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  • How to Improve HRV Quickly

    The best way to improve HRV quickly is to focus on activating your parasympathetic system while minimizing the influence of the sympathetic system responsible for the fight-or-flight response. You can do it through sleep, breathing, exercise, rest, and proper nutrition.

  • What is a Good HRV: Heart Rate Variability Chart by Age

    HRV, or heart rate variability, describes the fluctuations in timing between successive heartbeats. While higher HRV is associated with better health, it’s not the full picture. As with many complex biological processes, what truly matters is not just the  numbers, but its fractal dynamics.

  • SelfSense App: Fractal Variability Stimulator

    Bodymind metronome that entrains fractal variability in movement, heart, breathing, and perception.

  • The Four Stages of Variability: Panarchy of Physical Movement

    How is the framework of panarchy and ecological change related to fractal variability?

  • Why Variability is Good for Health

    Variability is one of the main qualities that EightOS practice cultivates. Our practice promotes variability on the physical level, through movement and breathing, but also on the cognitive level, through perception, learning, and communication. But why is variability so important and how does it affect health and well-being?

  • Selfsense @ Martin Gropius Bau

    In September 2022, we hosted a series of immersive events at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin. This event was a part of Breathe, a discourse programme that unfolded in echo to the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal and explored how different power relations impact our ability to breathe. The programme was curated by Magnus Elias Rosengarten.