Health through Breath - Pranayama app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 4800 ratings )

Health & Fitness Medical
Developer: Saagara

4.99 USD

Current version: 8.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 03 Dec 2009
App size: 60.01 Mb

Stressed? Balance your life and experience a relaxed meditative state to relieve your daily stresses and tensions. Health through Breath is a simple and intuitive guide to deep breathing that features a progressive course based on the principles of yoga to help you find balance and stress relief.

Just some of our reviews:

“The benefit of Conscious Breathing is so underrated. This is the perfect app.”

“This has helped with my blood pressure and with sleeping”

“I train in several martial art styles and this app may be the BEST one for meditation and breathing which results in less stress and more power”

“Love using this after a long, stressful day.”

Combining the power of breath with technology, Health through Breath - Pranayama is an easy way of improving your health and reducing stress. Using music and animated visuals to guide you to slower deeper breathing, Health through Breath by Saagara enhances the way you feel and leaves you with more energy, stamina, and focus.

**** HEALTH BENEFITS ****

Even practicing slow breathing for only 15 minutes a day can reduce stress and stress-related illnesses. Pranayama has been used by people for the following potential health benefits include reducing: Slow breathing and meditation have been shown to help in:
1) Migraines
2) High Blood Pressure
3) Depression
4) COPD
5) Asthma
6) Improves overall stamina and fitness

**** UNIQUE FEATURES ****

Practicing slow breathing is not as easy as it seems. Pranayama guides you with the following features:

- It does counting for you so that you can focus on awareness and technique.
- Music cues that use distinct tones for each phase of breathing.
- A structured course that gradually reduces your breathing rate as you progress through the sessions.
- Fully customizable sessions

Our animated graphics give you a way to visualize your breathing. You can choose either the dial animation, which shows you the relative length of each breathing phase, or the human animation, which shows you the physical aspects of proper breathing techniques.

Want to know how your organs work during breathing? Just slide the transparency button to get an insider’s look at the body. With Health through Breath by Saagara, better health is at your fingertips.

**** ABOUT PRANAYAMA ****

Pranayama is composed of two Sanskrit words: Prāna, which means life force, or vital energy (for the breath particularly) and "āyāma," to suspend or restrain. It is often translated as control of the life force. When used as a technical term in yoga, it is often translated more specifically as "breath control." For current students of yoga, our app can help you improve your technique without much conscious effort, so that you can focus your mind purely on breathing and technique. It is a portable, customizable tool that will take your practice of yoga to the next level.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA

Pros and cons of Health through Breath - Pranayama app for iPhone and iPad

Health through Breath - Pranayama app good for

Very useful application. Beautiful sounds and very good presentation. I use it every day now.

A very good app, really helping to meditate (unlike others...). One thing is missing: statistics / historic in app. But this has nothing to do with meditating though ;-) So I rated 5 stars: it really daily helps me to be more zen. It does the job! Thanks!!

Excellent app. I hope they release new versions in the future.

This is an amazing encounter of ancient wisdom and modern technology. It certainly will help the begginer practicioner to quickly access the power of pranayama. Im not sure about its usefullness for advanced yogis though, as I am far from being one.

Ive tried another breathing exercice app and this one motivates me much more! The sound is very relaxing and i like the log function and the animations are great, many options to customize the app. Thank you for this great app! very good update

I like very much the fact that the application allows me to customize the breathing pattern. Great app!

Some bad moments

Extremely simple app, which is fine, but I feel like it could easily be a lot better if it had 1- adjustable volume for the sounds that indicate when to breath in a nd when to breath out (I like to listen to my own relaxing music while using this app) 2- a few more options for the sounds you can choose that indicate when to breath in and when to breath out. As it stands there are four choices. 3- there should really be some sound options that are unobtrusive. Right now its these constant noises with no break in between. Why not a simple sound at the end of a breath and at the beginning of a breath? 4- ability to turn the sound off completely and put on a vibrate mode to regulate breathing. 5- "variety of themes" refers to the two themes you can choose from… There are some really cool and amazing apps out there… choose wisely. it seems like little work or much thought has been put into this one, kinda disappointed.

Love the app just wasnt worth paying 4$ because it doesnt give u anything more than what I had with the free version. Dont buy this!!!! Just use the free one

Setup a custom pattern and it stops after about 6 min. Consulted web page but it was NO HELP. It use to work fine. Now I notice they have a new app that does the same thing???? Are they expecting me to pay for this again with a few changes???

I cant believe the 5 star reviews. Its just a timer. U can count the seconds in your mind! Dont need this

I bought this & it flat out doesnt work properly. I cannot figure out how to get my money back. So instead if helping decrease my stress level, it has added to it. Go figure !

I loved this app when suddenly I lost the ability modify my custom settings. I did everything to fix it and nothing would work. Then I bought another one and it did the same thing. Very disappointing. Finally I emailed Saagara three times and didnt hear back from them at all. This app has gone from great to awful and theres nothing I can do about it.

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