Breathe: Breathing Guide

Take control of your stress, sleep, and focus with guided breathing exercises backed by science. Breathe offers 19 proven breathing techniques — from simple beginner exercises to advanced methods used by Navy SEALs, Stanford researchers, and yogic practitioners. Each session guides you breath by breath with a calming visual circle, gentle audio cues on every phase change, and a real-time timer so you always know exactly what to do. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY BREATHING EXERCISES? Clinical research shows that controlled breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system, lowers cortisol, reduces blood pressure, and improves heart rate variability. Just a few minutes a day can make a measurable difference in how you feel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE TECHNIQUES ◆ Box Breathing (4-4-4-4) — Used by Navy SEALs to stay calm under pressure ◆ 4-7-8 Breathing — Dr. Andrew Weil's natural sleep aid ◆ Deep Belly Breathing — The foundation of all breathwork ◆ Equal Breathing (Sama Vritti) — Ancient yogic balance technique ◆ Energizing Breath — Quick energy boost when you need it ◆ Physiological Sigh — Stanford's fastest known real-time stress reducer ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRO TECHNIQUES ◆ Cyclic Sighing — Stanford 2023 study: more effective than meditation for mood ◆ Wim Hof Method — Power breathing with breath retention ◆ Sudarshan Kriya — 100+ peer-reviewed papers for depression and PTSD ◆ Kapalabhati (Skull Shining) — Increases metabolic rate and mental alertness ◆ Ujjayi (Ocean Breath) — Enhances vagal tone and concentration ◆ Bhramari (Bee Breath) — Boosts nitric oxide production up to 15x ◆ Resonance Breathing (6 BPM) — Clinically validated for PTSD and anxiety ◆ Coherent Breathing — Optimizes heart rate variability ◆ Extended Exhale (2:1 Ratio) — Strong parasympathetic activation for sleep ◆ Alternate Nostril (Nadi Shodhana) — Balances brain hemispheres ◆ Buteyko Breathing — Clinically proven for asthma and panic ◆ Tummo (Inner Fire) — Tibetan Buddhist heat-generating meditation ◆ Staircase Breathing — Clinical technique for panic disorder relief ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FEATURES ◆ Beautiful guided sessions — Animated breathing circle expands and contracts with your breath. Just follow along. ◆ Audio phase cues — A gentle bell sounds on every transition so you can close your eyes and still follow perfectly. ◆ Session history & statistics — Track your practice days, streaks, total time, and weekly progress with charts and calendar heatmaps. ◆ Flexible reminders — Set up to 3 daily reminders with custom times and weekly schedules. Never miss a session. ◆ Detailed technique info — Learn the science, benefits, and proper form for every technique before you start. ◆ Dark, calm design — A soothing dark interface designed to relax you before your session even begins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE VS PRO Free gives you 6 core techniques, 30 days of session history, full session tracking, and reminders. Pro unlocks all 13 advanced techniques, unlimited session history forever, and priority support — with a single one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No renewals. Pay once, yours for life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR • Managing daily stress and anxiety • Falling asleep faster • Pre-workout or pre-performance focus • Meditation preparation • Panic and anger management • Building a consistent mindfulness habit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start breathing better today. Your first session takes less than two minutes.