GIFT YOURSELF THE POWER OF WELLNESS 2026
Offer Your Mind, Body, and Soul
an Opportunity to
Flow into 2026
with a
Regenerative Sense of Well-being.
ABOUT US
Soulful Joy Wellness exists to provide unique residential wellness experiences to restore during our exclusive Jamaica get aways where you rejuvenate & relax while gently creating new approaches to achieving wellness during a 5-day & 4-night immersion in full Wellness.
Jamaica -The Land of Wood and Water!
Our Story
Soulful Joy began as a wellness solution in response to the ever-increasing levels of stress we live with daily.
Conceived in 2017 by our Founder, Kwayera Archer and joined by long time friends in 2019, Soulful Joy launched in 2020.
Soulful Joy business partner, Ade Collman – a seasoned massage therapist and acupuncturist accepted the charge to become a Soulful Joy wellness retreat advocate.
Shortly thereafter his life partner and successful massage therapist, Khadija Tudor joined the team as our senior associate.
Then we opened our doors with the 5 point “I” system for wellness - what we call – Di I Dem.
From inception we have engaged select expert practitioners such as resident wellness associates Shatelle Wins, Tioma Allison, Kdot Nelson, plus guest well-being practitioners.
Thank you for Joining our "Soulful Joy" Movement!
Our wellness modalities are rooted in Indigenous technologies & earth based practices providing opportunities for true wellness improving vitality, longevity, and Joy.
Kwayera Archer
THE SOULFUL JOY FAMILY
Founder - Kwayera Archer
Kwayera's Soulful Joy language is Love!
Born to Jamaican parents, Kwayera is a first-generation American - identifying as a Jamerican. Trained as a professional ballet dancer, Kwayera toured for a decade before founding the award-winning NYC-based Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Inc. at the age of 24.
Kwayera’s model programs, culturally intelligent management systems, and community organizing strategies grew Ifetayo into a leading African institution.
As the founder and former CEO for 25 years of the Brooklyn based Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, In 2014 Kwayera received a prestigious award from the Obamas at the White House for designing and leading one of the nation's best arts and humanities youth programs.
Kwayera’s proven communication strategies incorporating cultural relevancy to restore wellness in communities has become the hallmark of her international consulting firm, Global Ase. Kwayera works with leaders and their communities as a strategist, thought partner and visionary co-developing pathways for healing, growth, sustainability and connection.
After amassing four decades of experience and expertise, in 2021, Kwayera embarked on her most recent organizing and development legacy initiative in the motherland. As a member of the founding team for the Ladekoju Arts and Culture Foundation, Kwayera is the first managing director co-leading the restoration of the famous Ladekoju Heritage house - living wellness museum in Osogbo, Osun, Nigeria. The Foundation’s focus is to serve as a model for restoration, restitution and repatriation using ancient and indigenous ways of knowing and building connections across the diaspora, in the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Kwayera holds MS in Community Economic Development with a concentration in Community Organizing and a MA in Non-Profit Management from Southern New Hampshire University and is a graduate of Columbia Business School's Executive-Level Graduate program.
Business Partner - Ade Collman
Ade started his journey in the direction of therapeutic massage while working at an herb shop in the west village of New York City. Although, at a young age Ade discovered his love for healing and wellness from his grandmother.
He Is a graduate of the Swedish Institute Health and Science College in NYC. A seasoned Acupuncturist and Massage Therapist, Ade specializes in muscular pain and skeletal disease and is known for helping to remove powerful emotional blocks through body therapy. His goal is to assist others in their wellness pursuits.
He recognizes that people manifest ailments and pain due to blockage both physically and emotionally which can ultimately imprison a person's body. But through touch therapy, Ade assists his clients in reconnecting with their bodies and beginning a healing process.
Senior Associate - Khadija Tudor
Khadjia's Soulful Joy language is Freedom!
Khadija practices therapeutic massage through an approach that focuses on relaxation as a tool for easing pain. Khadija noticed that her female clients shared similar concerns: body issues, safety concerns, stress and anxiety, and more. No matter their career or relative wealth, each client had various & unique needs.
Acknowledging these needs, Khadija and Ade designed Life Wellness Center to offer their clients a safe place to relax, build on and revive.
Khadija's belief is that an empowered life is one that can be lived with the familiarity of touch. This belief guides her practice. She brings an intuitive caring demeanor into every session, a place of trust and calm.
She is a graduate of the Swedish Institute Health and Science College in NYC. Her professional experience ranges from spas to medical offices and a growing clientele of people recovering from injuries, and chronic physical and emotional pain.
WELLNESS ASSOCIATES
Tioma Allison
Kdot Azikiwe Nelson
Tioma Allison
Tioma Allison, RN, is a certified nurse-midwife with extensive experience in home birth and well-woman gyn care for over 27 years. Additionally, Tioma is a licensed homeopath.
She has assisted over 2000 healthy home deliveries, caring for families from the prenatal and, at times, preconception periods through the postpartum phase, teaching them to recognize their own strengths and capabilities.
A graduate of Yale, NYU and Colombia, she describes herself, as importantly, currently enrolled in Life University.
She writes on various health and wellness matters and also leads regular herbal tours, pointing out wild foods and herbs of our region. She also incorporates herbs into protocols for women’s health to restore wellness.
Shatelle Wins
Kdot Azikiwe Nelson
Tioma Allison
Shatelle believes that caring for your skin is not a chore or a luxury but rather a self nurturing ritual necessary for daily self care and wellness.
Shatelle’s love affair with skin began at the age of 12, when she accompanied her mother as a new Mary Kay Consultant to her very first party. As away to earn an allowance to buy products she continued assisting her mom as a co-party hostess. Unaware at the time that she would become a career skin therapist.
Shatelle’s ‘s first lessons about skin were learned by filling in for her moms absentee guests. It was then that she developed an understanding of how to care for her skin. The number one rule was to follow a regiment day & night. A rule that she educates her clients to adhere by in order to restore and achieve their best skin. Application consistency and quality ingredients are the keys to achieve healthy glowing skin.
Her passion for self care lead her to become a graduate of Atelier Esthetique in 2001. And throughout her career she has attended countless educational workshops.
She approaches each treatment with a therapeutic and majestic touch.
Kdot Azikiwe Nelson
Kdot Azikiwe Nelson
Kdot Azikiwe Nelson
KDOT specialises in physical training for anyone interested in a lifestyle of health.
K. Azikiwe Nelson is an internationally certified fitness professional with over 20 years involvement in fitness and cross training.
He has represented Jamaica in martial arts (Taekwondo) and table tennis, to which he still maintains a national ranking.
The instructor is also an avid cyclist and self defence trainer for women.
Kdot is an alla round wellness professional working with groups and individuals to become their best mental spiritual and physical selves.