iZen Garden

A portable Zen garden in your pocket.

Cultivate Virtual Peace and Tranqulity

The tradition of the Japanese garden goes back nearly a thousand years in Japanese and asian culture. One of the best known (in the west) forms of this garden is the Karesansui or "dry garden" which is typically formed within a shallow sandpit containing sand, rocks and other natural elements. The sand is usually raked into patterns that suggest rippling water, with the stones suggesting islands. These patterns, which are beautiful and ephemeral, form an abstract art form that calms the mind of the viewer and enhances a meditative state.

iZen Garden brings this beautiful artform to your pocket on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Within iZen Garden, you can choose from 25 different stone types to place within your garden, then using your finger, you rake and tend the sand. When you're finished, shake the iPhone to clear the sand and begin again.

Some proponents believe that by tending a Zen Garden, it enables you to remove weeds from your mind while removing weeds from your garden.

iZen Garden is perfect for long meetings, train rides or meditation practice. It helps you to center your mind, relax your psyche and relieve your stress.

In keeping with our company mission, 5% of our pre-tax net profits from iZen Garden will be donated to charity. The chosen charity for iZen Garden is The Tibet Fund. We hope that by contributing to the humanitarian efforts of the Tibet Fund, we will help to preserve the unique cultural heritage that Tibet has brought to the world.

Features

• Choose from 25 different stones, seashells and fossils professionally photographed and beautifully rendered to place in your garden.
• Rotate, scale, and move the objects to place them.
• Four different colors of sand, from beach white, to volcanic black.
• Three different soothing ambient soundtracks to help still your mind while you tend your garden. Relax to the gentle lapping of ocean waves at your feet, the quiet solitude of a forest, or the soft twinkling of bells and wind chimes.
• Completely customizable rake with variable width and depth settings.
• "Daily Zen" a daily Zen saying or Koan is presented when you enter your garden.