About Yeye, The Mystic Diva!

There is simply no other psychic (or woman) like Yeye Dani, also known by her aliases Iya Yeye and The Savannah Medium.

She has traversed the states, leaving her native Idaho two weeks out of high school for NYC, where she was accepted into a world-renowned acting school. At the very last minute, she took off to Austin, called there by a mysterious impulse to study spirituality. Since then, her life has become a series of small fires, big surprises, and unbounded joys.

She found herself aflame in New Orleans and survived. She once denied an evening out with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails because she wanted to “eat some chicken and get back in her body.” She worked on Bourbon Street and at the Bottom of the Cup Tea Room for years, advising the earnest and enduring the inebriated, delighted when those two designations overlapped. She has read for celebrities, civilians, and saints.

Now she’s landed in Savannah and is here to stay.

Every Tuesday-Thursday, people make a pilgrimage to Agatha’s Coffee and Tea House to hear what’s comin’ and goin’ from the source, approaching her for her eyelashes and lingering for her empathy.

She’s distinct, devout, a bit of a diva, and a bridger of worlds. In the hostess city, she’s a local enigma, oracle, and comfort. In Nigeria, she’s on the cusp of initiation into an ancient matriarchal secret society: the Ogboni, the Iyami: also known as the Mothers.  

Being a priestess of Ifá, a Nigerian tradition dating back 3,00 years, her life’s work is diving deep with inquisitive souls looking for real answers using this ancient division system, the Opele or, with what clients call “The Beads.”

With French Creole roots and singular style, she is here to honor the ancestors and uplift Savannah with eccentric glam and glitter.

A New Kind of Intuitive

From turban-clad women with crystal balls to Miss Cleo chanting, “you have questions, I have the answers” on late-night infomercials– the terms psychic and medium can conjure many images, some unserious, some severe.

In Western pop culture, clairvoyants are either revered or refused (depending on who’s asking) for their ability to predict the future and communicate with those no longer with us.

Now, the script is changing.

Many mediums’ work edges closer to general wellness. As intuitives or intuitive healers, they channel, clarify, and calculate the energy that helps people discover, as Yeye puts it, “their highest truest purpose.”

Yeye’s focus isn’t on party tricks (though she’s great at parties as a guest and a reader) or spooking people with razor-sharp insights into their past. Instead, she’s passionate about teaching people how to trust their gut and lean into their intuition.

She believes intuition is a right, not a privilege reserved for a special few. “We are all intuitive,” she shares, “some of us have just been riding a bike too long.”

A Yeye Dani reading isn’t your typical reading. It’s a cigar break, a confessional, a cocktail hour with your funniest friend, and an epiphany all wrapped into one. Though she isn’t self-serious, she is serious about helping people. “We’re all beautiful snowflakes. No one is alike, as is our spiritual path,” she says.

When she takes on clients, the end goal is for you to no longer need her

What does the ideal outcome look like? She cites her most proud moment with ease:

“In my 30-year tenure, I am most proud of my client, a single mother, who while walking side by side, in coaching, readings, and doing the work, changed her direction with her legal battle with a dominating ex-husband, regained custody of her daughter, and unpaid child support.” Yeye shares.

Intuitive coaching is, of course, one of the world’s oldest professions.

In various ancient cultures, shamans were considered a link to the spirit world. Haitian Voudon, Puerto Rican Brujeria, and Western Nigerian Ifa traditions all focus heavily on communing with spirits. In the United States in the late 1800s, Spiritualism became incredibly popular, and séances to communicate with the dead became common practice.

While the details differ, communicating with spirits on the so-called other side is also an accepted practice in Christianity. Angels are central characters in biblical stories, and when human beings die, telling believers that loved ones will “always be with them” as spiritual guides is common practice.

Yeye is ecclesial, eccentric, and empathetic. She believes all beliefs are one. “We are all on the path at some point in our spiritual evolution of attaining good character, or Iwa Pele in Ifa, in other words, keeping it real, “do good, get good.”