Devoted to Rest®
is resting
Begin to Clear, Clarify, Create, Celebrate™
“I came to Devoted To Rest carrying the exhaustion of doing everything alone. Rest taught me how to receive. And when I learned to receive in my body, my life opened. I found my life partner. I became a bonus mom. We began stewarding an investment property. My creative life inside and outside of academia - my interests in coffee, my coaching curriculum, the book that was waiting for a rested version of me - is thriving. These are not small things. These are the things I had been working toward while running on empty, wondering why they weren't arriving. Rest - and a real embodied devotion to it - was the missing practice. As I rest, I am awakening to the possibilities and power in self-trust and co-creation. What I could not make happen through force, I am manifesting with Octavia's coaching and through devotion to rest.”
— Dr. Tiffany Dawn Johnson James, PhD Associate Professor | Founder, Pulse of Morning Work + Wellness
Devoted to Rest®
is dreaming and imagining.
Rest Is Refuge.
Rest Is Remembrance.
Rest Is Revelation.
Rest Is Refuge.
Refuge is shelter. Protection. Privacy. A place where nothing is required of you and no one can reach you. A world that has always had an opinion about how you show up cannot follow you here.
Devoted to Rest® is a refuge.
Rest Is Remembrance.
Inside the stillness, light stirs. Dreams set aside. Desires buried. Identities never fully stepped into. Remembrance is where what has been forgotten finds its way back.
Devoted to Rest® is a place to remember.
Rest Is Revelation.
This is where vision becomes undeniable. Where your soul’s true desire speaks with full authority. Where your capacity and your actions harmonize. Revelation arrives steady and slow. It has always been waiting for you to reclaim your rhythm.
Devoted to Rest® provokes revelation.
“Rest awakened a connection to my own power — embodied power — and a deep awareness of how I move through the world. Since studying with Octavia, I have gone back to the heart and started to understand it in a whole new way. Now I prescribe rest to my patients. What we do together begins from rest.”
— Dr Tej Khalsa MD MSc FRCPC
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
Octavia F. Raheem has been teaching, practicing, and living this work since 2013.
She is the author of three books — Gather, Pause Rest Be, and Rest Is Sacred — written from a rested place, in a rested body, and read by over 65,000 people across the world.
She is a wife, a mother, and a woman who has built a thriving, easeful life and business as living proof of the power of rest as a sacred practice.
Rest is the bridge between where you are and where you want to be.
“Exhaustion extinguished my imagination. Rest reawakened my creativity, my brilliance, and my power. Once I started resting and reverse engineering my life, rest first, I found my way back to the most important relationship I have. The one with myself. Today that is my favorite relationship. I have never said those words before.”
— Cherese Brauer
Rested Leader & Free Black Lady
“Rest literally kicked open doors for me. The rooms I have been able to sit in, the way I have grown into who I always knew I was — that has shifted. I know what I bring to the table. I belong here and I belong here because I am here. I am not going to exhaust myself proving something I already know to be true. That is Rashida 2.0.”
— Rashida Parrish
Project Manager, Mindfulness Coach, Yoga Teacher
I had no idea this would unfold. For the first time in my life I have been able to articulate that I am this, a business leader, AND that, a spiritual seeker. It has all been inside of me this entire time, but I couldn't see it until I was rested enough to see. Every time I say an intentional yes to rest and work with Octavia Raheem, tenfold unfolds! Today, I do many things along this unconventional spectrum — that is in fact my secret sauce, doing all of the things that bring me joy, my way.”
— Jen Hutter
Investor, Advisor, Board Member, Philanthropist, Rest and Meditation Teacher | Pause, Rest, Lead® Certification Candidate