Maryam Lopes

Designer of Conciousness Systems

Developing biofeedback systems for pleasure as vital sign, cyclical intelligence, and collective coherence states

About

We are at a critical inflection point in human evolution. Our technological progress has given us unprecedented power—AI, genetic engineering, weapons of mass destruction—but our emotional intelligence and somatic capacity haven't kept pace. We're running 21st-century technology on nervous systems wired for scarcity, threat, and tribal survival.

The result: anxiety, burnout, disconnection, and the very real risk that we'll misuse the technological power we're unlocking. We need rapid evolution of our nervous systems—wired for safety, collective attunement, and embodied coherence—to handle these tools wisely.

This is guided evolution. And it starts with the body.

My work addresses this gap by designing tools that accelerate nervous system evolution—measurable shifts toward regulation, coherence, interdependence, and embodied intelligence.

I work at the intersection of neuroscience, somatic intelligence, consciousness architecture, and feminine embodiment. My research examines how pleasure, breath, rhythm, and cyclical states function as regulators of the autonomic nervous system and catalysts for non-ordinary states of awareness.

My background spans Biology and Art (University of Washington), tantra, yoga, breathwork, women’s somatic healing traditions, and Andean/Ecuadorian shamanic lineages. Through practice, I developed the ability to access non-genital, full-body ecstatic states with:

  • deep interoceptive awareness

  • rhythmic autonomic activation

  • measurable physiological shifts (HRV, breath coherence, somatic tremoring)
    while maintaining meta-awareness for real-time reporting.

This dual capacity—research instrument + systems architect—allows me to generate, observe, and design technologies around the very states I study.

My Driving Questions:

  • Does feminine pleasure function as a driving force of evolution and natural nervous system regulator?

  • How can we access non-ordinary states of consciousness through sound, touch, breath, language patterns, and movement sequences?

  • What physiological synchronization occurs during coordinated arousal in group contexts—and does collective practice amplify individual nervous system shifts?

  • Can we design biofeedback systems that compress years of somatic training into months—making embodied coherence rapidly learnable?

Lumiera

Research Infrastructure for NErvous System Evolution

Lumiera makes feminine pleasure a vital sign of health—as measurable and essential as heart rate or sleep quality.

At its core, Lumiera develops technologies that accelerate nervous system evolution. We study positive physiological and phenomenological states—pleasure, coherence, collective attunement—using large datasets gathered in real-world conditions.

This integration of precise measurement with lived phenomenology is what makes Lumiera distinctive—we're not just tracking symptoms, we're capturing the full texture of embodied experience.

When aggregated at scale, these streams create a unified dataset of physiology + lived experience. This allows us to investigate core questions about human consciousness, evolutionary pathways, and the body’s inherent intelligence—beyond what traditional research alone can reach.

Current infrastructure:

  • 190,000+ followers through ASMR and wellness platform

  • 219 beta testers sign ups

  • Working prototypes of app, journals

  • Recorded in depth interviews and surveys of over 100 participants

The App: Accelerating Cyclical Inteligence

I interviewed and surveyed more than 100 women about their relationship to their menstrual cycles. A clear pattern emerged: most had learned to predict their cycles—when to expect PMS, when ovulation might occur—but very few had learned to feel them. To recognize that the fatigue three days before menstruation isn't dysfunction but an invitation inward. That the creative surge mid-cycle isn't random but connected to hormonal shifts.

I led a team at San Antonio Institute of Technology to design an app interface addressing this gap. The question wasn't "how do we help women manage their cycles?" but "how do we help women recognize what their cycles are already teaching them?"

Biometric Journaling Tools

Integrating physiological awareness with introspective prompts—developing interoceptive literacy by correlating internal sensations with mood, stress patterns, cyclical changes, and pleasure capacity.

Dream Journal

Daily and weekly dream tracking, monthly sleep mandalas, and symbol dictionaries (both provided and customizable templates). Daily pages prompt users to record settings, objects, characters, and emotional landscapes—revealing patterns and allowing creative work with dream energies. By noting recurring symbols, emotions, and themes, users gain insight into subconscious cycles and deepen connection to inner wisdom.

Glow Up alchemy

A tracking Journal with somatic cues, narrative reframing, daily micro-practices for emotional decoding and self-reconstruction All integrate physiological data with introspective prompts—helping users develop interoceptive literacy by correlating internal sensations with HRV, mood, stress patterns, cyclical changes, and pleasure capacity.

O-Circle

Group Orgasmic Meditation & Nervous System Synchronization

O-Circle combines online and in-person gatherings for group orgasmic meditation—women practicing coordinated climax exploration, nervous system synchronization, and collective coherence. These function as living laboratories for studying interpersonal physiological entrainment and what I hypothesize are entangled consciousness states accessible through synchronized female pleasure.

Structure (online events, 2.5 hours):

  • Educational lecture on nervous system regulation, cyclical intelligence, and pleasure physiology

  • Experiential guided session (cameras off) featuring pelvic yoga, tools for feminine ejaculation and pleasure, and hypnotic breath sequences designed to help participants feel safe in their bodies and access full-body pleasure states

  • Sharing circles for integration and collective sense-making

Data collection: Online questionnaires before/after each circle tracking subjective experiences, emotional shifts, somatic sensations. As infrastructure develops, we'll integrate wearables for in-person events to measure heart rate synchronization, HRV harmonization, collective nervous system entrainment during coordinated pleasure practices.

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Parallel development: O-Theater While O-Circle focuses inward on individual nervous system regulation within collective space, O-Theater explores group relational dynamics. Drawing from family constellation work (revealing hidden systemic dynamics through spatial positioning and embodied roles) and Eleusinian mysteries (ancient initiation rituals using altered states for direct spiritual knowledge), O-Theater has couples and groups embody archetypal energies (Mother-Father, Lover-Beloved, Eden and the Other) and resolve dynamics through touch, pleasure, and embodied communication. Both explore the same research questions—collective nervous system synchronization, pleasure states, and interpersonal entrainment—but through different lenses: O-Circle as inner journey, O-Theater as relational exploration

Designing Spaces That Shift States

Environment

My work explores how environmental design—spatial configuration, texture, light, participatory creation—reliably shifts nervous system states and facilitates access to non-ordinary experiences.

Design Principles Across All Work

Whether designing app interfaces, journals, or large-scale installations, I use calming nature-inspired palettes and soft organic forms. This aesthetic isn't arbitrary—it's infrastructure. Beautiful, ritualistic design increases long-term engagement, which generates better data and deeper practice effects.

Dream Scroll Installations

Large-scale sculptures made from paper, tyvek, and biomaterials that function as experimental environments. These living systems evolve based on light, time, and participant interaction.

The creation process is participatory: I sketch structural templates, then guide groups in cutting intricate patterns together on large surfaces. Participants report accessing flow states and non-ordinary consciousness during collaborative creation. Mistakes are integrated rather than corrected, teaching adaptive problem-solving and error tolerance.

Completed installations: Amazon Executive Office (Seattle), Arise Festival (Colorado), LUSIO Festival of Light (Seattle), Lightning Society (New York), Gratitude Migration (New Jersey).