The Best Breathing App Anyone Can Use To Auto-Regulate Emotions & Nervous System Through Easy, Guided Breathwork: Othership
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Right now, it seems everyone is talking about breathwork. And at this point, you probably know you should be doing it. You’ve heard about the seemingly endless amounts of the neuroscience behind it, you’ve read the articles about the countless benefits, and maybe you’ve even dabbled in a few courses or guided sessions.
But even though it's clear that breathwork is powerfully good for us, many people still struggle to find the time and motivation to practice it regularly. Trust me, I'm guilty of this too. Sometimes I just have so much going on that it’s hard to allow myself to relax and give in to 20-30 minutes of not doing, and simply breathing.
Othership is my favorite new breathwork app created by my friend Robbie Bent.
Yes, I know, there's a dizzying variety of breathwork apps out there…but this one is just really darn good. It helps me look forward to doing my daily breathwork, which means I'm less likely to skip it for other “more important things.”
The app comes with over 500 extremely well-produced guided breathwork sessions for just about everything from “pick-me-up” energy boosts to “othertrip” sessions for “orbiting time and space.” I've personally been doing a 6-15 minute “upper” session each day, a “downer” session before naps or sleep, and on the weekends I've been incorporating the longer 50-70 minute holotropic-style trippy sessions. (It's better to listen with headphones, by the way, because many of the tracks also include binaural beats to shift you into different brainwave states.
Robbie Bent, is building a platform to reduce loneliness. Robbie's company Othership, has built the first emotional training classes in North America using saunas and ice baths paired with a breathwork mobile app. They also run live breathwork concerts in NYC, LA, Miami, and Austin.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Ben Greenfield Life Podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | I've seen thousands of people that come for one of these breathwork concerts and we start off blindfolded with movement |
| 0:08.9 | and persons first time they're kind of moving a bit in their mind. I look silly even though they're blindfolded. |
| 0:14.1 | What are people going to think and then comes time to scream and it's like, |
| 0:18.1 | ah, then five weeks later after five sessions it's like, yeah, of course, when do in my life do I scream? |
| 0:26.1 | You know, like we're meant to let it out and it's like when was the last time you just walked in your backyard and ripped a scream. |
| 0:32.3 | And so I think guiding people to feel okay expressing themselves is so powerful. |
| 0:42.6 | Faith, family, fitness, health, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, |
| 0:51.2 | biohacking and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:00.4 | You may have seen me or heard about me wearing this little haptic sensation producing device around my ankle |
| 1:07.9 | and around my wrist called the Apollo. It's wearable. It's a very unique wearable. I interviewed the guy who |
| 1:13.3 | designed it. Dr. David Rabin on my podcast a couple of years ago. I've been using it ever since. I love it for |
| 1:19.2 | sleep and for naps and for relaxation and for meditation. We can also wear it for like party mode to |
| 1:25.1 | increase social ability to decrease anxiety almost as like a social lubricant without drinking alcohol. |
| 1:30.6 | The more you use it, the better it seems to work based on it training your nervous system to tune in to |
| 1:36.8 | this this little vibratory sensation that it produces more efficiently. The more you use it has no side effects. |
| 1:42.9 | Jumping takes supplements or medications or anything. It also helps to support your natural circadian rhythm |
| 1:47.9 | and Apollo wearable users can get an extra 30 minutes of high quality sleep per night. They're even doing |
| 1:53.7 | some very interesting studies along with the aura ring folks on how good this Apollo works for |
| 1:58.9 | decreasing sleep latency. How long does it take to fall asleep? The actual increase in deep sleep 19% |
| 2:05.9 | more time and deep sleep on average reported by the Apollo wearable users. They can access this data |
| 2:12.0 | from the aura ring. If on 11% increase in HRV, 25% more reported focus and concentration, 40% less stress |
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