Radical Rest:
Empowerment Through Yoga
My signature yoga program for women of color and allies that want to cultivate a life of radical rest.
Rest becomes radical when we divest from systems of oppression.
Our relationship to rest is similar to our relationship to our body - it can be difficult to remember how intuitive it once felt. This program is for you if you are interested to decolonize yoga and learn how yoga can help you to rest.
Live classes take place over Zoom based on a special theme.
Led by Irene Lo, Radical Rest is a yoga and care circle group program to help you show up in the world with the awareness, the certainty, and the confidence of who you are.
Yoga for Radical Rest: Asian Joy
Anti-Asian racism has had an impact on Asian American health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that the memory of race-based stress and trauma lodge themselves in our body.
We also know yoga is a practice that can lessen our suffering. The limbs of yoga directly impacts our nervous system so that we can emotionally regulate in difficult situations. Yoga also helps us to face our suffering, to transform our consciousness so that we can cultivate kindness to ourselves and others.
Each class, we journey through affirmations of joy, I Dream of Change, I Offer Kindness to my Body, I Do Nothing, I Am a Living Myth, I Channel My Rage, I Possess Strength in Softness, I Speak in Silence, and I Have What I Need to Thrive.
Open to Asian women and non-binary kin folk of the diaspora, Radical Rest: Asian Joy took place from April 18-May 13, 2022. There were two weekly hatha and yin yoga practices held over Zoom with a special bonus practice, Candlelit Yin Yoga at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver.
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Radical Rest is for YOU.
Open yourself to guilt-free rest so you can create from a place of abundance.
Tune in to your intuition and trust in the intelligence of your body.
Awaken to your power and move in alignment with your spiritual values.
Connect with the divine within and without.
Yoga For Radical Rest
Moving beyond yoga as white women acrobatics, Yoga for Radical Rest will decolonize your understanding of yoga in the west. This way, we live a life of radical liberation that will change the way that you approach to work and life.
Each week, your yoga asana practice will be accompanied by a thematic lecture on topics like Filling Your Cup, Releasing Creative Shame, Detachment in the Yoga Sutras, The Shadow of Our Ego, Union with the Divine, and The Strength in Softness.
Open for burnt out women of colour feeling tired from the daily 9-5 grind, for women of colour that run their own business but may be feeling energetically drained.
Radical Rest: Empowerment Through Yoga took place from July 27 - September 17, 2021. There were weekly yoga asana practices and lectures on yoga and rest with a special Closing Ceremony.
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Commit To Your Rest
Be in Sacred Space
This is a trauma-informed space centring the truths and experiences of women of colour and non-binary, trans brethren. Allies welcome. This space is for us to be seen and heard in community.
Sustain Spiritual Habits
This is a spiritual container to explore different types of rest and how we can protect our energy through authentic intentions and discerned actions.
Redefine
Happiness
Knowing and feeling in to our worth through the practice of rest, we will go on a journey to redefine happiness and fortune on our own terms.
About Your Guide
Irene Lo is the founder of Irene Yoga Flow, home of good movement and intuitive healing for women of colour, non-binary kin folk, and allies on their spiritual journey. Irene is an intersectional feminist whose work in the wellness space is first and foremost to create community space for women of colour. Rest is for everyone, and this group program was created to serve women of colour to move from their highest selves.
Irene received her 200 hours with the Lila School of Vinyasa Yoga with Clara Roberts-Oss and Carolyn Anne Budgell and completed her yin yoga training with Bernie Clark. She has studied ayurveda and yoga philosophy with Luvena Rangel. She is currently studying yin yoga and mindfulness with Sarah Lo and will be undertaking her 300 hours this year.
Since 2019, Irene has been teaching yoga in studios, community centres, and online. Irene is also the Co-Founder of the Womxn of Color Summit. Outside of yoga, Irene is an intuitive tarot reader of the Soul Tarot lineage, a student of evolutionary astrology, and a TCM enthusiast.
