by Lakshmi Narayan | Feb 25, 2025 | Audio & Video Production, awakening, Branding, Learning Management Systems, Logo Design, Media Creates Culture Blog, Psychedelics, Technology, transcendental cinema, Transformation, Web Development

I conceived of using media to awaken consciousness while I was witnessing the Twin Towers toppling on TV. At that moment I knew that we as a species were going to need to spiritually awaken to transcend the trauma and turmoil that we have created at this level of consciousness, in it’s materiality. I decided to devote my skills as a designer and communicator to creating media that awakens.
For a long time it remained somewhat of a New Age aspiration, without any legs, but after my ibogaine journey in 2015, I began to see a purpose for Awake Media that could actually facilitate that spiritual awakening. Today, in 2025, as I witness the unravelling of our culture and species in so many ways, I see that the need for media that awakens has become urgent on many fronts– in transcending trauma, ending addiction, finding purpose, righting relationships, and reconnecting with the divine. Enter entheogens, my preferred word for psychedelics.
Awake Media offers integrated branding, design and technology services for the entheogenic and transformational wellness community. We can help you create a memorable brand and extend it across your website, membership platform, an email marketing campaign, a book cover, conference graphics, a video or documentary, or crowdfunding campaign. Click here to schedule a complementary discovery call.
by Lakshmi Narayan | Sep 2, 2022 | 3D Animation, Alliances, Audio & Video Production, awakening, Branding, Consciousness, Learning Management Systems, Logo Design, Media Creates Culture Blog, Psychedelics, SEO and Content Strategy, Social Media Management, Team, Technology, transcendental cinema, Transformation, TransTech, Video Editor, videos, Web Development
From Hosting to Film: A Digital Media Ecosystem for the Psychedelic Community

Awake Media has evolved from a solo studio into a digital media ecosystem with a renaissance team of media experts who can serve the transformational community to create and send out their awakening messages and teachings quickly and powerfully. Ease of use is a key consideration for us because we find that if the processes have been streamlined, the creativity flows and we can create something great together. In the world of design, this is called Design Thinking, and we apply this to all our work.
Services
hosting and domain management
wordpress web development
transmedia storytelling
entheogenic social network
books and ebooks
web video and animation
branding
film
print design
coalition of independent contractors
subject matter experts
global renaissance team
The Awake Media Ecosystem
We are careful about who we work with and are seeking to “find the others” those who know in their heart of hearts that “There is no Other.” We want to harness the power of media for you and with you to create culture and quicken an awakening. Email or text Lakshmi Narayan at 619-366-7788 or
by Lakshmi Narayan | Apr 12, 2025 | Conference Graphics
Create a Booth that Inspires Awe
Awake Media’s Renaissance Team will handle it all, from Design to Delivery.
Banner • Postcard • Tablecloth • Button
$888
A banner size of your choosing from Uprinting.com, a postcard, matching tablecloth and a button design. A one-hour zoom consultation with an Awake Media Creative Director to establish your conference brand look and feel. High-res Print graphics, Pre-press coordination, and delivery to your door. We take care of the whole process. Printing and Delivery costs extra.
Virginia WrightOperations Director, MAPS Psychedelic Science 2013 Conference
I very much trusted Awake Media to understand how to talk to the “psychedelic community” and that their work was organized, timely, and accurate.
More importantly their designs were creative – beautiful while addressing the promotional goals of readability and communication. You kept with good design principles while speaking to a very broad audience. The work you did for the 2013 conference was appropriate for all our audiences: scientists, artists, students, doctors, therapists, explorers, shamans, and those with a general interest in psychedelics and in the conditions that the medicines treated. – Virginia Wright
PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE 2025 COUNTDOWN
Ready to Create a Standout Booth?
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by Lakshmi Narayan | Jun 2, 2023 | Technology

I want to update you about recent streamlining improvements in Awake Media’s server management team and process:
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1. Shared servers: $18 per month, free with Awake.net membership
- Wordpess + Divi pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility
- Access to support ticket system
- Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
- Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
2. Shared servers for podcast and e-commerce sites $32 per month
- Wordpess + Divi pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility
- Daily Updates and access to our HUMMING BOARD where we manage your site
- Priority Access to support ticket system
- Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
- Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
- Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)
3. VPS servers for Membership sites starting at $64 per month
- Wordpess + Divi + BuddyBoss + Lifter pre-Installed (license fees may apply for software)
- Daily Updates and access to our HUMMING BOARD where we manage your site
- VPS management
- Super-Priority Access to support ticket system
- Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
- Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
- Discounted rate for building a membership site from scratch or redeveloping an existing one
- Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)
4. Amazon Cloud servers for membership sites that are or have grown to capacity on VPS servers $1000 per month
- Wordpess + Divi + BuddyBoss + LifterLMS pre-Installed plus a suite of speed and security plugins carefully tested for compatibility (annual license fees may apply for software)
- ASW3 management by our C-panel admin expert team Paul and Tanya
- Super-Priority Access to support ticket system
- Free Updates to WP themes, plugins and core
- Non-profit rates for those who qualify on other Awake Media services
- Discounted rate for building a membership site from scratch or redesigning an existing one
- Free or discounted (depending on complexity and size) rates for migrations of your existing sites to our servers)
by Lakshmi Narayan | May 26, 2022 | Team

Founder, Creative Director, Brand, Web
I’m from India, but I learned Swiss typography during my Master’s program at University of Illinois in Chicago, where I also learned design history from a professor who was as passionate about it as myself.
I am a conceptual designer. I understand branding and how to develop an identity imbued with meaning and then extend it across all platforms, online and offline. I understand how to deliver a visual pun, or multiplicity of meanings through the simplification of form in a logo. I understand the power of visual and verbal communications working seamlessly to create a brand and deliver a powerful message or call to action. Why is this important? Because media creates culture.
I have 40 years experience in design and communications. My career and interests have taken me from working with major corporate brands like Arthur Andersen, Encyclopedia Britannica, Schwinn, Allied Van Lines and many Hospital systems, to working more in the counterculture industry of human potential, psychedelic and other plant medicines, healing, and psychospiritual transformation with companies like MAPS, Women’s Visionary Congress, Synergetic Press and others.
I founded Awake Media in 2012 as a digital media company offering branding, web design, print design, video production, seo, social media, and film. Awake Media is structured as a coalition of independent media professionals with complementary skills and core competencies.
Ready to Begin Your Project?
by Rowan Gabrielle | Aug 17, 2022 | Team

I began my business career at the age of 19 when I started my own company importing cutting edge superfoods from the US to UK (Spirulina etc). This led to my participation and co-founding a variety of different companies, in the sustainable living arena. Culminating in a consumer expo in America called “The Wholelife Expo and Conferences”. I am also the co-author of the book Sacred Commerce.
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by Lakshmi Narayan | May 26, 2022 | Team
Book Designer, Painter
As a graphic designer, I’ve worked with varied audiences. From symbols and logos, brochures, and books for urban readers, to developing and testing teaching aids for village health workers and exhibitions about women’s struggles in village Panchayats. Worked with a team of designers and editors on quality books for the US and UK markets. In Goa worked with Bookworm, an NGO, teaching children in schools and village communities. Daily Social Media posts for a Dubai based company.
by Lakshmi Narayan | Mar 31, 2022 | Branding, Learning Management Systems, specials
The movie The Social Dilemma revealed the extent of the censorship and social manipulation we currently experience on Facebook and other platforms. Building your classroom and student community on your WordPress website gives you 100% ownership, privacy, and an ad-free environment.
Features:
Appeal to multiple learning styles with video, audio, text, image-based lessons, and more.
Quizzes
Create dynamic multimedia quizzes to reinforce learning or test competency of the material
Easily build online courses from one screen with the intuitive multi-tier drag and drop course builder
Protect your learner focus and future recurring revenue by making lessons available over time
Require the successful completion of a specific lesson or even a specific course before another one unlocks
Offer degree programs or certifications on completion of a group of courses taken in any order
Assignments requiring manual grading are coming soon as an advanced add-on
Set a maximum time limit for a quiz so students can demonstrate learning within a certain time
Front-end student profiles so learners can track their activity and stay organized
Multiple instructors can create and teach a course or courses.
Offer downloadable worksheets, ebooks, PDFs, audios, and other files for offline learning
Easily import a course from one site to another for migration, licensing, and more
One click export a course from your website for migration, licensing, backups, and more
Enjoy multiple discussion areas including lesson comments, forums, private coaching areas, and timelines
Allow the software to guide you in how to organize and structure the most engaging courses online
Add form plugins to collect assignments, contact messages, other data, and more
Get beautifully designed royalty-free certificate backgrounds, achievement badges, and more
Increase course sales by collecting testimonials and honest reviews of your courses
Make Money
Our LMS helps you build a strong income generating a teaching business or membership site
Credit Card Payments
Own your platform and revenue with simple conversion-optimized credit card payments
One-Time Payments
You can charge whatever you want for your courses or memberships including simple one-time pricing
Recurring Payments
Create business sustainability and continuous cash flow with flexible recurring payment options
Supported by the Awake Media Team
Awake Media offers brand, content, web, print, video, film, seo, and social media services and tutorials.
We’ve hosted our websites on GreenGeeks environment-friendly servers for over 10 years. We love working with them!
You’ll be ready to build your first course within 7 days after purchase. We’ll need some details from you to activate the free migration if you have an existing site, or if you’re starting a new course site you’ll need to register a domain name and activate hosting after checkout.
Regular price $2400
$2400 one-time payment includes design to launch turnkey installation. If hosted on our servers: Add $64 per month ongoing Hosting, Updates, Maintenance and Server management costs for a scalable Virtual Private Server with option to transition to Cloud Servers as your community grows. $300 per year plugin license renewal fees. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.
by Lakshmi Narayan | Sep 9, 2022 | Consciousness
Awake Media creates films, apps, and books about a very important topic: entheogens, a.k.a. psychedelics. I have decided to put the power of my 40 years of experience with branding and design, as well as the power of media itself, wholly to work on communicating and repositioning entheogens in the collective. These amazing molecular magicians, particularly the plant-based ones like cannabis, ayahuasca, iboga/ibogaine, psilocybin, san pedro, and peyote, are psycho-spiritual tools given by nature for self-healing, self-knowledge, and the evolution of one’s own consciousness, no matter what cultural or religious background one might hail from (no faith necessary).
Misunderstood and much maligned for centuries because their power and proper medicinal and religious use did not translate into the mainstream Western mindset, plant-based psychedelics are now experiencing a resurgence of interest in medical and metaphysical circles. They can heal difficult mental problems like anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction where Western medicine fails, and offer access to a direct mystical experience. The reason these plants work where other approaches don’t is because they work on all levels—body, mind, and spirit—and can unlock the door to an inner journey that is a greatly enriching part of the human experience, and awaken the inner teacher and healer.
They bring new meaning to the phrase ‘Physician, heal thyself.’
I am currently focused on a movie and a movement to spread the word and change the law around iboga, an entheogenic root bark that can help to end the opioid epidemic yet remains illegal in the US.
Our documentary, “Iboga Saves”, is being made in collaboration with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and founder of Impact Creative, Eric Thiermann; Iboga Directory of Practitioners will be located on our sister site awake.net.
WATCH THE FIVE-MINUTE TRAILER HERE
If you want to learn more about iboga or entheogens, sign up for our IBOGA SAVES Flood Dose Campaign during the months of November and December 2018 to access videos, podcasts, and posts from experts and experiencers alike.
by Lakshmi Narayan | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
Why Awake Media? In this corporate controlled dis-information age, it sounds like an oxymoron. We should not let it be so! The intention of Awake Media, and awaken-ing, its mission, flows from it’s founder, me, Lakshmi Narayan, a sentient life manifested in the corpus and work of Awake.
In the years of my graphic design education and career, I have passed through the academic and corporate worlds to find them largely empty of substance, serving mainly their voracious appetite, more than real need.
From being a long-time student of the I Ching and as of this writing, my 62 years of life and love of it, I have learned many things, of unity and duality, geometry, archetype and word, color and pattern, energy and feeling, and I infuse this knowledge in my complex yet simple work.
What is success? What does it cost?
I am always trying to fill the footsteps of being Awake, to marry beauty and function, vocation and avocation. My marketing plan is to address real need, mine and my clients. I strive to be a happy Medium of The Middle Way.
Awake Media is structured as a Coalition of Independent Contractors, a renaissance team for the entheogenic and transformational wellness community. Don’t hesitate to initiate a conversation with me or any Awake Media team member if you have a project you need help with.
Call or text 619-366-7788 or schedule on Calendly.
Lakshmi Narayan
Founder & Creative Director,
Awake Media