Rest and wake up your fullest
power and potential.
Restorative and rest based experiences led by Octavia Raheem that awaken creative potential, ignite possibility, and inspire bold action within visionary leaders, companies, and organizations who positively impact our world.
Hi, I’m Octavia F. Raheem.
I am an Award-Winning Author, Rest Coach, Restorative, Yoga Nidra, Meditation Teacher, and Speaker.
I know this and want you to know it too: prioritizing rest is the key to unlocking even more potential and power in your life.
As a wife, mother, and business owner I rely on rest to ground my presence in what matters the most to me as I create and work: family, community, healing, and leaving a well rested legacy that impacts how we work for generations to come.
As seen in:
Inhale. Pause.
Exhale. Pause.
Do that three times.
Now, let’s continue.
…strategic and woo. You are soulful and strong. You are spiritual and pragmatic. You are grounded and fly. You stand in faith and walk with hope. You are resilient and learning when to lean into your softness. You are intelligent and creative. You are wise and knowledgeable. You are an inspiring visionary.You have and will continue to make an incredible impact in your family, community, business, organization, and the world. You are a leader of self, a business/organization, and in thought.
You are…
You are also tired of feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and tired.
You keep hearing about rest. You read about it. You are ready to move past theory to practice.
Rest is an infinite resource and fuel.
I’m here to show you how to access the power of rest.
Rest can swiftly bring you to a place of clarity. Rest reveals what is yours to do and what is not. When clarity found through rest meets intention and mindful action, time lines collapse. Yes, what I am saying is that rest allows you to bend time.
You may have found yourself here at the edge of burn out, fatigue, or exhaustion. You may simply be ready to move from theory to the practice of rest right now. I got you. My books are excellent resources to begin, return to, or continue your rest journey.
I’ve also compiled Rest Resources for you. Simply click the button below to start resting now.
Rest Resources
“What better way to let staff know they are seen and valued than to invite them into a space- during their work hours- to Pause, Rest, and Be?! Our time with Octavia was invaluable. As we continue to commit and recommit to the life work of being our best selves for the children and communities we serve, we have realized that we must be intentional about maintaining healthy relationships with ourselves, each other, and with our capacity. Spending guarded time in Octavia's rest and reflection sessions, gave staff an opportunity to pause, exhale, and become more cognizant of the needs they must intentionally tend to in order to be more present for themselves, the things they value, and their work.”
- Ashley Ellis, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at The Atlanta Speech School
“My journey to rest was not easy. For some, it's as simple as closing one's eyes and breathing deeply. For me, I had to run, crawl, climb and cry my hardest - just to get to a place where I felt I had earned *the right to* rest. I know now that rest is not earned. It is found. It is not bargained for. It is owed. And it is divinely blessed.”
- Ibiere Seck, founder and principal trial attorney at Seck Law P.C
What got you (and your business or organization) here just won’t get you where you are going.
The old work paradigm applauds exhaustion as a show of commitment to “the work” or cause. It confuses fatigue with evidence of dedication. It designs and maintains systems that decidedly keep people unwell, even while giving lip service to the idea of leadership and staff wellness.
There’s Nothing New Under The Sun,
But There Are New Suns
- Octavia E. Butler
The old work paradigm says “there’s no rest for the weary.” It says you have to stay on the hamster wheel of always doing and play by the imbalanced work first, live second- rules.
Listen, we’re laying that to rest. We are waking up to new ways (possibility) and new suns (power), while challenging the lie that pushing, straining, and always being busy yields high level growth and progress.
It just doesn’t. Not at your level.
Oh, and we are disrupting the heck out of the regularly scheduled program of giving the best of our creativity and labor away at the expense of our own wellbeing.
To be clear, work is important. To be much clearer, rest is an essential aspect of living, relating, and working in a well and sustainable way.
We’ve ignored the power of rest in favor of the force of work for too long.
Get ready to access rest as fuel and awaken more possibility and empowerment as a result.
Here’s how we do this:
Identify Obstacles
Everyone and every organization has unique obstacles in the way of their rest. I want to be upfront when I say this. What gets in the way of you (or your organization) resting, gets in the way of your possibility and impact. I know this is counter to everything you may have heard. I’m explicitly talking to individuals and organizations who are impacting change on creative, high, and deep levels. I’m talking to people and organizations that aren’t basic or simply maintaining the status quo. Together, we identify what gets in the way of you resting.
Along the way you may have picked up mind sets, systems, habits, processes, and practices that supported the season, moment, or point of growth you were in, then. Some of it may be useful for where you are now. Some of it may need to be repurposed. Much of it may simply need to be released. I support you (or your team) in how to release obstacles to rest using my proprietary methodology.
Release what’s in
the way
Transformation requires intentional, consistent, skillful, and well purposed action. I call this practice, i.e. what you repeatedly do. We create an engaging and accessible rest plan rooted in practice that awakens more power, joy, and ease in your life work flow.
Rest plan to
awaken
Rest with me
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Devoted to Rest ™ Small Group Rest Coaching
Rest is a catalyst for profound transformation. Devoted To Rest™ is a rest based mastermind for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color who are senior leaders, established business owners, or high level founders who want to awaken their fullest potential and discover + embody the essential power of rest.
Next cohort begins January 10, 2025. You are worthy of rest.
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Held : Private Rest Coaching for Leaders
You have led others to and reached a new summit. You have arrived at a place beyond the scope of your own detailed, intentional, and expertly designed map. What do you do when you reach the edge of your own expansive vision? When you are the leader who appears to gracefully hold it all, who or what holds you? Held : Private Rest Coaching is the answer.
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Gather: Rest @ work
Inspired leaders like you are waking up to the truth that the best strategies begin and end with rest.
This NEW kind of professional and relational development disrupts the status quo and wakes your team up to the potential that is lost in systems and cycles of overwhelm and exhaustion. We’ll create a custom rest program that supports you and your team in making impact in a sustainable, well, and purposeful way.
