SANCTUM just launched a digital app to help change how you feel with somatic movement

The Amsterdam-founded brand is bringing its music-driven classes and nervous system practices to a global audience.

Published on Feb 25, 2026 by Joana Ariza

If you’re into movement, breathwork, or meditation, you already know the one thing they have in common: how you feel afterward. SANCTUM has spent years weaving all three into a single experience—and with the launch of SANCTUM Digital, that methodology is out of its studios and in anyone’s hands for the first time.

What the app offers

SANCTUM Digital is built around four session types:

Signature Sequences: Video-led movement journeys, the closest thing to the in-person class experience
Activations: Shorter sessions for a quick energy or mood shift
Meditations: Audio-led, eyes-closed practices for nervous system regulation
Immersive Walks: A hybrid of guided movement, storytelling, and breathwork designed to be experienced outdoors with headphones

All sessions are guided by founder Luuk Melisse and SANCTUM’s guides, and all are driven by music. The focus is on sensation and internal awareness, not form or performance.

SANCTUM’S digital library and weekly rituals.

The Frequency Arc

Instead of tracking steps, calories, or output like typical fitness apps, SANCTUM Digital uses a proprietary framework called the Frequency Arc to track felt state—how you feel before and after a session. Users will reflect on shifts in their internal state using descriptors like grounded, clear, released, or expanded.

“The framework comes from years of facilitating large-scale live experiences,” says co-founder Gab Olszewski. “We observed predictable emotional progressions during movement journeys, and the Frequency Arc codifies that pattern—a designed pathway from regulation to expression to integration. It functions less like a fitness metric and more like an emotional navigation system.”

The somatic angle

Somatic movement has become a catch-all term in wellness, but SANCTUM’s approach is specific. Sessions draw from kundalini practices, breathwork, shaking-based release work, qigong, and guided visualisation, using physical input to shift psychological state. The body is the entry point, not the end goal.

As the wellness conversation moves toward nervous system regulation and emotional resilience alongside physical performance, a platform built entirely around that premise feels necessary.