meet irijah
Our Visionary
More Than a Wellness Company.
A Coming Home.
"I didn't start Irie Travels because I had everything figured out. I started it because I knew, in my body, that something was missing — and I was determined to find it."
I'm Irijah Stennett — a wellness practitioner, cultural guide, and the founder of Irie Travels. I trained as a Physician Assistant at Howard University, one of the most storied institutions in Black American history. But even as I studied the body through a clinical lens, I kept finding myself drawn to something older. Something my textbooks didn't cover.
It was Kemetic yoga that stopped me in my tracks. Not because it was trendy — it wasn't. But because it was true. Rooted in the movement science of ancient Africa, it spoke to a part of me that conventional medicine never reached. I began to understand that healing isn't just physical. It's ancestral. It's spiritual. It's about remembering who you are before the world told you who to be.
I've since trained in Kemetic yoga, Qi Gong, Sound Therapy, Pranic Healing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and facilitated plant medicine ceremonies. I've led wellness experiences across the United States, Africa, and South America. And what I've learned — across every modality, every country, every person I've sat with — is this:
"People don't just want to feel better. They want to feel whole. And that wholeness only comes when your healing is connected to something real."
That's what Irie Travels is built on. Not wellness as a trend, but wellness as a tradition. Not travel as escape, but travel as return. I designed every offering — from a single yoga session to a full immersion retreat — to give you that experience of genuine, rooted transformation.
Whether I'm guiding a group through a sound bath, walking alongside someone in their first plant medicine ceremony, or sitting across from a client on a discovery call — I bring my whole self. My clinical training. My cultural knowledge. My own healing journey. And my deep, unwavering belief that you deserve to feel free in your body, at peace in your mind, and connected to something greater than yourself.
I'm so glad you found your way here.
Why Irie Travels Exists
Mainstream wellness wasn't designed with all of us in mind. The practices being packaged and sold today have origins in traditions far older and richer than the industry acknowledges — African healing systems, indigenous plant knowledge, ancestral movement science that our grandmothers carried in their bodies.
Irie Travels exists to reclaim that. To create spaces where healing is culturally grounded, spiritually honest, and genuinely accessible. Where you don't have to check any part of yourself at the door — your Blackness, your ancestry, your questions, your grief, your joy.
Every offering we curate — from a 60-minute yoga session to a 5-day immersion abroad — is built on the same foundation: you deserve to heal fully, not partially.
How We Work
ROOTEDNESS
Every practice we offer has deep roots. We don't chase trends — we honor traditions that have stood for thousands of years.
WHOLE-PERSON CARE
We address the body, mind, emotions, and spirit — because real healing doesn't live in just one of them.
COMMUNITY
Healing in isolation has limits. We create containers where community, shared intention, and mutual care accelerate transformation.
Join Our Community
Irie Travels is more than a company — it's a circle. A growing community of people who've decided that their healing matters, that their ancestry is worth honoring, and that they're done waiting for the "right time" to invest in themselves. We'd love for you to be part of it. Come to a class, join the book club, or reach out just to say hello. You belong here.
Ready to Begin?
Book a free 30-minute discovery call and let's explore what's possible for you.