We create spaces for self-expression and collective transformation
Our Calling
Our calling is to re-source artists to transform the worlds we live in through education, events, media and mentorship.
Our Values
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We experience life on Earth as cycles of creation and respond to challenges as opportunities for creative solutions.
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We are here to re-member our interconnectedness and responsibility to self, the land, our ancestors, and each other.
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We commit to caring for ourselves and one another with Soul-Sensitive Care, our caregiving praxis rooted in both modern and ancestral wisdom.
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We have been called as changemakers and visionaries for the future who embrace emergence as an opportunity for transformation and healing.
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Our Team
Soft Power is founded and lay-led by 4 queer pan-Asian artists committed to showing up in our most authentic expression.
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Founder, Joint CEO & CFO
MIDORI is a queer, neurodivergent artist-alchemist of the Okinawan & Chinese diaspora. She believes in every human’s right to Sanctuary in four essential dimensions: the body, spiritual-creative connection, physical home, and community belonging.
Informed by a decade of experience in creative marketing and the arts, MIDORI now has her eyes set on building an innovative organizational culture rooted in spirituality that re-sources creative leaders so they can effectively harness their gifts and transform their worlds beyond the status quo.
Website: sanctuarystudio.online
Instagram: @sanctuary.studio
Lineage & Education:Benebell Wen (In progress, self-study - I Ching and Taoism)
Kaitlyn Graña of Mother of Mystics (Espiritismo Cruzao)
Oak Kalawakan of Oak Astrology School (Natal Astrology Certification)
Alexx Temeña of the School of Embodied Praxis (Rest & Creative Intuition)
Yadira Lumbreras of the Compass and the Road (Organizational Development & Business Strategy)
Cindy Chau of Wellness Vibes (Magic & Divination)
Acupressure, Swedish Massage, and Anatomy from McKinnon Body Therapy Center
Jumakae of Your Story Medicine (Storytelling)
Captolia of the Digital Witch (Marketing)
Shereen Sun of Radiant Wildheart (Creative Business)
BS in Business Administration, Marketing from University of California, Riverside
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Founder & Secretary
Flo, founder of Soul Blume, is an energy healer, DJ and facilitator in training for Soul Liberation. She is a first generation daughter of Chinese Vietnamese refugees from Oakland, CA. Flo’s calling is to inspire transformation and self-healing through the art of storytelling and poetry known as Floetry, music, breath & movement. Soul Blume is a journey of self-discovery and reconnection with Self – overcoming shame, embracing neurodivergence, healing the inner child, and nurturing a connection with the womb center, Ancestors and spirit realm through dance and somatic movement, nervous system regulation, herbalism and creativity.
Prior to entrepreneurship, Flo spent 8 years in academia and public health research, studying health disparities, where her Masters research looked at intergenerational trauma and mental health in Asian American and refugee communities.
Instagram: @soul.blume
Educational Lineage:
True Buddha Vijaya Temple
BS Public Health from UC San Diego 2015
Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley 2019
Reiki Usui Ryoho Level 1 & 2 from Starnation Reiki 2021
Emergent Strategy & Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
Storytelling with Jumakae of Your Story Medicine 2021
Magic & Divination with Cindy Chau of Wellness Vibes 2021
200-Hour Yoga Training from Yoga Garden 2022
Rest & Creativity with alexx temeña of the School of Embodied Praxis 2022
Somatic Healing with Luis Mojica of Holistic Life Navigation 2022
Herbalism with Julie James of Green Wisdom 2024
I-Ching and Taoism with Benebell Wen (current)
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Qi Gong - self-study and “Healing from within with Chi Nei Tsang” by Gilles Marin
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Founder & Treasurer
Dr. Kiernan "Kiki" Steiner, founder of The Voice Doula, is a singer/songwriter, vocal liberation creativity coach, and choral conductor of Filipinx, Celtic, and Swiss ancestry. Her calling is to generate collective creative power for healing, imagining, and co-regulation through nervous system-informed vocal and creativity coaching, songwriting, performing, and conducting expansive community singing experiences.
By reclaiming her culture and ancestral practices, as well as healing wounds from adoption/family separation, she became an open channel for ancestral wisdom providing Dr. Kiki visions of activating another “Singing Revolution.” From her research and lived experiences, Dr. Kiki has developed a nervous system-informed, decolonized, and emergent singing practice that can support collective healing and world building for future generations.
Educational Lineage: Voice Sound Healer Certification (Sound Healing Academy), Full Spectrum Birth Justice Doula (Sokana Collective), Bachelor of Music (Millikin University), Master of Music (University of Missouri-Columbia), Doctor of Musical Arts (Arizona State University)
Instagram: @decolonizing_kiki
Website: the-voice-doula.com
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Founder & Joint CEO
Siobhán Diores is a mother, mystic, and care creator of Filipino and Celtic ancestry, raised and rooted in San Francisco, California. She arrived to spiritual service through her work as a fullspectrum, birth, and postpartum doula and childbirth coach. As Mother of P.E.A.R.L., Siobhán provides doula care and spirit work to People Emerging As Radical Leaders.
Siobhán’s calling is to use her voice to facilitate opportunities to connect with intuition, ancestors, and land as pathways for self-trust and collective liberation.
Educational Lineage: Espiritismo Cruzado Practitioner (Kaitlyn Graña), Certified Fullspectrum Birth & Postpartum Doula (Cornerstone Birthworkers), Usui Reiki Master Level (Tiffany Pettit), Rights Informed Birth Advocate (Birth Monopoly), BA Communication Studies from University of San Francisco.
Instagram: @siobhan.diores
Website: motherofpearl.online
GUIDING AFFIRMATION
“The project of decolonization for the colonized individual is a process of learning to love one’s self again, of seeing one’s self as important enough to think and write about, of learning to face the truth and learning to tell the truth.”
Dr. Leny Medoza Strobel
