When using Shiftwave you select from various tracks or “Protocols” - some help you relax, some help you focus - we can guide you through the options!

See the full list of Protocols below:

BEGINNER

"NeuroBoost" - 9 Minutes

Ready to get to work? Want to learn something? Need a quick push to get you into a flow state? This protocol takes you through a specific sequence to increase the neurochemicals in your brain that lead to neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is a neurological state where the mind is better able to learn and assimilate information.

"Get in the Zone" - 10 Minutes

If you're looking to get your mind right and get in the zone, this protocol is for you. With a hip-hop beat, this experience takes you into the training room to prepare your nervous system for the game. By balancing and strengthening your nervous system, you'll be able to summon explosive energy when you need it and effortlessly slip into a recovery state to store up energy for the next burst.

"Evolver" - 10 Minutes

Narrated by Cate Blanchett this guided meditation brings your physiology into harmony with nature. The daily doses of stress we receive, whether from digital devices or just plain stressful lives leave us in an unnatural state. This protocol helps to guide your service back into the rhythms it was meant to be in nature.

"Day at The Beach" - 10 Minutes

Just as it sounds, this protocol will relax your body and give you a mini-vacay. You’ll enjoy relaxing on the beach, on a nice sunny day, and then cool off in the splashing surf, being left in a state of pure relaxation.

"River Master" - 15 Minutes

A Shiftwave classic, take a trip down the river to de-stress and reset the nervous system. A research study at Tulane Medical School demonstrated River Master to neutralize stress, reduce anxiety, and increase cognitive function. It’s common for this routine to clear out blockages that keep us from living up to our full potential. Allow Shiftwaves to release any internal burdens and neutralize your stress. This protocol is the current gold standard introduction to the Shiftwave system.

"Boost Your Day" - 18 Minutes

Need a boost? Want to get your energy up? Need to clear something from your system? This protocol, created in collaboration between Othership (download their app!) and LarryOz, uses elements of Kundalini and Tummo (Wim Hof) breathwork to oxygenate the body, boost your immunity, and clear whatever needs to be cleared from your system. It’s energetic in nature and produces a similar result.

"Stress R&R" - 35 Minutes

This explains how Shiftwave works, flushing stress from the system, reducing pain and inflammation in the body, and restoring prefrontal cortex function. The protocol was created for helping aid workers and refugees in Ukraine. It combines the 10 minute long introduction and River Master.

INTERMEDIATE

"Daily Resilience" - 5 Minutes

Studies have shown that daily activation of the sympathetic nervous system for 5 minutes can strengthen your insular cortex, the brain center where your internal environment is matched to the needs of the outside world. The first brain area scientifically shown to grow with a daily mindfulness practice, the insular cortex not only helps the inner world of the body relate to the outside world, it also assists in regulating and calming the inner environment.

"Deep Love" - 8 Minutes

Using the healing power of touch to connect you with a deep sense of love. Based on neuroscience, this heart-opening protocol helps you bridge the connection between the external and the internal world. Using guided meditation, this protocol allows you to discover the deep feeling of love for someone.

"Rapid Relief" - 10 Minutes

Experience a swift, revitalizing session with Rapid Relief. This unique protocol flips the traditional breathing patterns, instructing you to exhale as pulsed pressure waves intensify, and to inhale as they fade. This inversion effectively challenges and trains your nervous system to downregulate amidst the stimulating effect of the pulsed pressure waves - think of it as resistance training for your nervous system. Engaging the musculoskeletal and pulmonary systems, this protocol enhances blood flow.

"Disco Nap" - 10 Minutes

Combining the power of progressive relaxation and Synthetic Sleep, this protocol is the ultimate power nap. Use it when you need a quick recharge to prepare for a long day, or night. Disco Nap uses a combination of Synthetic Sleep and progressive relaxation to completely relax the body and restore the mind. As one of our Special Forces users put it: “It’s the power nap that actually delivers.”

"Core Performance" - 12 Minutes

Inspired by the Prague School’s Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, this protocol synchronizes breath, body, and the central nervous system to improve overall physical performance and to protect against injury by optimizing the muscular patterns underlying all movement in the body’s core. Top athletes perform well, but also aim to remain injury- free. A strong and coordinated core can protect against injury and improve performance. Use this protocol before training or physical activity.

"For Kids" - 14 Minutes

A distracted mind leads to poor behavior and difficulty concentrating. This protocol takes kids on a space mission to save a sinking base station on the planet Aqualaxia. Kids are guided through breathwork to power their special ship. This protocol, in combination with Shiftwaves, improves autonomic nervous system balance leading to a relaxed body and a focused mind.

"Ride the Tiger" - 15 Minutes

Another Shiftwave classic, journey to a mythical planet where you will HALO drop into a far- away jungle to enter into a state of enhanced mental acuity and physiological readiness. Your mission is to unite the mind and body to release the tiger within.

"Stay Cool" - 18 Minutes

Developed for firefighters to train their nervous systems to remain calm, cool, and collected in order to make solidly-considered decisions in the line of duty, Stay Cool uses Shiftwave to build a pattern of calm resilience in the face of danger. In addition, the protocol offers 10 minutes of Synthetic Sleep to help make up for the sleep patterns first responders often experience that have been shown to cause performance decreases and long term health problems.

"Disco Nap" - 20 Minutes

Combining the power of progressive relaxation and Synthetic Sleep, this protocol is the ultimate power nap. Use it when you need a quick recharge to prepare for a long day, or night. Disco Nap uses a combination of Synthetic Sleep and progressive relaxation to completely relax the body and restore the mind. As one of our Special Forces users put it: “It’s the power nap that actually delivers.”

"Das Optimizer" - 20 Minutes

The US Fire Department and Special Operations Forces requested a protocol that left them fired up and ready to go. Das Optimizer activates the neural pathways, stimulates the cardiopulmonary system, and drives the body's systems to work in concert. In a funk and need a little extra kick to get you going? This protocol is for you. Before an event, a presentation, or a competition, optimize your position on the arousal vs performance curve by shifting into a state of controlled activation.

"Ride the Tiger" - 25 Minutes

Another Shiftwave classic, journey to a mythical planet where you will HALO drop into a far- away jungle to enter into a state of enhanced mental acuity and physiological readiness. Your mission is to unite the mind and body to release the tiger within.

"Stress Relief" - 25 Minutes

Based on the classic River Master, this protocol combines the pleasing sounds of water with a sequence of pulsed pressure waves to wash stress from your system. Without any voice instruction, go on your own journey.

"Self Love by Othership" - 29 Minutes

Self Love by Othership takes you on a journey of self love and self discovery using the power of your own breath. Harry and Mandy from Othership take you guide you through different breathing patterns and extended breath holds while learning the 4 pillars of Self Love. A fantastic protocol to start your day.

"Guided Alignment" - 60 Minutes

Adapted and in collaboration with the Othership Breathwork app, this protocol takes you on a multiphase breathwork series to systematically release each of the chakras. The result is truly transformational, and be prepared to work for it. The Othership app has hundreds of other breathwork routines that we at Shiftwave highly recommend trying. You can even listen to the breathwork routines in the Othership app while in the Shiftwave with BioDrive mode active.

"Mount Bliss" - 60 Minutes

This protocol uses a combination of Synthetic Sleep, holotropic breathwork, and mechano- neurostimulation to restore and optimize the body while upregulating parts of the brain deactivated by stress and anxiety. As Shiftwaves align the physiology into a fully optimized state, the brain follows suit and leads you into a deep and sustained state of meditation. Matching the pulsed pressure waves closely with your breath will lead you to an euphoric state of bliss.

"SS Pure SS" - 60 Minutes

This is a no-frills Synthetic Sleep protocol designed to put you into a similar state as deep sleep. Deep sleep has deeply restorative effects for the mind and body. Synthetic Sleep is a great way to catch up on some sleep, make up for a restless night, or top off the batteries before making another push. This protocol drops you right into Synthetic Sleep.

"Core Recovery" - 60 Minutes

Want to get your fluids moving? Stir up any stagnant systems? Crank up this lymph and muscle massage protocol and reinvigorate your entire system. Dial it down and feel the subtle tickling of electrochemical stimulus running from your mechanoreceptors through your neurological system all the way to your prefrontal cortex.

ADVANCED

"Chill Activate" - 5 Minutes

Having a deeply relaxed body yet a focused and activated mind is a unique dual state that Shiftwave delivers. Using shifting patterns of pulsed pressure waves, these protocols increase the parasympathetic nervous system activation, leaving your body in a relaxed state. Simultaneously, the patterns in conjunction with the music increase focus in the mind. This protocol has no voice instructions, so requires previous Shiftwave training.

"Chill Activate" - 15 Minutes

Having a deeply relaxed body yet a focused and activated mind is a unique dual state that Shiftwave delivers. Using shifting patterns of pulsed pressure waves, these protocols increase the parasympathetic nervous system activation, leaving your body in a relaxed state. Simultaneously, the patterns in conjunction with the music increase focus in the mind. This protocol has no voice instructions, so requires previous Shiftwave training.

"Sensorial" - 15 Minutes

Explore the full sensorial power of Shiftwave with this protocol that tantalizes the senses to stimulate the mind. Cross-body stimulation enhances communication across the brain’s hemispheres and pleasurably enhances neuroplasticity and balances the energy between sides of the body. Prepare to be cradled and gently rocked into alignment with this unique protocol that builds gradually in complexity.

"SS Meditate" - 15 Minutes

This protocol has a similar overall effect, however there is less of the deeply restorative synthetic sleep. (This is currently our most popular Synthetic Sleep protocol).

"Soul Survivor" - 18 Minutes

In this high-intensity resilience-training protocol you’ll tromp through a blizzard to a rustic mountain cabin. Enter this sanctuary to warm your body and soul, by the fire, to fully activate your nervous system so that you can not just survive, but thrive.

"Vitality & Immunity" - 20 Minutes

Inspired by the Kundalini, Tummo, and Wim Hof breathing traditions, this protocol will strengthen your cardiopulmonary system, boost immunity and energize the entire body. Practitioners of these modalities show immediate gains in their breath-hold times and gain extraordinary control of their physiology. For beginners to breathwork, this protocol will immediately elevate you to an advanced breathing technique.

"Chill Activate" - 30 Minutes

Having a deeply relaxed body yet a focused and activated mind is a unique dual state that Shiftwave delivers. Using shifting patterns of pulsed pressure waves, these protocols increase the parasympathetic nervous system activation, leaving your body in a relaxed state. Simultaneously, the patterns in conjunction with the music increase focus in the mind. This protocol has no voice instructions, so requires previous Shiftwave training.

"Labyrinth" - 30 Minutes

Shiftwave can be relaxing and it can be stimulating, both have their places. This protocol is much more stimulating, and in doing so can cause things to come up. Can you navigate your internal self to make discoveries to free yourself from your own inner Labyrinth. Extra challenge, can do so while maintaining a balanced nervous system.

"SS Meditate" - 30 Minutes

By popular demand, we've created a 30-minute version of SS Meditate. This protocol has a similar overall effect, however there is less of the deeply restorative synthetic sleep. (This is currently our most popular Synthetic Sleep protocol).

"Longevity" - 40 Minutes

This protocol capitalizes on the deep scientific learnings from the Shiftwave Institute to drive and exercise physiology to improve longevity. The protocol starts with 10 mins of breath-work to synchronize diaphragmatic breathing with the central nervous system. Once trained to breathe properly, the system utilizes proprietary Shiftwave pulsed pressure waves to drive the body and mind into a state of resonance. This protocol is a complete, inside-out, workout that will leave you feeling ready for anything.

"SS Nature" - 60 Minutes

A major breakthrough at the Shiftwave Institute, Synthetic Sleep puts you in a deeply restorative state. Not getting enough sleep? Feeling the need to be completely restored? Listen to the sounds of nature and let this protocol detox and flush your system from head to toe.

"SS Nature" (Advanced) - 60 Minutes

For the more advanced user, this protocol slows the rhythm of your physiology to put you in a deeply restorative state. For your physiology to track the pulsed pressure wave patterns you will likely need to train up to this protocol. That is unless you’re a freediver or breathwork expert.

"SS Meditate" - 60 Minutes

Want to have a great day feeling at ease and confident, enjoying a positive outlook on life? Then this is the protocol for you! Enjoy the calm centering experience of vibro-assisted meditation, experiencing a surprising pleasure and ease to the practice of mindfulness. In this protocol, Shiftwaves not only align your physiology but also engage the salience network of the brain, assisting your brain to calm distracting thoughts and maintain gentle focus on the here and now.

"SS Bubbler" - 77 Minutes

The longest of the Synthetic Sleep protocols, SS Bubbler will drive you into deep restoration...and if you love the sound of bubbles, then this protocol is for you!