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Sakem is a design lab that trains direct perception of the body's felt experience.

Sakem is a design lab that trains direct perception of the body's felt experience.

Sakem is a design lab that trains direct perception of the

body's felt experience.

Sakem Labs Heart

Physical artifact for training heartbeat perception

Sakem Labs "Optimal" Dance Film

"Optimal" dance film

Sakem Labs Moonhole Architecture Model

Architecture concept for somatic experience

Sakem Labs Marble Ritual Element Render

Marble furniture for perception of nature

Sakem Labs Bioresponsive Garment

Bioresponsive garment for training breath awareness

DesignX Kid Making

Sensory awareness integration into youth design education curriculum

Body-sensing technologies offer unprecedented data about the body. That information is powerful. It is also a reduction of the truth, accepted as the whole truth.


The experience of the body cannot be translated into objective metrics without loss. The information that gets lost is accessible only through direct perception — observing the felt experience of the body, first-hand. Give up the practice of direct perception, and you give up a functioning mind-body system that is fundamental to your clarity, health, and grounding in reality.


Sakem designs objects and experiences that train direct perception of the body's felt experience.


Don't believe what we say. Come, experience the evidence yourself.

Body-sensing technologies offer unprecedented data about the body. That information is powerful. It is also a reduction of the truth, accepted as the whole truth.


The experience of the body cannot be translated into objective metrics without loss. The information that gets lost is accessible only through direct perception — observing the felt experience of the body, first-hand. Give up the practice of direct perception, and you give up a functioning mind-body system that is fundamental to your clarity, health, and grounding in reality.


Sakem designs objects and experiences that train direct perception of the body's felt experience.


Don't believe what we say. Come, experience the evidence yourself.

FOLLOW THE WORK
FOLLOW THE WORK

Our POV has formed through a commitment to experience as evidence.

Our POV has formed through a commitment to experience as evidence.

Our POV has formed through a commitment to experience as evidence.

Sakem Labs Richa Krishna Photo by Yoram Savion and Alexandria Chin

photo by yoram savion & alexandria chin

Sakem exists because of experience: intense embodiment followed by intense disembodiment, a close relationship with body-sensing technology and Silicon Valley culture, and the instinct to return to the body.


The work draws on two lines of practice. One is product and experience design for health technologies, including projects with Apple, Adidas, and Samsung, and the multi-year R&D of a wearable for optimizing activity with cardiac restrictions. The other is research into the self, spanning the neuroscience of interoception, living contemplative traditions, and sustained embodiment practice.

Sakem exists because of experience: intense embodiment followed by intense disembodiment, a close relationship with body-sensing technology and Silicon Valley culture, and the instinct to return to the body.


The work draws on two lines of practice. One is product and experience design for health technologies, including projects with Apple, Adidas, and Samsung, and the multi-year R&D of a wearable for optimizing activity with cardiac restrictions. The other is research into the self, spanning the neuroscience of interoception, living contemplative traditions, and sustained embodiment practice.

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The medium follows the inquiry. We design, build, and experiment across forms, in unshakable pursuit of training direct perception.


We are particularly focused on the hyper-data-driven culture of Silicon Valley — returning the people building the future of our world to their bodies, so they can build from a state of clarity and connection.


If you are building, researching, or funding work on strengthening the mind-body connection, integrating subjective and objective knowledge, or taking consciousness seriously in science and technology, let's connect. This work is ancient and urgent.

The medium follows the inquiry. We design, build, and experiment across forms, in unshakable pursuit of training direct perception.


We are particularly focused on the hyper-data-driven culture of Silicon Valley — returning the people building the future of our world to their bodies, so they can build from a state of clarity and connection.


If you are building, researching, or funding work on strengthening the mind-body connection, integrating subjective and objective knowledge, or taking consciousness seriously in science and technology, let's connect. This work is ancient and urgent.

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Est • 2024

lab is active • 2026