We adapt to the world successfully using 5 Senses.
“My goal is helping people to listen to their body and quickly know what action to take for balance. Stress is an adaptive response and we can adapt more successfully using 5 senses.” -Dr. Katrina Nakamura
When our senses detect threats, stress is generated as an adaptive response by the cross-talk among the body’s skin, gut, nerves and fluids. Energy flow is restored by the same cross-talk when our senses detect peace.
In 2025, stress science has come closer to prioritizing balance not unlike Eastern health traditions in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Japanese Kampo — each offering foundations, diagnostics, medicine and lifestyle prescriptions for balance for longevity and to prevent disease.
A wealth of knowledge about sensory actions to take for balance exists but is not very accessible. The story of 5 Senses Lab is a decision to make stress relief available by combining sciences East and West to detect sensory cues shown to relieve stress. Numerous randomized control trials, for example, confirm the stress modifying effects of hearing music.
In 2025, Dr. Katrina Nakamura (Google Scholar) founded 5 Senses Lab to apply stress science to stress relief by activating the most powerful anti-stress agents we have: our 5 senses.
Katrina previously developed Sosei Studio, a beautiful sensory immersion spa above a waterfall in Vancouver by applying Japanese principles and diagnostics and foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine together with scientific knowledge about the impacts of stress she learned in her doctorate research with Dr. Petra Arck’s Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Lab at Berlin’s Charité University of Medicine. Katrina’s contributions to stress relief are personal and global. She is known for bringing light to animals and people at sea with work featured by Financial Times (UK, 11/25), NPR (10/25), Associated Press (9/24) and as co-winner of the Partnership for Freedom Grand Prize for tech eliminating modern slavery in 2016.
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Contact us at Relief@5SensesLab.com.