~ Rest for the Radical

~ Rest for the Radical

Deep conscious rest supports us to alter the personal and collective nervous systems of capitalist culture. Rest is radical because it disrupts a culture focused on doing, and orientates us towards being. It's a practice where we unplug from the constant stimulus of the modern world. It allows us to reclaim space in, and around, our bodies. Rest is resistance. Rest is protest.

Radical Rest Offerings

Intro to Rest

4 × 60min classes introducing you to Radical Rest. We develop an understanding of how to use props to support the body in positions of comfort and ease, leading to deep relaxation.

Learn to rest

Weekly Rest

For those who have completed the Intro to Rest and are seeking a weekly practice or the odd dose of Radical Rest.

Finding ease

Private Rest

The most deluxe way to rest. A class specifically tailored to your needs. Whether it’s your first time or your a seasoned rest-er, this is Self-care wrapped in blankets.

Prop me up

  • Radical Rest is a Restorative Yoga practice.  We place the body in nurturing physical postures that are held for long periods of time. In each shape, we use props such as blankets, bolsters, and blocks so that the body can be fully supported and at ease. On an average class you could expect to experience about 3 poses. We move slowly between each shape and there is always a version or variation of savasana.

  • If you’re living on planet Earth, then this practice is for you. Maybe you struggle to find a way to rest that isn’t reaching for your phone or hanging out on a streaming service. Maybe you feel the weight of a busy household or the weight of the world. Moments of uninterrupted quiet or focus feel like a thing of the past. If you’ve found yourself on this website, this practice is for you.

  • We know stress can come through bigger events and change, but also in trying to juggle a myriad of responsibilities. Stress effects every part of us and can show up through impatience, irritation, anger, frustration, muscle tension, headaches, a disruption or change to bowel movements, and indigestion. The more stress, the more the effects of stress compound within us. 

    Radical Rest draws on scientific understanding to gently guide the nervous system toward a state of deep conscious rest.

    Through supportive physical postures and carefully created conditions, the practice helps ease the accumulated effects of stress. As the body settles, relaxation naturally emerges—opening the door to deeper rest.

    You can read more about the science of rest here.

  • Radical Rest draws on nervous system science, offering a thoughtful, evidence-informed lens to the practice of rest. The practice stimulates the systems that calm and restore, while softening the systems that keep us in a constant state of alert.

    We acknowledge that each body is different; both in its physicality and in the stories that live within. We meet this difference with care and kindness.

  • "I dropped into a depth of something... not anxious about anything, not in resistance to anything, not distracted by anything, just in it. That's not an easy place to find. I don't understand how what you did allowed me to submerge like that so easily and quickly but it did."

    —Rae, Candelo

  • "It was just delicious. My body emerged from it smiling. "

    —Radical Rest student

  • "I was physically comfortable which is not easy for me. My body doesn't find ease in stillness which is strange because I love it but it's where pain often lives for me. But I had no pain, I had ease in that stillness."

    —Radical Rest student

  • "I came out of the rest feeling very calm and clear and energised in a really helpful way. I stayed in that state for a few days. "

    —Radical Rest student

  • "Rest sessions with you are like a deep medicine that I never even knew I needed."

    —Radical Rest student

sthira-sukham-āsanam

sthira-sukham-āsanam

Yoga Sūtra Chapter 2, verse 46

sthira - steady, not wavering, motionless, still, calm

sukha - pleasure; happiness; ease; comfortable; pleasant

āsana - particular posture, place

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We acknowledge the Djiringanj and Thaua people as the traditional custodians of the land in which we rest, learn, and connect. Such beautiful country, ocean and big skies that give us the opportunity to connect body within place. We are grateful to the Djiringanj and Thaua people for their custodianship, and pay our respect to elders.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land.

Three people smiling and taking a selfie while standing in the ocean water, with waves visible in the background.