Come down from tension and back to an easier pace.
- Quick Tide
- Downshift
- Low Tide
- Stereo Calm
- Wrist Calm
- Cross-Calm
Wellness, felt
Return to balance
in a few minutes.
SomaVibe rests on your chest and carries a slow rhythm of touch and sound. You're never told how to breathe — your body settles toward it on its own.
3–15 minute sessions · No account · Works offline
How to use
Rest it on your body. Let it do the work.
Pick a session, set the phone against you, and stay still. The slow pulse is something you receive — not something you perform.
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On the chest
Rest the phone on your chest. The slow swell settles closest to your heartbeat.
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On the belly
Let it sit just below the ribs for a deeper, wider wave moving through the body.
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Side to side
Add headphones, a watch, or both — and the gentle pulse crosses you left to right, all on its own.
Sessions
A rhythm for every part of the day.
Four intentions — calm, focus, sleep and ground — each a slow rhythm your body can lean into. Twenty sessions, from a three-minute tide to a fifteen-minute softening.
Clear your head and take a sharp break between tasks.
- Focus Reset
- Stereo Focus
- Wrist Focus
- Cross-Focus
Slow the evening down and ready the body for rest.
- Night Fold
- Belly Nightfall
- Stereo Drift
- Wrist Drift
- Cross-Drift
Settle into a steady, even rhythm in the body.
- Body Anchor
- Body Softening
- Stereo Anchor
- Wrist Anchor
- Cross-Anchor
Bilateral · three ways
The alternating left–right rhythm studied in EMDR, held at the calming end — felt through headphones ear to ear, a watch hand to wrist, or both at once. No watch? Headphones alone carry it.
Programs
Short multi-day paths.
One session a day, chosen for you. Miss a day and nothing breaks — the program simply waits where you left it.
7 calmer evenings
An evening wind-down ritual that eases the body toward rest.
14 days of reset
Brief, clear resets woven between the tasks of your day.
21 days of building the habit
Sessions grow gently longer as the practice becomes your own.
Why it works
Designed around how the body settles.
Each session is built on a simple idea: a slow, steady rhythm you can feel invites the nervous system toward calm — no counting, no effort.
A rhythm you receive
You're never told how to breathe. The phone rests on you and carries a slow rhythm of touch and sound — your body settles toward it on its own.
The resonance pace
Most sessions swell gently about six times a minute — a slow, natural pace the body recognizes.
Low, warm vibration
A soft low-frequency vibration you feel more than hear, carried gently through the body.
Left–right sessions
The Cross sessions tap gently from side to side, about once a second — carried by headphones, a watch, or both together.
The session follows you
Turn it on and the session senses your own rhythm and eases to follow it — gently slower, never rushing you.
Feel your heart settle
With a heart-rate wearable, the touch pulses with your heartbeat and gently leads it downward.
Even, square timing
Focus Reset uses balanced, equal timing for a clear, awake kind of calm between tasks.
Fading into sleep
Evening sessions dissolve slowly into stillness instead of stopping; with headphones, the cues drift around you.
The evidence
Four lines of research behind the design.
SomaVibe isn't a medical device — these are wellness sessions for everyday self-regulation. The mechanisms below are documented in published research; the effects are promising, though still emerging.
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Low-frequency vibration shifts the body toward “rest-and-digest”.
Vibroacoustic stimulation has been associated with increased parasympathetic (vagal) activity and improved heart-rate variability while a person simply rests — with no breathing task.
Frontiers in Sports & Active Living, 2025 Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 (pilot RCT) Sensors, 2024
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The ~0.1 Hz resonance benefit isn't specific to breathing.
Slow rhythmic input at the cardiovascular resonance frequency (~0.1 Hz, about six per minute) maximizes baroreflex engagement and HRV — and it can be driven by non-respiratory stimuli like vibration.
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 Vibrotactile & the parasympathetic system Haptic resonance & cardiac coherence
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Breathing entrains to a slow external rhythm involuntarily.
When a slow, steady rhythmic stimulus is present, breathing tends to drift toward it without conscious effort. The calming slow-breathing pattern can emerge as a result, not a prerequisite.
Journal of Neuroscience, 2005 Cardiorespiratory interactions to external stimuli
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A phone on the chest is a validated respiration sensor.
A smartphone resting on the chest can estimate breathing from its accelerometer accurately (correlations ~0.7–0.98). So motion is used only as a private, passive signal — never something you must produce.
Technical validation, 2022 JMIR mHealth & uHealth, 2020 Accelerometer respiratory signal
What's inside
Quietly capable.
Everything works on the phone alone. Connect a watch and it goes further.
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The session follows you
Sensing your own rhythm, the cadence eases to follow it — gently slower, never rushing.
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Watch biofeedback
With Garmin or Apple Watch, the touch paces to your heartbeat and gently leads it down.
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Bilateral spatial audio
Left–right cues that widen around your head on headphones, using the precedence effect.
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Fades into sleep
Evening sessions dissolve into stillness instead of stopping abruptly.
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Guided multi-day paths
Short 7, 14 and 21-day programs that quietly build the habit — at your pace.
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Offline, no account
No sign-up, no streaming. Everything runs on your phone.
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Private by design
Your signals stay on your device. Nothing about your body leaves the phone.
Begin
Return to balance in a few minutes.
A short pause. Just touch and feel — we'll find your rhythm in under a minute.