Women…

You want to make space to feel rested and nourish your creative spirit in 2025.

You’re tired.

Busy.

Responsible.

You want to…

Sleep better.

Remove feelings of being overwhelmed and anxious.

Feel more peaceful, serene, and grounded.

You often say “someday”I’ll rest…but someday rarely comes.

You are curious about how the power of rest might help you tap into your creative self.

2024 was A LOT.

You’re exhausted and overwhelmed.

You want to let go of ruminating about all the hard stuff.

It feels like time to stop pushing.

You need a rest vacation.

And yet,

resting is something you avoid.

You want to be around other women who prioritize rest.

You do not know many - or any - rested people.

You’re excited by the idea of hanging out with women daring to rest together in these times.

You are turned on by the idea of being the first in your family to be a Rested Woman.

What if you were the first to break the cycle of fatigue in your lineage?

What if you modeled rest in your household?

You want to be closer to your creativity.

You love to write and be creative and want to nourish your creative self.

Or you have never seen yourself as a creative.

You find it difficult to put your feelings into words.

But you would love to be given the space to write and see what happens.

These are our rest objectives for you:

❍ to dare to rest with yoga nidra, a transformational sleep practice.

❍ to slow down, let go of being busy all the time, and learn how to “be”

❍ Burnout recovery and to feel deeply relaxed. (These are tiring times and our nervous systems are shaky).

❍ to remember and reclaim your creative self - that juicy more rested you.

Your experience includes three yoga nidras delivered live on Zoom, writing time, and three Salons to listen to our rested voices. All circles are led by Daring to Rest founder, Karen Brody.

All you have to “do” is lie down and do nothing.

The primary invitation is to dare to rest with yoga nidra. Writing (or any creative endeavor) is optional. You can come for just the rest and see what happens. This program is about letting whatever experience happen, not making it happen.

 “I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write...

and you know it's a funny thing about housecleaning... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman. A woman must be careful to not allow over-responsibility (or over-respectabilty) to steal her necessary creative rests, riffs, and raptures. She simply must put her foot down and say no to half of what she believes she "should" be doing. Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Experience the most supreme relaxation imaginable:

Yoga Nidra

For forty days, you will be invited to practice yoga nidra, a transformational sleep practice. During yoga nidra you are guided from your waking state to dreaming to deep sleep and beyond, to a supremely relaxed state of consciousness where deep healing and restoration resides.  

This deep rest practice has been proven to rest your brain and increase your creativity, ability to learn, reduce stress, feel calm and fall asleep easier.

To practice, all you do is lie down, listen to a voice guiding you into the state of yoga nidra. (You can sit if you want to - the point is to be in any position that feels comfortable).

It has been said that 45 minutes of yoga nidra feels like 3 hours of sleep in your body.

We are all Rest Artists.

What if 40 days of Daring to Rest gave you the space to rest deeply, create, write, and dream?

This is how we heal and step into our most Rested Woman.

We asked women who have taken the 40-day Daring to Rest program to describe their experience in one word and here’s what they shared:

Held. Peaceful. Blissful. Magic. Joyous. Empowering. Nourishing. Essential. A wonderful reset. Life changing. Healing. Emergent. Rejuvenating. Joyful to be a Rest Sister. Phenomenal blessing. A study in ease. Restorative. Learning to find the power within. Inspiring. Enlightening. Transformational.

Testimonials

from women who have taken our DARING TO REST 40-Day programs

REFUND Policy

Once you enroll your spot is reserved. There are no refunds. However, we always allow you to gift or sell your spot to another person. If you’re unsure this program is right for you reach out to us - we’re happy to answer your questions. Our email is in the FAQs below.

Your Teacher

Karen Brody

Hi! I’m a mother, founder of Daring to Rest, author of the book Daring to Rest, and host of the Daring to Rest Podcast.

I raised my two boys - now 23 and 25 years old - on rest, and I have been a rest coach for decades.

Over-working was literally killing me. I was helping others all the time but never myself. (Sound familiar?). After a few PhDs in burnout I started learning how to do my life differently…to be the first women in my generation to dare to rest.

I am excited to support you to perhaps be the first in your familyline to dare to rest, too.

After decades of panic attacks, I finally decided to rest when I was on my third year of taking anxiety medication. I had never heard of yoga nidra when I walked into a yoga studio and saw 25 women lying down practicing yoga nidra and looking like they were having the best nap of their lives. I was not a napper and could not imagine making space in my busy day to rest - but I was tired. I knew exhaustion all too well. So, I signed up to take a weekly yoga nidra class. The first time I went to class it felt like I had been at a spa for a month. I was immediately hooked on rest.

I have now been a yoga nidra teacher for seventeen years and I have trained women to become yoga nidra teachers for eight years through the Daring to Rest™ Facilitator Certification Program. I also teach The Rested Path™ Coach Training for professionals who want to help people create a rested life. I love bringing women together in rest sisterhood , whether it’s for personal rest or to professionally share it with others.

To me, rest is the obvious antidote for our crazy busy modern times.

The Daring to Rest 40-day program was the first yoga nidra program I taught. The idea to rest for forty days came out of a very personal experience for me - one of my many burnouts.

I was a mom raising a son who had significant learning differences. The first year he barely slept so I barely slept. The second year, it was clear he was spirited so we cleared the house of everything he could destroy. The third year, we discovered he had speech and language issues. At twelve he did not read or write fluently. I spent years caught in a cycle of fatigue that felt impossible to break.

One evening after my husband came home when my boys were around six and eight years old I handed them to my husband at our front door, left the house and drove to the edge of our neighborhood.

There I sat in my minivan hysterically crying and screaming - like a caged animal. Eventually I became silent for a long time.

Silence felt like an unexpected gift. Just a little bit of rest like this made it clear to me that I did not need another bike ride or chat with a girlfriend or talk with a therapist.The solution to my exhaustion was rest. Rest became my top priority.

I immediately drove home and set up what I called my “rest cave” in our basement next to all the storage boxes and decided to practice yoga nidra every day in my rest cave for one year. I made it forty days.

In those forty days everything changed. My skin cleared up. My energy returned. I felt motivation and more like me again. I started enjoying motherhood. I wondered: how in forty days could I go from worn out to rested without even trying?

I wanted every person on the planet - and especially mothers - to experience this kind of rest medicine. Less than a year after lying down for forty days I got trained in yoga nidra and started teaching forty day yoga nidra rest programs to mothers.

Seventeen years later I still teach this 40 day program once a year because I know it will make a difference in your life. I’ve led thousands of women through this program.

I teach this program every year because grind culture is literally killing us and I know making a forty day commitment to rest can be life changing.

Women heal their nervous systems…start writing that book they have been resisting…meet a person in the program who becomes a Rest Sister for life.

This is not just a program - it’s a movement of women united in Daring to Rest.

Together, we rise up rested.

Rest Sisterhood is powerful.

Let’s Dare to Rest together.

I hope you will join us this year for rest, writing, dreaming, imagination, hope…and so much more.

I will be your rest coach and writing cheerleader for forty days to help you give yourself permission to rest deeply, claim possibility, believe in your creative self, and shine your light.

Here’s to Daring to Rest,

and the rise of your Rested & Creative Woman,

xo

Karen

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