Rest Is Sacred
Reclaiming Our Brilliance through the Practice of Stillness
Reclaim your brilliance, rest.
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Divine One of Rest,
You said come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. You said I will fight for you; you need only to be still. You said be still and know.
And here we are. Here, being this portal within these pages. Here, being this place. Here, at this altar called right now.
We come in gratitude for our Ancestors who are well enough in spirit to tend to our wellness. Because of them, we found a way to rest. We made a way to rest.
We are here to reclaim rest as our birthright. Let it be so.
-Excerpt from Rest is Sacred by Octavia F. Raheem
Concise, potent, poetic messages of inspiration, direction, and encouragement for you to embrace rest and reflection as a deep spiritual practice.
In this compelling follow-up to her popular book, Pause, Rest, Be, Octavia Raheem offers succinct, gem-like teachings that invite us to find ways to embrace rest in our daily lives. Rest, she posits, is not only restorative—it connects you to your inner wisdom and is a portal to revelation. Raheem urges us to consider rest as a spiritual practice and to find ways to weave it into the busyness of our everyday life. In this way, she says, we can more fully “rise to the occasion of our life.”
Raheem uses personal reflection, and creative, evocative “sutras” (or, just as aptly, aphorisms, threads, psalms, or proverbs) and inquiry to guide us toward a more well-rested present and future. The forty sutras fall into three categories:
Rest as a place of refuge from the storms of life
Rest as a place to remember who you are
Rest as a place of revelation
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Each page of Rest is Sacred invites the reader into seeing rest as a contemplative practice and a way of life—and to reflect on our relationship to grind culture. The sutras are concise, potent, and inspiring and can be read in a moment, contemplated, or lingered over. Raheem offers the view that the most sustainable future available to us is a well-rested one, and that rest isn’t a luxury—it is a necessary spiritual practice that is available to us all.
Octavia F. Raheem is a wife, mother, author, highly sought after rest coach, and restorative + Yoga Nidra Teacher.
She is the founder of Devoted to Rest™ a transformational rest focused immersion for visionary leaders making a high impact in their fields. She teaches passionate and driven individuals how to awaken their fullest potential through the power of rest. With 10,000+ hours of training and teaching experience, she is a true luminary in the areas of rest, restorative arts, wellness, and yoga. Octavia has been featured in The New York Times, Yoga Journal, Well + Good, Tricycle, at Essence Festival (Atlanta) and more.
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