Daydreaming of a Mindful Future
Zaya is a wellness innovation lab and community dedicated to building projects at the intersection of art, science, and mindfulness. From festivals to mindfulness apps, our mission is to help cultivate a caring society that prioritizes health & well-being. We collaborate with brands, researchers, artists, and health practitioners to grow our mission for a more mindful, and happier planet.
Past Projects
We’ve worked alongside artists, engineers, researchers, and healing practitioners to design one-of-a-kind projects and campaigns that redefine how people connect with wellness. Check out our past projects to get a feel for what we do.
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Sunü was a 2-day festival that combined art, science, and mindfulness to induce altered states of consciousness for creative thinking. Curating workshops, seminars, music, and art installations, the festival featured 25 thought leaders and 3 stages in the 1800’s castle, Schloss Schönow (Bradenburg, Berlin). Each experience fostered a reflection and a shared vision for positive projects in art, mindfulness, research, and sustainability.
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A slow living pop-up cafe to explore cultures and rituals from around the world.
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Serenity Pool encourages presence in social settings through a disconnect-to-earn method. Join an in-person community event, scan the QR code, and link your crypto wallet to initiate the timer. Earn $ZYA tokens only when your device is idle, promoting social engagement with your surroundings. The Pool factor fosters collective community benefits, measuring disconnection through time away from your phone.
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Spirit Compass allows communities to document, collect, and visualize their communities mood (or spirit) over time. Spirit Compass allows communities and individuals to connect with different eco-healing prompts and sustainability practices. Individual moods, based on colour, inform communal ones- essentially creating incentives for communities to correspond to emotional needs and adapt.
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Beyond Modern Medicine was a virtual interview series from 2020-2021 with a mission to provide free healthcare education and spread awareness on holistic practices of medicine for your mental health and wellbeing. From Traditional Chinese Medicine to psychedelics, we spoke to to some of the greatest minds in the fields of medicine, psychology and more to explore the mind-body connection and how to heal, beyond modern medicine.
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Body Wisdom was a 1 day retreat that empowered leaders towards optimizing their mental and physical wellbeing in order to lead from a better place. They learned about the mind-body-brain connection using the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, physiology, and mindfulness. Workshops & activities were facilitated by top Berlin health & wellness experts on topics such as; re-wiring the brain & neuroplasticity, building emotional intelligence, stress management & resilience, understanding trauma, gut health, art therapy, yoga, meditation and reiki.
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Our very first project at Zaya was a holistic therapy marketplace. The marketplace was intended for people with chronic disease to find vetted holistic health practitioners & therapists. The marketplace launched in Berlin and the U.K., but was discontinued in 2021.
The Podcast
Releasing Trauma Through Breathwork
WITH MICHAEL STONE
In this event, Founder of Neurodynamic Breathwork, Michael Stone discusses how breathwork can support us in releasing the tension that is deeply rooted within the subconsciousness. Through the practice of breathwork, we can begin to disengage with our ego in order to connect to our true inner wisdom and let go of our past.
Healing Trauma in the Body
WITH ARIANE FUCHTNER
When we experience a traumatic event we get taken out of the present and are brought back to past memories and past sensations. Our bodies go into survival mode and we are trapped in stress responses, which are fight, flight, and freeze. In this episode, somatic therapist, Ariane, discusses how body-based modalities go deep to the core and can have a life-changing effect on those that use them.
Healing with Cannabis & Ketamine Therapy
WITH AVIVA BANNERMAN
Aviva is a licensed psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado, offering somatic psychotherapy, ketamine- and cannabis-assisted psychotherapy, and psychedelic integration sessions. In this interview, Aviva shares her experience offering therapy to high-trauma populations, and offering emotional support for festival attendees who have ingested large amounts of substances, as well as her work with Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
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