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About Healz

Healz writes and records short guided practices for breathing and for falling asleep — the two things people most often need at the exact moment they have the least patience for anything complicated.

Last updated: 14 September 2026.

What this site is

Healz is a library of 21 written practices: 12 breathing sessions built around a specific pattern and a specific length, and 9 sleep scripts that talk you through progressive relaxation, a body scan, or a single quiet scene. Every one is short enough to finish, and every one tells you up front how long it takes and how it is paced.

Nothing here requires an account, an app, a subscription or a download. Each session is a page you can read on a phone in the dark, and the steps are written so that the pacing is obvious even with the screen brightness turned right down.

How the practices are written

Each breathing session is built on one pattern — 4-7-8, box, diaphragmatic, coherent — and the pattern is stated in the header before anything else. We give the count, the posture, the length and the cautions, in that order, so you can decide in ten seconds whether this is the right practice for right now.

Sleep scripts are written to be heard rather than studied. Paragraphs are timed to roughly one slow breath each, so that reading at an unhurried pace lands close to the pace of the recording you would otherwise be listening to.

We do not pad. If a practice takes three minutes, the page says three minutes and the instructions stop when the practice does.

Where the practices come from

Everything on Healz is written by the editorial team from published, widely taught techniques — paced breathing protocols used in behavioural sleep medicine, and the progressive relaxation and body scan methods that have been standard in clinical and yoga settings for decades. We translate them into plain instructions, we keep the counts honest, and we say when a shortened version is a better starting point.

We are not clinicians and we do not record your data. These pages are informational. They are not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan, and not a replacement for care from a qualified professional.

Corrections

If you find an error — a count that does not add up, a caution that is too soft, a claim that overstates what breathing exercises can do — write to us at the address on the contact page and we will look at it. Corrections that change practice guidance are made to the page itself, and the date at the top of this page is updated whenever a substantive change is made.

We do not accept payment for coverage and we do not publish sponsored practices.