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Introduction
Thank you for your purchase of Prana! Our mission is to help you harness breathing as a powerful
resource to enhance your wellbeing
. Let’s face it
: breathing exercises can be boring and hard to stick to.
Our goal is to make breathwork engaging and fun so that you can reap the benefits over the long term.
How We Breathe
How we breathe can have a profound impact on our physiological and mental states. In most calming,
mindfulness, and meditation practices today, breath control plays a central role. Numerous studies have
demonstrated that specific patterns of breathing can rapidly trigger a parasympathetic nervous system
response (also known as the relaxation response, opposite of fight or flight) for many benefits including:
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Reducing stress and anxiety
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Improving insomnia
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Lowering blood pressure
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Helping to maximize HRV (heart rate variability)
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Elevating mood, feeling peaceful
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Relaxing muscles
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Increasing mental focus
While you can choose from many different breathing techniques and exercises today (such as the 4-7-8
pattern, belly breathing, or extending exhalations), it can be confusing knowing which one to select, and
it’s not always clear if you’re doing it
correctly. Another big practical challenge is consistently applying
such techniques over the long term. For all of the above, this is where the Prana wearable comes in.
The Prana Wearable and App
We developed our device and app to help you train using a comprehensive range of breathing
techniques, while providing real-time sensor-based
feedback so that you know you’re bre
athing the
right way and feel more engaged. You can feel benefits from sessions as short as just several minutes.
While stress reduction is a top application of our system, we offer a growing collection of breathing
exercises to choose from, such as for sleep, focus, mindfulness, and even HRV, allowing you to discover
and benefit from various forms of breathing. Our 14 Day Training program is great for beginner
pulmonauts to gradually slow breathing and reduce stress in short concentrated sessions. Our Custom
Training gives you full access to all our breathwork patterns, and even allows you to customize your
own. In these ways, you can use our system to cultivate better breathing habits for long term benefits,
or as a powerful tool for rapid relief such as during an anxiety episode.
Prana can also specifically train and track diaphragmatic breathing (breathing from your belly), allowing
you to use more of your lung capacity with every breath to deliver more oxygen to the bloodstream. For
many people today, stress has caused the source of breathing to shift upwards, with chest or accessory
muscles being used to shallowly inflate the lungs. Prana helps to retrain this bad habit.
