Ariel Garten

Artist, Designer, Explorer, Foodie, Idea generator, Inventor, Jewish, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Startup, Technologist, World traveler

Ariel Garten founded Interaxon, maker of the award-winning Muse brain-sensing headband, as an expression of her neuroscience, psychotherapy and fashion design backgrounds as well as her dedication to bringing easy-to-use and accessible tools for mental health to the masses. Thousands of people meditate daily with Muse, which translates your brain activity to give you immersive real time feedback on your meditation. Hundreds of research institutions also use the tool to do in-situ broad scale neuroscience research. Ariel studied neuroscience at the University of Toronto and worked in labs at Toronto’s esteemed Krembil Neuroscience Centre researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. Later she trained as a psychotherapist and had her own private practice. No mere science nerd, Ariel’s creative talents led her to design her own clothing line that opened Toronto Fashion Week and has been sold across North America; and has had her art work displayed at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Ariel, her lectures on such topics as the future of technology, happiness and women in briskness, and the Muse headband have been featured in over a 1000 articles in global media, including CNBC, CNET, CNN, Forbes, Popular Science, TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat, which credited Ariel for creating “the most important wearable of 2014.” Also, she let thousands of people control the lights on the CN Tower with their brains:)

Meditation Teaching people to quiet the voices in their head to accomplish anything you want. Using technology to enhance our humanity. The future.

art, Brain, design, medicine, Meditation, mindfulness, Neuroscience, science, technology, wearables