We built Vayu
because we needed it.

On 4 May 2019, at 33, Dhruv was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The doctor said it like a weather forecast and handed him a pamphlet: eat less sugar, exercise more. He sat in the car afterwards with more data on his phone than any clinic had ten years earlier, and the best the system could do was paper.

Every device he owned could measure the stress underneath it. A readiness score at seven in the morning, a heart-rate alert at three in the afternoon. None of them could do anything about it in the moment it mattered. Twenty years of pranayama could, and did.

Deepali had spent fifteen years making art about presence and the body. The question she kept asking was what a technology would feel like if it asked for nothing back: no feed, no streak, no screen to stare at.

So we put the practice on the wrist. The watch taps the rhythm of each breath, so a session works with your eyes closed, in a meeting, on a train. Two minutes, then back to your day. After a session the watch tells us how your body responded, and that shapes the next one. That is the whole product.

Everything else, the research with Simon Fraser University, the session data we publish, the podcasts, Vayu for Teams, comes from that one idea. If you want to talk to us, write. A person reads every message.

Dhruv and DeepaliNew Westminster, BC