Career

As an artist, Yaya reflects the human story back to itself through creative expression.  She is best known for her roles as cut-throat prosecutor Andrea Freeman on Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, as Whitney Houston in Lifetime’s biopic Whitney, April Sexton on Chicago Med, Angela Vaughn on Fox’s Our Kind of People, Monique Smith in Lifetime’s Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story, which she also executive produced, and Simone Harper in Kenya Barris' pilot “Group Chat”, alongside LaLa Anthony and Kim Kardashian.

She is the creator of the innovative line of head wraps, “Wraps N’ Raps”, and the founder of The Institute of Divine Secrets.

Training

As a multidisciplinary student and a graduate of an Ivy League institution (Brown University), she has spent over twenty years studying a range of transformational modalities, including Ifá, Reiki, Kundalini Yoga, The Akashic Records, Vipassana Insight Meditation, dance and somatic embodiment, and the UPLVL communication framework. Her calling as a full-spectrum traditional apprentice midwife and “doula” since 2010, initiated her into the profound intelligence of the body and the spiritual dimensions of creation. It also gave her the critical resolve to add her voice to the movement to end the Maternal Health Crisis, in the United States and beyond.

Intention

DaCosta’s journey — from Hollywood soundstages to education seminar stages, from red carpets to meditation halls— informs the offerings she now shares in this container. Here, she integrates ancient wisdom, modern psychology, and lived experience to guide others toward self-healing, empowerment, and awakening. Through this work, Yaya aims to join the planetary movement to reverse centuries of silencing of women and femmes by restoring their voices, amplifying their power, and reactivating of the Divine Feminine, thus bringing us back into balance with the Divine Masculine— within our own bodies and homes first, and then out into the world we build together.