Pull up for the body positive hip hop yoga experience known as Trap Vinyasa™ & panel discussion on body positivity featuring Abiola Akanni, Irie Love & Claire Gould at the Lululemon experiential store!
About Trap Vinyasa™
Laced with trap music, a heavy beat-based genre of hip hop originating from the South, Trap Vinyasa™ is a high-energy yoga-fitness class combining yoga asana with dance, boxing and body weight exercises. Our offerings and proprietary classes help BIPOC (black and indigenous people of color) and allies develop their personal yoga practice. Designed to help you explore sensuality, our community combines the storytelling power of hip hop with the healing nature of yoga to empower you to rewrite the story of your body. This is #yogaforus!
About Claire Gould:
Claire Gould is the founder of get Clairefied, llc an in-home and office organization business that she founded in 2018. She is PNW born and raised, but spent her twenties living in NYC which will always have a piece of her heart. Claire majored in Communications and minored in Diversity which informs every role she takes on from assistant manager at lululemon athletica to paralegal to group fitness instructor/personal trainer. Claire continues to personal train a couple clients as there are SO many similarities between one-on-one training and organizing. Both are personal, intimate, and have a tendency to feel intimidating. But at the root, they’re very simple and straightforward. To set you up for success, her job is to create programs and systems that are right for YOU – your life, your needs, your goals.
About Irie Love:
Irie Love (her birth-given name), was born in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the "Brown Bags to Stardom" talent competition in Hawaii in 1999. Since then she has toured the world with such names as Morgan Heritage, Pink, Chaka Khan, Fiji, J Boog, Katchafire, Tarrus Riley to name a few.
Her first album, ‘This Is Irie Love’ which was released on her independent label IrieAloha Records in 2012 and nominated for a Na Hoku award along with it’s two #1 charted singles and over 1 million streams on Spotify, IT IS WUT IT IS and MY LOVE .
She has also mentored kids in Hawaii's charter schools through the Mana Maoli project Mana Mele [@mana_maoli ] along with her “Empower the Youth” campaign which she started in 2010.
Irie Love was also a featured artist in the Hawaii Aloha music project and video along with the Play For Change movement, that was featured on Hawaiian Airlines and has over 1 million views worldwide. Irie Love was a headliner and the only featured artist from Hawaii at the SXSW 2016 festival.
In 2018, Irie Love decided pivot her career path and moved to Portland to pursue a career in fitness, working as an instructor at Cyclebar after becoming an indoor cycling instructor part-time in her hometown at Ride Kailua in 2016. In November 2018, She moved to Seattle where she currently reside working as an indoor cycling instructor at BurnCycle, Personal Trainer at Athletic Form and is currently enrolled in the Bala Yoga 200hr certification program and her soon to be released podcast "The Naked Soul".
