Amazing Grace: A Former Roman Catholic Sister Reflects on her Religion, Yoga Nidra and Rest
Release Date: 04/02/2022
Yin Leadership - with Nina Simons
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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. Resources for this episode can be found here:
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A Conversation on Rest and Yoga Nidra with Sisterhood 8 of the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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...
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Deep Rest, Yoga Nidra and Inner Mothering with Karen Brody
The Daring to Rest Podcast
Karen's back with a short "rest check in" on the topic of deep rest, yoga nidra and inner mothering. These unrested times are calling us not only to rest, and help others, but also to not abandon our inner selves. Abandoning ourselves is perhaps the number one way we get off the rested path. Inner mothering is key. Come hang out with Karen today as she shares on the podcast about how a practice like yoga nidra can help you mother yourself while lying down. This is the kind of rest revolution we want you to be a part of - lying down to feel rested AND "do the inner work!" Resources for this...
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Embracing Your Most Luminous Self with Tracee Stanley
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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! Resources for this episode can be found here:
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The Barbie Movie and Creating a Fair, Equitable and Rested World with Shalini Sinha
The Daring to Rest Podcast
The struggle to feel rested is real. Is the Barbie movie the answer? After watching the film, I wanted to talk about it here at Daring to Rest because in some ways it felt like an instructive piece on creating a rested life. I also wanted to find a perspective beyond mine. So I invited Shalini Sinha, a gender professor and anti-racist specialist in Canada, onto the podcast today to speak about the film with me. Shalini brings a perspective on the Barbie movie that you probably have not heard yet. Resources for this episode can be found here:
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Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Dr. Ruby Gibson and Kara Big Crow
The Daring to Rest Podcast
Today Dr. Ruby Gibson, founder of Freedom Lodge, and Kara Big Crow, executive director, join me on the Daring to Rest Podcast for a passionate discussion about healing intergenerational trauma. You'll learn about: Pulling up trauma from the roots Historical trauma and why the cause for what you are experiencing may be generations removed The impact of boarding school & colonization on Native Americans Kara's journey to heal her intergenerational trauma through Dr. Ruby's somatic archaeology work An exercise to orient you to your body May this episode support you to feel more ease....
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How to Live Your Life with the Noise and the Peace
The Daring to Rest Podcast
In this rest note, Karen Brody talks about a surprising conversation on meditation that she recently had with a customs officer. With examples from her own life, she explores where we go when we meditate and how to live in the noise and the peace of life. Resources at:
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How to Have an Orgasmic (& Restful!) Birth and Life with Debra Pascali Bonaro
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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. Resources for this episode can be found at:
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Being Your Own Kind of Leader: On Women, Leadership, Rest, and Staying Awake
The Daring to Rest Podcast
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. Resources for this episode can be found here:
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Mother-Daughter Rest Bonding
The Daring to Rest Podcast
Today on the Daring to Rest Podcast a mother and daughter who have been in the Daring to Rest community join Karen to share their rest stories. You’ll learn about their mother-daughter rest bond, and how rest has impacted their lives. Resources for this episode:
info_outlineWhat happens when you combine a former Roman Catholic Sister, yoga nidra, rest and seventy-eight years of living? On today's Daring to Rest Podcast episode, you're going to meet Janet Frischmon to find out. Janet's been a member of our Rested community at Daring to Rest for a while, and has taken the Daring to Rest Facilitator Training.
In this episode, we explore:
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The connection between yoga nidra and Roman Catholicism
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The dream that led to her leaving her position as a Roman Catholic Sister
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How yoga nidra made her a believer in the resurrection of the body and life ever-lasting
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What qualities are so important to Janet that she'd give up happy
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What rest is revealing to Janet at seventy-eight years old
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Why she feels yoga nidra has been after her all her life
Be sure to listen until the absolute end of this episode - there's a short & sweet bonus audio from our conversation.
As always, please leave a review of the podcast...and I love hearing your thoughts on each episode!
Restfullly onward,
Karen
Resources for this episode can be found here: https://daringtorest.com/podcast/65