Stress is an adaptive response.
5 Senses Lab helps people relieve stress by engaging the most powerful anti-stress agents we have: our 5 senses.
5 Senses Lab is the result of a science-centered quest to remove stress quickly in the most enjoyable ways possible. The lab’s operating principle is stress science viewed in its full perspective from West to East. The founder is a stress scientist who developed and ran a sensory immersion spa and was mentored by scientists cracking the stress code.
The fastest way to balance is sensory.
We navigate the world successfully using 5 Senses. 5 Senses Lab is finding antidotes to stress within the constant cross-talk among the body’s skin, gut, nerves and fluids where stress is generated as an adaptive response to sensory signals.
Founder Katrina Nakamura PhD is addressing the modern stress crisis by creating an opportunity to give relief and agency to as many people as possible — and permission to use our senses to flourish.
Katrina received her scientific training on the health impacts of modern stress during her doctorate that included collaborative research on stress impacts in pregnancy with a ground-breaking neuroscience team cracking the stress code at the Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Lab at Berlin’s Charité University of Medicine under stress guru Dr. Petra Clara Arck.
The idea of bringing nature and calm into modern life through tech is new in the West but not in the East, where craftspeople in Japan have been working at it for over 30 years. Katrina credits Yoshinari Nakamura for opening this perspective, which inspired her to study Japanese approaches to mind/body care in hospitals and clinics (doctorate) and the diagnostics and foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine to gain access to Eastern perspectives and scientific approaches to stress relief and balance. The family applied Japanese insights and aesthetics in a beautiful sensory immersion spa above a waterfall in Vancouver, Sosei Studio.
Katrina is a scientist working to solve colossal challenges of today. Her recent work was featured by the Financial Times, Associated Press and major papers across the globe, including all major US networks in 2024. She won the Partnership for Freedom Grand Prize for tech eliminating modern slavery in 2016. Katrina intends to eliminate tech’s stress paradox.
Contact us at 5SensesRelief@gmail.com.