Sovereign Soil: 2026 Liberatory Mentorship for Creatives and Entrepreneurs

I’m so happy you made it here.

Read the FAQ’s if you’re unsure if it’s for you and the brief application will also support us to know. If you felt called, I encourage you to apply.

Our Spring and Summer 2026 Cohort just concluded. Complete the interest form below for our Fall and Winter cohort. Dates will be released soon.

Note that completing the form below is not the same as completing the application.

What the program is

Sovereign Soil is a 9 week liberatory mentorship rooted in radical imagination, connection and aligned action for entrepreneurs, wellness and spiritual practitioners, and creatives whether you are building or deepening part time or full time offerings, projects, or businesses.

It recognizes that our work, creativity, and capacity to build are shaped by the systems we live within and that we also hold the power to reshape, undo, and birth pathways for ourselves and one another.

This mentorship supports people in reclaiming agency, clarity, and sovereignty as they bring, or deepen, their offerings into the world.

It centers holistic growth, embodied wisdom, and collective care, creating space to tend both what is being built and who you are becoming.

This is a container for those birthing new realities through their work guided by values, integrity, and a commitment to a world beyond oppression. It is about remembering how to build in alignment with your body, your vision, and your values while being held in community and supported through focus, devotion, and shared practice.

In times that can feel scattered, isolating, and overwhelming, this work centers healing, imagination, and personal agency. It supports creating from sovereignty rather than survival, tending both the inner and outer structures that allow your work to take root and grow.

We will meet live biweekly April -June 2026. With pre-recorded sessions for you to use at your own pace in the weeks in between to support us in our multimodal realities with more ease.

There will be one week “off” for you to rest, integrate and prep for our closing the following weekend.

How the work is held

Sovereign Soil is a liberatory, trauma-informed, embodied container for entrepreneurs, spiritual practitioners, and creatives (full- or part-time). The program combines:

  • Somatic practices, meditation, and visualization to ground your body, release blocks, and imagine new possibilities

  • Guided reflection, journaling, and community organizing tools to uncover gifts, values, vision, and ancestral wisdom

  • Bi-weekly live group sessions with Soraya

  • Alternating recorded and self-paced modules for integration

  • Weekly practices and fieldwork to embody and apply your insights

  • Curated reading touchstones offered as companions, not requirements

  • One 1:1 integration session with Soraya

  • Kindred accountability partners for relational support

  • A supported final offering or vision deliverable shaped to your process

Tangible outcomes

By the end of Sovereign Soil, you’ll have:

  • A clear, embodied vision for your offerings, business, or emerging work

  • Tools, habits, and rituals that support alignment, autonomy, and sustainability

  • Practical structures, language, and brand materials ready to launch, refine, or deepen your work

  • A supportive community of peers and Kindred companions invested in collective flourishing

This program is for anyone ready to step into sovereignty, honor their gifts, and create offerings that reflect what the world needs through you now.

What to expect logistically

  • Bi-weekly 3-hour live sessions on Zoom; recordings provided for self-paced engagement

  • Pre-recorded modules with exercises and reflections for in-between weeks

  • A Kindred accountability system pairing participants for reflection and integration

  • Weekly fieldwork/practices to apply insights directly to your creative, wellness, or business work

  • Access to the mentorship platform for two more weeks after we close in June.

Skills and capacities cultivated

Across 9 weeks, you will:

  • Ground in personal and business values, strengths, and growth patterns

  • Identify and release stories that no longer serve you, including inherited money narratives, visibility fears, and self-doubt

  • Deepen your relationship to creativity, imagination, freedom dreaming, yourself, and community

  • Build nervous-system-aware rituals, habits, and structures that support discipline, devotion, decision-making, focus, and care

  • Develop brand statements, bios, and language to communicate your work clearly and with integrity

  • Learn community organizing tools to cultivate aligned partnerships, audiences, and reciprocal communities

  • Take aligned action on your offerings in ways that reflect sovereignty, creativity, and collective care

Preview of weekly Sovereign Soil path:

  • Orientation, Connection & Arrival

    Before we begin, Soraya will connect Kindreds (accountability partners) and welcome the cohort into shared space. You’ll be invited into gentle pre-work and optional readings to support your arrival, grounding, and intention-setting for the journey ahead.

    Optional reading touchstones (4-5 books) aligned for throughout the mentorship will be introduced here via email and our group connection space.

  • Reconnect with your gifts, strengths, and values while exploring your relationship to yourself and your community. Learn foundational tools for building work rooted in integrity, reciprocity, and care. This week is about remembering your power and locating yourself within a collective context.

  • Look back to move forward with intention and discernment. Explore inherited wisdom, release what no longer serves, and honor the practices, stories, and gifts you carry forward. This week invites reflection, renewal, and preparation for the next chapter of your journey and our collective journey.

  • Center your creative and spiritual autonomy while exploring nervous system awareness, discipline, and devotion. This week is about reclaiming your body, time, and energy as sacred sites for action and creation.

    Bonus workshop on leading and living with intuition to strengthen your internal guidance.

  • Expand your sense of what’s possible for your work, your gifts, and your impact. Explore visionary thinking, decolonized approaches to manifestation, and the power of imagination as a tool for creating aligned, courageous offerings.

    Clarify how your work wants to move through you and into the world.

  • At the midpoint, we slow down. This week is devoted to integration, reflection, and refinement through individual 1:1 sessions with Soraya.

    You’ll tend what’s emerging, receive personalized support, and prepare to bring clearer form and direction into the second half of the container.

    This pause is intentional so nothing meaningful is rushed or carried forward unconsciously.

  • Explore the inner and inherited narratives that shape your sense of worth, visibility, and capacity. Identify resistance, release stories that no longer serve you, and begin re-storying your work in alignment with the world you want to help create. This week is about courage, honesty, and transformation.

  • Explore branding as relationship, communication as bridge building, and sharing as abundance, while navigating the shadow work of visibility.

    Deepen your understanding of collective nervous system literacy, refine your language and presence, and learn practicing being seen without self-abandonment or performance.

  • Build or refine the systems, language, and practices that support sustainable creation and aligned action. This week is about translating ideas into form, maintaining integrity, and cultivating structures that hold your work, your values, and your energy.

  • Share what has emerged and celebrate your growth with the cohort. Participants choose a final deliverable: your roadmap, a sample offering, a creative project, or a combination, that reflects your process and gifts. This week is about ownership, expansion, and stepping into the next chapter with courage and clarity.

  • Cohort members will be considered for the In Movement there is Blessing Mentorship on Soraya’s Retreats.

    You will also receive discounts below to be used by you or a loved one/community member of yours for another of Soraya’s offerings that can integrate some of the work you do in Sovereign Soil.

  • Sovereign Soil members will receive a code for themselves or a community member to use towards some funds off of a 2026 or 2027 In Movement there Is Blessing Retreat once accepted into the cohort.

  • Sovereign Soil members will receive a gift for $22.22 off any private liberatory pilates sessions with Soraya at Sovereign in Denver in April-June 2026. They can share this code with loved ones who need those sessions and who they help hold space for as well. If you are not local to Denver Soraya will send a liberatory yoga recording to you instead.

  • Cohort members will receive a certificate upon completion of the program because we celebrate all things I this lifetime while we are here and earth side. You may also be featured to amplify your work, with consent, in Soraya’s monthly newsletter.

  • Each cohort member will receive a 1:1 coaching call with Soraya during the program, half way through in order to bring in some of what’s been moved through and integrating and also be able to carry the work form the 1:1 forward towards the end of the program.

Financial Investment/Energy Exchange.

The total investment for Sovereign Soil is $1777.

Please see the payment plan options for monthly payments.

You’re welcome to choose any payment plan that best supports you being able to be part of this.

If you need a different plan than what’s reflected or something else in any capacity, email flourish@sorayalatiff.com and Soraya can walk through their options with you.

Payment links will be posted individually once the full cohort is confirmed.

Once the first installment/deposit is paid please note that the program will non-refundable to honor the application process .

You will be able to pay in full or access any of the payment plans. You can adjust your payment plan down the road as well.

  • $592.40 per month. First payment will be due no later than March 1st to confirm your place in the cohort.

  • $296.17 per month. First payment will be due no later than March 1st to confirm your place in the cohort.

  • $197.45 per month. First payment will be due no later than March 1st to confirm your place in the cohort.

  • $161.55 per month. First payment will be due no later than March 1st to confirm your place in the cohort.

More testimonies below on working with Soraya Latiff

“…thank you Soraya , for always creating the space to bring others with you, & holding the space for us to expand in our own ways and within our own timing.

Thank you for speaking to the artist within me and encouraging those gifts to breathe and birth in new & profound ways during our time together. For creating the space to deepen my own practice with yoga both as a teacher and a student, and to allow access to witness you in those same roles.

What a gift of a lifetime, I will carry the tenderness, the pour, the teachings & lessons with me as I continue to grow and progress forward”

-LA

FAQs

  • The Sovereign Soil 9-week mentorship is open to people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences who are committed to reimagining the world around us, cultivating creativity, deepening self-awareness, and taking aligned action in their work.

    While open to all, the cohort will likely be predominantly people of color, Black, and Indigenous participants, as this program intentionally centers the experiences and wisdom of communities historically excluded from mainstream wellness and dominant structures of power.

    This container is for those who:

    • Are pursuing wellness, creative, or values-driven entrepreneurial work, part-time or full-time

    • Want guidance to bring their gifts into the world with integrity, creativity, and courage

    • Are ready to reflect, reimagine, and take aligned action in their offerings, business, or creative projects

    • Value community, mutual support, and relational accountability

    • Are willing to engage with both themselves and others in a compassionate, liberatory, trauma-informed environment that centers justice, healing, and collective change

    Whether you are just starting out, part-time, or full-time in your entrepreneurial journey, this program will help you meet yourself where you are, step into your vision, and bring your work into the world in a way that is aligned with your gifts and values.

  • No the program holds space for full time and part time. Wherever you are in your journey, if you are called, take the leap and trust yourself to be here. Part of the application is feeling into if it’s an integral fit right now.

  • The container is 9 weeks of live or recorded modules with one pre- week of optional and light work as well as one closing week.

  • There will be bi-weekly live sessions and the session in between will be pre-corded to encourage experience of moving at the pace you need and time for you to connect with your kindred partner on those weeks as well. Sessions will be recorded and sent out after and if you are able to make it live that would be most supportive however you are of course able to miss if you need and just let Soraya know ahead of time.

  • A kindred survey will be sent out upon your acceptance into the cohort and Soraya will also take into account your application. Kindreds will be shared in the pre-week and this is essentially someone you can move through the container with together and bi weekly check ins of some kind will be encouraged but not required, at least one connection is “required” at the beginning and after that there will be an invitation on the non-live meeting weeks to do your best to connect for a at least an hour with your kindred as well as an encouragement ot connect with each other to practice before the final week.

  • Yes there will be practices or fieldwork each week that will take about 1-3 hours per week and are there to support you on the road to the completion of the full program and offer room for exploration and praxis.

  • Yes, we would love to have you from anywhere you are able to join or wherever you are rooted!

    Noting that our live meetings generally will likely take place at 12-3pm MST on Saturdays as Soraya will largely be based out of Colorado.

    The asynchronous meeting style is also here to support people joining form different time zones.

    However she will also finalize the time based on our final cohort and their geographic locations if an adjustment to that time will support the group more.

  • There will be the option to meet in person for our final session if you have capacity to be in Denver or come to Denver. However Zoom will be used for this final day as well and Soraya will mail and/or email certificates depending on your location

  • Slides, pre-recorded modules, meeting links, online communication tools for the cohort, and guided meditations will be provided.

    Reading and listening materials will be linked once the cohort is finalized.

    Participants will have the option to take an paid online quiz (outside of Soraya’s work) or purchase or find access to their own copies of some recommended books, but this is not required to complete the program. Soraya will teach and share from the materials she has, ensuring that everyone can fully participate regardless of access.

    Access to the materials will close two weeks after Take Flight due to us using a subscription based platform.

  • Once your first payment is submitted, the total program fee is non-refundable.

    Payment plans must be completed in full.

    If for any reason you are unable to attend, please reach out to flourish@sorayalatiff.com to discuss options for accessing materials or future cohorts.

  • Yes — each participant will have a 45-minute 1:1 session with Soraya halfway through the program. This session is designed for you to:

    • Prepare for your final session or deliverable

    • Integrate what has been moved through thus far

    • Sit with anything that needs attention or reflection

    Soraya carefully attunes to each participant while holding the group container, ensuring that the session supports both individual growth and the collective energy of the cohort. There will also be a structured written check-in ahead of your 1:1 to help you get the most out of the session and make it as impactful as possible.

  • We will meet biweekly on early afternoons or evenings March 21st-May 23rd.

    The application will have you select which times work best for you out of: Saturdays and Sundays 12-3pm MST or Tuesday, Wednesdays or Thursdays at 12-3pm MST or 5-8pm MST.

    If you need a slightly different time than those options but would like to apply please note that on your application. These times are not yet fixed.

    There will be one week “off” of modules and live calls for you to rest, integrate and prep for our closing wekek.

    The few meeting weeks without a live call will have a pre-recorded session by Soraya for you to do at your own pace or you’ll be meeting with Soraya 1-1 during that week.

    You’re invited to meet with your kindred partner during those weeks as well.

  • The details of each session, the field work/assignments are not yet listed and will be shared mid March with participants who will be joining the program.

    Soraya intends then attunes and so she will take into account you and your application as she refines and prepares for the container with you in it as well as taking time to attune to the moment on the world’s clock we are in.

    The program as listed above is just a preview and each session will dive deep on each topic and include a seminar, discussions, tools and resources, question and answer and mind/body/liberatory practices.

About Soraya Latiff

Meet Your Guide: Soraya Latiff

Soraya Latiff (she/her) is a liberatory wellness guide offering yoga, Pilates, somatic coaching, and mentorship to creatives, wellness entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners seeking to align their work with their gifts, values, and long-term vision.

She is a somatic artist and the founder of In Movement There Is Blessing International Liberatory Yoga and Wellness Retreats, Sovereign Pilates in Denver’s historic Five Points neighborhood, and the creator of liberatory yoga and Pilates frameworks that weave classical training, lineage awareness, radical imagination, and embodied liberation.

For over a decade, Soraya has supported hundreds of students community members, primarily people of color and Black women, at the intersections of healing, creativity, and collective change. Her work across communities, schools, and cultural spaces has responded to climate injustice, racial inequity, mental health advocacy, immigrant rights, narrative reclamation under colonization, and the healing of generational trauma.

An entrepreneur from a young age, Soraya has led and co-founded several community organizations and built values-aligned businesses and offerings in spaces where few blueprints have existed, often as the only Black, Brown, and Indigenous woman in the room or institution.

Through this lived experience, she has cultivated the capacity to build, lead, and remain in integrity even when support, visibility, or safety were not guaranteed.

Rooted in ancestral reverence and informed by her own internal work healing from complex PTSD, Soraya supports participants in reclaiming agency, creating aligned structures, and bringing offerings into the world with care and clarity, especially during times of grief, transition, and global uncertainty.

A TEDx speaker, two-time lululemon Ambassador, and former Faculty Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Soraya has led sold-out international retreats, opened arts-based businesses serving frontline communities during COVID-19, and exhibited work in museums and cultural institutions.

She has trained multiple cohorts of women of color as trauma-informed space holders and taught, mentored and learned and lived alongside people in different communities globally leading change through their gifts.

Through mentorship, workshops, and retreats, Soraya blends movement, ritual, creativity, and radical imagination to help people build practices, offerings, and businesses rooted in sovereignty, imagination, and liberatory values.

Optional Add-On Workshops to Sovereign Soil:

Intersectional Trauma-Informed Intensive

with Soraya Latiff

Soraya Latiff offers a 9-hour intersectional, trauma-informed intensive designed for educators, caregivers, wellness practitioners, and entrepreneurs seeking to integrate liberatory and decolonial trauma-informed frameworks into their offerings.

These workshops explore:

  • Decolonizing the roots of trauma-informed care

  • Language, cues, and communication for safety and empowerment

  • Intersectionality and trauma across identities

  • Healing generational trauma and addressing addiction

  • Supporting racial justice, LGBTQIA+, and sexual assault survivors

  • Nervous system care and self/community care

  • Trauma in the body—both individual and collective

  • Practical tools for building trauma-informed businesses, workshops, and practices

  • Curated readings, exercises, certifications, and resource library

  • Dialogue and connection around trauma-informed practice

  • Experiential trauma-informed yoga and meditation with Soraya

This training is optional for Sovereign Soil participants and is open to the broader Denver community.

  • Part 1: Sunday, April 12, 2026 11am-4pm.

  • Part 2: Sunday, May 17, 2026 12pm-4pm.

Sovereign Soil participants can integrate these learnings directly into their mentorship experience.

Only 8 spots are available for the 2026 Trauma-Informed Workshops.

Cost: $555 (payment plans available)

Visit the classes and workshops homepage here to learn more.

If you complete the application for Sovereign Soil you do not need to complete the application for the Intersectional Trauma Informed Intensives (ITII).

There will be an option on your Sovereign Soil application to note if you’d like to add the ITII.

“Soraya has this beautiful gift of seeing all versions of you while still meeting you exactly where you are. As a mentee…it felt exciting and expansive to be held exactly as I was, while simultaneously being seen in more expansive ways.

Her intentionality and presence through our time together is both impressive and admirable - she is, exactly who she says she is.

I’m great-full for the experience & knowledge of what it takes to build something as powerful, healing & magnetic as her retreats, I’m the most great-full to have experienced her as a human being, doing really dope and important work…it is and always will be an honor to have been a part of Soraya’s team.” -LA

“Working with Soraya through yoga teacher training, yoga classes and one-on-one mentorship has been a deeply rewarding and immeasurably valuable experience.

She is a truly gifted teacher and space holder!

I’m continually amazed by her ability to not only help people feel seen and heard but also generously sharing her insightful and expansive knowledge.

I still refer back to the detailed notes and references Soraya provided after our mentorship session, many months later, because there is still so much to unpack.

She has helped shift my perspective in such a profound way that it has not only made me a better teacher and space holder, but also a better human.” - WA

“I’ve had the privilege of sharing space and learning from Soraya in many ways: her yoga classes, how to hold sacred circles, spiritual practice mentorship, yoga teacher trainings and social justice work in schools.

Every experience with her has taught me the power of true presence and intention.

She has seen me in ways I’m still learning to see myself. Soraya’s trauma informed approach has not only deepen my practice but also helped me hold space for others with love and dignity.

She’s reminded me of my own magic and shown me how to bring liberation and connection to my work.

Every time I’m in her presence Soraya helps me connect with ancestors, sacred medicine and the collective path to healing.

She constantly reminds me that I am worthy of the this practice of love, and of healing. I’m forever grateful for her guidance and light” - NV

“I reached out to Soraya after experiencing her practice and the way she practiced stewardship that I’ve not seen in other spaces including spaces of color in wellness and education as an elder in those spaces myself.

She walks with humility and wisdom beyond many I have met and she consulted for me on my wellness work and a business idea as I was working to connect more deeply with my ancestors and the values I actually cared about and not just what had been taught to me and what I realized I was still perpetuating.

She is a gift of our lifetime. To know her, let alone get to call her your teacher.

I use my notes from her one consulting session with me (she was so generous to give me a write up after) more than anything else I refer to regularly. In whatever way I can work with her I try to. She is rare and necessary, understanding and kind and people like her should be protected as they call us all higher simply by how they walk and that is also not always an easy or popular path” - MM