Restore Sessions
The full reset session.
Plus a minute when that's all you have.
Restore works at two levels. The full Restore session is a guided ~25-minute protocol — readiness screening, paced breath, your Safe Place, then focused bilateral processing on one specific situation. It opens once you've completed 7 consecutive daily sessions. Alongside it, 60-second breath resets are there from day one, for the moments that hit without warning.
~25 min
Full Restore session
60 sec
Quick reset, any time
Every 4+ days
Recommended spacing
Slow exhale. Track the dot. Land on the principle.
Inside the full Restore session
Four movements. About 25 minutes. Entirely in your control.
This is the deeper protocol that opens after your first 7 consecutive daily sessions — not a meditation. You'll want a quiet, private space and about 25 uninterrupted minutes.
01
Settle and check readiness
A short set of honest readiness questions, then 4-7-8 breathing to slow your system down. You choose your bilateral rhythm — visual, audio or tapping.
02
Widen, then anchor
Expansive awareness softens the body, then you install your Safe Place and strengthen it with the bilateral rhythm. That anchor stays available for the rest of the session.
03
Work one situation
Choose what you'd like to work on — you never explain or relive it. You name a target image, the belief that goes with it, the belief you'd rather hold, and rate both. Then bilateral passes do the processing.
04
Body scan and consolidate
Scan for what's cleared and what's left, install the positive belief, then come back into the room with a closing reflection. Stop whenever you've had enough.
Fig. 02 — Bilateral rhythm
Left, right, left — the alternating rhythm your choice of visual, audio or tapping delivers.
Two ways to Restore
One for right now. One for what's still carrying weight.
Full Restore session
- Length
- ~25 minutes
- What it's for
- One specific situation that still carries a charge — a hard meeting, a decision, a recurring loop.
- How often
- Every 4+ days, alongside your daily program
- Access
- Opens after 7 consecutive daily sessions
Quick reset
- Length
- 60 seconds
- What it's for
- Acute stress right now — between meetings, after a hard call, before you walk into the room.
- How often
- As often as you need it
- Access
- Available from day one
Why the full session unlocks at day 7. The daily program builds the regulation and consistency the deeper work depends on. Once it's open, space full sessions 4 or more days apart so your nervous system can consolidate, and keep your daily sessions running alongside. Every full session begins with readiness screening, and you can pause or stop at any point. Restore supports your own care — it is not a substitute for treatment from a licensed mental health or healthcare professional.
What's inside
The full session, the quick resets, and the parts that hold them together.
Everything below is what Restore actually delivers today — no themed catalogue, one deeper protocol and the short resets that support it.
The full Restore session
The deeper protocol. Readiness screening, paced breath, your Safe Place, then focused bilateral processing on one specific situation — a hard meeting, a decision, a loop that keeps replaying — closing with a body scan, consolidation and reflection. Opens after 7 consecutive daily sessions.
Quick reset · physiological sigh
Two short inhales through the nose, then a long slow exhale. Five sighs is enough to move the nervous system from sympathetic to parasympathetic. No prep, no processing work — pure breath.
Quick reset · coherent breathing
Six seconds in, six seconds out — about five breaths a minute, the rate that produces peak heart-rate variability and the strongest calming response. Use it when you have a minute and want steadiness rather than a jolt.
Safe Place anchoring
Before any processing begins, you install a calm internal place and strengthen it with the bilateral rhythm. It's the anchor you return to at any point, and it can change from session to session.
Your choice of bilateral rhythm
Visual tracking, alternating audio tones, or self-tapping. You pick what feels natural that day — the mechanism is the same, the delivery is yours.
The 24–48 hours after
Processing continues after the session ends. You may feel tired and want rest, or noticeably lighter and more energised. Restore tells you what to expect and asks you to check back in.
Why it works
Built on four well-studied mechanisms.
Restore isn't a meditation app rebadged for executives. Each session is engineered around the actual physiology of recovery — and grounded in the principles that drive sustained leadership performance.
Read the full scienceSlow, paced breath
Long exhales raise vagal tone and shift you out of fight-or-flight within minutes — 4-7-8 before a full session, the physiological sigh for a 60-second reset.
Bilateral stimulation
Alternating left-right input — visual, audio or tactile — helps the brain reprocess emotionally charged memory and lowers reactivity. The mechanism EMDR research is built on.
Belief and body-based processing
You rate how strong the feeling is and how true the words you'd rather hold feel, then track where it lives in the body. Change is measured, not assumed.
Safe Place anchoring
A rehearsed, bilaterally-strengthened calm state you can return to at any moment — the reason the deeper work stays inside your control.
When to use Restore
Know which one the moment calls for.
Reach for a quick reset
- Stress spikes mid-meeting
- Between back-to-back calls
- Right before a hard conversation
- Before bed, when your mind won't quiet
Book a full Restore session
- A meeting or decision you keep replaying
- A setback that still carries a charge weeks later
- A recurring loop that shows up in the same situations
- A belief about yourself you'd rather not be operating from
Restore unlocks at day 7