You have unprecedented information about your body. HR, HRV, RR. That information is powerful. And it is a reduction of the truth. The experience of the body cannot be translated into objective data without information loss. But the loss is inconsequential.
No, the loss is your humanity. It is the practice of directing your attention to sense the internal state of your body. Outsource this to an external sensor, and you give up on exercising the foundational function of the human system: bidirectional communication between body and mind.
You seek information? You are cutting off the most accurate source of information you have access to: your body’s actual experience of reality, before it gets filtered through language, analysis, and narrative. In doing so, you fragment a system designed to be connected. There is no clarity when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no presence when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no legibility of inner voice, intuition, or truth when the mind lacks access to the body.
Sakem designs tools and experiences that train attention to the body’s felt experience.
Don’t believe what we say. Come, experience the evidence yourself.
You have unprecedented information about your body. HR, HRV, RR. That information is powerful. And it is a reduction of the truth. The experience of the body cannot be translated into objective data without information loss. But the loss is inconsequential.
No, the loss is your humanity. It is the practice of directing your attention to sense the internal state of your body. Outsource this to an external sensor, and you give up on exercising the foundational function of the human system: bidirectional communication between body and mind.
You seek information? You are cutting off the most accurate source of information you have access to: your body’s actual experience of reality, before it gets filtered through language, analysis, and narrative. In doing so, you fragment a system designed to be connected. There is no clarity when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no presence when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no legibility of inner voice, intuition, or truth when the mind lacks access to the body.
Sakem designs tools and experiences that train attention to the body’s felt experience.
Don’t believe what we say. Come, experience the evidence yourself.
You have unprecedented information about your body. HR, HRV, RR. That information is powerful. And it is a reduction of the truth. The experience of the body cannot be translated into objective data without information loss. But the loss is inconsequential.
No, the loss is your humanity. It is the practice of directing your attention to sense the internal state of your body. Outsource this to an external sensor, and you give up on exercising the foundational function of the human system: bidirectional communication between body and mind.
You seek information? You are cutting off the most accurate source of information you have access to: your body’s actual experience of reality, before it gets filtered through language, analysis, and narrative. In doing so, you fragment a system designed to be connected. There is no clarity when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no presence when the mind lacks access to the body. There is no legibility of inner voice, intuition, or truth when the mind lacks access to the body.
Sakem designs tools and experiences that train attention to the body’s felt experience.
Don’t believe what we say. Come, experience the evidence yourself.
Data is King.
Not God.
Data is King.
Not God.
Data is King.
Not God.
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 exists because of a decade+ of intense embodiment, followed by a decade+ of intense disembodiment, met by the survival instinct to return to the body.
One strand of Sakem's DNA is built on product & experience design work with companies including Apple, Adidas, and Samsung, and the multi-year R&D of a wearable for cardiac health. The other strand is built on research into the self — spanning neuroscience, contemplative tradition, and sustained practice, including training in yoga (500 hours), Vipassana meditation, and spiritual architecture.
Sakem exists because of a decade+ of intense embodiment, followed by a decade+ of intense disembodiment, met by the survival instinct to return to the body.
One strand of Sakem's DNA is built on product & experience design work with companies including Apple, Adidas, and Samsung, and the multi-year R&D of a wearable for cardiac health. The other strand is built on research into the self — spanning neuroscience, contemplative tradition, and sustained practice, including training in yoga (500 hours), Vipassana meditation, and spiritual architecture.
Richa Krishna, Sakem Founder & Creative Director
Richa Krishna, Sakem Founder & Creative Director
Richa Krishna, Sakem Founder & Creative Director
We are singularly consumed by this question. The medium of our work follows the demands of the inquiry — from novel physical form factors for biometric data, to multimedia experiences that facilitate original somatic attention practices, to architectural environments driven by the body's experience. We design, build, experiment, and observe with focused movement across scale and discipline to provoke the inquiry holistically and thoroughly. We create for the sake of the process. The process itself is our method of research. Hence, Sakem.
We are singularly consumed by this question. The medium of our work follows the demands of the inquiry — from novel physical form factors for biometric data, to multimedia experiences that facilitate original somatic attention practices, to architectural environments driven by the body's experience. We design, build, experiment, and observe with focused movement across scale and discipline to provoke the inquiry holistically and thoroughly. We create for the sake of the process. The process itself is our method of research. Hence, Sakem.
We are singularly consumed by this question. The medium of our work follows the demands of the inquiry — from novel physical form factors for biometric data, to multimedia experiences that facilitate original somatic attention practices, to architectural environments driven by the body's experience. We design, build, experiment, and observe with focused movement across scale and discipline to provoke the inquiry holistically and thoroughly. We create for the sake of the process. The process itself is our method of research. Hence, Sakem.
Under what conditions does the body’s felt experience become a legitimate form of knowledge in a culture that trusts analysis over direct perception?
Under what conditions does the body’s felt experience become a legitimate form of knowledge in a culture that trusts analysis over direct perception?
Under what conditions does the body’s felt experience become a legitimate form of knowledge in a culture that trusts analysis over direct perception?
designing epistemic interventions
for the sake of 1.
designing epistemic interventions
for the sake of 1.
Sakem is a design + research lab
that investigates perception of the self.
Sakem is a design + research lab that investigates perception of the self.
Sakem is a design + research lab that investigates perception of the self.
perception design laboratory
perception design laboratory
(sake of 1)
(sake of 1)
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r & D & D
r & D & D
There is no practice that trains direct perception like the simplest practice. We architect doors to it — in the language of a culture resistant to entering the room through its status quo doors.
If you're building wearable, health, or meditation technology, researching interoception, consciousness, or the mind-body connection, offering contemplative, wellness, or high-performance experiences, or working as a designer, builder, or artist in this inquiry:
our perspective complements yours. Let's play.
There is no practice that trains direct perception like the simplest practice. We architect doors to it — in the language of a culture resistant to entering the room through its status quo doors.
If you're building wearable, health, or meditation technology, researching interoception, consciousness, or the mind-body connection, offering contemplative, wellness, or high-performance experiences, or working as a designer, builder, or artist in this inquiry:
our perspective complements yours. Let's play.
There is no practice that trains direct perception like the simplest practice. We architect doors to it — in the language of a culture resistant to entering the room through its status quo doors.
If you're building wearable, health, or meditation technology, researching interoception, consciousness, or the mind-body connection, offering contemplative, wellness, or high-performance experiences, or working as a designer, builder, or artist in this inquiry:
our perspective complements yours. Let's play.
Our doors are open.
Our doors are open.
Our doors are open.
perception design laboratory
(sake of 1)
º1
r & D & D