You sit down for deep work, and an hour later the real task still has not started.
Second Attention · A Vayu Labs Cohort
The 4-Week
FocusIntensive
Modern work trains your attention to fragment. This trains it to hold.
Train the system underneath deep work with guided practice, custom focus audio, and live coaching.
Oct 22 to Nov 12. $149. Late enrollment through Nov 1.
A small group 4-week cohort, best for people who do focused, cognitively demanding work.
4-Week Focus Intensive
October Cohort
Started Thursday October 22 · Late enrollment is open
MeetingsWeekly, live and recorded
Practice15 min, 3 to 5 times a week
FormatOnline, small group
OutcomeYour Personal Focus Protocol
Next cohort
Oct 22 to Nov 12
$149
Late enrollment is open through Sunday November 1 at 11:59pm Mountain.
Try the first week. If it isn't for you, email us before the second session on October 29 and we'll refund the full amount.
From the workshop to the work
If the workshop landed, this is the next step.
A four-week group intensive that takes the workshop tools into daily practice: focus, recovery, state shifts, custom audio, and a protocol you can use in real work.
Weekly group coachingSolo practiceCustom focus audioCommunity
The real problem
Your attention is not broken.
It is being trained in the wrong direction. Every notification, every context switch, every unfinished stress loop teaches your nervous system to fragment.
You meditate, and the session turns into another place to fight your own mind.
You push harder, but forcing focus from the wrong state just burns energy.
You end the day drained, then "recover" in ways that leave you at a deficit.
The reframe
Focus needs the right conditions.
Second Attention does not ask you to bully your mind into focus. We train the conditions that make attention easier to return to: your environment, your starting cue, your nervous system, and the way you recover between sessions.
Setup before willpower.
Design the entry conditions for focus before you ask yourself to perform.
Practice before theory.
Use short reps to feel the shift directly, then repeat what works.
Technology as a mirror.
Feedback can make practice easier to calibrate, but it does not replace the practice.
What you train
Focus. Recovery. State. Flow.
Different layers of one nervous system. Train them together and they compound.
01
Reclaim your focus
Reduce distraction and make starting easier.
02
Recover to perform
Reset the nervous system so deeper focus becomes possible.
03
Command your state
Shift gears at will.
04
Drop into flow
Apply focus, recovery, and state control to deep work.
What’s included
What you get.
Short weekly primers
One 8 to 12 minute primer each week gives you the concept before the live meeting.
Weekly live group coaching
One live 60-minute group meeting each week. Recorded, so a missed week will not set you back.
Guided protocols
Step-by-step practices for focus, state shifts, and recovery.
Custom focus audio
Audio that helps you drop into deep work and settle into practice.
Community accountability
A simple weekly check-in that keeps you practicing.
Personal focus protocol
Leave with a repeatable protocol for entering focus, resetting after interruption, and recovering so tomorrow’s focus is easier.
The four-week path
From distracted to durable.
One focus topic a week. Tap any week to see what you practice.
Built by Vayu Labs
Vayu Labs builds neurotechnology-assisted meditation experiences using EEG neurofeedback, VR environments, guided protocols, and state-training audio.
EEG neurofeedbackVR state-trainingGuided protocolsCustom focus audioPractical state training
This is for you if
- You do cognitively demanding work, and your output depends on focus.
- You are a founder, leader, facilitator, creative, or meditator.
- You want a practical way to train state, not vague wellness.
- You are willing to practice 15 minutes, 3 to 5 times a week.
“A lot of my meditation and breathwork practice has been more spiritually oriented. That has its own excitement, but the application of it from a practical standpoint is limited, because I am also a functioning human being with a job and a company and people that I work with.”
This is not for you if
- You want passive content without practice.
- You are looking for therapy or medical treatment.
- You want guaranteed results without changing behavior.
- You want a purely spiritual program with no measurement.
- You want the device to replace the practice, not accelerate it.
From the last cohort
The same person, two weeks apart.
One participant joined the September cohort running two businesses. These are her own words on the first call and on the third, two weeks apart.
“I work a lot, and I constantly find myself exhausted. I know of the tools I should be using to maintain my state and have great recovery, but for some reason I don’t do them.”
“By day three I felt so much more present. I can really feel when I’m overriding my body, or when I’m ready to work. It helped me be so much more present with my work.”
“I love my breaks, just staring out into nothingness. I have so much more energy to do the work that I don’t want to do.”
Individual results vary. The practice is training, not treatment.
Who teaches this
Ian Cross
Founder, Vayu Labs
In 2021 I spent a week in a garage in Kenmore, Washington with a full scalp of electrodes on my head, doing audio neurofeedback six hours a day.
For the first few days I felt like I was failing. I could not hold the state I wanted for more than twenty seconds. Then around day four I dropped into the calmest, most focused state I had ever been in, and I had been meditating daily for years and only ever glimpsed it.
What got me there was not trying harder. It was better feedback. I used to think of this as an effort problem. That week turned it into a feedback problem, and once you have an undeniable felt reference point, finding your way back gets much easier, with or without the tech.
That week is why Vayu Labs exists. Since then I have trained one on one with Dr. Jeff Tarrant, founder of the NeuroMeditation Institute, and completed every program the Flow Research Collective offers, alongside years of further work across the performance and meditation field. This cohort is the distillation of that, built around the tools that made the difference for me.
Next cohort
Join the October cohort.
October 2026 · Oct 22 to Nov 12
The Focus Intensive
$149
Late enrollment is open through Sunday November 1 at 11:59pm Mountain.
Try the first week. If it isn't for you, email us before the second session on October 29 and we'll refund the full amount.
The full four-week cohort. Weekly coaching, guided practice, custom audio, community, and your personal protocol.
- 4 weekly live group coaching sessions
- Guided focus and meditation protocols
- Custom focus and meditation audio
- Community accountability
- Personal focus protocol
Questions
October cohort
Build the system underneath focus.
The October cohort runs Thursday October 22 to November 12. Enrollment is uncapped. The price is $149. Late enrollment is open through November 1 at 11:59pm Mountain.
Register4-Week Focus Intensive · Started Thursday October 22 · Late enrollment is open