This month’s yoga offerings and this year’s trainings and workshops below.

  • Monthly Liberatory Yoga Classes and Workshops at Sovereign

    With Soraya Latiff, Nichole Villa and Lakeisha Ashley at Sovereign Pilates and Liberatory Wellness In Person and Zoom (some offerings).

    Liberatory EARTH Flows: A Matriarchy Rising Series: Soraya shares a story from around the world and invites a story circle on elders, women, children and nature followed by a gentle and grounding practice and extended (10 minute+) savasana with sound healing with Soraya bimonthly.

    Liberatory JOY: grounding and active flows rooted in joy as a spiritual practice and ancestral medicine. Soraya teaches bimonthly alongside DJ M’N’M’s LIVE Afrobeats set and Nichole teaches bimonthly with R&B and Hip Hop.

    Liberatory FIRE: active and strong power vinyasa flows with bottled matcha from the 444coffee (woman of color owned) with Soraya bimonthly.

    Liberatory AIR: focused on breath work, dreaming/imagination and time to create our art with Soraya bimonthly.

    Liberatory WATER: prose/poetry is read followed by half gentle yin and half fluid and receptive vinyasa and closing with a meditative free write session and community weaving of our words as medicine with Soraya or Lakeisha monthly.

    Soraya teaches through her own Liberatory Yoga Flow framework, stewarding the decolonial roots of yoga, trauma-informed and facilaiting imagination and practices to not bypass the times we are in but not abandon ourselves or each other in the process and to support us to dream what else is possible for ourselves and the collective.

    All classes are limited to 8-12 spots each and each attendee is provided mats and props or are able to bring their own.

    Register for a Single Yoga Class

  • Root to Rise | Rise to Root: June 6th 9:30am-12:45pm

    This collaboration with Soraya Latiff of Sovereign Pilates and Liberatory Yoga and Courtney Smith-Besser of Intune Wellness.

    Root to Rise/ Rise to Root in May will explore the liminal space of curiosity and transition woven through the practices of liberatory yoga and meditation through sound healing.

    Each participant will have the option based on their intuition to either Root to Rise by starting the day with the practice of liberatory yoga followed by sound healing (10 people in each space max)

    or the option of Rise to Root by starting the day with sound healing followed by liberatory yoga practice. (10 people in each space max)

    Included in your ticket is a custom bottled Sovereign x Intune Wellness Lavender Sea Salt Matcha by the amazing woman of color owned 444 Coffee/.

    Register for Root to Rise|Rise to Root

  • Zoom Class Links

    At Sovereign, we currently offer a monthly donation based class that can be joined via Zoom, Somebody’s Grandbabies, as well as Liberatory WATER, in rotation with Soraya and Lakeisha.

    Liberatory WATER May 30th Zoom Registration

Specialty Workshops and Intensives

Complete the interest form below to receive the brief application for these sessions as spaces are limited for an intimate group and in person experience.

Kindly write in the “subject” or “message” a quick note that you’re reaching out regarding the Intersectional Trauma Informed Intensive.

I’m glad you are here and hope to share in this space with you.

If you are not in a “formal” role but you’re drawn to this learning to take back into your own life or community, I encourage you to apply.

Spring 2026

Intersectional Trauma-Informed Intensive

with Soraya Latiff

Join Soraya Latiff for a 9-hour intersectional, trauma-informed intensive designed for educators, caregivers, wellness practitioners, and entrepreneurs who want to integrate liberatory, decolonial, and somatic trauma-informed frameworks into their work, offerings, and daily practice. Soraya has offered this training to 6 cohorts of women of color over the last three years in private trainings and is opening it up to community.

The immersive workshops and lectures will explore:

  • Decolonizing the roots of trauma-informed care and types of trauma

  • Honoring the roots of yoga

  • 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

  • The nervous system 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, and resource library

  • Dialogue and connection around trauma-informed practice

  • Experiential trauma-informed yoga and meditation with Soraya

  • And more

Dates & Times:

  • Part 1: Sunday, April 12, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

  • Part 2: Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Details:

  • Limited to 8 participants to ensure an intimate, high-touch experience

  • Total Cost: $555 (payment plans will be available for up to 5 months. If you would like to participate but need a different payment structure let Soraya know and she will communicate how she can support).

  • Next steps: Complete the interest form on the left in order to receive the brief application for these workshops. If you feel called to attend but don’t yet know if it’s for you, the application will support both of us to feel out that alignment and you are encouraged to apply. Applications due by March 1st.

  • Participants will gain practical frameworks, experiential tools, and somatic practices to bring trauma-informed principles into their own life, community, work and relationships. As well as resources for deepening their study aligned with their interests, needs and focus.