FAQ

Breathstate is a science-backed breathwork app designed for working life. It uses guided breathing sessions of one to ten minutes to help people regulate stress, improve focus, and recover from pressure — without needing a quiet room, special equipment, or prior experience. Sessions include a mood check-in before and after so users can see exactly what shifted.

Breathstate is not a meditation app. Where meditation apps focus on mindfulness and relaxation, Breathstate is built on applied physiology — specific breathing patterns that activate the vagus nerve, release nitric oxide, and reduce cortisol.

The effect is measurable and immediate, not cumulative over weeks of practice. Sessions are shorter, the mechanism is different, and the outcomes are grounded in peer-reviewed science rather than self-reported wellbeing.

Breathstate is built for anyone who works under pressure — which is most people. It is designed specifically for environments where stress is part of the job: defence, emergency services, healthcare, construction, mining, transport, and corporate workplaces.

Sessions are one to ten minutes, mobile-first, and designed to work between shifts, on a break, or in the moments before something that matters.

Yes. The physiological mechanisms behind breathwork are well established in peer-reviewed research. Slow nasal breathing triggers the release of nitric oxide, improving oxygen uptake and circulation.

Extended exhales activate the vagus nerve — the primary pathway between the breath and the parasympathetic nervous system — causing measurable reductions in heart rate and cortisol.

CO₂ tolerance training restores oxygen delivery to the brain, supporting clearer thinking under pressure. Every Breathstate session is built on these three mechanisms.

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The physiological response to controlled breathing begins within the first few breaths. A single slow nasal breath lowers sympathetic nervous system activity by approximately 20%.

Most people notice a measurable shift in how they feel within one to three minutes. Unlike medication or supplementation, breathwork works through the body's existing regulatory systems — which means the effect is fast, predictable, and repeatable every time.

The Breathstate mood check-in is a before-and-after measure built into every session. Before starting, users select their current mood state from eight options mapped against a scientifically grounded valence-arousal model. After the session, they check in again.

The difference between the two states is the measurable shift — visible immediately and tracked over time. Across Breathstate sessions, the most common transition is Stressed to Calm, with 71% of sessions showing improvement in mood valence.

Breathstate supports employer psychosocial safety obligations by providing a daily administrative control measure — science-backed breathwork that actively supports psychological regulation — alongside an anonymous, aggregate Mental Health Index that gives leaders ongoing visibility of workforce psychological health.

Together these address the identify, assess, control, and review framework required under workplace health and safety legislation. Breathstate does not replace formal risk assessments, manager training, or EAP provision, but it contributes measurable, auditable evidence that a proactive control is in place.

No. Breathstate and an EAP serve different purposes and work best together. An EAP is a reactive service — it supports employees after a problem has escalated to the point of needing clinical intervention.

Breathstate is preventive — it gives every person a daily tool to regulate stress before it becomes a crisis, and gives leaders early signal of workforce psychological health trends. A serious workplace wellbeing strategy needs both: the daily practice and the safety net.

Breathstate is designed for all types of workplace environments. Sessions are one to ten minutes, require no equipment, no quiet room, and no internet connection for cached sessions.

The app works on any mobile device and is built to be used between cycles, before a shift, on a break, or in any brief window of time. Offline mode supports low-connectivity environments including remote sites.

It is the only breathwork tool built with frontline and field-based workforces explicitly in mind.

No. Individual employee data is never visible to managers, administrators, or anyone else in the organisation.

Breathstate is de-identified by architecture, not policy — meaning the system is built so that individual data cannot be accessed, regardless of permissions or user roles.

What leaders and administrators see is aggregate and anonymous: workforce-level mood trends, session engagement rates, and the Mental Health Index. There is no way to connect what an individual feels to who they are.

Breathstate data is stored in secure cloud infrastructure and governed by applicable privacy legislation. Individual session data, mood check-ins, and personal information are de-identified at the point of collection and stored separately from any identifying information.

Access to production data is restricted to authorised personnel only, with all administrative actions logged and auditable.

Breathstate does not sell, share, or provide individual user data to third parties under any circumstances.

On termination of a Breathstate subscription, all personally identifiable data is deleted within 30 days for individual records and within 90 days at end of contract.

Aggregate, de-identified data — which contains no personal information as defined under privacy legislation — may be retained for service improvement purposes.

Customers can request written confirmation of data deletion. For enterprise customers, specific data handling requirements can be documented as part of the subscription agreement.