Something to do with the stress of being a patient.
Waiting rooms, the night before a procedure, the weeks of managing a long-term condition. Vayu gives your patients a two-minute guided breathing practice they can run on the phone in their pocket, or silently on a watch. It is a stress and relaxation tool, offered alongside their care.
Vayu is a wellbeing app for stress and relaxation. It is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose or treat any condition.
A note on trauma. Paced breathing does not suit everyone. For some people, particularly those living with trauma, slow or held breathing can increase distress rather than reduce it. Where a clinic offers Vayu to patients we ask that it is introduced by a clinician who knows the patient, with clear instruction to stop if it feels worse and to say so. Patients are told the same thing inside the app.
Where clinics are putting it
Three settings where the wait itself is the stressor, and a two-minute practice fits without changing the pathway.
Before a procedure
The night before and the hour before. A short guided session offered on the appointment reminder, so a patient arrives less wound up than they otherwise would.
In the waiting room
A code on a card at reception. Something useful to do with twenty minutes of waiting, rather than reading about the procedure on a phone.
Living with a long-term condition
Daily self-management alongside a care plan, with a private record of mood and practice the patient can bring to their next review if they want to.
How a clinic offers it
Not a poster and not an automated email. Someone who knows the patient offers it, in the same sentence as the reason why, and says to stop if it feels worse.
Redeemed on their own phone. No account with the clinic, no data flowing back, nothing that becomes part of a record unless they choose to show it.
Codes issued and codes redeemed, in aggregate. No individual usage, no HRV, no journal entries. Nothing identifiable reaches the clinic.
Start with one clinic.
Thirty minutes with you and a clinical lead. We agree where in the pathway it is offered, what the clinician says when they offer it, and what we would count at the end of the first month.
