meet yayba
Vocalist • Music Producer • Studio Engineer • Somatic Guide
Songs for Fully Feeling Humans • Silly Shadow • Playdates for Adult Children
Hi, I’m Yayba. At my core, I am a Medicine Woman, Recording Engineer, and Vocal Embodiment Coach, and my primary medicine is—and always has been—Music. After a lifetime of sonic devotion, working inside Ableton, and engineering for other artists, I am stepping directly into the spotlight to release the deep vault of unreleased music I've been sitting on.
My signature methodology is THRIVE. Through this container, I bridge clinical somatics and raw vocal mechanics to help leaders, changemakers, and over-extended healers unlearn vocal fear, activate their wild expression, and use their voice as an instrument for collective liberation. Welcome to the sandbox. Let's sing, play, and create together.
Here is the unfiltered truth: despite a lifetime of sonic devotion,
I haven’t officially released any of my own music yet.
The Next Milestone: Creating from the Raw Edge
For years, my medicine has been channeled into live spaces, engineering for others, and weaving collective experiences. Claiming my own artistry and releasing my original music from my vault is my very next milestone. I am stepping out of the background and into the spotlight, bringing my audience along for the ride.
I believe that music is a portal capable of helping us navigate varied states of consciousness for emotional alchemy, transformation, and cell-level harmonization. My work is about creating intentional spaces where we can unlearn vocal fear and remember our truest essence through vibrations heard and unheard.
The Sandbox: Somatics, Play, & Communal Processing
Parallel to my musical path, I have been practicing as a somatic trauma coach and teaching dynamic creativity workshops since 2018. Over the years, these spaces have evolved into an organic, rich playground. I combine guided sound and movement meditations, shamanic journeying, soul retrieval, and consent education with lighthearted, relational tools like mindful group cuddle facilitation, comedy improv, and authentic relating games.
My work is deeply colorful, fluid, and heavily influenced by the freeform expression of Ecstatic Dance, 5Rhythms, and Contact Improv.
⭕ ZEGG Forum Facilitation
Since 2018, I have been deeply immersed in the world of ZEGG Forum, a profound communal emotional processing method originally developed at the ZEGG intentional community in Germany. Having co-facilitated over 10 forums—including a highly impactful, experimental nonverbal forum—I hold this container as a sacred space for collective transparency.
Taught and modeled by pioneering facilitators Sarah Taub, Debbie Garrett, Harold Kornylak, and Indigo Dawn, my facilitation style relies on a uniquely integrated set of skills. It draws heavily from somatic emotional inquiry, nervous system polyvagal regulation, deep ecology, and collective intelligence frameworks, allowing groups to safely alchemize shadow states into shared harmony.
My lifelong devotion to sound and community takes tangible form through three interconnected branches of my work:
Spirit Lab Studios
The landing pad where our collaborative creations take form. As a recording engineer, I capture the live music and visual magic of our gatherings, integrating it into sacred music production, audio recordings, and visual art.
Altar Eco
My musical project and collective. We are a group of musicians and spiritual healers coming together in ritual song, dance, and "prayerformance." We draw from mystical traditions—including Sufism, Bhakti Yoga, and Indigenous spiritual healing arts—to remind us that we are entirely inseparable from nature.
Spirit Lab Academy
An embodied mystical school and somatic laboratory where "Ecstatic Dance" meets "Ecstatic Voice," interwoven with shamanic journeying, constellation play, and community emotional processing.
The Ecosystem: Where the Magic Lives