We built what we couldn't find

Who we are

Santaia is a neuroscience-based wellness company helping people understand, regulate, and train the nervous system.

Through our work working with over 1,000 brains, we’ve seen firsthand why whole-person insight matters. 

We combine brain-body mapping with evidence-informed restorative practices to support stress resilience, cognitive clarity, presence, and sustainable performance.

The santaia team

Founding team

Combining expertise in clinical neuropsychology, neuroscience, engineering, and systems thinking, we are united by a shared commitment to explore and advance human potential.

Susan Santarpia, Ph.D.

CSO / Neuropsychology

CEO Tessa Santarpia

Tessa Santarpia, MHA

CEO / Healthcare Strategy

Nina Santarpia, MSSE

Chief Systems Engineer / Ethics & Sustainability

Team member Aya Abdelhalim, Neuroscience Lead

Aya Abdelhalim, M.Sc., BCN-T, QEEG-D

Director of Research / Neuroscience

Our partners

whole person insight

Whole-person insight

Our health is interconnected, but our data isn’t. Brain, body, behavior and lifestyle signals are scattered across portals, providers, and performance programs, measured and interpreted in isolation.  

By the time we recognize that something isn’t working, the contributing patterns may have been building for months, or even years.

Santaia brings these different layers together to create a more complete picture of the individual, helping you recognize dysregulation earlier, understand context, and build greater agency over time.

at events around the world
wellness event

The Brain Bar™

We bring neuroscience out of the lab and into the environments where people actually live, work, perform, and connect. 

From live brain mapping to nervous-system training and stress-adaptation experiences, we create opportunities to understand yourself and your organization in an entirely new way. 

Built for companies, communities, and global events, The Brain Bar™ makes data more accessible, understandable, and memorable. 

Ethics & alignment

Santaia is HIPAA-compliant and built with privacy-first, security-forward principles. 

Personal data is protected and used only to support insight, reflection, and informed decision-making.

We believe trust is earned through clarity and restraint.

Why now?

We now have the technology and insight to measure and train our nervous systems with remarkable clarity. 

The opportunity is bigger than tracking health. It’s a data-driven approach to building habits, pursuing goals, and creating more capacity for ease, connection, and fulfillment over time.

Make the invisible visible