Our retreat leader, Iris Law, is an author, speaker, and cultural interpreter of wellbeing whose work explores how people restore clarity and capacity under sustained pressure — without withdrawing from real life.
Iris spent nearly two decades in senior roles in a top tier US Investment Bank. Working at pace, with responsibility and consequence, shaped her understanding of decision fatigue, embodied stress, and the limits of idealized wellbeing advice. That experience continues to ground her work: she speaks primarily to people and institutions operating under sustained responsibility, where slowing down is constrained — and where moments of restoration must be intentionally designed into the day or week rather than assumed as a given.
Over time, Japan became a crucial counterpoint in Iris’s thinking — not as an escape or fantasy, but as a culture that embeds restoration into ordinary life. Through years of travel, study, and direct experience, she has explored Japanese practices such as onsen bathing, seasonal rhythm, everyday ritual, and nature immersion, viewing them not as wellness trends but as functional cultural systems. These practices informed her first book, The Onsen Experience: A Guide to Japan’s Hot Spring Sanctuaries, and continue to shape her ongoing research and writing.
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