed that if women developed a deep enough rest practice, it would naturally change the way they lived. In many ways, it did.
The deep transformational sleep practice of yoga nidra transformed my own life. And it transformed the lives of thousands of women I have had the privilege of teaching.
Again and again, I witnessed women reconnect with themselves through profoundly deep rest. They softened. They listened differently. They remembered who they were beneath the exhaustion. And I still believe deeply in the power of yoga nidra.
But over the last six years, as I walked beside my mother with Alzheimer's disease and became her primary caregiver, I discovered something I hadn't fully understood before.
When life became extraordinarily demanding, I didn't simply need a practice. I needed a path.
Caregiving became my rest PhD. Every day it asked something different of me. Some days there was grief. Some days there was tenderness. Some days there was guilt. Many days I felt what I now recognize as an ancient motherline kind of rage and exhaustion. I had to reckon with how well, and not so well, I felt mothered. Some days there was beauty I never expected. There were moments when I felt deeply connected to myself, and there were moments when I lost my footing completely.
What carried me through wasn't the expectation that I would always feel rested. It was knowing there was a way back to a more rested path. It was remembering the tone of rest.
Again and again, I returned . I returned to my body when my mind was racing. I returned to my inner voice when fear grew louder than wisdom. I returned to the next rested choice I could make, even when it was a very small one.
Sometimes I felt firmly on what I now call The Rested Path. Sometimes I wandered far from it. But I always knew I could return. When I aligned my life with the tone of rest - even one percent - I returned to The Rested Path. This realization changed me. It also changed my work.
I began to understand that practices are essential. They help us enter a more rested state of being. But a practice alone is not enough to sustain us through every season of life.
We also need a path. A way of living. A trusted roadmap we can return to when life pulls us away from ourselves and into all the noise and unrest that come with a full life.
Every woman will encounter seasons that ask more of her than she imagined. Illness. Loss. Motherhood. Caregiving. Career transitions. Aging. Reinvention.
These moments are invitations to return. That is why I created The Rested Path. Not simply as something to learn. But as something to live. Because...
A practice is something you do.
A path is something you return to for the rest of your life.
My hope is that The Rested Path becomes that companion for you.
Not another framework you finish. But a path you walk. Again and again. For the rest of your life.
And as you walk The Rested Path, if you feel called, you pass on this path to others.
I get the rest chills witnessing all the women who have taken The Rested Path program who are now sharing it in their own unique ways with others. Weaving it into their programs. Teaching it in retreat settings. Coaching others one-on-one and in groups.
Rested Path Guides imagine a world where every person learns to return to the tone of rest and walk their own Rested Path.
If you feel called to join Sisterhood 4 for this year’s Rested Path, I’d love for you to join us starting in September.
Love & rest hugs,
Karen
Karen & her mom
“I am in awe of this program.
As I am of Karen’s ability to create something of such value and beauty. This experience was priceless.”
What Is The Rested Path?
The Rested Path is a roadmap for creating a rested life.
It was born from a simple observation. Most women don't suffer solely because they don't know how to rest. They suffer because they don't know how to return to the tone of rest once life pulls them away.
We inherit ways of living that teach us to override our bodies, silence our voices, and organize our lives around urgency, productivity, and overgiving.
The Rested Path offers another way.
It unfolds through three interconnected layers, each deepening the next.
Rested Body
Cultivate a rested body through physical relaxation, emotional awareness, embodied truth, and the stories your body has carried for years.
Rested Voice
Free your voice from inherited expectations and exhaustion. Unburden yourself from motherline exhaustion, experience the freedom of feeling well mothered, and begin creating a new, rest centered narrative for your life.
Rested Action
As your body and voice become more rested, the way you live begins to change. Your choices arise from clarity instead of depletion. Your relationships become more honest. Your work becomes more sustainable. Your life begins to reflect The Rested Path you are cultivating.
The Rested Path is a way of returning, to your body, to your truth, and to a life no longer shaped by cultural or inherited exhaustion.
The Rested Path
Journey
An 11-week immersion to support you to live The Rested Path and share it through your work, with two later Integration Circles for continued reflection, connection, and support.
We start September 9.
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Embodying The Rested Path
Our journey begins with an eight-week live immersion. Together we explore the complete Rested Path through teaching, embodied practices, reflection, coaching, discussion, and connection. This first part is about allowing the work to gently reshape your own life. Because the best teachers and coaches practice what they teach.
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Rest & Digest
You'll enter a season of integration. As you rest deeply for forty days as part of the Daring to Rest 40-Day Program, you’ll meet 1:1 with a Rest Sister partner, discuss the teachings, practice coaching each other, and also begin imagining how The Rested Path naturally wants to express itself through your life and work.
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Sharing The Rested Path
The journey ends with six weeks of mentorship focused on how The Rested Path weaves into your professional life. This final part supports you to create successful programs using The Rested Path framework and tools. Then you’ll also have lots of space to complete certification.
Lifetime access to all content.
What you will learn
The Nine Rest Transmissions
The Rest Transmissions are the architecture of The Rested Path.
In this program, you’ll experience nine Rest Transmissions. Each is an embodied exploration that help you recognize the tone of rest, return to it when life pulls you away, and gradually let it become the way you orient your life.
Each Rest Transmission offers another way to deepen your relationship with the tone of rest. Together, they form a living framework you can return to throughout your life, and one you'll learn to thoughtfully integrate into the way you guide others.
Rest Transmissions for each layer of The Rested Path range from rest, embodied practices, IN-Body Coaching, and more.
Rested Body
THREE Rest Transmissions for Recognizing the Tone of Rest in Your Body
Physical Relaxation
Learn to recognize the tone of rest through nature and your body's natural capacity to soften, settle, and deeply relax.
Your Body as an Oracle
Discover how your body becomes a trusted guide, revealing the wisdom that's already within you. You’ll learn our IN-Body rest coaching.
Re-Story
Transform the stories you've lived and inherited, creating space for a new rest story to emerge.
Rested Voice
Three Rest Transmissions for RELEASING INHERITED EXHAUSTION AND Returning to the Tone of Rest Within
Quiet, Silence & Solitude
Create the conditions to hear your own inner wisdom beneath the noise of everyday life.
Ancestral Exhaustion & Unburdening
Recognize what you've inherited, gently lay down what isn't yours to carry, and choose a new relationship with rest.
Inner Mothering
Cultivate a compassionate inner relationship that supports you through every season of your life.
Rested Action
Three Rest Transmissions for Living from the Tone of Rest
Imagination
Through breath, movement, and embodied practices you'll reconnect with your innate capacity to imagine and begin living the rested life that's calling you.
Rest Planning & Untangling from Urgency
Identify your unique rest rhythm and create choices and environments that make rest a way of life in your work and home.
Rested Relationships
Bring the tone of rest into the way you love, communicate, set boundaries, and show up with others.
The Nine Rest Transmissions are lifelong companions.
You'll learn to recognize the tone of rest, find The Rested Path, trust it, and return to it, again and again, until it quietly becomes the way you meet your life.
Then we'll show you how to bring the Nine Rest Transmissions to others with clarity, confidence, and care.
“This program is an immersive journey in creating a rested life. I learned so many tools to hold myself gently and powerfully, nudging myself ever closer towards my more rested self. It was raw and uncomfortable at times, and also exactly the medicine I needed to dismantle the rest resistance that kept me stuck for so long.”
- Lila, Sisterhood 3
Who This Is For
This training is for women who feel a rest rumble stirring inside them.
Perhaps you've experienced the power of deep rest and know there is more.
Perhaps you're longing to create a rested life that reflects what your heart desires.
Perhaps your work involves supporting others, and you want your presence to become as healing as your knowledge.
Many women who join us are coaches. Therapists. Yoga and meditation teachers. Wellness professionals. Educators. Community leaders.
Some are simply women who know they are being called toward a more rested way of living. They’re not sure yet if they want to teach The Rested Path tools.
You don't need to have everything figured out.
You don't need to arrive already rested.
You only need a willingness to walk the path.
This training may not be right for you if… you're looking for a quick certification or another collection of techniques. The Rested Path asks something different. It asks you to let the work become part of your own life before offering it to someone else's.
What Becomes Possible
Imagine waking up and trusting your body's wisdom.
Imagine making decisions from enoughness instead of urgency.
Imagine recognizing inherited exhaustion without believing you have to continue carrying it.
Imagine returning to your rested self more quickly when life pulls you away.
Imagine knowing that even in your hardest seasons, there is a path beneath your feet that brings you back to ease, joy, and softness.
Professionally, you'll leave with a living framework you can thoughtfully weave into coaching, therapy, yoga, retreats, healthcare, education, leadership, or offerings uniquely your own.
Personally, you'll learn to recognize the tone of rest within yourself and return to it again and again, until it becomes the place from which you live, shaping your relationships, your work, and the life you're here to create.
“This training embodies feminine leadership principles and walks the talk of it... space for things to emerge, flow, music, contemplation, rest-based, fostering intuition and truth telling...the list goes on. It is an exquisite creation and invitation to step into Rest Leadership and your own Rest Heroine.”
A Rest Invitation
We live in a world that celebrates pushing through.
Women have inherited generations of exhaustion, overgiving, urgency, and self-abandonment.
What if another way is possible?
A path that welcomes you back to the tone of rest every time you forget.
The Rested Path isn't about staying on the path perfectly. It's about knowing how to return when life pulls you away.
If you feel called to embody a rested life and guide others into one, we would be honored to welcome you onto The Rested Path.
Together, we'll walk it as Sisterhood 4.
One rested step at a time.
The Practical Details
Your Rested Path Journey
Phase One: Embodying the Rested Path
Eight-week live Rested Path immersion
Dates: September 9 - October 28
Times: Wednesdays, 10am-1pm MT (12-3pm ET)
Phase Two: Rest & Digest
40 Day to rest, integrate, and let The Rested Path sink in.
Dates: January 6 - February 10
Times: Wednesdays, 10am-11.30am MT (12-1.30pm ET)
Live forty-days deep rest practice(yoga nidra)
Rest Sister partnership for discussion & practice coaching
Space to dream your next rest chapter, personally & professionally
Phase Three: Sharing The Rested Path
Six-weeks live Professional Mentorship
Dates: February 24 - March 17
Times: Wednesdays, 10am-2pm MT
What You'll Receive
Throughout our journey together you'll receive...
54-hours of live teaching with Karen
The complete Rested Path curriculum + toolbox
4+ hours of Rested Path Audio Teachings (+ transcripts)
How-to PDFs for every Rested Path practice
Deep transformational rest
Rest Sister partnership
Professional Mentorship
Curriculum development support
Certification
Lifetime access to recordings
A Sisterhood of women Rest Leaders for life
Investment
Tuition
$5,000
Early Enrollment
(thru August 12)
$4,500
Payment Plans available when you click on the link below.
If there is not a payment plan available in your area of the world, please contact us for options.
An Intimate Sisterhood
Each cohort is called a Sisterhood. You’ll be Sisterhood 4.
We take only 20–30 women. Why? Because transformation happens in relationship and journeying through a training with a Sisterhood is powerful.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Your enrollment is a non-refundable investment. This includes payment plans.
Please do reach out to us here if you have any questions before enrolling. us
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Live attendance is not required.
We have trained many women who, due to their schedule, cannot attend every session live.
Replays will be available for each class, and you’ll have lifetime access to them.
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Yes.
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Seriously.
That's the beauty of The Rested Path.
It impacts you and it impacts your work.
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While everyone learns differently, here’s the average time you can expect per week:
Part One: Embodying The Rested Path. Expect to spend 5-8 hours per week for 8 weeks. This includes the weekly live session and additional material, reflection questions & rest time.
Part Two: Rest & Digest. Expect to spend an average of 45-minutes resting every day for 40 days. You’ll also meet with your Rest Sister partner weekly for at least one hour.
Part Three: Sharing The Rested Path. Expect to spends 2 hours every week for 6 weeks.
You will also be asked to complete certification requirements that will most likely take 8-10 hours.
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Yes - as long as you provide attribution and follow the guidelines provided when you certify. Many of our Rested Path Guides customize the framework and use parts of The Rested Path - not the entire framework.
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You’ll have lifetime access.
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Yes.
There are sliding scale scholarship spots. Priority is given to women of color, women from the Global South, and women who are experiencing significant financial need.
You can apply for a sliding scale scholarship HERE. We make scholarship decisions on a rolling basis until September 1st.
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No.
The Rested Path is not a yoga nidra teacher training program. If you are interested in teaching yoga nidra check out our self paced Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator Training here.
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Yes.
You can become a certified Rested Path Guide upon completion of the program for no extra fee. Certified guides receive the legal license to teach, speak and coach using The Rested Path framework.
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We’re happy to answer any questions you have about the course. Email us.
If you feel called...
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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“The Rested Path is a roadmap that teaches the people you serve that they are no longer prisoners to the busyness of the grind culture. This program gives us the 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.”
“This program 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.”
“The Rested Path is an immersion in 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.”
“The Rest Rested Path program 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.”
“This program 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.”
“This training embodies feminine leadership principles and walks the talk of it... (space for things to emerge, flow, music, contemplation, rest-based, fostering intuition and truth telling...the list goes on). This training is an exquisite creation and invitation to step into Rest Leadership and our own Rest Heroine.
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“After doing a few rest coachings a doorway opened to me and I knew how wonderfully your rest coach training helps neurodivergent teens. It is the missing part to my work I was always looking for.”
“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.”
“Rested Path , covering the Rested Body, Rested Voice and Rested Action is a very rich and deep course 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.”
“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.”
““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. ”
“Finding a community that speaks openly about rest as a necessity not a weakness, was very healing. I no longer feel the need to hide or to be ashamed of not fitting into systems that were never designed to support rested, embodied humans. This training became a missing puzzle piece in my spiritual growth, helping me peel back layers of conditioning and reconnect with who I truly am beneath them.
Professionally, this training affirmed something I have felt for a long time: that my path is to guide people towards rest. In my previous work in the corporate world, I was surrounded by chronic overwork, disconnection from the body and normalized exhaustion. It never felt right to me but I often doubted myself and wondered if I simply didn’t fit in. If something might be wrong with me. This training changed that narrative. It showed me that my sensitivity, my attunement to energy and my longing for a more humane pace are not flaws. They are gifts. ”
“The Rested Path 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 healthy living. On The Rested Path we are longer prisoners to the busyness of the grind culture. ”