Devoted to Rest®
The Sacred Alchemy of Rest and Future Leadership.
The next cohort of Devoted to Rest® begins January 2027!
Rest is your superpower.
Devoted to Rest® is where visionary leaders discover that the path to their most audacious dreams runs straight through sacred stillness.
For trailblazing Black women and women of color who refuse to burn out building a collective future.
The Truth About Rest
Tired systems rely on your exhaustion to function.
You know this. You've felt it. The way the machine keeps grinding, expecting you to be its fuel.
You are here, on this page because you are waking up to this: A rested leader is a free leader. When you rest, you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be. You reclaim your power. You bend time. You access visions that can only be downloaded in stillness.
Rest is reclamation.
Your ancestors didn't survive for you to burn out building someone else's dream.
Praise for Devoted To Rest®
Meet Devotees to Rest and hear about their experiences.
Rashida Parrish
Project Manager, Engineering Data & Analysis at Cox Communications, yoga teacher
Dr. Leconté Dill
Associate Professor of Black Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities Studies
“All I knew was that I was tired AF. My experience in Devoted to Rest has healed parts of me, changed my relationship with what I thought rest was, and cleared pathways in my mind and heart to my truest truth. Forever grateful I found my way to Octavia and her sacred gift.”
“Devoted to Rest is a safe space…a community of beautiful, smart, open, interesting, successful women of color. We share, we practice, we support, we encourage, and we celebrate each other. In a world that often wants to diminish us and rarely asks what we need, that thrives off our overwork and exhaustion, this community is a gift. Through our work together, I have not changed, but rather become more of myself, and have recognized that caring for myself…resting and cultivating stillness, is the answer to being present to absolutely everything else in my life. I am beginning to know rest as well as I know hard work. I am now certain I must have both in my life to feel whole.”
- Kellie Tabron – Communications Professional, Writer, Ghostwriter, Editor, Researcher
Tired of Being Tired.
First, we give thanks to Fannie Lou Hamer for saying it plainly:
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
You are here because:
You're done with the "hustle until you collapse" narrative
You know your dreams deserve better fuel than exhaustion
You're building something that will positively impact our world and outlast you
You trust that another way and another world is possible
You're ready to model sustainable power for the leaders watching you
You refuse to pass generational patterns of overwork to those coming after you
You're here to root down and rise up.
You're here to rest your way to the top.
This Is Sacred Stewardship
Before you say "I don't have time" or "My people need me to be 'on'" Pause.
When you steward your energy you serve your community. Your rested leadership creates permission for others to rest. When you model sustainable power, you heal patterns for children watching, teams following, and communities you serve.
Rest is calling. You are welcome and worthy.
The Manifestation Power of Rest
Neuroscience reveals that the brain's default mode network - active only during rest - is where breakthrough insights emerge and creative solutions crystallize. When your nervous system downregulates through stillness practices, your prefrontal cortex gains access to subconscious processing power that busy minds can't reach.
What Happens When Visionary Leaders Rest:
Vision Activation
Rest opens portals to possibilities your busy mind can't access. In stillness, you download strategies that feel like magic but work like science.
Magnetic Presence
When you rest, you become the leader people feel instead of just see. Your regulated nervous system creates safety that allows innovation to flourish.
Intuitive Decision-Making
Rest connects you to your inner knowing - the compass that navigates uncertainty with confidence.
Devotion & Manifestation
What you create from rest has sticking power. It's sustainable. It multiplies. It serves.
Lineage & Legacy
Rest shifts you. Your shifts heal your lineage and creates new patterns for those who follow.
Beyond Singular Self-Care
Devoted to Rest® isn't about bubble baths and face masks (though we're not mad at those). This is about joining a sacred circle of visionary leaders who understand the assignment. Together, we are:
Dismantling productivity culture from the inside out
Healing generational patterns of overwork and devaluing our labor
Creating new models of leadership that don't require sacrifice
Breaking the cycle of exhaustion that has been passed down for generations
Becoming living proof that another way and another world is possible
You won't walk this path alone. When we rest together, we amplify each other's power. When we model sustainable leadership as a collective, we shift the entire paradigm.
This is how critical shift happens , in sacred community.
Key components of Devoted to Rest® at a glance + dates:
Sacred Sessions - Online:
12:00pm-3:00pm ET
Fridays
All inclusive Rest Retreat:
April 15-18, 2027
Rest Squad:
12:00-1:00pm ET
Fridays
DreamLab
12:00-1:00pm ET
Thursday
The Experience:
Where Spirit Meets Strategy
Sacred Sessions - Online:
Sacred sessions occur online, in a group setting, and include powerful experiential learning about the power of rest. Your mind, body, heart, and soul will be engaged in practices, presentations, dialogue, collective wisdom, and community building.
Sacred Session Dates:
12:00-3:00pm ET / 9:00am-12:00pm PT
January 8 & 29, 2027
February 13, 2027
March 12 & 26, 2027
All-Inclusive Rest Retreat:
This all-inclusive retreat includes transformative rest practices, sound therapy, restorative movement, nourishing meals, walks in nature, quiet time, awakening rituals, and ceremony to honor your journey of shedding exhausting patterns. You will leave deeply rested and awake to the power and truth of who you are.
Rest Squad:
Your rest squad is your homebase in our curated community of leaders committed to being well rested. Each gathering includes 20-30 minutes of structured rest.
Retreat Dates:
April 15-18, 2027
Flight and ground transportation not included
Rest Squad Dates:
12:00-1:00pm ET / 9:00-10:00am PT
January 15, 2027
February 12, 2027
March 19, 2027
April 9, 2027
DreamLabs:
Office hours where you can drop in, connect with your rest coach, receive support, ask questions, and do sacred work. We'll vision and rest for 10-15 minutes at the top, then follow your inquiries.
DreamLab Dates:
12:00-1:00pm ET / 9:00-10:00am PT
February 11, 2027
April 1, 2027
The Devoted Curriculum
Drawing from our transformational Pause, Rest, Lead® methodology, Devoted to Rest® guides you through four essential phases:
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CLEAR
Release the beliefs, patterns, and conditioning that keep you trapped in exhaustion cycles. Through the body and presence, we clear the mental and emotional debris blocking your access to sustainable power.
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CLARIFY
Remember who you were before the world told you who to be. Reconnect with your innate rhythms, natural pace, and truest desires. Clarify your vision from a place of deep knowing.
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CREATE
Access strategies, possibilities, and innovations that only emerge from the well of deep rest. No more reacting from depletion and desperation. We create from overflow and build from inspiration.
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CELEBRATE
Integrate your transformation, turn up for all that you have shed. Lift your hands in glory for the leader you've become. Celebrate your capacity to be more than you do.
See inside a Devoted to Rest® Retreat
An All Inclusive Retreat is an essential part of Devoted to Rest®
We’ll gather at a five star location — a curated group of visionaries, Rest guide- Octavia Raheem, and amazing guest facilitators—
and we will rest.
We will dream. We will awaken.
Devoted to Rest® retreat is an essential component of the experience and all of it- rest sessions and onsite experiences, room, board, meals, snacks are included in the investment.
Please note, you are responsible for your flight and transportation to and from the retreat location.
Devoted to Rest® is a rest based mastermind for Black Women and Women of Color who are visionary leaders who have made an incredible impact in their fields, find themselves at a growth edge, exhausted, yet want to level up in a sustainable way, awaken even more lasting potential, and do so while being well rested.
In this one of a kind experience we identify what gets in the way of you resting. We release obstacles to rest using Octavia Raheem’s sacred Devoted to Rest®curriculum. We create a rest plan & flow that awakens dormant potential plus more power, joy, and ease in your life.
Prioritizing rest is the key to unlocking even more potential and power in your life and making your dreams real.
You are enough.
Rest is your birthright.
You are valuable as you are.
You can be strong and soft.
You can rest and still get “there.”
Your body was built to rest.
You have permission to rest.
The solution is
not to
work harder.
The solution is to rest.
-Octavia Raheem
“Devoted to Rest has been both the light and the path for my journey. I am quite frankly an exhausted Black Woman. But Devoted to Rest has given me so many tools to help me on my journey to being me... the journey to my awakening and power... my journey to manifesting abundance and delight... the journey to my freedom! ... Because "a rested body is a free body"
- Maleeka Glover - Senior Epidemiologist, Peace and Security SME, Executive Director, Founder and CEO
“I signed up for Devoted to Rest, thinking I would have at least an hour a month to relax. The monthly cohort calls did allow me to let go, relax, create, and sleep. And I received so much more! The experience, Octavia, our guides, and the courage of my cohort participants enabled me to open my heart and mind to ancestral connection and wisdom, connect my nonstop-thinking brain to my body, identify wounds and beliefs that no longer serve me, and provide the embodied practices to aide my healing journey. One of my favorite quotes is by Octavia Bulter - “All that you touch You change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change.” This experience forever changed my relationship to rest, care, worthiness, and joy.”
- Ebony Ross, Executive Director, Conflict Transformation Fund
You belong here if...
You question if you deserve rest (you do).
You worry about being seen as 'not working hard enough' (that's programming and simply not truth).
You fear your dreams are 'too big' (they're not - they're right sized when you build your capacity through rest).
You're the 'strong one' everyone leans on.
You're ready to face your discomfort with rest because you know it's necessary.
You're willing to model a new way, even when others don't understand.
You often go first and are a few years, if not decades ahead of others in your thoughts, actions, and leadership.
Devoted to Rest® is not for you if you:
Don’t have or aren’t interested in a growth mindset.
Are not willing to commit to yourself, the process and fully attend online live group experiences with a sense of devotion.
If you know upfront that you’ll miss more than one live session or other scheduling conflicts this is not the program for you.
Are looking for traditional professional development, schooling, or a training program. This is an embodied and experiential program designed to positively reshape your relationship to both rest and work.
Aren’t willing to engage rest practices consistently on a weekly or daily basis.
Think rest is a “trend” vs a lifelong practice.
Devoted to Rest® is not a substitute for therapy with a trained, caring, and experienced practitioner.
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Rest online in a brave and safe community
Online Sacred sessions with the most well respected and leading Black Women Authors and Teachers of Rest.
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All inclusive Rest Retreat allows you to fully integrate the course, rest, and revel in ease
One deeply relaxing & all inclusive three day in person Rest Retreat at right outside of Atlanta, GA
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Personal rest practice as commitment to Self
Weekly self paced practice that supports your rest, restoration, and the recovery of your truth and joy.
Devoted to Rest® includes:
Six Online Sacred Sessions
Four Day All inclusive Rest Retreat
Optional: One to one rest coaching session with Octavia Raheem
Restpod Gatherings
Two Dreamlabs
Authentic connection with women, leaders, teachers, authors, and creative leaders like you
so much more!
Every aspect of the course, every online immersion/retreat, self-paced practice, experience at the in person retreat, note sent to your inbox, and rest session is thoughtfully curated and created with your rest in mind.
You were born worthy of rest.
Shift happens in Devoted To Rest®
Meet more Leaders who are Devoted to Rest and hear about their experiences.
Tej K Khalsa - MD MSc FRCPC
Physician Educator, World Health Organization
Gabrielle Wyatt
Founder of The Highland Project
“For me, this experience has been like a hammock–a place for rest where I am held, supported, and elevated. I have appreciated the opportunity for Black women and other women of color to honor ourselves and others and to be loved up. In this time and with ongoing anti-Black racism and racism against other people of color, Devoted To Rest is an oasis! One of my favorite parts is having sessions led by women of color who deepen or expand my knowledge base and/or expose me to different ways to rest. The experience has been rejuvenating and empowering! Thanks for this wonderful creation Octavia!”
- Dr. Shari Saunders
“Devoted to Rest was transformative for me personally, professionally, and spiritually. This experience reminded me that I am truly my best, happiest, balanced, and productive self when I rest, and it gave me the tools, community, and permission to rest. I am forever changed and grateful.”
Amanda Aiken Ed.L.D. Founder of A.Leigh Solutions/ Co. Founder The Center Sustainable Leadership
What This Really Costs
The Real Investment Analysis
Executive coaching:
$500-1000 per session × 52 weeks = $26K-52K annually
Business conferences and leadership development:
$15K-30K annually
The cost of burnout:
Missed opportunities, health complications, relationship strain, diminished impact = Immeasurable
The cost of NOT resting?
Your dreams. Your health. Your impact. Your legacy.
Your Investment in Devoted to Rest®:
$12,600
($2,100/month for 6 months available)
Less than $35/day for an investment in:
Your sustainable power
Your transformational impact
Your legacy of liberation
The future you're creating
Breaking generational cycles of exhaustion
For the Leaders Who Are Transforming Everything
You know you're meant for more than surviving the system. You're here to imagine, dream, and create a future where we all have the opportunity to thrive. Rest is how you do both.
The world needs rested visionaries. The future needs leaders who model another way. Your dreams need you well.
Your $12,600 investment ripples through every life you touch. Your rested leadership creates permission for others to rest. You're not just investing in a program - you're funding transformation.
Rest is the most underrated superpower.
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“Rest is the bridge between where you are and where you want to be.”
– Octavia Raheem
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“Rest and you will remember you are already who you are trying so hard to become.”
– Dr. Gail Parker
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“Invite deep rest into every cell of your being. Trust that you deserve to be supported and held…”
– Tracee Stanley
Limited Sacred Circle
Only 10 visionary leaders are accepted annually.
Applications are rolling.
It's about sacred timing. It's also about the intimacy required for deep transformation and the reality that not everyone is ready for this level of sacred disruption.
Application Process
This is for serious changemakers only.
You're ready if:
You're done with exhaustion as a leadership strategy
You trust that rest can be transformational
You're committed to modeling sustainable power
You're ready to invest in your visionary capacity
You refuse to model burnout as leadership
Sacred Questions Answered
What if I don't have time to rest?
Sister, that's exactly why you need this. We'll help you find time you didn't know existed. The women who feel most "time-poor" experience the most profound shifts.
What if my family/organization needs me to be "on"?
Your people need you sustainable, not exhausted. This work teaches you how to serve powerfully without depleting yourself. Your regulated presence becomes the greatest gift you offer.
What if rest feels selfish?
Rest is the most unselfish thing you can do. Your exhaustion serves no one. Your sustainable power serves everyone.
Will I still be productive?
You'll be more than productive.You'll be generative, creative, and magnetic. Rest multiplies your capacity and exponentially increases your impact.
What if this doesn't work for someone like me?
This work was created by and for women of color who understand the unique pressures we face. Every practice, every teaching, every moment honors your journey and your brilliance.
Is this really going to change my life?
Only if you show up, engage in community, and commit to your rest practices. In that case, you will be transformed.
FAQs
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This experience is both personal development and the future of professional development. Visionary corporations, organizations, and the leaders that found, create, serve, and grow them know that rest is an essential component to any sustainable, highly impactful, and well work place and culture. To that end, it is appropriate to consider asking your company or organization to cover the cost of Devoted to Rest (DTR).
We recommend being clear on your why for DTR, clarifying your intention and goals for the experience, and sharing the testimonials linked in here in your pitch or presentation. You can also reach out to us at hello@octaviaraheem.com for further support with your pitch.
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No, it is a course that supports you in resting so that you can awaken + activate your fullest potential in your personal and professional life. If desired and needed, we recommend participants find other forms of support alongside this offering. Bodyful Healing and Atlanta Trauma Therapy & Consulting are wonderful resources and places to start if you are looking for a group of therapists who focus on supporting Black Women and Women of Color.
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To date, over 50% of Devoted to Rest participants have accessed some level of organization/ corporate support to cover the investment.
This is an investment in your sustainability and the return on investment can not be understated.
If you own your on business and are considering covering all or a portion of the Devoted to Rest investment through your corporation we recommend discussing the expense with an accountant first.
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Trust me. You will not want to miss a single one of our live sessions. In the unlikely event that you miss one session, you will have access to a replay for 14 days after the live session. If you will miss more than one online session, and know that up front, this isn’t the devoted program/ experience for you at this time.
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I believe wholeheartedly in Devoted To Rest, and I bring unparalleled experience (15+ years) with me. Combined with guest and retreat teachers, there are over 150+ years of dedication to the well-being, rest, truth, and joy of Black Women and Women of Color within this program. I know you’ll gain immense value from this experience. That being said, I don’t offer refunds or transfers. Think of this as an investment in our mutual time and energy and that of all of the experts you’ll be supported by. We all give 111%. How about you?
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– You’ll need yoga props: at least two yoga blocks, 2-4 bolsters, and blankets.
– You are responsible for travel to and from the retreat location; this may include both a flight and drive to get to retreat location which is 30 minutes away from Hartfield’s International Airport.
– Retreat staff tips are always at your discretion based on your personal experience.
Though not required, I recommend these books:
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The group is by application only and limited to 10 visionary leaders
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Devoted to Rest includes:
All inclusive rest focused retreat at five star location
Life-changing online sacred sessions
Curated weekly rest practice
Rest Revelations/ reminders to rest sent to your inbox
Authentic connection with women, leaders, teachers, and creative souls like you
So much more!
ALL INCLUSIVE RETREAT
Nightly accommodations, all delicious meals focused on healthy seasonal ingredients, all planned programming, all-levels yoga classes, sound healing, live music, and dance for emotional freedom and release,
14 day access to all records
Small group (rest pod) to meet with to discuss your awakenings, process, and simply rest with
Monthly home practice
Supportive community
More truth, joy, and transformation
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Yes, six (6) month payment plans are available.
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Everyone will have a private room and private bath en suite at our five star location.
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You will be nourished. Some meals will be five course and prepared by a private chef. Other meals will be handhelds and delicious, while we’ll also dine at acclaimed restaurants in the area. We will eat—-WELL! Prior to retreat you will complete a registration form and have an opportunity to note any dietary needs. Gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, paleo, and keto meals are available.
Please note, a group wine tasting is on the itinerary. Let us know if you are abstaining
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You’ll want to fly into Atlanta Hartsfield’s Airport. You will receive directions after participation is confirmed. We will want to arrive in Atlanta by 1:00pm ET on the day the retreat starts
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You’ll want to fly into Atlanta Hartsfield’s Airport. You will receive directions after participation is confirmed.
If it feels like a lot of intention, thought, research, magic, love, and prayer has gone into this mastermind, YAHHHHHSSS! That’s because it has! I deeply believe in creating experiences for US where the smallest of details have been considered with your rest, care, and transformation in mind. Alexa cue the song by Troop… All I do is think of you.
I am so excited to hold this space for you to rest and wake up your fullest power and potential.
The world needs more well rested leaders. You lead the way to a more well rested future, by beginning with yourself.
Welcome.
A note from me to you:
Simply by applying, you’ll awaken in ways you’ve never imagined.
In your daily living and soul care.
In your way of relating.
In your way of leading.
In your capacity to imagine, dream, do.
In your work.
In your embodied knowing of your worthiness of rest.
Your investment in the experience will be a catalyst for unexpected returns for years & years to come.
"Rest is the bridge between where you are and where you want to be."
- Octavia Raheem
Ready to Awaken Your Relationship with Rest?
This course is by application only. After your application is received, we’ll reach out to schedule a chemistry call to answer any additional questions and make sure this is the right program for you.
Pause. Notice your heart. Then inhale to exhale.
Rest is here and even more rest is on the way.
The future belongs to the well-rested. Your time is now.
