Rest Garden

Your rest journey begins here.

Welcome to the Rest Garden - a place to be and become.

Rest is radical - particularly in a world that is obsessed with doing and productivity.

It’s not easy to rest. Let me support you in filling your cup.

Open the garden gate and step inside.

Choose your rest journey

ONE HOUR, ONCE A MONTH

Online Rest Circles

Join a circle of women from the cozy comfort of home. Sign up for the New Moon Rest Circle held on December 3 from 7:00 to 800 p.m. M.T. You can attend live or listen to the replay.

SELF-DIRECTED AT HOME

21 Days of Rest

Take a journey from worn out to more rested with a self-directed rest program designed to easily fit into your life. You’ll receive thoughtful daily guidance and weekly practices to easefully weave rest & aromatic self-care into your life.

BESPOKE REST SESSIONS

1:1 Rest Sessions

Treat yourself to a 75 minute 1:1 rest session with me. Each session includes yoga nidra, a short rest practice, space for reflection. and practical ideas and rest rituals that you can easily weave into your life

UPCOMING EVENTS

Paradigm shift…when you realize that rest isn't about being more productive. Rest is a radical response to an over-productive world.

Hi, I’m Shelagh, a Certified Daring to Rest Yoga Nidra Facilitator and Teacher-Trainer.

My Journey to Rest

My life took an unexpected turn in November 2018. I got the phone call that so many of us dread - your mammogram is irregular, come back for more tests. 

I was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer.  Wait, what?  Me?

Over the course of a year-long healing journey, I discovered and learned so much about healing, about compassion, about devotion, and about resiliency. The journey was deep, personal, and intense. To say the least.   

At the core of the journey was the experience of rest.  What I learned is that rest is radical, particularly in our always-on culture.

My profound experience of rest as medicine inspired me to pursue Daring to Rest yoga nidra teacher training and weave this restorative practice with rituals of self-care attuned to the rhythms of the seasons, the moon, and our own inner gardens.

“Can I really believe I am worth an hour a day? Am I, who have given my life to others, selfish enough to take one hour a day to find myself?”

Marion Woodman

Doing nothing - aka resting - is radical.

One of my favourite ways to rest is through yoga nidra - a gentle, ancient meditation practice that guides you from your busy outer world to a deep state of resting awareness.

It feels like healing nectar for your entire being.

Practicing yoga nidra regularly:

  • soothes and balances the nervous system

  • relieves tension and stress

  • shifts brain waves into a nourishing state of regeneration

  • restores peace and rejuvenation to the whole body

  • awakens creativity & increases clarity

  • brings you back home to your wisdom, insight, intuition

The beautiful thing about yoga nidra is that there is nothing “to do” but simply rest.

I am a Certified Daring to Rest facilitator and teacher trainer. I mentor women from all over the world in the Daring to Rest method.

Curious about yoga nidra?

Get your free I Am Luminous yoga nidra meditation.

woman lying in hammock

The garden gate is open.

Step inside.
Connect with the season.
Drink the nectar of the moon.
Listen to your inner garden.
It’s time to rest.
Just as you are.