Hello world, I’m Lotus Wong.
A multi-faceted flower and a multi-dimensional leader.
Lotus Wong is a Lead Facilitator, Experience Designer, Brand Strategist, and Soul Stylist with 14 years of experience guiding and gathering groups to grow, heal and transform together. With a passion for people, Lotus is dedicated to leveling up leaders and transforming teams to bring their boldest visions to life.
In practice, Lotus has been on her own journey of self-discovery and healing traveling and working in over 30 countries from Thailand to Iceland to Mexico. This led her to create the School of Unconditional Love (S.O.U.L.) a BIPOC-centered education platform offering transformational courses, sacred ceremonies. and community events.
Lotus is also the Co-Executive Director of Embrace, an Oakland based non-profit, which provides a platform for spiritual innovators & liberation leaders to access the spiritual, social, and material resources needed to make our greatest contribution to healing in the world. Lotus is an Executive Facilitator & Head of Training at Late Nite Art, a creative learning & development lab that has led 600 art-based team connection events in 15 countries.
Lastly, Lotus is the Cohost of This Intentional Life, a soul-provoking podcast offering spiritual wisdom, personal stories and practical tools to guide people in living with intention.
Lotus’ clients include: Adobe, LinkedIn, Starbucks, Verizon Media, Christiana Care Health, VISA, Genentech, Sallie Mae, Greater Good Science Center, Oakland Museum of California Art, DeYoung Fine Arts Museum, Beneficial State Foundation, Race Forward, Women Donors Network, NYU Shanghai, Morehouse College, Giveness International (Japan), and I Can Read Hanoi (Vietnam).
Lotus’ formal educational background: BA in Marketing and a minor in Design Studies from Arizona State University. A certificate in International Business from the University of Economics, Prague, an Organizational Culture Coaching & Consulting Certificate from Delivering Happiness, a Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Certification from Holistic Underground, and an Executive Education Diploma in Design and Leadership certified by UPEACE, the United Nations Mandated Graduate School of Peace and Conflict Studies.
Lotus’ additional trainings: Hridaya Yoga & Meditation School Level 1 & 2 Certification, Hridaya Yoga 17 day Silent Meditation Retreat, Tantra Heart Yoga Training, Ana Maria Magdalena Earth Priestess Training, Creative Abundance Training, Ancestral Lineage Healing Course, and Ayurvedic-Thai Massage Level 1.
A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and nothing else.
— Maya Angelou
My journey so far…
On the first day of the New Year in 2010, I had an encounter that I can only describe as divine.
I was traveling with friends in Mexico and our car got stuck in the sand. There we were ringing in a new decade stranded on a deserted beach without cell service, it felt like a bad omen. Just when I was ready to give up hope, I met my Spiritual Teacher.
What began as a holistic way to cure depression and heal a broken heart revealed itself to be an entry point into exploring my spiritual path and experiencing the fullness of life in its entirety. Until then, I had never formally learned about religion or spirituality and I started waking up to what it means to return to my true nature and live an intentional, liberated, and love-filled life.
I've been exploring life's mysteries ever since.
In 2014, I moved from the desert of Arizona to the west coast of California. I had always dreamed of living in the San Francisco Bay Area, knowing my ancestors had immigrated through the golden gates from Guangzhou, China generations ago. I intuitively understood the influence your environment has on you and I wondered who I might become given a diverse, creative and progressive epicenter like the Bay. I found my chosen home in Oakland, California, full of lush redwoods and soulful community.
In 2016 during my “Year of Courage”, I put my stuff in storage and left everything I knew to answer the call to adventure! I spent two and a half years getting my “Ph.D. - Pure Heart Degree” traveling and working in eleven countries throughout Southeast Asia, Central America, and North America. There I met healers, artists, and entrepreneurs from all walks of life who taught me what it means to be guided by the Universe and centered in the spiritual heart.
In 2019, my “Year of Divine Love”, I sensed the need to return to Oakland where I manifested a beautiful zen sanctuary in the heart of the city. There I began to get grounded, rebalance, and share my gifts. I felt called to elevate women and communities of color on their paths of healing, wholeness and truth. I continued my worldly travels facilitating transformational learning journey’s in France, Canada, Japan, Vietnam and Mexico. Read more about 2019: Year of Divine Love.
In 2020, my “Year of Enough”, I created a Womxn of Color Healing Circle that offerred monthly gatherings. We co-created a global community of over 300 women and femmes of color to grow and heal together. That year, I relaunched my personal brand & business: “Lotus Awakens” as well as my co-hosted podcast, This Intentional Life. Read more about 2020: Year of Enough.
In 2021, my “Year of Soul”, I founded SOUL: School of Unconditional Love, a global education platform centering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and offering transformational courses, coaching, and community gatherings. I led our first course, Love & Liberation, a 5 month journey for women and femmes of color ready to expand their capacity to love, bring healing to their relationships & uplift our collective liberation. Read more about 2020: Year of Soul.
In 2022, my “Year of Balance”, my aim was to rebalance and stabilize myself and my work. It became very clear that I needed to slow down. At the start of the year, I celebrated the completion of the Love & Liberation course with a 93% satisfaction rating and life changing results! I stepped into a full-time job as People & Culture Manager at visionary nonprofit, Common Future and I renewed my work with Late Nite Art as a Lead Facilitator and Trainer. I also found a new passion, offering “Soul Expression Styling”, to complement my coaching offerings. Read more about 2022: Year of Balance.
In 2023, my “Year of Femme Power”, I began a full and fierce year that brought me to my knees and showed me who I truly am. This was a year of rebuilding and reclaiming a new era of life, moving from free-spirited Maiden to mature inner Mother. To honor that transition, I co-created METAMORPHOSIS: Rite of Passage Ceremony for women of color. This was also the year, I stepped into the role of Co-Executive Director of Embrace, a BIPOC-centered organization committed to resourcing spiritual innovators, healing practitioners and community leaders in Oakland.
Welcome 2024, Year of Trust!
Events & Experiences
Wholeness at work. I love working with purpose-driven organizations and leaders to design team events, learning experiences, offsites and retreats to build cultures of connection and belonging.
Branding
Your brand evolves when you evolve. I offer brand identity, business strategy and creative design services to express your soul’s work with intention.
Styling
We are constantly in the process of reinventing and rediscovering ourselves. Soul Styling activates and empowers leaders to build a personal & professional style that expresses their multi-dimensionality from the inside out.
School
We all want to belong. I design transformational courses, sacred ceremonies, and community gatherings both online and in-person for people on their paths of love, liberation and healing.
Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj