Come home to your body.

This is a space to slow down, tend to the nervous system, and reclaim softness and power. Rooted in the lived experience of a Black woman.

You don’t need to push through here.

When survival becomes a way of life, the body forgets how to rest. This space offers a chance to pause, listen, and reconnect with what your body has been holding. Through nervous system care and embodied practice, we make room for more choice, breath, and grounded power.

Pathways to Practice

Different ways to enter the work.

Choose what feels supportive right now — there’s no wrong place to begin. Some come seeking personal guidance and trauma support, others want to practice in community, and some bring this work into their organizations. Each entry point gives the body and nervous system space to slow down, deepen, and feel steadiness.

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Here, we are creating the possibility for more choice, presence, and soft power in everyday life.

Personal Practice

For women who are done surviving systems that were never built for them and are ready to regulate their nervous systems, grow into the fullest versions of themselves, and build embodied power from the inside out.

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Collective Resilience

Custom sessions for teams and organizations navigating stress, leadership, and purpose-driven work, helping groups regulate together and create more humane, sustainable cultures.

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Community & Guided Study

Shared spaces and guided resources to practice, learn, and reflect — a way to integrate somatic work without going it alone.

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launching spring 2026

Meet Your Body

Begin by listening.

This foundational experience invites you to build a relationship with your nervous system and the patterns it has learned to keep you safe, offering a way to meet your body with curiosity instead of pressure. As you begin to recognize its rhythms, signals, and limits, many people notice life softening—becoming less effortful, more responsive, and steadier at the center.

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Cultivating Soft Power

Soft Power Somatics exists to guide people—especially those from marginalized communities—to meet their bodies, honor their nervous systems, and cultivate soft power: the embodied strength to move through life with calm, choice, and grounded resilience.

Meet Kiesha Yokers

Founder & facilitator

I am a somatic coach, breathwork facilitator, and former public K–12 educator with over two decades of experience teaching, listening, and holding space for complex nervous systems.

Shaped by my lived experience as a biracial Black woman, trauma survivor, and longtime practitioner in the wellness field, my work understands trauma as something the body learns in response to pressure, loss, and survival. Trained in somatic psychology, embodied practice, and nervous-system-informed coaching, I bring compassion, depth, and clarity to work that centers marginalized bodies and honors softness, choice, and steadiness as real sources of power.

What it feels like to be held here.

“Kiesha's dedication to healing and empowerment has been evident in every session she has facilitated. Her workshops have provided a safe and nurturing space for Black women to explore and heal from trauma, using somatic practices that foster deep connection and self-awareness. Kiesha's ability to create an environment of trust and openness has allowed participants to engage fully in the healing process, leading to profound and lasting changes and healing.
Charity Fay, Program Manager- Black Women for Wellness
Kiesha is one of the first experts I think of when it comes to breath work, somatic tools and nervous system regulation. Her somatic knowledge, which is extensive, is only eclipsed by her powerful lived experience, personal story, and engaging presence. I loved interviewing her as an expert source for my book and highly recommend her work.
Amanda Miller Littlejohn-Author, The Rest Revolution
Kiesha’s breathwork classes are phenomenal. Her approach to teaching is both organized and detailed. From the beginning to end, she leads participants through a journey that will help reduce stress and increase energy in your daily life. Her classes are welcoming to all people while being very nurturing to people of color.
Courtney Arrington-Baldwin Founder- Sanctuaire
"Kiesha is an impactful coach and facilitator of healing through breath and human connection. Working with her has been nothing short of transformative for me. Through our work together, I was able to tap into an innate sense of safety within my own nervous system. Because of this, I have been able to take huge strides in healing generational trauma and racial trauma as a Black biracial woman. I also re-branded my business and opened myself to opportunities to serve on a higher level, reconnect with myself as an artist, and dig deeper as a healer.”
Sarah Deavitt, Founder of The Soulful Suite