Introducing the Yudemon Heartwork
Create a truly unique and personal artwork that evolves with you on your journey of HRV biofeedback training.
We all know — both intuitively as well as through a rapidly growing body of scientific evidence — that meditation, breath work, and biofeedback practice are good for us. But carving out the time to actually sit down and put in the effort on a daily basis are an entirely different matter.
Since creating Yudemon, my main goal besides advancing the state of the art of HRV biofeedback technology, has always been to make the practice more fun and engaging. The best protocols or practices are entirely useless if we don’t actually do them on a regular basis.
For me personally, seeing extensive data and detailed insights into my daily practice (and my body’s response to it) is a big motivator. This is why Yudemon contains some of the most advanced and comprehensive analytics among biofeedback tools.
The other big motivator — and what truly sets Yudemon apart from anything else in the space — are design, aesthetics, and unique audiovisual experiences that change with every session. From its purposefully developed and highly customizable generative soundscapes to its idiosyncratic visuals, everything in Yudemon is designed to not only deliver the most effective biofeedback training, but also to engage all senses in the process and make you look forward to your regular practice.
Today the Yudemon HRV app received an update that adds an entirely new element to this second category of motivators: the Yudemon Heartwork.
Heartworks are generative pieces of art that represent your very own journey of HRV Biofeedback training. Each Heartwork is completely unique to you and is based on your unique physiological data, specifically your heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV), and their response to different breathing rates.
The further you progress along in Yudemon’s Journey Mode, the more the Heartwork evolves and increases in detail and intricacy, reflecting the effort you have put into your personal practice.
While Heartworks are entirely based on your physiological data and the analytics that Yudemon uses to provide the most advanced biofeedback training, they are not intended to be data visualizations in any functional or interpretable sense. They are purely pieces of art, generated by your own body and the effort you put into your practice.
In addition to the desire to further grow and evolve your personal art, Heartworks contain a second mechanism that acts as a motivator to keep you focused and consistent in your practice: Heartwork Health.
Since regular practice is the most important factor in achieving results, health encourages you to practice consistently — ideally once every day.
Your Heartwork’s health starts out at 100%. However, once 24 hours have passed since your last session, the health slowly starts to decrease, and along with it the quality of your Heartwork starts to deteriorate.
But don’t worry! Every time you complete a practice session of at least 5 minutes duration, your Heartwork recovers 20% of health and the timer is reset to zero.
If you commit to a daily practice, you will never have to worry about your Heartwork deteriorating. But even if you slip (as we all do from time to time), rest assured: a few days of consistent practice and your Heartwork fully recovers.
I hope you will enjoy seeing your own Heartwork evolve along with you as you accumulate more and more practice sessions. And since every Heartwork is unique, I would also love to see some of the results, so please feel free to share yours with me.
Today’s release is the very first version of the Heartwork, and I hope to further build on the concept, as well as continue adding other new features to Yudemon — both technical ones that apply the latest developments in HRV biofeedback research, as well as more playful ones that hopefully keep you inspired and motivated to continue and deepen your own practice. If you have anything you’d particularly like to see, please reach out to let me know. Feature requests are always welcome, and many of the recent updates were directly inspired by comments I received from users.
