How Shiftwave Works

Your Shift, Simplified

Shiftwave connects vibration, breath, and feedback into one intelligent system. No training or setup needed—just sit back, relax, and choose a session that fits your moment, from quick 4-minute boosts to deeper 60-minute sessions.

Selecting a guided protocol in the Shiftwave app

Step 1 - Choose your goal

Select from 50+ guided protocols for calm, focus, recovery, or readiness.

User reclining in the Shiftwave Pro chair

Step 2 - Start your session

Recline and follow the guidance as vibration and breath synchronize in real time.

Relaxed after completing a Shiftwave session

Step 3 - Feel the shift

End your session balanced and refreshed—ready for what’s next.

The Science in Motion

Two time-tested tools for human regulation, brought together through intelligent design to help you reset in minutes.

  • Whole-body vibration activates sensory and circulatory pathways, restoring rhythm and responsiveness.
  • Guided breathwork steadies the mind and supports physiological balance

Behind it all, Shiftwave’s BioDrive® Technology adapts in real time, translating your body’s own feedback into intelligent vibration patterns.

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The Physiology Behind the Shift

Understanding Your Nervous System

Nearly every aspect of how you feel and function — including sleep, focus, mood, digestion, and recovery — is influenced by your autonomic nervous system (ANS). It continuously shifts between two primary states that keep you balanced:

Sympathetic (SNS)

Your body’s “get-up-and-go” mode, preparing you for alertness, activity, and performance.

Parasympathetic (PNS)

Your “rest-and-restore” mode, supporting calm, digestion, and recovery.

Shiftwave is designed to support balance between these natural states, helping your body and mind move more smoothly between activation and restoration.

Control & Insights

Your Shiftwave Control Hub

Shiftwave operates through two connected apps that work with your device. The iPad App acts as your session controller—running guided protocols with live feedback—while the Mobile Companion App provides education, tracking, and Mini Lab insights on the go.

Guided Protocols

Run 50+ sessions by intention and duration (4–60 minutes) from a simple, familiar interface.

Real-Time Feedback

See live session feedback; select journeys can use BioDrive® to adapt patterns in real time.

Mini Lab Insights

Review session metrics like heart rate and HRV; SpO₂ available where supported.

Profiles & Modes

Multiple profiles, Guest Mode, Favorites, offline access, and simple session logs.

Recommendations

Helpful suggestions based on your goals and recent sessions—easy to follow, easy to refine.

Always Improving

Regular updates add new protocols and refinements to keep your experience fresh.

Need an iPad or headphones? See supported devices →

SHIFTWAVE PROTOCOL CATEGORIES

Designed for Every Moment

Explore the core Shiftwave protocol categories - each designed to guide your body and mind through a different state of recovery, focus, or renewal.

Recovery & Regeneration

Rebuild your rhythm.
Designed to help you reset after intensity or exertion, these sessions support circulation, balance, and a renewed sense of ease.

Performance & Focus

Power up with precision.
These protocols synchronize body and mind, helping you feel alert, composed, and ready to perform at your best.

Relaxation & Mindfulness

Return to center.
Settle your system and quiet the noise. These sessions use rhythm and breath to bring you back to calm awareness.

Transformative Breathwork

Shift from within.
Experience guided breathing and vibration patterns designed to deepen awareness, release tension, and restore flow.

Sleep Optimization Series

Find your rhythm of rest.
A 5-part progression that helps your body unwind and prepare for real restoration - night after night.

BioDrive®

Connect with your body’s rhythm.
BioDrive® protocols draw from HRV biofeedback principles, adjusting vibrations to your heart rate in real time.

Science-led.
Data-driven.
Human-focused.

Shiftwave was created by a world-class team of researchers, inventors, and medical experts leading the way in nervous system regulation and human performance. More than just a wellness device, Shiftwave represents an engineered solution to a biological problem.

Validated in the lab. Proven in the real world - from elite clinics to combat zones, where performance and resilience aren't optional.

About Shiftwave

Mike North
Mike North, Ph.D
Pioneer in advanced technologies that advance humanity using rapid prototyping, biometric measurements and human-centered design.
Alan Macy
Alan Macy, MSEE
Co-founder / biomedical designer of BIOPAC systems, used in 99% of the world’s top 100 universities for physiological research.
John Foster
John Foster, Ph.D
Revolutionary leader behind Owl Biomedical’s Nanosorter® - a cutting-edge breakthrough in precision cell-sorting technology.
Jeff Rouse, M.D.
Jeff Rouse, M.D.
Triple-board certified psychiatrist with training in quantum biology and longevity medicine, advancing trauma recovery, neuropsychiatry, and wellness technology in clinical, military, and humanitarian settings.

Born in a lab. Proven in the field.

Developed in a leading psychophysiology lab and tested in real-world, high-performance settings - from the military and first responders, to professional athletes and people who just want to feel better, think clearer, and live more fully.

Shiftwave is backed by measurable outcomes, evolving science, and a growing body of real-world data.

Pilot Study - Tulane University School of Medicine
(n=20)

↓ 41% Stress Reduction

↓ 28% Anxiety Reduction

↑ 22% Focus Improvement

↑ 43% Relaxation Improvement

Los Angeles Firefighters
During 2025 Wildfires
(n=21)

↓ 28% Stress Reduction

↓ 55% Stress Fully Eliminated

↓ 24% Pain Reduction

↓ 26% Pain Fully Eliminated

Ukrainian Warfighters with TBI and Combat Stress
(n=210)

↓ 25% Anxiety Reduction

↓ 27% Anxiety Fully Eliminated

↓ 39% Pain Reduction

↓ 18% Pain Fully Eliminated

Ukrainian Soldiers
(n=34)

↓ 48% Pain Reduction

↓ 25% Pain Fully Eliminated

↓ 26% Anxiety Reduction

↓ 34% Anxiety Fully Eliminated

 

 

Nurses at St. John’s Hospital
(n=46)

↓ 90% Stress Reduction

 

Multiple Shiftwaves are now installed in the nurses break room.

 

 

Nurses at Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital
(n=28)

↓ 37% Pain Reduction (Average)

↓ 54% Pain Fully Eliminated

↓ 83% Stress Reduction (Average)

↓ 42% Stress Fully Eliminated

 

92% Requested Regular Access to Shiftwave

KidSave Rescue Drivers
(n=23)

↓ 80% Anxiety Reduction

↓ 66% Pain Reduction

  

Ukrainian Aid Workers
(n=20)

↓ 80% Pain Reduction

↓ 60% Pain Fully Eliminated

 

Nurses at Cottage Hospital
(n=25)

↓ 80% Pain Reduction

↓ 63% Pain Fully Eliminated

↓ 83% Stress Reduction (Average)

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