Make recovery part of the workday.
Work arrives through notifications, messages and back-to-back calls, and your body rarely gets the signal that any of it has ended. Vayu is a two-minute reset on the wrist, guided by haptics and informed by your HRV. No screen, no meditation room, no thirty-minute commitment.
Works on every employee's phone, iOS and Android. A smartwatch adds HRV readings after each session and silent haptics, but it isn't required to join.
The session runs on the wrist through haptics, so it works in an open-plan office, on a ward, or in the ten minutes before a meeting.
Every employee can start.
A watch is optional.
The whole program runs on the phone your team already has, on iOS and Android. A smartwatch adds the biometric layer, but it's an upgrade rather than the entry ticket, so nobody gets excluded from the rollout.
Everything the program is built on.
Adds the biometric layer, on top of everything above.
Mixed-device teams are the norm. Pilots usually start phone-first and add watch wearers as they come.
Always connected.
Rarely recovered.
There may be no message waiting and no meeting for an hour, and your body stays subtly braced anyway. Not stressed, not relaxed, on standby. It's the state most of a working day is spent in, and the one nobody measures.
Rest isn't the same as recovery. Recovery begins when your nervous system gets a clear signal that the demand has passed. Most workdays never send one.
Prepare. Regulate. Recover.
Vayu reads your calendar alongside the HRV your watch logs after each session, so the reset arrives when it can actually change something. Not on a schedule someone set back in January.
A high-stakes meeting, a presentation, a difficult conversation. Sixty seconds of box breathing before the call, on the wrist.
Activation climbs mid-afternoon. Haptic pulses guide a slower exhale without opening an app or leaving the desk.
Work ends physically before it ends mentally. A closing session marks the boundary so physiology can return toward baseline.
Vayu doesn't compete for attention. No streaks, no daily nudges, just a prompt when the signals suggest it matters.
Don't just track stress.
Change the moment.
Wearables have become extraordinary at telling people about themselves. A perfect step count and a good sleep score still leave the question of what to do at 3pm on a hard day. Vayu sits on top of the signals your team already wears and turns them into something you can act on.
Watch optional, see what phone-only teams get above.
Where the resets land.
Five moments, eight minutes in total. Small enough to survive a real week, timed to the shape of your day rather than a reminder at 9am.
Start the day from a settled baseline instead of the commute.
1 min · GroundingEight minutes before a high-stakes call, on the wrist.
60 sec · Meeting resetThe post-lunch dip, without a third coffee.
2 min · Focus breathAfter three hours of meetings, when activation is still high.
90 sec · Extended exhaleThe signal that work is over, so recovery can actually start.
3 min · End of dayA protocol, not a pile of licences.
You get a workday protocol your people can actually follow. We set it up with you during onboarding, then adjust it from what the first month's aggregate data shows.
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Find your fit
Vayu runs on the watches people already wear, so it reaches groups a wellness room never does. Six places it fits today.
A wellbeing benefit that fits between meetings instead of asking for an hour. Two minutes, on the wrist, during the workday.
For employers →
Screen-free and silent, so a nurse or clinician can reset between patients without leaving the floor or opening a phone.
For healthcare teams →
Dispatch, transit, hospitality, emergency services. Recovery for people whose day is defined by acute load and irregular hours.
For frontline teams →
Faculty, staff and students. A regulation practice that works before an exam or between classes, at institution-wide pricing.
For education →
Run breath and HRV protocols across a cohort with consistent delivery and exportable session data. Built with a world-class university lab.
For research →
Benefits platforms, EAPs, insurers and wearable makers. Add haptic breath guidance to what you already deliver.
For partners →See patterns.
Never people.
The organization dashboard reports on the program, not on individuals. Nothing in it traces back to one employee, which is the only reason people use it honestly. We set out the reasoning in full in how HRV wellness programs for teams work.
Common questions
What is haptic breathing?
Haptic breathing uses vibration pulses from a smartwatch to guide your inhale, hold, and exhale: no screen, no audio needed. Vayu delivers science-backed breathing patterns through your Apple Watch or Wear OS watch, so you can run a hands-free breathwork session in the middle of a meeting.
How does Vayu reduce workplace stress?
Vayu targets the autonomic nervous system through structured breathing patterns like box breathing and 4-7-8. Each session activates the parasympathetic response, lowering cortisol and heart rate within 2 minutes. HRV tracking confirms the physiological shift, giving employees measurable proof their break actually worked.
Does Vayu work with Apple Watch?
Yes. Vayu is purpose-built for Apple Watch and Wear OS. The app delivers haptic cues directly to the wrist, so employees can complete a breathing reset without looking at a phone. It runs independently on the watch: no phone needed during the session.
What is HRV and why does it matter for employee wellness?
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) measures the variation in time between heartbeats, a direct indicator of how well your nervous system handles stress. Higher HRV correlates with better resilience, focus, and recovery. Vayu reads HRV from the watch after each session so employees can see their stress response improving over time.
How is Vayu different from Calm or Headspace?
Calm and Headspace are audio-first meditation apps. Vayu is HRV-informed: it reads your heart rate variability from your watch after each session and adapts the next one to your physiology. You get haptic wrist cues instead of audio, real HRV data instead of guided voices, and a 2-minute micro-session instead of a 20-minute meditation.
What results do employees see from breathwork?
Employees using Vayu report measurable outcomes: 64% 30-day retention in our strongest 2025 cohort, reduced perceived stress after just one week of daily practice, and improved HRV scores within 30 days. The app tracks each session so both employees and HR can see progress over time.
How does Vayu integrate with corporate wellness programs?
Vayu offers a B2B wellness plan with centralized billing, HR reporting dashboards, and pilot programs for up to 25 employees free for 30 days. It requires no hardware beyond a smartwatch employees likely already own, and no IT integration: employees download from the App Store or Google Play.
“I use it before every difficult conversation. Two minutes of box breathing on my watch and I walk in grounded. It's become as automatic as checking my calendar.”
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes. We look at how your team's day is actually shaped, what the dashboard would report, and whether a pilot makes sense. No deck required. If you would rather scope it yourself first, we published the pilot program template we use, and a buyer's guide to corporate wellness apps that covers the whole category, us included.
