Get to Know Us
Transcendent Descendants is a wholistic practice serving community during all stages of their journey- devoted to realignment — of the body, the inner world, and the way we move through life.
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Our work is rooted in the understanding that healing and transformation are deeply personal and deeply communal. For community — disconnection from the body, inner wisdom, and inherited strength is not accidental, but shaped by lived experience, systemic harm, and generational survival.
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Through embodied movement, personal training, intuitive counseling, and guided realignment work, we support people in reconnecting with both their inner and outer foundations. We hold space for strength and rest, discipline and intuition, resilience and softness — honoring the full humanity of those we serve.
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At Transcendent Descendants, we are especially committed to supporting communities of color in returning to relationship with their bodies, their inner knowing, and their inherent worth. This work is an act of remembrance — reconnecting with what has always been present, even when it has been obscured by pressure, trauma, or expectation.
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Realignment, for us, is not about self‑improvement or becoming someone new.It is about coming home — to the body, to the self, and to community — and building sustainable practices that support clarity, integrity, and collective well‑being over time.
Our approach is relational, consent‑based, and rooted in care. Whether you are seeking physical strength, energetic clarity, or deeper connection to yourself and your lineage, this practice meets you where you are and walks with you forward — grounded, embodied, and supported.​
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Our desire is to serve BIPOC community and provide opportunities for healing, connection and transcendence. For those who experience economic barriers that might limit their abilities to pay our fees as listed, please reach out for sliding scale rates and other opportunities to connect and receive.
Hello
My name is Leilani-Raine Banday Akau
CEO and Founder
I started out as a Mama trusting her gut to keep her babies close at home for their learning. Now I am a homeschooling Mama looking for green patches and flowers to frolic in & guiding whoever is curious into deeply exploring what the world inner and outer has to offer. With the support of our intergenerational village, I have the opportunity to uplift my community and share the wisdom I have acquired as a Mama, Friend, Wifey, Black / Indigenous (Womb)an, Earth Advocate, Artist and Culture Bearer through transcendent descendants along side my forever partner and love Setelo. Join us for collective containers, community art sessions, one on one returns, ceremony for all stages of life and so much more-- There will be joy, laughter, love and LIBERATION. Transcendence for all descendants!
ABOUT THE WORK
​We are steeped in the understanding that healing and transformation are both deeply personal and deeply communal.For many, disconnection from the body, inner wisdom, and inherited strength is not accidental—it is shaped by lived experience, systemic harm, and generational survival.
​This practice offers a space to return.
We do this through three interconnected pathways:
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Mind–Muscle Connection
This aspect of the work focuses on the relationship between the body, awareness, and strength.
Through intentional movement and personal training, we support individuals in rebuilding trust with their bodies—developing strength, mobility, and presence while deepening awareness of how the body holds stress, memory, and patterning.This is not solely physical training—it is a process of reconnection, regulation, and embodied understanding.
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Transcendence Counseling
Transcendence counseling offers space for reflection, energetic attunement, and intuitive guidance—both in one-on-one sessions and in collective containers.
In individual sessions, we work closely with what is present—supporting the movement of emotional, mental, and energetic blockages, deepening awareness of patterns, and reconnecting with inner knowing.
Within group containers, this work expands into a shared, relational field.
These small, intentional spaces bring individuals together to engage in collective healing through breath, witnessing, reflection, and creative or somatic practices. In this setting, participants are not only supported in their own process, but also in witnessing and being witnessed—allowing for shifts that emerge through connection, resonance, and shared experience.
The group becomes part of the practice—holding, reflecting, and amplifying what is ready to move.
Both individual and collective spaces are designed to support alignment, integration, and meaningful transformation over time.
Visual + Creative Practice
The visual art and creative processes within this practice are not separate from the work—they are expressions of it.
Each piece emerges through attunement, holding moments of release, remembrance, and becoming.
Engaging with the art becomes its own form of inquiry—inviting reflection, sensation, and connection beyond words.
For some, the art is the entry point.
For others, it deepens and expands the work experienced in movement or counseling.
HOW THESE PRACTICES INTERWEAVE
These pathways are not separate—they inform and support one another. What is explored through movement may surface in counseling. What is felt in session may take form through creative expression. What is witnessed visually may open something within the body.
Together, they create a holistic approach to realignment—
one that honors the body, the inner world, and the unseen.
Current Offerings
Transcendence Counseling
Have you ever felt out of balance? Or there was something you felt was getting in the way of your journey forward?
With the permission of the body, mind and soul, Transcendent Counseling supports you in tuning into the rich landscape of your emotions, dreams, life images, energetic fields, intuitions and beyond to support you in fully understanding how to excavate, learn from and transcend those perceived blockages.
4-Week Quantum Healing Collective
This April, we are opening space for 8 aligned souls to release long-held blockages, attune to their divine energy,and create meaningful shifts in this lifetime—✨together✨.
WHAT THIS EXPERIENCE INCLUDES
Through weekly gatherings, we will explore:
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Energetic attunement
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Breathwork + nervous system regulation
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Creative expression practices
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Collective witnessing + reflection
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Community-based healing + integration
4 Weeks • 1 Gathering per Week ( 1.5 hours)
EXCHANGE: $555 per person
Mind & Muscle Connection
Mind Muscle Connection supports folks in understanding and developing a deep connection between muscle and mind in order to manifest overall health, sustainable fitness and build a strong foundation for longevity. So much of the fitness industry is about unhealthy and unsustainable models of "health" that only create dissonance between ourselves and our bodies. MxM supports learners with the tools they need to build healthy and sustainable connections to the body that build wellness, health, longevity and RELATIONSHIP with our bodies in the ways we deserve.