Not a recipe. A ritual for connection.

Bring Mindful Maki home - join the waitlist for the first connection-focused sushi-making deck.

A mindful, sensory cooking experience that helps you slow down, savour each moment, and feel closer to the people you’re with. Join the waitlist to be the first to access the limited Founders Edition.

What is Mindful Maki?

A sushi-making ritual for connection, presence, and joy.

Mindful Maki blends the art of sushi-making with mindfulness, turning cooking into a shared ritual of connection.

Each card guides you step by step through a simple, beautiful recipe - while inviting you to slow down, tune into your senses, and create meaningful moments with someone you care about.

Cooking becomes more than a task.

It becomes a memory.

Three women sitting at a table inside a greenhouse-like structure, engaged in conversation and laughing, with a woman in the background sitting alone.
A wooden tray holding two sets of cards with instructions and prompts, some cards are green, beige, orange, and pink, related to mindfulness and cooking.

Why Join the Waitlist?

Exclusive early access to the first 100 decks in the Mindful Maki Founders Release.

As a waitlister, you’ll receive:

  • Priority access to purchase from the limited first run of 100 Founders Edition decks

  • Exclusive early-bird pricing only available to the waitlist

  • A chance to win a Mindful Maki filmed home experience - a beautifully captured memory of your connection

  • Behind-the-scenes updates as the deck is refined and finalised

  • An opportunity to shape the final edition through thoughtful feedback

  • Priority access to seasonal editions (like the Christmas edition, New Year’s intentions, Valentine’s)

This is your invitation to be part of the earliest chapter of Mindful Maki - supporting a mindful, connection-focused ritual from the very beginning.

Join the Founders Release Waitlist

How it Works

1. Join the waitlist

You’ll get early access, perks, and updates as we refine the deck.

2. Founders Edition Release

A small run of decks will be offered first to waitlisters - limited, personal, and intentionally crafted.

3. Your feedback shapes the final product

Founders receive a special feedback invitation, helping us refine the deck for its official launch.

4. Be part of the first 100

Your early support brings Mindful Maki to life - literally.

A Note from the Founder

Mindful Maki began as a simple desire: to help people reconnect over cooking.

In workshops, I’ve seen couples laugh again, friends open up, and strangers find comfort in slowing down together.

Now I’m creating a version you can bring home - something tactile, warm, and meaningful.

A mindful ritual you can return to anytime you want to feel a little closer, a little more grounded, a little more present.

If the idea resonates with you, I’d love for you to be part of the first 100 supporters who help shape this experience.

– James, Founder of Mindful Maki

Group of people gathered around a table in a kitchen or food prep area, with a person slicing or preparing food, surrounded by onlookers.

What People are Saying

A man and woman sitting at a table in a cafe, smiling and talking to each other with a window and plants in the background.
“Even though we’re close, I realised how rare it is to slow down and actually speak from the heart.”
— 3+ year relationship
View through a kitchen window showing two people working in a commercial kitchen, with stacks of red bowls on the foreground counter.
“I loved that the Food for Thought prompts opened up conversation that we wouldn’t normally have! ”
— 8+ year relationship
“I loved the mindful prompts, they were thought-provoking and engaging. They provided a basis for discussion around relationships and psychology. Also, a bonus, we had amazing chirashi to accompany the chats. Food was easy to make!”
— 7+ year relationship
Two women smiling and laughing while getting their tattoo done in a tattoo studio.
“The class and deck felt so intentional, and had the perfect ratio of engagement and self-guidance. I left with a newfound appreciation for the mindfulness aspect of cooking, learning that cooking can be a slowed-down process with more than just the end goal of eating.”
— 6+ year relationship

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Sneak Peek of the Deck

  • A green instructional card titled "Rinsing the Rice" with guidelines on how to wash rice using senses: feel the texture, listen to water, observe clarity.

    Step-by-step mindful cooking cards

  • Booklet titled 'Preparing for Mindful Eating' with a light green and gray cover decorated with leaves.

    Sensory prompts grounded in mindfulness

  • Two overlapping cards with a food-themed design. The front card reads "A Meal to Remember" with a question about future life hopes, and the background card has similar sushi and food illustrations.

    “Food for Thought” connection cards

  • Person slicing salmon sashimi on a white cutting board, with vegetables and other sashimi on plates nearby in a kitchen setting.

    QR-guided videos for optional support

  • Green packaging with white text that reads "Sashimi Slicing, Sogi-zukuri technique" and a simple line drawing of a hand slicing fish.

    Real sushi craft with thoughtful instruction

  • A wooden tray holding several cards with instructions and reflections about mindful eating, garnishes, food for thought, and sharing moments, with a stack of white cloth and a larger bowl in the background.

    A beautiful A6 card format with premium texture and reusable flow