Meet Our Founders

Experts in mindfulness, pilgrimage, heart-centeredness, and the exploration of spirit and belief.

Together they combine expertise in mindfulness, psychology, and technology to explore the intersection of spirituality, belief, and religion in the modern world and what it means for our future.

Sara Shah

Miguel Farias

A meditation expert who has advised Silicon Valley start ups and multinational corporations on mindfulness initiatives and products. A Zen Buddhist student, a compassion-based practitioner, a Sufi at heart, a believer of all religions, an ethnographer of vibrational healing, and a pilgrim on the Way.

An Oxford trained psychologist of belief from the religious to the supernatural. The Lead Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Meditation. A lover of Gregorian Chants and all things monastic, a pilgrim on the road of heart-centered practices, and an explorer of Amazonian spiritual traditions.