# VAYA – Calm Mind & Body — Gentle Nervous System Support

> Gentle Nervous System Support (iPhone/iPad app by Denis Liebscher.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vaya-calm-mind-and-body/id6809305804 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Denis Liebscher](https://appshunter.io/developer/6809305806)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 110 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany)
- Released: 2026-09-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is VAYA?

VAYA guides you through short breathing, tapping, and body-based practices for moments when you feel stressed, overwhelmed, or restless. A calm voice leads the way, sound and haptics carry the rhythm, and a short check-in suggests what fits right now. Everything works completely offline, with no account, no ads, and no tracking. Two minutes count just as much as twenty.

WHAT VAYA GIVES YOU

• Guided breathing: box breathing, 4-7-8, coherent breathing, extended exhale, the physiological sigh, and more. With voice guidance, soft tones, and a breathing orb that makes the rhythm visible.
• Tapping (EFT): name what weighs on you while gently tapping a fixed sequence of points on your head and upper body. Guided step by step, with an honest explanation of how each round is built.
• Personal tapping phrases: VAYA can phrase sentences around your own topic, with Apple Intelligence right on your device. Nothing ever leaves it.
• Body & vagus: humming, eye, jaw, and touch practices that speak to the body directly.
• Grounding: the 5-4-3-2-1 practice brings you back into the room.
• Lifeline: 90 seconds of guidance for moments when it is simply too much.
• Check-in: say how you feel, and VAYA suggests what fits.
• History without pressure: minutes and days if you want them. No streaks, no badges, no guilt.
• Optional: log mindful minutes to Apple Health (on iPhone), and quiet reminders that you fully control.

YOUR DATA

No account, no server, no analytics. Everything stays on your device. The app works entirely without an internet connection.

WHAT VAYA COSTS

Nothing. Every practice is free and stays free.

ONE HONEST SENTENCE

VAYA is a practice tool for your wellbeing. It does not diagnose, does not treat any condition, and does not replace therapy. You can stop any practice at any time, and that too is a good decision.

## Is VAYA safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess VAYA.

## Is VAYA legit?

VAYA – Calm Mind & Body has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for VAYA is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-17

The background moves more quietly. The two pools of light used to drift on the same clock, so the picture was exactly itself again every 28 seconds. Each now keeps its own time, and they only meet again after twenty minutes.

When the colour changes, from breathing to tapping for instance, the background now drifts across instead of switching.

### 1.3 — 2026-09-15

The singing bowl ceremony now begins with an arrival: twelve seconds in which nothing sounds. Then a single bowl opens it.

The five minutes themselves are rebuilt from real hand hammered bowls. Seven strikes, gaps that grow longer rather than shorter, and a final minute that adds nothing.

The breath moves more like a body. The out breath lets go early and trails off at the end, the way a chest releases its tension, instead of being an in breath played backwards.

The check in now offers "I don't know". If you cannot say what your body is doing, you do not have to answer, and nothing is stored.

In the self hold, the voice now says the alternative out loud: if touch is unpleasant, your hands rest on your thighs.

The breathing session changes phase more gently. Colour, word and pause now move at one pace.

Grounding stays usable to the end at very large text sizes.

Practice time in your history and in the Health app is correct now: pauses are not counted.

Reminders tell VoiceOver the time and the exercise they belong to.

In tapping, your own sentence stays selected across a restart, and the system voice now speaks it too.

After a phone call it stays quiet until you continue yourself.

On the Lock Screen the exercise appears in the language of the app.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-13

A new interactive introduction helps you set up VAYA in a way that fits you, including instant voice previews and voice selection.

The breathing orb now moves more calmly between phases, Live Activities update more reliably and are cleared when the app is fully closed.

We also removed duplicate bowls from tapping and refined many small details.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-13

The Live Activity now shows the instruction itself, not just the name of the practice. The phone can lie face down and still say what comes next. Breathing, tapping, body, orienting and the lifeline.

The widget starts straight into it. Breathing in your last technique, tapping with your current phrase, body and vagus with your last practice, lifeline and orienting right away.

The reminder speaks in the first person: I am taking my quiet. Not an offer, not reassurance, your own decision.

And the greeting stops repeating itself if you practise every day.

### 1.1 — 2026-09-11

New: For the room. A practice full screen, without controls, for a projector or TV. Made for anyone who leads a group. It ends with twelve quiet seconds and a code that opens the practice right in the browser, with nothing to install. You will find it in Settings.

The physiological sigh now has its own gong, and two strikes are always at least three seconds apart.

Plus smaller fixes to wording and spacing.

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