A house, not a studio.

In 2019 I opened Trace Zen Yoga — a small studio on Bell Road in North Phoenix. A few years later, Meraki Kava Bar opened down the same strip. The two rooms shared customers, staff, a parking lot, and a worldview.

The worldview was simple: people are tired. Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The kind of tired that lives in the nervous system. The kind that comes from too much performance, too much noise, too much pretending you're fine.

We weren't going to fix that. But we were going to build a room where you could stop pretending.

Over seven years, the room got bigger. Meraki became the first place a lot of people sat down and just breathed for a minute. Trace Zen taught movement that didn't ask you to be impressive. The two rooms turned into a community. The community turned into a city-wide thing — Phoenix's kava and ritual culture has roots in our doors. Before most of Phoenix's current kava bars existed, their owners were guests in our room.

On the Summer Solstice 2026, we're folding both rooms into one.

House of MKaz. Arizona's Ritual House.

Tea. Movement. Massage. Sound. Community. Under one roof. One rhythm. Built for the people who already knew us, and the ones who haven't found us yet.

— Tracy Roberts
Founder, House of MKaz