Soraya Latiff is a somatic artist, yoga and Pilates teacher, and the founder of In Movement There Is Blessing International Liberatory Yoga and Wellness Retreats and Sovereign Pilates, in Denver's historic Five Points neighborhood. She is from Trinidad and Tobago, Indo and Afro-Caribbean, and Kalinago, Indigenous to the lands of Trinidad, and currently resides in Denver, Colorado, on the lands of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples.
She is a Reiki practitioner and the creator of liberatory yoga and Pilates frameworks that weave classical training, lineage awareness, trauma-informed practice, and radical imagination. These frameworks hold space for our individual and collective histories and present contexts, inviting us to also remember land and life as kin and understand ourselves as part of a global web of relationship and belonging.
A TEDx speaker who has also spoken at the Conference on World Affairs and on the Fiske Planetarium stage, Soraya is a former faculty professor and program director of healing justice education at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has trained multiple cohorts of women of color as space holders through her own intersectional, trauma-informed workshops. Her yoga teaching practice began with stewarding and creating trauma-informed yoga as a practice of collective liberation, bringing together her ancestral self-study with her social justice work.
For over 12 years, Soraya has taught and supported hundreds of students and community members, primarily people of color and Black women, at the intersections of healing, creativity, and collective change. For a decade of that time, she has led intergenerational, community-based projects addressing racial and climate justice, ethnic studies, and mental health, reaching thousands of youth and people of color by supporting re-imagining of what's possible for our communities through action. She also mentors creatives, wellness entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners in building their own bodies of work rooted in ancestral reverence and sovereign expression.
Further informed by her own internal work healing from complex PTSD, she supports participants in reclaiming agency and bringing their medicine into the world with care and clarity, especially during times of grief, transition, and global uncertainty, and supporting us to flourish and live liberatory lives beyond survival.
