The Story of Yoursaf
Far apart in space. Present in the same moment.
Every project starts with a question. Yoursaf too.
For many years I practiced meditation and yoga, trying to understand, through direct experience, the value of constant practice. Meanwhile, my work was taking me in an apparently distant direction: that of engineering, design, and system building. For a long time these two paths — inner practice and engineering thinking — remained separate. Then, one day, they met.
The Journey
The moments that gave birth to the project
A simple question
Observing different meditation communities, I noticed a recurring difficulty: they almost always grow around a method, a teacher, or an organization. To be part of them, you need to some extent adapt to that method. I wondered if it was possible to imagine something different: a way to allow very different people — in practice, culture, experience — to share a moment of meditation, without asking anyone to change their own.
The intuition
Engineering had taught me a simple lesson: a good system does not work because its designer keeps guiding it, but because it was designed to work on its own. I began to wonder if that same logic could also apply to shared meditation. There was no need to create a new technique, nor to found a new school. What was needed was something much more essential: a common point capable of standing on its own, without the need for constant guidance.
Do not synchronize the method, synchronize the moment
The intuition came almost suddenly: it was not necessary to synchronize the way of meditating, it was enough to synchronize the moment. If different people choose to dedicate, at the same instant, a few minutes to their practice — whatever it may be — a shared experience is born anyway, without anyone having to give up their own method. From this idea the Yoursaf Protocol was born: a protocol that coordinates a few common elements — the day, the time and, when provided, a theme — leaving each person free to meditate according to their own experience.
A project designed to last
From the beginning I did not want to create something that depended on the presence of its founder. The goal was always another: to design a simple system, capable of continuing to exist over time, beyond the people who started it. If one day the Yoursaf Protocol continues to bring people together without anyone remembering who designed it, it will mean that the project has achieved its purpose.
Time is common. Practice remains personal.
The Yoursaf Protocol coordinates a few shared elements:
- • The day
- • The time
- • The theme (when provided)
Everything else — how to sit, how to breathe, which technique to follow — remains a free choice of each person.
The Name
Why is it called Yoursaf?
The name tells the same idea that gave birth to the project.
Your
Because meditation belongs to the one who practices it.
Saf(e)
Because everyone should be able to live this moment in a space free from judgments, impositions, and hierarchies.
Yoursaf unites these two dimensions: a personal practice and a shared moment.
An invitation, not a requirement
We do not ask you to change your way of meditating, to belong to a group, or to be someone different. We simply invite you to dedicate a few minutes to presence, knowing that, at the same instant, other people in the world have made the same choice. This is how Yoursaf grows. One presence at a time.
The next step
Now you know the story of the project. The rest is not understood by reading it: it is understood by participating.
Live the Yoursaf experience
Choose a quiet place, check the time of the next session, and join thousands of people who, at the same instant, are choosing to stop and breathe. No experience needed. No registration required. The practice remains yours.
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