About

Life Force Strategies, a culture and wellness curation firm, was founded by Romana Lee-Akiyama in 2024. After a 25-year successful career in the nonprofit, philanthropic, and government sectors, Romana decided to lean into her passion to bring wellness to individuals, organizations and communities. She builds on her years of experience in social work, yoga teaching, artistic and cultural curation, and conflict management to expand her offerings, supporting healing and growth in others as a coach, teacher, mentor, and facilitator. As a White Light Reiki Level III Expert, she incorporates energy work either as a component of her offerings, or will provide sessions that focus solely on reiki energy work for clients.

Through thoughtfully curated workshops, personalized yoga and/or reiki sessions for individuals or small groups, Romana focuses on helping individuals connect more deeply with themselves, building a foundation for physical, emotional and spiritual awareness and healing, that allows them to connect more meaningfully with others.

Romana considers herself fortunate to have studied with the best in her respective fields. Trained in Baptiste Power Yoga and a certified 200hr Registered Yoga Teacher, she began offering classes in 2019 utilizing the methodology developed by the founder Baron Baptiste, who previously trained the Eagles in yoga (GO BIRDS!). This invigorating practice grounded in personal empowerment continues to be the foundation for the philosophy that Romana uses in curating classes. Romana blends her certification in Yin Yoga earned in 2019 with Corina Benner, a beautiful practice that incorporates Traditional Chinese Medicine principles in easeful sequences that focus on stillness and gravitational holds.

Lastly, Romana trained under White Light and Karuna Reiki (c) Master Cristy Chung, and is certified at White Light Reiki Level 3 Expert. Romana’s immersive training on the island of O’ahu in Hawaii was a transformative experience where she not only learned the practice of reiki and received her attunements, but also deeply connected to the land and Indigenous beliefs of the Native Hawaiian people.

As a mixed-race second-generation Chinese American, Romana is passionate about cultural preservation, strengths-based identity development, racial and cross-cultural reconciliation and healing. She brings this awareness and lens into all of her work as a healing practitioner, curator and facilitator.