Breath Sessions

When doing a Breath session, you're entered into an immersive soundscape while Muse measures your breathing patterns through your heart rate, body movements, and breath rate.

You’ll follow an auditory breathing guide that helps you learn how to pace your breath, to either energize or relax your mind and body, with real-time biofeedback on your breathing patterns.

Improving your breathing rhythm isn't just about breathing in and out at the right time - it’s about having your whole physiology in balance.

Learn more about Breath sessions and the data that you get access to once a session has been completed.
 

Starting a Breath Session
Saving Breath Biofeedback Experiences
Understanding your session results

 

Starting a Breath Session

To find and start a Breath session:

1. Open your Muse app and sign in to your Muse account.

2. Tap the Train tab.

3. Tap Breath under the Biofeedback Soundscapes section of the Train tab.

4. Tap one of the soundscapes to download or play the content.

5. Select a session duration and tap the Next button.

6. Connect your Muse by Bluetooth (if not connected already) and tap the Start Session button.

 

Saving Breath Biofeedback Experiences

To save or pin Breath Biofeedback experiences to your Today screen for quick and easy access:

1. Find and open the Breath Biofeedback experience.

2. Under the description, tap the Pin button to pin it to your Today screen.

3. Done! It will now be pinned to the top of the Today screen, ready for the next time you open the Muse app!

When you pin Muse biofeedback experiences (Training or Sleep), the Today screen shows the last completed session type (for example - Breath: Fresh Air: 4s-in 4s-out) so you can quickly return to your favourites.


To remove or unpin Breath Biofeedback experiences from the Today screen:

1. Find the Breath Biofeedback experience.

2. Tap the arrow or the Continue button to go to the Breath Biofeedback experience screen.

3. Under the description, tap the Unpin button to remove it from your Today screen.

 

Understanding your session results

Your Breath session results visualize how well you harmonized your breathing with the audio guide.
 

Breath harmony graph

After each session, the Breath graph charts your harmony percentage, indicating the portions of your session when and how closely you synced your breath with the guided pattern.

• High: +90% harmony with guide

• Medium: +50% harmony with guide

• Low: below 50% harmony with guide
   

Tap the High Harmony %, to compare your recent performance to your average over the last few sessions.

Your harmony score is calculated based on your respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), which measures the cyclical nature of your body movements and the natural rhythm of your heart rate. This data can reflect your relaxation level and efficiency in adopting the guided breath patterns.

Looking to improve your Breath session scores? See our Improving Your Muse Biofeedback Scores article for suggestions.

Zoom in on your data for a closer look.

• Zoom in or out by spreading or pinching two fingers on the chart.

• While zoomed in, swipe left or right to scan through your graph.
   

Breath Biofeedback stats

Another way to understand how your breathing harmony changes over time is to look at your stats.

These are displayed on the session graph or can be accessed in the Stats section of your session data page.

• Birds: When your breathing stays in High harmony with the audio guide, you’ll hear birds singing.

• Recoveries: When you go from Low to High harmony with the audio guide, you'll earn a recovery

• Muse Points: You are awarded points for every 1 second you spend training.
   

Other data

• You also see graphs for Mind, Heart, Body, and Brainwave Powerbands data after each session. This can show you how your breathing impacts your body and mind. For more information, see our Brainwaves Powerbands article.

• If you have a premium subscription, you'll see data for your cognitive performance. This data can help you identify trends in your cognitive performance over time, allowing you to make proactive lifestyle choices focused on your brain health. For more information, see our Cognitive Performance and Alpha Peak article.

• You can gain Awards for key milestones. Earned a few birds for the first time? Maybe you’ll get the Birds of Eden Award!

• If you added notes after your session, you can review your feelings, patterns, and insights in the Journal section of the screen.