Devoted to Rest®
The Sacred Practice of leading from rest.
Cohort 7 begins February 2027
Begin to Clear, Clarify, Create, Celebrate™
The question is no longer, am I worthy.
It has shifted to
What is worthy of me?
Of my energy. My presence. My life.
Welcome to Devoted to Rest®.
For women with a sacred call who are ready to lead from rest.
Cohort 7 begins February 2027.
Woman, as we hold it here, is expansive. If this work is calling you, you belong.
You Are Brilliant.
You have always been.
You walk into rooms and the temperature shifts. People feel you before you speak.
You are the one they call when the stakes are high.
You are a dreamer who does the work.
You stargaze and your feet are on the ground.
You have invested in yourself via therapy, coaching, development, and community.
You know how to take care of yourself.
And still.
You are creating against a backdrop of destruction. The toll on your brilliance is real.
There are nights when you wake at 3am, restless. Underneath the life you have built there is a deeper current waiting for you to lean fully into it.
A reckoning begins in the dark.
What am I carrying that no longer belongs to me?
Where am I overextending beyond what is true for me now?
What would shift if I trusted myself more deeply?
You fall back asleep. You wake up. You lead. You deliver.
The questions remain.
Another version of you exists here.
She makes decisions from a settled place.
She trusts herself to say yes to what honors her sacred call. She does not borrow against her future.
She arrives at rest by choosing it.
She lives from it.
You have already met her in glimpses.
Devoted to Rest® is where you inhabit her. Ten toes down.
“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 a rare invitation.
It is for the leader who is ready to reverse engineer her life and place rest at the center. To access the creativity, vision, and embodied power that exhaustion has been standing in front of.
A leader who:
has already said no to something significant this year and reclaimed her time in that
has already said yes to something they desired this year and felt the rightness of it
invests in herself without needing external validation first
is willing to interrupt patterns that look successful yet are physically, mentally, and emotionally costly
is ready to be in a room where depth is the baseline, not the exception
She is ready.
If that is you, you already know.
Before Devoted to Rest® was an immersion, it was Octavia’s Teacher. Before it was her Teacher, it was her daily practice.
Before it was her daily practice, it was a way to survive what felt unsurvivable.
She lives this truth: Rest Is Sacred.
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.
Devoted to Rest® Is the bridge.
Ten leaders. Ten weeks. One all inclusive retreat.
One circle curated with extraordinary intention.
Unrepeatable.
The Online Sessions
You arrive in real time. You practice. You reflect.
You stop auditioning for your own life and start inhabiting it. Your voice comes back to its full register. You remember what you want and desire.
Your creativity returns first. Then your discernment. Then your ease. Then your superpower.
You trust yourself. You bend time because you no longer spend energy performing. You move with grace. You no longer brace against yourself.
Fridays, 12:00pm – 1:30pm ET
February 5, 12, 26
March 12, 26
April 9, 2027
The Retreat
Three days. Two nights. All inclusive.
Nourishing in every sense of that word — the food, the silence, the laughter, the music, the movement, the medicine of being in a room with nine other leaders who match your frequency completely.
Think of it as a sleepover with your resties. (Thank you, Cohort 6, for that perfect word.)
Think of it as a homecoming.
Think of it as an initiation.
No one leaves the same as they arrived.
April 16–18, 2027 | Outside Atlanta, Georgia
All accommodations, meals, programming, sound healing, restorative movement, and ceremony included.
Flight and ground transportation not included.
The Devoted to Rest® Curriculum
Experience rest-based acceleration, transformation, and manifestation.
Clear. Clarify. Create. Celebrate.™
Clear. Release what exhausts you. What dulls your brilliance. What stands between you and the freedom, joy, and life that is your birthright.
Clarify. Live the answer to the most profound questions of this season of your life. This level of clarity feels like looking into an expansive sky and realizing it is your reflection. The way you access clarity in Devoted to Rest® is unparalleled.
Create. From a cleared and clarified place, your decisions come alive. Your actions align with your deepest purpose and wildest dreams. This is where rest empowers your most sacred work.
Celebrate. Your body and brain welcome more of what is experienced as celebration. A good kiki and turn up are essential at each turn of your becoming.
Leaders who devote themselves to rest and this circle have written books, purchased dream homes and properties, started foundations, found their life partners, and expanded their families. They have traveled the world after years of feeling stuck in one place. They have started businesses that matter and earned more while working less. They have reclaimed their bodies, chosen themselves, and left what was costing them their health and well-being.
They stopped chasing. They arrived. Breath intact.
This is what the process of Clear. Clarify. Create. Celebrate.™ does. It creates resonance in the nervous system, body, and field. A rested woman becomes a magnet and energetic match for her deepest desires. What she has been reaching for begins reaching back.
A beautiful life can be sourced from rest.
This is the pattern for those who show up and devote themselves to the inner work that rest requires.
Rest is generative.
What you create from this place compounds.
It has staying power.
It is abundant.
“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
What Changes?
Leaders leave Devoted to Rest® and:
Do the thing they only dreamed of.
Stop entertaining other people’s nightmares.
Restructure their work to be more purposeful, impactful, and joyful.
Experience a renewed quality of presence with the people they love
Reclaim creative capacity that exhaustion had stolen
She stops trying to control other people and starts trusting herself.
That is the whole strategy.
They move with precision. With grace. With ease.
This is what a rested life creates.
Deeper, more sustainable power to fulfill it.
Your Investment
12,500
$10,500*
9-month payment plan available/$1,167 a month
*early enrollment pricing ends June 30, 2026.
“Every time I say an intentional yes to rest and work with Octavia Raheem, tenfold unfolds.”— Jen Hutter, Investor, Philanthropist, Rest and Meditation Teacher
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What you receive:
Six live online sessions with Octavia.
A circle of ten leaders curated with extraordinary intention.
Weekly rest practices delivered to support and deepen the work between sessions.
Four days at an all-inclusive retreat outside Atlanta, Georgia. Every meal. Every rest session. Sound therapy. Restorative movement.
The alchemy that comes from being in a room with nine leaders who match your frequency, depth, and level.
And the most rested, resonant, and prosperous version of yourself.
How to Join
Devoted to Rest® is by application only.
Ten leaders will be selected for Cohort 7.
Application → Rest Call → Enrollment
The Rest Call is a 30-minute conversation with Octavia to discern whether this is the right experience, the right season, and the right circle.
Cohort 7 begins February 2027.
Sacred Questions
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Devoted to Rest® is an embodied, experiential immersion designed to reshape your relationship to rest, self-trust, and leadership capacity. If you are currently working with a therapist, this work will deepen and complement that journey.
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You will not want to miss a single one. In the unlikely event you miss one session, a replay is available for 14 days. If you know upfront that you will miss more than one live session, this is not your season for Devoted to Rest®.
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You can ask them. Devoted to Rest® is both personal development and the future of professional development. Contact hello@octaviaraheem.com for support with your pitch.
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Devoted to Rest® does not offer refunds or transfers. This is an investment in mutual time, energy, and the expertise of every teacher, guide, and facilitator within the experience. We give 111%. We ask the same of you.
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
You have read this far for a reason.
In one season your life can look beautifully different.
In one year you can be unrecognizable to the version of you who hesitated.
The women who wait for the right time, they circle the same tired spot.
The women who take one step, they arrive.
The door is open. Walk through.
Cohort 7. February 2027. Ten leaders. One portal.
Devoted to Rest® is a by-application, annual experience for a small circle of leaders with a sacred call.
