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We research

You experience

For us, research isn’t something that happens in sterile labs.

It happens in the living field. In bodies, relationships, and real moments of return.

Our work bridges somatic science, psychology, art, and imagination to study what it actually feels like to come home to yourself.

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Our areas of research

We believe that embodiment, intimacy, and creative aliveness can be studied as rigorously as stress or trauma and that data can be poetic, too.

In 2026, we’re expanding our ecosystem with five research pathways that explore the nervous system through lived experience.

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The Nervous System of Belonging

How safety, connection, and social attunement reshape our physiology.

We study what happens in the body when we truly feel seen and what it takes to restore that capacity after isolation.

Pleasure as Regulation

Exploring how sensual micro-pleasures like sound, breath, touch, imagery, recalibrate the nervous system and build long-term resilience.

Our hypothesis: pleasure is not a luxury, but a biological strategy for repair.

Imaginal Fields and Somatic Memory

Investigating how symbolic imagination (myth, archetype, dream) interacts with stored emotional material in the body, creating measurable shifts in perception and mood.

The Biochemistry of Return

Tracking changes in neurochemical patterns (dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin) in response to self-regulation practices, community belonging, and sensual rituals.

The Relational Body

Examining how partnership, consent, and co-regulation form a living nervous system between two or more people, a field of shared intelligence that can heal or harm.

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Testimonials

“I’ve done a lot of personal development. This felt different... More personal, less fixing.”
Anna
“I thought I was fine. This book made me realize I was actually numb. And then it helped me feel again.”
Erik
“This didn’t change who I am. It just reminded me that I’m allowed to feel how I actually feel.”
Jenny
“It helped me connect dots I didn’t know were connected between how I feel, how I act and what I want.”
Ulrika
“It didn’t feel like doing work on myself. It just felt like being with myself, finally.”
Tomas
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Get involved

This is not research about people; it is research with people.

It asks for curiosity instead of certainty, presence instead of performance, and the courage to explore what can only be known through experience.

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We are currently inviting:

Research partners

Institutions, labs, or independent scientists ready to explore the intersection of data and embodiment.

Lab assistants

Curious minds and steady hearts who want to support in-field studies, data collection, and creative documentation.

Participants

Humans of all backgrounds who want to experience the research firsthand through guided studies, rituals, and embodied experiments.

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Apply to join the 2026 research circle

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