The DeepRestX Story
DeepRestX want to make the world a better place by sharing techniques to help others become well-rested.
DeepRestX will do this via our courses and curriculum and data-driven results.
Our roll-out begins in October 2020 and our proposed reach will be from targeting individuals through to large enterprises. This journey will take many years and our intent to reach and touch as many lives to make a significant change.
Our Mission
At DeepRestX we want to share with the world, the simple secrets to relax, unwind, de-stress and re-connect with the body, mind and soul.
To enable human beings to be the best version of themselves.
We are on a larger mission to create a movement where we can integrate modern life with ancient healing modalities as a circuit breaker to the stressors of modern life.
We believe, when we can rest deeply, there are exponential benefits for ourselves, our family, our workplace and our lives.
Meet the DeepRestX Co-founders
DeepRestX was founded in 2020 by Penny Ward and Susan Douglass driven by lives and livelihoods grounded in values based wellness.
With their collective experiences they enable and support human beings to discover the simple secrets to relax, unwind and de-stress - to reactivate the brilliance and vibrancy that can be lost over years of compounding stress, exhaustion and burnout.
They are working together to shift the needle on individual and corporate wellness with innovative approaches that transcend typical ‘ra-rah’ and ‘woo-woo’ tick box interventions.
PENNY WARD
At DeepRestX Penny introduces the aspects of wellness, resilience, and the power of deep rest with her professional skills as Organisational Change Management Consultant to enhance the performance of individuals, teams and organisations.
Penny’s journey to deep rest commenced in 2015 when she was introduced to yin yoga and yoga nidra to counter decades of high-intensity and high-impact fitness - largely attributed to the occupational requirements when she serving in the Australian Defence Force as a Special Forces Support member.
Penny first noticed changes in her strength and flexibility on a deeper level, but she was fully intrigued by the profound mental and emotional benefits — including the ability to access states of deep rest and relaxation, dialling down of the stress response, and improved resilience.
She soon dedicated herself to a daily Yin Yoga practice. Then, as a devoted practitioner, Penny decided to enrol in her Yin Yoga and Yoga Nidra teacher training with global leaders in the field to deepen her knowledge, skills and practise.
As her practise developed and expanded, so did the scope of her teaching. In the past years has integrated her expertise in leadership and human potential and performance with the power of deep rest for managing stress, building resilience and positive wellbeing habits.
In 2017 she founded 'Deep Rest and Renew' in Melbourne and expended her classes and retreats into Canberra with a pop-up studio and online school focused on regular programs to build skills and healthy habits of deep rest with her clients.
Penny’s mission is to share her experience and the profound impacts that healthy new habits anchored in techniques to enable support a deeply rested body, mind and soul - the foundation of brilliant, vibrant and resilient human beings.
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SUSAN DOUGLASS
Susan Douglass is more than a co-founder of DeepRestX.
She has done much more over the years before elegantly meandering through the abundant fields of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness.
Susan has always had a passion for travel. At 19 she backpacked the Western Australian coastline over 6 weeks arriving in Darwin before jumping a flight to Cairns and then heading to a fitness convention on the Gold Coast. She has traveled to 20 countries and a quarter of these more than once. Susan's most recent trip to Nepal with the team from Tree of Life, giving back to local communities.
With more than 20 years of telecommunications and information technology sales, account, and relationship management experience. Having owned her own Telstra premium mobile phone dealership at 23 and four years later selling this to move into a speedy growth in her corporate career.
She has two awesome teenagers, corporate career, and like most of us juggling life, stress levels mounting she found solace in a regular Yin Yoga class and this is where the search for her dharma unfolded in a delightful dance.
Diving headfirst into her first year-long course an Advanced Yoga Diploma that was filled with softness, kindness, and that innate sense of coming home. The immersion unfolded with Yin Yoga Training, Transformational Yoga Training, Yoga Nidra via the linage of Swami Satyananda Saraswati and Advanced Training in I Am Yoga Nidra with Karmini Desai.
She has since divided her time in the corporate world and engaging corporate audiences in the sciences and practices of finding space, balance, and the power of deep relaxation.
Susan's goal is to elevate these powerful modalities into the lives of busy people who don't have time to meander through the epilogue of modalities.
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