Neuroarts Fund for Innerversal Health Practitioners

Supporting practitioners creating at the nexus of of sound medicine, somatic integration, and narrative self-expression.

Some of the most potent healing work happens between the lanes the funding world keeps separate, and this fund exists for the people building bridges there. Neuroarts Fund for Innerversal Health Practitioners backs educators and practitioners creating phygital learning experiences, programs that live simultaneously in the body, the screen, and the room, spanning sound medicine, somatic integration, steeping arts, and narrative self-expression, made for people who've been told their knowledge and their ways of processing the world don't belong anywhere. The fund is led by Kamau Zuberi Akabueze, who left a Chief Creative Officer career in 2022 to found THE ÅLïEN SCõÖL for Creative Thinking and has been building community platforms like CREÅTIVE STEEPING and the 1000 Ways to Sit series ever since; each year he'll invite the fund's creators to gather at Mars College, the site-built desert school in Bombay Beach, to mature their programs side by side. (More about this is ELIGIBILITY). NeuroArtistry (the conjoined perspective) NeuroArtistry is an emergent practice that converges the science of how arts and aesthetic experiences reshape the brain, body, and behavior with the technology of deliberate creative self-engagement and the cartographic discipline of navigating the human being's internal universe, and how this convergence can be embodied by practitioners as a living methodology designed to advance the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. This category of neuroscientific arts includes physical, mental, and social health, but also creative intelligence as an accessible relationship with our imagination, elevating the ecological contribution of a practitioner's own creative expression to the vibratory resonance that surround them. NeuroArtistry supports the ongoing movement from creative dislocation toward ecological integration. Innerversal Health Practicum studies the architecture of the human being's internal universe — the innerversal — and trains practitioners in the instruments, cartographies, and awareness practices required to navigate our innerworlds with precision, translating this inner capacity into programs designed to advance the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, including physical and mental wellness. Steeping Arts is an interdisciplinary practice that studies the science of how deliberate, temperature-sensitive, time-aware engagement with one's own creative material — through expressive writing, music-induced emotional activation, and embodied inquiry — reorganizes how the nervous system parses creative experience, and how this knowledge can be translated into explorative rituals designed to advance creative fluency and ecological wellbeing of individuals and communities. The Steeping arts elevate our capacity for sustained somatic attention, and the practitioner's ecological contribution to the resonant fields that surround them. :: Should your project touch any of these areas specifically, and or you steward a project that aspires to act on these emerging sciences and practices, please do apply.

domain:health-wellness

Eligibility

Neuroarts is an interdisciplinary field that studies the science of how the arts and aesthetic experiences impact the brain, body, and behavior and how this knowledge can be translated into practices designed to advance health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, including not only physical and mental health, but also social connections, lifelong learning, and enriched quality of life.
- NeuroArts Blueprint (https://neuroartsblueprint.org)
This fund welcomes practitioners and educators working anywhere in the world whose practice spans neuroarts, sound medicine, somatic integration, creative wellness, steeping arts, improvised sound projection, innerversal health practice, and/or narrative self-expression.
Raw projects with intense vision are welcome here - to be seen, celebrated, supported, and collectively matured. This fund holds practitioners while their programs find their form, and as such you are joining collaborative cohort active and accessible beyond the funding.
TO QUALIFY ::
- Your project demonstrates practical application :: the work translates into everyday life, the practice is meant to anchor in the body, the room, and the relationship — sustaining its effect beyond the moment of the session.
- Your project is a journey of integration :: it deepens creative responsibility in the lives of the people it engages, building across time rather than delivering in a single encounter.
- You stay in the room :: this fund favors practitioners who listen, build what their community asks for, and remain present long enough to see the work mature through seasons.
FOR ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATION :: The Mars College Gathering
Each year, curated practitioners gather at Mars College — the site-built desert school and artist community in Bombay Beach, California, at the edge of the Salton Sea — to develop their programs in each other's company.
Mars College is one of the most distinctive creative learning environments in the United States :: off-grid, experimentally structured, and built by the community that inhabits it. It is a place designed for exactly the kind of work this fund exists to support — programs that are still finding their form, held by practitioners who are still becoming who they need to be to deliver them.
The gathering is the fund's annual field research event and cohort convening :: practitioners share their programs in progress, receive each other's inquiry and precision, conduct empirical research in a context stripped of the usual ambient noise, and leave with language for what their work is becoming that they could not have found alone.
The fund intends to support travel and participation fees. Access to the Mars College gathering is supported by the fund directly — no practitioner is excluded by geography or financial position. The growth of the fund increases the fee pool.
KzA has been in residence at Mars College. His essay "Everybody's Got a Song" was published in Open Mars: The Mars College 2026 Journal — a direct expression of the NeuroArtistry celebrated at the heart of this fund. That inquiry lives in Kamau's The Sonnet Engine and his report, The Sound of Becoming :: a practice platform and neurological framework demonstrating how expressive writing in a live sonic field reorganizes how the nervous system parses creative experience.
Practitioners can read about and experience Kamau's groundbreaking works directly at https://creativesteeping.com/about. The gathering is an active relationship between this fund and the practical application of sincere support.

Projects (7)

4 submitted · 3 curated

Project	Status	Raised
Nadharia	curated	$975
The International Artists Project Documentary	curated	$563
Resonance Tunes — Trauma-Informed AI for Creating Coherence	curated	$1,271
OneHealth	submitted	$92
Akuya	submitted	$234
Tapping into Your Creative Power!	submitted	$9,214
Chiropractic care in primary schools	submitted	$2,292