Release is a web-based breathwork app for people who work online, designed to help you manage stress, improve focus, and live a happier, healthier life. Our research-based tools help you build life-changing habits to support your mental health. If you're overwhelmed at work and need a breather, our stress and burnout specialists can guide you through exercises to help calm your mind.

A Release subscription provides access to a comprehensive library of guided breathwork sessions, each lasting between 3-10 minutes. The app also includes a guided breathing box that pops up in the bottom corner of your screen to help you stay aware of your breath and breathe fully throughout the day, which can help you to reduce stress. As a subscriber, you'll enjoy unlimited access to all breathing exercises and techniques, making it easy to incorporate breathwork into your daily work routine.

The best time to start using Release is now. Breathwork can benefit anyone, regardless of their current stress levels or experience with meditation. By incorporating breathwork into your daily routine, you can proactively manage stress, improve focus, and enhance overall well-being.

Release is a Google Chrome extension that works on any computer, including all Mac and Windows devices. Unlike mobile apps, Release is optimized for use on desktop and laptop devices, seamlessly integrating into your online workflow.

Stress and anxiety can be triggered by various factors, including work pressure, financial concerns, relationship issues, health problems, and major life changes. All of this is reflected in our breathing pattern. When we're feeling anxious or stressed, we tend to breathe more shallowly and erratically. Release helps you to improve your breathing in order to effectively reduce stress and anxiety.

Our research shows that some of the top causes of stress for people working online include difficulty disconnecting from work, feeling an overwhelming sense of responsibility, and the blurring of boundaries between work and personal life. The pressure to always be available, signalled by notifications from communication tools like Teams or Slack, often adds to stress. Many people also find it challenging to maintain a work-life balance, often working longer hours or feeling guilty about taking breaks.

Release is designed with all of this in mind, in order to help you to periodically disconnect from work, reduce your stress levels, and take more regular breaks to help prevent the feelings of burnout and overwhelm.

Release helps you to manage your stress and anxiety by guiding you through short breathing exercises throughout the day. Studies show that slower, fuller exhalations help to reduce stress and anxiety. When done consistently, breathwork helps to improve nervous system resilience and calm the mind.

On top of using our breathwork app, we recommend taking regular breaks, setting clear boundaries with your work hours whenever possible, and creating a separate space in your home where all work is completed. This helps to create a psychological boundary for your work to stay in one place, allowing other areas of your home to feel more calming by not being associated with your work.