Everything you need to let go of tension

Guided PMR sessions

Every Relexa session walks you through Progressive Muscle Relaxation one muscle group at a time: hands, shoulders, face, legs, and more, tensing each for a few seconds before a slow, deliberate release. A calm guided voice paces every step, so you never have to wonder how long to hold or when to move on.

Relexa ships with four free, ready-to-go sessions, each built for a different moment:

• Quick Relief, a short full-body pass for everyday tension.
• Full Body Scan, a longer, more thorough session covering every major muscle group.
• Sleep Preparation, paced to wind your body down before bed.
• Anxiety Reset, focused on the muscle groups that tend to hold stress: jaw, shoulders, chest and hands.

Premium adds Custom Sessions, where you choose your own muscle groups, pacing and hold timing, and a choice of four guided voices. See the full breakdown on the Premium page.

Breathing tools

Breathing techniques work on a simpler mechanism than PMR, but just as fast: a longer exhale than inhale is one of the clearest signals your nervous system reads as "it's safe to settle." Relexa's breathing library includes:

• 4-7-8 Breathing, inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8: a favorite for winding down before sleep.
• Box Breathing, four equal counts of inhale, hold, exhale, hold: used by Navy SEALs to stay calm under pressure.
• Physiological Sigh, a double inhale followed by a long exhale, shown in research to be one of the fastest single techniques for reducing acute stress in the moment.
• 5-5 Breathing, equal-count breathing for a steady, sustainable daily practice.

Each technique in the app comes with a short explanation of why it works, not just a timer to follow blindly. Read more about the mechanism behind paced breathing on the How it works page.

Quick resets

Not every stressful moment allows for a full 15-minute session. Relexa's 1-Minute Reset library is built for exactly that: short, targeted tense-and-release sequences for a handful of muscle groups, done in under a minute, anywhere, your desk, a train, a waiting room, without headphones or privacy required.

Each reset opens with a brief "find a comfortable position" moment before it begins, then walks you straight through the tension and release. There's a version built for pre-meeting nerves, one for an acute panic moment, one for general work stress, and an even shorter 30-second option for when even a minute feels like too much.

Multi-day programs

Structured, multi-week programs turn relaxation from an occasional session into a habit, because consistency, not any single session's length, is what actually shifts a nervous system's baseline over time. Each program lays out a daily session, sometimes paired with a focus note or a journal prompt, and tracks your progress day by day.

If you miss a day, Relexa lets you go back and catch up rather than losing your place entirely, so a busy week doesn't mean starting over.

Journal & mood tracking

Before and after each session, Relexa asks a simple question: how are you feeling right now? Logging that consistently, alongside free-form journal entries, builds a picture over weeks of when tension tends to build and what actually helps release it, visible in a calendar view colored by mood.

Journal entries are encrypted on your own device before they're ever sent anywhere. Relexa's servers only ever see encrypted data; there's no master key, so not even Relexa's own team can read what you write. Full detail on how that encryption works is on the science page and in the privacy policy.