2.2.26 I AUDACITY TO REST: CHERIE ROBINSON RECLAIMS REST AS A HEALTH INTERVENTION

In a culture that worships productivity and rewards exhaustion, choosing rest can feel like rebellion. Audacity to Rest, a course created by Cherie Robinson, names that rebellion and invites us to consider rest not as indulgence, but as a health intervention, a cultural reset, and the ground from which life grows.

Drawing from wellness science, collective care traditions, and lived experience, Cherie challenges grind culture’s most entrenched myths: that hustle is a virtue, rest must be earned, and exhaustion is the cost of belonging. Through guided practices, reflective prompts, and communal learning, Audacity to Rest reframes rest as both a personal and collective practice that actively resists conditioning built on depletion.

Participants are encouraged to unlearn urgency, soften their relationship with time, and reconnect with rhythms that support long-term wellness rather than short-term output. This shift supports nervous system regulation, restores cognitive clarity, and creates space for emotional processing. It also opens the door to imagination - an essential aspect of both personal and societal change.

There is no pressure to optimize rest or “do it right.” Instead, Cherie offers an invitation - to pause, to nap, to say no, to stop proving worth through exhaustion. In a culture that equates busyness with value, that invitation is radical.

In choosing rest, Cherie reminds us, we are not stepping away from the world. We are preparing ourselves to remain in it - whole, connected, and alive. Rest, here, is not withdrawal. It is return.

Cherie’s next Audacity to Rest experience is schedule on Sunday, March 22, from 6–8pm at Community Yoga Center. It’s your opportunity to reset, restore, and meet each moment with greater calm, clarity, and care.