Yaya created The Institute of Divine Secrets to offer women the support she spent years seeking herself—tools for healing, communication, emotional clarity, and spiritual grounding, which were all essential to manifesting her ecstatic life.

Her work blends training in acting, certification in communication and healing modalities, advanced spiritual study, deep energy work, and practiced personal development. She has spent over two decades studying practices that help people release old patterns, regulate emotions, build healthier relationships with themselves and others, and design lives that defy the status quo-- rooted in authenticity, abundance and liberation.

The Institute exists to make these tools accessible, practical, and grounded in real life.

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 also the creator of the innovative line of head wraps, “Wraps N’ Raps”.

Training

With a B.A. from Brown University in Africana Studies and International Relations, she is a multidisciplinary student who has studied a range of traditional and transformational modalities, including Ifa, Reiki, Kyusho Sensory Energetics, Kundalini Yoga, The Akashic Records, Vipassana Insight Meditation, the UPLVL communication framework, and multiple forms of dance and somatic embodiment. Her calling as a full-spectrum traditional birth worker (doula) since 2010, initiated her into the profound intelligence of the body and the spiritual dimensions of the creation of life. 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

Yaya’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.