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What Pauso does

A short guided breathwork session your team takes together, from one recurring calendar invite. This page is everything that includes.

Traditional meditation apps are broken.

You start with good intentions, then the app goes unopened. On your own, it is hard to stay consistent and accountable.

On your own

A meditation app

  • You download it and practise for a few days.
  • Work gets busy. You stop opening it.
  • Getting back into it is up to you.
With your team

Pauso

  • You put five minutes in the team calendar.
  • The invite comes around. Your teammates join you.
  • Open your session link and follow the breathwork together.

No willpower required

The calendar and your team do the remembering, so the practice keeps going on busy weeks.

It’s already in everyone’s calendar

One recurring invite holds the time each week, in working hours. Nobody has to remember it, and nobody has to ask whether it is allowed.

Today
Wednesday, Jan 15
9:00
9:30
10:00
10:30

Team Standup

9:00 AM · 30 min

Take a Pauso

9:30 AM · 10 min

breathing

Project Review

9:40 AM · 45 min

Everyone starts at the same moment

The session waits a short while as people arrive, then the guide begins for everyone at once. You see who is there, and nobody walks in halfway through.

A different session each week

Sessions rotate through calm, focus, energy, reset and connection, so the practice stays fresh. Or keep your team on the one that suits it.

  • Box breathing

    Focus · 5 min

  • Four seven eight

    Calm · 5 min

    This week
  • Two in, one long out

    Energize · 5 min

  • In sync

    Connect · 6 min

  • Close the tabs

    Reset · 5 min

The weeks add up

Your dashboard shows how many weeks in a row the team has kept it going. It counts the team, never who missed one.

Weekly session

people joined
14
people joined
sessions this month
7
sessions this month
weeks in a row
6
weeks in a row
12 weeks agoThis week

Why bother with breathwork?

Three things a short practice does, at work, that you notice.

Calmer in minutes

Slow breathing with a long exhale settles the body down. You feel it during the session, not after a month.

Steadier attention

After a run of meetings, a few minutes of practice makes it easier to come back to one thing.

Less stress over the weeks

Done regularly, short sessions lower the stress people report at work.

What the research says

Trials of short breathing exercises and workplace meditation. Pauso itself has not been clinically tested.

Better mood

Five minutes a day, for a month

In a trial of 108 adults, five minutes of daily breathing exercise improved mood over one month. Exhale-focused breathing showed the strongest gains, ahead of mindfulness meditation.

Cell Reports Medicine, 2023 (opens in a new tab)

Sharper focus

Slow breathing, over eight weeks

In a controlled trial of 40 adults, eight weeks of slow diaphragmatic breathing improved sustained attention and lowered cortisol, a stress hormone, compared with a control group.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 (opens in a new tab)

Join in your browser. No microphone or camera.

Open the link in your calendar invite, whether you work remotely or in the office.

  • No microphone or camera

    Listen to the guided audio without sharing your microphone or camera. Pauso does not record your team.

  • Nothing to install

    Works in any modern browser, on a laptop or a phone.

  • Join from anywhere

    Remote, hybrid, or in the office. The same link works from wherever people are.

Start a regular breathing practice with your team.

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