The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. We engage with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred spaces for the community to rest together. Our Rest is Resistance theory has been embraced all over the globe. We facilitate immersive workshops, lecture on our rest as a liberation practice, and curate performance art that examines rest as a radical tool for community healing. We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue.
