Breathe is the plainest thing here, and sometimes plain is what you want. Choose a rhythm, and an orb expands and contracts to pace you. Follow it. That is the whole tool.
There are a few patterns to pick from, so you can take the one that suits the moment rather than the one somebody decided was best. A longer breath out tends to feel settling. An even pattern feels steadier and more neutral.
One of them is the physiological sigh, sometimes called cyclic sighing. It is two breaths in and one breath out: in through your nose, then a second short sip of air on top of the first, then a long breath out through your mouth. The orb shows you the double breath in, and the on screen line tells you which way to breathe at every step, so you are never guessing whether it is nose or mouth. It is the quickest pattern here and there is nothing to hold.
No microphone, no counting out loud, no setup. Open the page, choose, and start. A session is a couple of minutes and stops when you do.
This is the general purpose online breathing tool in Ponoki. If you already know the pattern you want, some of them have a dedicated game, with more to look at while you breathe. Lantern paces 4-7-8 and floats a paper lantern down a river. Lumen draws box breathing as a square of light. Wisp takes one long, slow breath out and glides a light along it. The physiological sigh does not have its own game yet, so this is the page to do it on.
Free, in your browser, no download, no account, and nothing recorded.
If you want more, we wrote about a five minute reset for the middle of a workday if you want somewhere to use it.
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