Vayu for Teams

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 real-time HRV. No screen, no meditation room, no thirty-minute commitment.

Works on every employee's phone, iOS and Android. A smartwatch adds live HRV and silent haptics, but it isn't required to join.

65,000+ users15+ countries4.8★ App Store64% 30-day retentionResearch backed by world-class universities and government institutions
A hand at a desk, watch mid-session
No app to open. No screen to watch.

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.

No hardware to buy

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.

A Vayu breathing session running on iPhone
Phone only
iOS · ANDROID

Everything the program is built on.

Guided breathing and pranayama sessions
Calendar-aware timing and reminders
The Vayu workday protocol
Journal, insights and session history
Counts toward organization reporting
With a smartwatch
APPLE · WEAR OS

Adds the biometric layer, on top of everything above.

Real-time HRV biofeedback during a session
Screen-free haptic guidance on the wrist
Resting heart rate and recovery trends
Physiology-triggered intervention timing
Oura and Garmin support coming

Mixed-device teams are the norm. Pilots usually start phone-first and add watch users 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.

$125–190B
Annual US employer healthcare cost attributed to workplace burnout. Harvard Business Review, 2015.
A typical day
Activation vs. resting baseline
Nine hours above baseline. Eleven minutes below it.
Highest load
RESTING BASELINE
NO SUSTAINED RETURN TO BASELINE, 9AM TO 7PM
9:10
Inbox, standup
11:00
Client call
1:00
Four calls, back to back
3:30
Review, hard feedback
6:10
Last message sent
Illustrative day built from typical Vayu session and heart-rate patterns, not a single user's record.

Prepare. Regulate. Recover.

Vayu reads your calendar alongside live physiology, so the reset arrives when it can actually change something. Not on a schedule someone set back in January.

Before
Prepare

A high-stakes meeting, a presentation, a difficult conversation. Sixty seconds of box breathing before the call, on the wrist.

60 sec · Meeting reset
During
Regulate

Activation climbs mid-afternoon. Haptic pulses guide a slower exhale without opening an app or leaving the desk.

2 min · Extended exhale
After
Recover

Work ends physically before it ends mentally. A closing session marks the boundary so physiology can return toward baseline.

3 min · End of day

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.

Apple WatchWear OSOura · comingGarmin · coming

Watch optional, see what phone-only teams get above.

Before
104bpm
HRV low · meeting in 8 min
2 MIN
After
91bpm
Resonance breathing · 5.5 br/min
+28.6%
HRV
−7.4
bpm resting HR
−16%
perceived stress
Pilot study, N=199, 4–6 weeks. Under peer review, medRxiv preprint available. Backed by world-class universities and government institutions. Single-session figures are illustrative of a typical reset.
The Vayu workday

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.

8:55 AM
Arrive

Start the day from a settled baseline instead of the commute.

1 min · Grounding
10:52 AM
Prepare

Eight minutes before a high-stakes call, on the wrist.

60 sec · Meeting reset
1:45 PM
Reset

The post-lunch dip, without a third coffee.

2 min · Focus breath
3:30 PM
Recover

After three hours of meetings, when activation is still high.

90 sec · Extended exhale
5:30 PM
Leave

The signal that work is over, so recovery can actually start.

3 min · End of day

A 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.

Book a call
A team mid-workday

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.

Employers, team at work
Employers

A wellbeing benefit that fits between meetings instead of asking for an hour. Two minutes, on the wrist, during the workday.

For employers
Healthcare, clinician on shift
Healthcare teams

Screen-free and silent, so a nurse or clinician can reset between patients without leaving the floor or opening a phone.

For healthcare teams
Frontline, dispatch or field crew
Frontline & shift work

Dispatch, transit, hospitality, emergency services. Recovery for people whose day is defined by acute load and irregular hours.

For frontline teams
Education, campus or classroom
Education

Faculty, staff and students. A regulation practice that works before an exam or between classes, at institution-wide pricing.

For education
Research, lab or study setting
Research

Run breath and HRV protocols across a cohort with consistent delivery and exportable session data. Built with a world-class university lab.

For research
Partners, platform or reseller
Partners & platforms

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.

You see
Team participation
Aggregate recovery patterns
Engagement over time
Quarterly reporting
You never see
Individual heart rate or HRV
Individual stress events
Personal journal entries
Health or medical history
Organization overview
Last 30 days · 148 seats
71%
Participation
3.4
Sessions / week
+12%
Recovery index
Weekly sessions, all teams
Aggregate only
W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8
Teams smaller than 5 are not reported, to prevent re-identification.

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, making it the only hands-free breathwork app you can use in 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 tracks HRV before and 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 a biofeedback app: it measures your heart rate variability in real time and adapts breathing guidance based on 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 vs. a 35% category average, 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.

Employee wearing the watch
“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.”
Senior Manager, technology company, Vancouver

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.

Pilot
Up to 25 employees, 30 days
Free
Team
25–200 employees, reporting included
$4–8 /seat/mo
Enterprise
200+, SSO, data export, SLA
Custom
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