Beat Burnout & Reclaim Rest - by Hilary Jackendoff

COURSE

Beat Burnout & Reclaim Rest

With Hilary Jackendoff

This 10-day course is for anyone struggling with stress, exhaustion, or overwhelm. Rest regulates the nervous system, relaxes the body, and clears the mind - but many of us are carrying a lot of baggage around rest – consciously and unconsciously. Through this course, you’ll increase mental clarity, find more at ease in your body, improve work-life balance, and become more present, grounded, well-rested, and relaxed in your daily life. Over the next 10 days, you’ll learn why you might feel guilty for resting, why you might be afraid of rest, and how listening to your body, instead of your mind, can lead you to the well-rested life that you deserve and desire. You’ll be well-supported on your path with accessible teachings and simple, pragmatic tools including Yoga Nidra, mindfulness-based meditation, digital wellness strategies, affirmations, and contemplative journaling. You’ll also be invited to get intentional in creating a daily practice. But most of all, you’ll be encouraged to reconnect to yourself and honor your energy, because through rest – we rise!


Meet your Teacher

Hilary Jackendoff is a New Jersey-born, ashram-trained Yoga Nidra and meditation teacher, teacher trainer, and Human Design reader. She began studying Tantric Yoga in 2008 and spent two years formally training, while living at an ashram in Australia. Hilary is a founding teacher at The DEN Meditation in Los Angeles and a Wanderlust Festival teacher, who has been featured as a sleep meditation expert on Good Morning America. She offers self-inquiry sessions, Yoga Nidra and meditation teacher trainings, mentorship, online classes, and corporate wellness. Her work is focused on sharing powerful, pragmatic, and accessible practices and teachings to create inner harmony and greater ease. When working or practicing with Hilary, expect a blend of no-nonsense, applicable wisdom, and plenty of laughs - because the spiritual doesn't have to be so serious!

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10 Days

9.0k students

4.9 stars

17 min / day

Stress

English


Lesson 1

Your Relationship To Rest

Rest is a profoundly simple and powerful healing tool. But although rest is simple, it’s not always easy. So, in order to access its healing benefits, you first have to get clear on your relationship to rest. From there, you can begin to shift the inner narratives, beliefs, and patterns that prevent you from living the well-rested life you deserve and desire. This session lays the foundation for the course, clarifying the structure and objectives. You’ll be guided in a short, contemplative meditation and invited to spend some time journaling after the session concludes to integrate whatever came up.

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Lesson 2

Rest & The Nervous System

To prevent burnout and maintain balance, you need to understand what rest is – and what rest isn’t. This session explores rest through the lens of the nervous system, providing you with a perspective shift that will inspire a new way of being. We’ll contemplate the essential nature of rest, clearing up some misconceptions. We’ll also consider how to make the most of your limited free time by making choices that replenish, rather than deplete, your energy. You'll be guided in a simple practice to help you drop your awareness down into your body to discover a felt, inner experience of ease and presence.

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Lesson 3

Digital Wellness & Solitude

Rest is a solitary experience – but many of us have forgotten how to be alone. In this session, you’ll explore the importance of solitude, and discover the number one obstacle that’s preventing you from experiencing both solitude and rest, and how you can overcome it. You’ll be introduced to the idea of micro-rest practices called Restful Resets, so you can reclaim solitude during the in-between moments of your day. The session concludes with a short but effective mindfulness-based grounding technique that you can easily weave into your daily life.

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Lesson 4

The Mind & The Illusion Of Urgency

Rest is not a reward for completing your to-do list. It’s not something you have to earn. You always have the right to rest. But your mind tells a different story. Your mind creates the illusion of urgency, prioritizing mundane tasks while convincing you to postpone the thing you need most: rest. In this session, we’ll explore how mental pressure prevents you from resting. You’ll be invited to consider your to-do list from a new perspective that honors your energetic needs. Today's practice is an affirmation-based meditation with background music that can be used as a pattern interrupt in daily life to replace counterproductive mental narratives around rest.

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Lesson 5

The Language Of Sensation

Your body speaks in the language of sensation. It’s communicating with you in every moment. But are you listening? When you habitually ignore your body’s rest requests, you put yourself on an express train to Burnout City. So in this session, we’ll explore how to honor your body’s energy, listen to its messages, and tune in to its natural rhythms in your daily life. Today's meditation is a short practice that invites you to ground your awareness fully in your body and perceive sensations in a new way, so you can develop new patterns of responsive listening that encourage a new relationship to rest.

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Lesson 6

Foundations Of Rest With Yoga Nidra

Rest is an inner experience that is available to you in every moment. But in order to access rest, you have to let go of the external world and drop into a felt sense of ease within your body. But when you’re stressed or overwhelmed – when you need rest most – it can be difficult to find that quality of peaceful presence. This session introduces you to Yoga Nidra as a powerful, foundational technique to help you learn how to let go and discover what deep rest feels like. You’ll be guided in a beginner's Yoga Nidra with background music.

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Lesson 7

Creating Hormonal Homeostasis With Yoga Nidra

Stress and anxiety are normal parts of daily life, but they don’t have to be your baseline. Through a daily rest practice, we rebalance the nervous system, decreasing stress and anxiety levels and improving mind-body health. Yoga Nidra helps us clear stress hormones from the body, while increasing 'happiness hormones'. In this session, you'll discover Yoga Nidra’s unique benefits for the nervous system and hormonal regulation, and be introduced to the essential teaching that rest is a biological necessity, not a luxury. You’ll be guided in a beginner's Yoga Nidra with background music.

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Lesson 8

Owning Your Self-Worth

Sometimes, a resistance to rest comes from a lack of self-love and self-worth. But one of the simplest and most profound ways you can practice self-love is by prioritizing a daily rest practice. In doing so, you demonstrate to yourself that you care for and value yourself – and isn’t that what love is? So instead of burning the candle at both ends and overcommitting your way through life, trying to prove your worth, this session invites you to make the deliberate choice to rest, acknowledging that you have done enough – that you are enough. In this moment and in every moment. You’ll be guided in a gentle self-love meditation with background music.

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Lesson 9

The Sacred Ritual Of Rest

You may have heard the expression, ‘we don’t see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.’ But life can move so fast that we forget who we are - and why we’re here. Stuck on a hamster wheel of mundanity, we lose connection with ourselves and what’s really important – merely existing, instead of living. This session centers rest as a spiritual practice, inviting you to explore an ancient, sacred ritual of remembering, so you can see clearly and honor the gift of life. You’ll be guided in a short, contemplative meditation. After the session concludes, please take some time and space for reflection and integration through journaling.

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Lesson 10

Integration & Some Cherries On Top

You’ve absorbed a lot of information over the last 10 days, but it’s important to remember that information is not transformation. So in this final session, we’ll review and integrate the previous nine lessons, reflecting on how the pieces fit together so you can put everything you’ve learned into practice. You’ll also receive some additional practical tools and strategies to support you in creating a daily rest practice that suits your needs and your life. Please note, this session does not include a meditation practice.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 115 community questions and 5 audio replies from Hilary Jackendoff. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

TERYN

February 1, 2026

Really enjoyable felt like I could make this a habit

Vicky

January 22, 2026

Really helpful and compassionate course I’ve come back to again to remind myself of the importance of real rest.

julie

julie

January 21, 2026

I just loved it ! And I will come back to it 🙏✨💛

Katina

January 12, 2026

This was such a useful course - thank you for sharing your advice for reclaiming rest. I will definitely be using the tools you've shared and I've already begun implementing some. I'll also probably relisten to episodes that I need reminding of or as general support.

Lori

Lori

December 26, 2025

This course was incredibly helpful for me. It helped me to truly understand what true "rest" really is. I appreciate your shared wisdom & recommended practical tips & tools. This course is extremely valuable & I would recommend it to everyone I know. Thank you!! 🩵

Mardy

November 18, 2025

So interesting and informative. Thank you!

Chiara

Chiara

October 25, 2025

Illuminante e confortante.. grazie. Lo riascolterò ♥️

Francesca

Francesca

September 19, 2025

Revolutionary and so simple.

Marc

August 30, 2025

Thank you for returning my memory and awareness to just “being”.

K

August 27, 2025

Perfect guidance for my birthday solo retreat. Wisdom I will take back to my everyday life.

Kathryn

June 18, 2025

Excellent! This course has given me much insight, much to contemplate and re-consider, and has inspired conscious choosing - to shift my relationship with rest (and myself!) … an invaluable course for anyone that unconsciously and habitually goes through burn-out cycles.

Heleen

Heleen

May 13, 2025

Ik vond het een hele fijne en leerzame cursus. Heeft me veel goede tips, handvatten en inzichten gegeven🙏🏻😊

Claudia-Sam

Claudia-Sam

May 8, 2025

This course is a beautiful gateway to giving yourself permission to be.here.now and rest (instead of doing ‘just one more thing’). I have been going back to certain days’ practices over the last year and the calmness in Hillary’s presence is deeply supportive. I appreciate you 🙏

Angel

Angel

February 26, 2025

Deeply thoughtful, informative and inspiring

Kathleen

February 10, 2025

Thank you! This was very helpful. ☮️

Margaryta

Margaryta

January 31, 2025

Great course tht I needed so much! I am learning to have a new relationship with rest in my life

Joyce

Joyce

November 24, 2024

Thank you for this amazing course. Due to the course I realized that an unhealthy relationship to rest is underneath my tendency to overwork. Thanks for the wisdom and the practical habits to alter this.

Rick

October 28, 2024

Pragmatic way to take breaks, the importance of breaks, the importance of energy and its scarcity. Time to be more authentic. Awareness acquired through repetition-practice.

Scott

Scott

October 27, 2024

Reclaiming my right to rest each day, and knowing it will help me be my best.

Sybil

Sybil

October 11, 2024

Whew! This course is well worth everyone's time. This is one of the best courses I have attended thus far on this app. I appreciated the thoroughness and well stated guides in discussing burnout.

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