Breathe under Toolkit offers five guided breathing sessions with on-screen phase pacing when you want a short calm-down break. This article assumes you can open Resources → Toolkit—see the Toolkit overview help if you have not found the Breathe tile yet.
What Breathe offers
- Five fixed in-app sessions—Steady, Tide, Equipoise, Dusk, and Lull—with pattern chips on the entry screen
- On-screen phase labels (Inhale, Hold, Exhale) and a countdown guide each breath cycle
- Optional reflection inscription on completion—never required to finish
- Wellness pacing tool—not medical advice; patterns are educational framing only
Open Breathe from Toolkit
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Resources
Tap Resources in the bottom tab bar to open the Resources screen.
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Toolkit
Select Toolkit in the sub-tab row under the Resources title.
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Breathe
Under Interactive tools, tap the Breathe tile. The subtitle reads Five guided breathing studies.
For the full Toolkit hub layout, see the Toolkit overview help.
Choose a session and begin
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FEATURED
The preview card shows the featured session (Steady by default) with outline chips for the breath pattern (for example, 4 · 4 · 4) and default length (for example, 4 min).
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COLLECTION
Scroll the list of five sessions; tap a row to select it for Begin.
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Begin
Tap to start the selected session in the immersive session screen.
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Haptics
Open the toolbar ellipsis menu on the entry screen and toggle Haptics. Off by default; there is no haptics control during the session.
The five guided sessions
- I · Steady — Three even beats · 4 · 4 · 4 (4 min) · line visual
- II · Tide — Return to baseline · 5 · 5 (5 min) · tide wave visual
- III · Equipoise — Gather composure · 4 · 4 · 4 · 4 (4 min) · box visual
- IV · Dusk — Settle the day · 3 · 1 · 6 (3 min) · bloom visual
- V · Lull — Soften toward sleep · 4 · 7 · 8 (8 min) · halo visual
During a guided session
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Phase label
Follow the uppercase Inhale, Hold, or Exhale label with the animated visual. Seconds remaining for the current phase appear below the label.
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Pause
Tap Pause to stop pacing; when paused, Resume appears to continue from the same phase.
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End
The top-leading End button returns to the entry screen without completion stats.
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Finish
Appears after the default session duration elapses or while the session is paused—not at session start. Tap Finish to open the completion screen.
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Progress bar
The amber bar above the controls shows overall progress through the session.
✦End and Finish are different: End abandons the session; Finish records it and opens completion with duration and cycle stats.
Complete and optional reflection
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You exhaled
The headline appears with a duration subtitle in M:SS format for the session you finished.
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A thought to hold on to…
Optional inscription field—leave blank if you prefer not to write anything.
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Cycles
Stat summarizes the breath cycles from the session you just finished.
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Pattern
Stat shows the breath pattern from the session you just finished.
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Return to Toolkit
Primary button dismisses the Breathe flow back to the Toolkit hub.
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Once more
Secondary button restarts the same session from the beginning.
If you need urgent support
🔒If you need urgent mental-health support, tap Hotline on the Resources screen header—available while Breathe is open. See Crisis hotline for how calling and placement work in the app.
Breathe does not show Crisis hotline or Safety plan links inside the session screens. Urgent support is through the persistent Hotline control on Resources.
Where session data is stored
- Haptics preference saves locally on your device—not synced
- Finishing a session saves session stats to your daily log and syncs with your Apple ID through iCloud
- Optional inscription saves to your journal when you leave the completion screen—separate from the session stats saved at Finish
- Breathe sessions are not transmitted to Red Tent backend servers
✦Grounding is the other interactive tool on Toolkit—see 5-4-3-2-1 grounding in the Toolkit for the senses exercise. Breathe can also open from check-in completion with different dismiss labels—that path is outside this Toolkit article.