ProsoEase started as a personal tool: something simple to structure my own breathing and walking practice, and to keep me present through it. Since then it has grown into a small collection of practices I actually use - on trains, between meetings, at the end of a day that ran faster than my breath.
The idea it is built around is simple, and slightly uncomfortable: when a day starts closing in on you, whose voice can actually talk you back down? Most meditation apps hand you somebody else’s calm - a narrator, a library, a streak to protect. ProsoEase bets on your own voice.
This page is about ProsoEase 2. Version 1 did breathing and walking, and not much else. Version 2 adds your own voice, practices you open by need, reflection, a journal of your sittings and sync through your own iCloud.
How it works
- Open by need. “I can’t settle.” “I’m being hard on myself.” “My mind won’t stop.” Pick by what is happening right now, not by tradition, and the right practice is a tap away.
- Breathe. Paced breathing with a calm circle or wave, soft ticks, and a gong at each turn of the breath. Extended exhale, box breathing, coherent breathing, 4-7-8. Haptics mark each phase if you would rather keep your eyes closed.
- Add your voice. In the Personal Studio you record short phrases - “let go”, “soft”, “may I be at ease” - and the app plays them back to you on the exhale, or as quiet prompts in a silent sit. Choosing the words and saying them aloud is itself the practice. The playback is the reminder.
- Walk. Six walking meditations, from a simple left-right rhythm to the 6-phase walk that is still my favourite. This part owes everything to Thich Nhat Hanh, whose teaching shaped my practice more than anyone’s.
- Reflect. Morning questions, an evening examen, an open page. Write, speak, or draw with a finger or Apple Pencil.
- Look back. A plain calendar and journal of your sittings. No scores, no chains.
What is in there
Paced breathing and a settling sit; STOP, the Self-Compassion Break, Body Scan and RAIN; the Stoic Morning Preparation, Evening Review, Dichotomy of Control and a Midday Stop; walking meditation in six variants; guided reflection for the morning, the evening and the week. Two traditions and modern therapy side by side, because they are working the same muscle.
Why your own voice
Clinical relaxation protocols have paired a calming word with the out-breath since the 1970s - the exhale is where the nervous system settles. ProsoEase records that word in the voice you trust most and hands it back at exactly that moment. Affirmations in a stranger’s voice never did much for me. My own, saying something I chose, does.
No streaks
Nothing to keep alive. No badges, no rings, no guilt mechanics. Missed days are just days. The app is glad to see you when you arrive and says nothing when you don’t.
Privacy
Your recordings, journal and history stay on your device and sync only through your own private iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking. The app has no idea who you are.
May you walk in peace and breathe with ease.
Bart
On iPad
A heads-up about the video below: it shows version 1. The app looks different today and does a lot more than this. I’ll swap it for a version 2 video once I’ve recorded one.