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The holiday period is perfect for recharging your batteries and finding some time to meditate, manage your stress or even do a little sport. For this, there are now a multitude of mobile applications to help set up a summer routine, just to relax … before attacking the start of the school year.
To meditate
Little BamBou is the reference application for meditation, mindfulness and breathing. It offers a large catalog of guided sessions with different approaches (breathing, sophrology, hypnosis, etc.). Free in discovery mode, the application becomes paid (monthly or annual subscription) to no longer have ads and have access to all the sessions and to all the media libraries of sounds and atmospheres available.
For their part, Headspace And Calm are presented as meditation programs intended to relax but also to sleep more peacefully by making all traces of stress and anxiety disappear. They also offer to listen to many sounds of nature or even relaxing stories.
To stay zen
Yoga enthusiasts can also take advantage of many dedicated mobile apps. Down Dog And Daily Yoga For example, they offer a variety of yoga and Pilates classes for all levels. It is also possible to choose your classes according to your needs and goals. To really enjoy them, however, it is better to choose to pay a subscription.
To do sports
Strava is a reference application that allows you to track your sports activities and performances, whether it is hiking, running, cycling or swimming. You can also compete with friends and set yourself challenges that match your abilities.
To sleep well
The application Sleep Cycle studies the quality of your sleep and can even wake you up at the most appropriate time to start the day on the right foot. It also offers statistics on your sleep and tips to improve the quality of your sleep. The same goes for ShutEye which also allows you to play relaxing sounds to fall asleep gently. These applications actually analyze, thanks to the microphone of your smartphone, your activities at night and therefore determine the approximate duration of your different sleep phases.
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