Power Breathing is rounds of deep, quick breaths, each followed by holding the breath out until you feel the urge to breathe, then a recovery breath. An intense, energizing practice. In one small study, trained participants showed a reduced inflammatory response to a lab challenge. Research is still early.
How is Power Breathing done?
Power Breathing is rounds of deep, quick breaths, each followed by holding the breath out until you feel the urge to breathe, then a recovery breath. This page doesn’t teach it step by step: in Oxigen it runs only after a health check and a readiness check, starts with a shorter first run, and the safety banner stays on screen until the first breath.
Sit or lie down. Never in or near water, while driving, or standing.
After fast breathing, a breath hold can make you faint without warning.
If you feel dizzy, faint or unwell, tap I feel unwell and breathe normally.
What does the research say?
An intense, energizing practice. In one small study, trained participants showed a reduced inflammatory response to a lab challenge. Research is still early.
Evidence grade C · Early research: Small, uncontrolled or non-randomized studies, or mixed results. Grades describe evidence for feeling calmer, more alert or more focused, never a claim about treating a condition.
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What might you feel?
Tingling, light-headedness, ringing ears, cramping hands. Fainting is possible, which is why you sit or lie down.
Who should take care with Power Breathing?
Oxigen hides Power Breathing for anyone whose health check includes pregnancy, a heart condition, high blood pressure that isn’t well controlled, epilepsy or seizures, asthma, COPD or another lung condition, panic attacks or panic disorder, recent surgery, a hernia or an eye condition such as glaucoma, fainting or getting dizzy easily or “Prefer not to say”. Intense breathing can cause fainting or worse for some people.
Oxigen is a wellness app, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any medical condition. If you have a health condition or are pregnant, talk to your doctor before starting, and keep following your care plan.
How Oxigen guides Power Breathing
- Rhythm: 30.
- Session length: 1, 2 or 3 rounds.
- Included with Oxigen Premium.
- Needs the readiness check before every session until you’ve finished three.
- An orb, a rhythm ring, haptics and optional sound guide each breath, with “I feel unwell” always on screen.
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Updated November 8, 2026. Copy reviewed against Oxigen’s claims policy and technique reference.