ABOUT
Iris Law is a cultural interpreter, author, and speaker focused on the theme of wellbeing, particularly through the lens of Japanese practices. Her work emphasizes how these self-care traditions can be realistically integrated into modern life.
Before dedicating herself to writing and speaking in this field, Iris spent two decades in senior roles at a top-tier U.S. investment bank. The high-pressure environments in which she worked shaped her understanding of decision fatigue, embodied stress, and the limitations of idealized wellbeing advice. This rich experience grounds her work and informs her interest in forms of self-care that are sustainable, practical, and honest about human limits.
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 delved into Japanese practices such as onsen bathing, seasonal rhythm, everyday ritual, and nature immersion, viewing them not as wellness trends but as functional cultural systems that legitimize rest and create a healthy rhythm. These insights fueled her first book, The Onsen Experience: A Guide to Japan’s Hot Spring Sanctuaries, and continue to shape her ongoing research and writing.
Alongside her cultural work, Iris engages in an embodied practice through movement, nature-based inquiry, and thoughtfully designed retreat experiences. Her perspective is shaped by formal training in health and wellness coaching, forest bathing, and Gyrotonic®, combined with extensive study across various complementary health and wellbeing disciplines. Iris closely examines how stress, attention, and recovery manifest in the body through Gyrotonic® teaching, ensuring that her approach remains rooted in lived experience rather than mere theory.
Today, Iris Law operates across writing, speaking, and experiential inquiry. She collaborates with cultural and educational institutions, leadership forums, and executive education programs, offering a perspective on wellbeing that is cultural rather than clinical, reflective rather than prescriptive. Instead of providing formulas or one-size-fits-all solutions, her work encourages a reconsideration of pace, rhythm, and recovery as vital components of everyday life — shaped in ways that are realistic and personally appropriate.
Iris is based in Hong Kong and works internationally across Asia, Europe, and the UK.
For speaking invitations, institutional conversations, or thoughtfully aligned collaborations, please get in touch via the Contact page.
