Ariel Garten - Technology Enhanced Meditation
Ariel Garten discusses her meditation biofeedback device, Muse, which aims to measure your brainwaves during meditation on The FitMind Podcast episode 11.
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Episode 11
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Episode Overview
Ariel Garten is the co-founder of InteraXon, which famously created the Muse, a brain-sensing headband that they claim can accurately read your brainwaves during meditation and improve your practice.
In this episode of The FitMind Podcast, we discuss how you can measure your brainwaves in meditation and delve into the neuroscience of EEG devices used on advanced meditators.
Garten's team is doing some fascinating research on monks in the Himalayas using the Muse headband.
When it comes to using biofeedback technology to improve your meditation practice, we're still in the early stages of development, but nonetheless, the Muse is an interesting first-generation meditation wearable to explore.
Hope you enjoy!
P.S. — If you’re serious about starting or deepening your meditation practice, check out the FitMind meditation app.
Ariel Garten Bio
Ariel Garten is a Canadian artist, scientist and psychotherapist who co-founded InteraXon and created Muse, a meditation biofeedback device that measures your brainwaves while you meditate. Here’s her full biography on Wikipedia.