7 Katamudras
Neuro-Anatomical Training
5 Pillars
Focus
Discipline
Everything you need to know about
Zen57 is a revolutionary mental health ritual designed to train the nervous system— your body’s most powerful, yet overlooked, operator.
Rooted in over 20 years of experience, Zen57 combines yoga, meditation, Tai Chi, flexibility, neuroanatomy, and rigorous body movements into one live and on-demand practice. Its purpose: to give you the tools to achieve MENTAL CLARITY and find your PURPOSE.
At the core of Zen57 are seven vagal tones—each connected to a function of the human body. Each day of the week focuses on one of these tones, creating a complete, cyclical system that keeps the nervous system in a high-functioning state. This daily training stimulates cranial sacral nerves, especially the vagus nerve, unlocking neural pathways and energy locks that lead to an “optimum flow state.”
Zen57 is a unique daily ritual that propels you into action and accountability with a strong and clear mindset.
By practicing consistently, you rewire your body and mind for awareness, clarity, and confidence—achieving a state of zen that has been pursued by ancient shamans, spiritual rituals, top athletes, and high performers alike.
A Physical Approach to Mental Wellness.
5 Pillars
‘The 5 Pillars’ of stability are the ‘5’ in Zen57 and thus the foundation for many of the ground-based moves that we practice. They are meant to be done daily, in order, for a minimum of 1 minute in each position – a total of 5 minutes. They are designed to awaken the nervous system properly (first thing in the morning!) and get the body moving in all 3 planes of motion: frontal, sagittal, and transverse.
7 Katamudras
The 7 Katamudras are the foundation of Zen57’s upper body movements. Practiced daily for just 7 minutes, they open key neural pathways—these movement meditations done individually and sequentiality help connect your mind and body through creating a flow and pattern for ultimate FOCUS. When combined with the 5 Pillars, just 12 minutes a day is enough to unlock greater flexibility, endurance, proprioception, and a path toward elevated awareness.
7 Houses of Zen
Zen57 offers a practical, embodied protocol for toning the vagus nerve—merging ancient energetic wisdom with modern neuroanatomical insight to strengthen resilience, enhance awareness, and stabilize inner calm.
The Zen57 Ritual enhances and trains a person’s vagal tone by combining neuroscientific principles, breathwork, movement, and mindful awareness to directly stimulate and regulate the vagus nerve—the main pathway of the parasympathetic nervous system.
Through its structured integration of Pillars , postural holds (like down dog and plank), Katamudras, (Sequential Flow Movements) breath sequences (such as Breath of Fire, Triangle Breath), and targeted mental focus, Zen57 trains the body to shift smoothly between sympathetic (stress) and parasympathetic (recovery) states. This balance builds a high vagal tone, allowing the nervous system to calm quickly after activation, support better emotional regulation, reduce inflammation, and promote digestive and mental clarity.
Day I - Stability
Performing a five minute plank as well as other long holds of the pillars provides a power of stability that will enhance your spine’s ability to transmit neural signals to the rest of your body at a very high level.
This is where we learn to stabilize our body through our anatomy.
We learn to ignite the three stabilizing muscles of the spine, the glutes, the rhomboids and the transverse abdominis.
We learn how to stabilize all 33 vertebrae of the spine as well as our 10th cranial nerve, the vagus nerve.
This is the ultimate way to start each week. Learn to physically strengthen and stabilize your body like a concrete statue and internally stabilize your mind. Start you’re 7 days with full confidence and set the proper ENERGY and tone for the week.
Day II - Flexibility
We focus on stabilizing our vagal tone here with movements that allow us full range and flexibility.
After stabilizing the body and mind, we must then open up the body through flexibility. This process translates to opening up our minds and allowing us to have a flexible mindset that can adapt to any situation.
Day III - Fire
The third day of our training focuses around generating heat through desire. The fire we have within us can either run wild and burn with passion and strength or be a calm flame, like the one that currently exists in the Zoroastrian temples of Iran that has been burning for 3000 years straight. With careful training, our internal fire can help us focus as well as create with strong passion and precision.
Day IV - Wind and Water
The fourth day is the balancing act in the middle of our physical training as well as our mental training. Wind and water represent what the Taoist called Wu Wei!
This essentially means surrendering to the highest power and allowing the powerful energy of desire to pull you towards your goals instead of fighting and pushing for them. By teaching your body how to be elusive through different formations of movement such as joint rotation, circular movements, triangular movements, stabilizing holds and different combinations of movements, you are able to build specific neural networks.
This teaches your body how to constantly be in that optimum flow state, which in return allows your mind to constantly go into that optimum flow state.
Day V - Zen
Day five represents our mind’s ability to now achieve the state of Zen.
Zen is a broad term that means everything and nothing all at once. The reason why I chose the word Zen in the title of this system is because it represents a meaning and a feeling that is selective to the individual who is experiencing it only.
To me, Zen means a calm powerful frequency in which you are so balanced that no upward or downward emotion can affect your train of thought.
“True power lies somewhere between serenity and rage” – this statement, to me, represents the ultimate state of Zen. It is a calm, powerful place where at any given moment, the needle can tip towards rage or serenity. This is also the ultimate quiet place where there are no distractions. We teach our body to go into a state of Zen and in turn clear our minds and recover for the next 2 days coming.
Day VI- Strength
Today is the day where we learn to summon our strength and power.
Creating power through generating force with speed is a very powerful form of intensified movement. This is where we call upon the martial arts background of our training. We utilize powerlifting movements as well as powerful chants, kata’s with precision, neuroanatomical force to generate an energetic strength that cannot be created with any other form of training.
By utilizing this form of physical strength we increase our mental strength beyond our wildest dreams.
Day VII- Movement
Movement is often understood as moving forward or lateral or backwards. Although it is essential to understand how to move in those three directions, the precision of movement through speed is the key to understanding the mental frequency of movement in life.
We teach our bodies on this last day to move very slow and breathe super fast, or move very fast and breathe super slow. We allow our physical body to move in every plane of motion and allow our joints full range and flexibility. It is just as important to learn how to go from 0 to 60 as it is to learn to go from 60 to 0.
By teaching our body these different frequencies and precisions of movement, we allow our minds to be moved in the direction of our desires.