Nina Simons is a women's leadership pioneer and co-founder of Bioneers. She is the author of the book, Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership. In this episode, Karen talks with Nina about the landscape of yin leadership, a kind of leadership that values spaciousness, nature, relationships, and ritual.
Ever have a conversation you did not want to end? That’s today’s episode on the Daring to Rest Podcast with seven of the women who just led rest sessions at Rest Camp for Women. It’s a conversation on rest and yoga nidra that’s personal, professional, fun, and serious. You’ll hear us talking about great rest books and films and a resty kind of TED Talk. We share our essential rest props. And there are many tender and sweet rest stories. If you’re thinking about the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training for Women, this is a must-listen. You'll hear all seven women reflect on the ways the training impacted them. In a culture that values busyness over rest, this episode is for any woman who wants to put rest at the center of her life and wants to create a world of rested people.
Karen's back with a short rest check on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, but also to not abandon ourselves. How does the practice of yoga nidra and inner mothering intersect? And why does it matter? Come hang out with Karen as she talks about how a practice like yoga nidra can help you mother yourself while lying down. That's the kind of rest revolution we're talking about!
Karen speaks with Tracee Stanley, author of a new book – The Luminous Self - on how to find your luminous self that resides behind all sorrow, the power of our practices to create new patterns and beliefs, the importance of cultivating a relationship with nature and our true nature, and contemplating death and impermanence in a world that plays into these fears. Be sure to listen to the end. Tracee leads us through a profound short practice!
Doula trainer, childbirth educator, and filmmaker, Debra Pascali Bonaro, joins Karen to discuss claiming your power and pleasure in childbirth and life; advice on turning pain into purpose; the importance of sex education; why it’s crazy to put women on their backs to give birth; and what is oxytocin and why it gives us an incredible high. Karen adds her rest lens to this powerful conversation on an orgasmic & restful birth and life.
In this rest note on leadership, Karen Brody takes on the topics of women, leadership, rest and staying awake in a world that wants us asleep to what's keeping us tired. She explores the political resignations in 2023 of Jacinda Ardern and Nicola Sturgeon as examples of women leaders showing us how be our own kind of leader.
Wonder what it’s like to train to become a facilitator with Daring to Rest? In this 3-part "Teaching Rest is My Radical Next Step" series, I speak with a few women who recently completed the Daring to Rest Facilitator Certification Training, and the teacher trainers who led their small mentorship circles.
Navigating these times is exhausting. Managing a health issue on top is like exhaustion on steroids. In this episode, Karen reads her medical rest rant email to the Daring to Rest community and explains why "it's not information that's going to help us move with ease through life, it's our practices."
Step into the world of menopause, myth, and fairy tales in this conversation with award winning writer Sharon Blackie. Host Karen Brody speaks with Sharon on everything from what facing death taught her to the liminal space of menopause and how the archetypal energy of older women in fairy tales can help us claim our power and reimagine the second half of life.
What happens when you are "tired as f*ck"? For bestselling author Caroline Dooner, whose new book is called Tired As F*ck, she chose to address her exhaustion by spending two years intentionally prioritizing rest. In this episode, listen to her conversation with Karen on burnout at the hands of diet, self-help and hustle culture.
What is the connection between deep rest and the Gene Keys? How can both help you live, work and lead softly? Daring to Rest facilitator Korynn Elliott, a Gene Keys guide, joins Karen to talk about the power of Gene Keys alongside a practice like yoga nidra, and how the Gene Keys voyage is very similar to Daring to Rest’s 3-Phase approach to leadership.
