Rest is Revolutionary with Karen Brody

Aug 7, 2019

Karen Brody is the founder of Daring to Rest, a yoga nidra-based approach for women. 

In this episode, we talked about:

• Karen’s former experience of being a Type A personality and having panic attacks.
• Finding yoga nidra at her yoga studio whilst looking for a stretchy class to tone up her body.
• Lying down and taking a nap was outside of her paradigm
• Realising that she put her boys down for a nap each day and it helped them to be less cranky, but why wasn’t she doing this for herself?
• The danger of sleep-deprivation
• How do you quiet the mind?
• What is yoga nidra? Sleep meditation with a state of relaxed awareness
• Feelings of freedom, hope and possibility arose from the experience of yoga nidra
• The subconscious mind guiding you to your best self
• The fourth state of consciousness that you can’t access from sleep
• Rest-shaming in our culture
• Letting go of what you don’t need
• Being supported and safe when you lie down and surrender
• Yoga nidra as a gift for your baby/ children 
• Even 5 minutes of yoga nidra in the car is worthwhile
• Realising the transformational effect of yoga nidra after a traumatic robbery which left Karen with PTSD
• Creating a rest cave
• Sharing yoga nidra online to give more people access and create connections and community from women all over the world
• Training women in the Daring to Rest Method
• Yoga nidra taught an embodied understanding of choice and agency
• This tool can be used alongside anti-anxiety medication and anti-depressants
• Feeling less alone and more connected
• Yoga nidra as non-negotiable rest before and during your period
• Bookending in the morning and/or night
• Soul whispers 
• The Wild Woman archetype from Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Activating the intuitive part 
• Awakening creativity through rest
• Lying down teaches us to tune in
• The most radical act for women is to rest and reawaken

 

If you’d like to connect with Karen Brody, find her @karen_Brody or @daringtorest or visit her website:

www.daringtorest.com

 

You can read her book, 

Daring to Rest: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1622039092/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=avnitouch-21&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1622039092&linkId=f14449d35974aac07fd7e4b0bd095f81