Breathwork Infinity® · Neurosciences of breath and sound

Breathwork, frequencies and neuroscience: the new generation of breathwork.

What if a breathwork session could go beyond just breathing? Breathwork Infinity® combines breath with an immersive sound architecture designed around rhythm, frequencies, binaural beats, isochronic stimulation, music, and guidance.

We have not invented the mechanisms studied by neuroscience. We chose to have them interact in a single experience.
223 Studies analyzed on slow breathing and cardiac variability
22 studies grouped in a meta-analysis on binaural beats
40 Hz a particularly studied auditory neural response
EEG / MEG directly measurable brain responses
An enhanced breathwork

Most sessions are working mainly with the breath.

Breathing is already a remarkable physiological lever. Voluntarily altering one's breathing can affect the cardiovascular dynamics, cardiac variability, the state of activation, and the regulation of the autonomic nervous system.

But the brain does not react only to what we breathe. He also reacts to what we do Let's understand, according to us Let's repeat, at rhythm, at the'attention and the sensory environment in which we are immersed.

It was from this idea that Breathwork Infinity® was born.

Why use just one lever when several can be orchestrated? Breathwork Infinity® combines breathing, music, acoustic rhythms, sound immersion and guidance to build a coherent multisensory experience.
Breathwork: Infinity neurosciences, music frequencies and brain activity
What the neurosciences have discovered

The brain doesn't stop at that to listen to the rhythm.

It can produce measurable rhythmic neuronal activity in response to certain periodic auditory stimuli.

Yes: sound can become a neurophysiological signal.

The Auditory Steady-State Responses show that repetitive acoustic stimulation can elicit a neuronal response synchronized with certain characteristics of the stimulus. These responses are observable by EEG or MEG. This is one of the scientific bases that make research into sound stimulation of the brain particularly exciting.

01 · The sound

The auditory system receives the signal

The brain constantly analyzes frequency, intensity, rhythm and temporal variations of sounds.

02 · The brain

Neural networks are responding

Some periodic stimulations can generate a measurable rhythmic neuronal activity.

03 · The experience

The subjective state can change

According to the protocols, the research is currently underway. their effects on attention, anxiety, cognition, pain, relaxation and states of absorption.

The principle
Sound is not just an atmosphere. It becomes information processed by the brain.

It is this principle that Breathwork Infinity® incorporates to an immersive breathing experience.

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Binaural beats

Two frequencies. A third perception created by the brain.

The principle of binaural beats is fascinating.

When two slightly different frequencies are sent separately in each ear, the corresponding beat their difference is not physically present in the helmet.

It is the auditory system that builds this perception.

It is precisely this phenomenon that led researchers to study the effects of binaural stimulation on brain activity, attention, cognition, anxiety and the perception of pain.

  • The binaural perceptual phenomenon is established.
  • EEG and MEG studies have observed associated neuronal responses.
  • Meta-analyses report effects on certain psychological parameters.
  • The frequency, duration, and construction of the protocol seem to play a major role.
The second lever: the breath

Breathing is already an interface with the nervous system.

Even before adding a single frequency, Modifying the breath means modifying part of the physiological information transmitted to the brain.

Autonomous system

Physiological regulation

Slow voluntary breathing can increase several cardiovascular variability parameters related to autonomic regulation and parasympathetic.

Cardio-respiratory

The heart and the breath dialogue

Breathing affects the heart rate. the baroreflex and several mechanisms cardio-respiratory synchronization.

Perception

The inner state changes

Research on controlled breathing shows that it can be associated with changes in stress, of activation, attention and emotional experience.

But for what purpose?
Influencing a brain state is not an end in itself. What matters is what this state can change in the experience.

Our brain state and our physiological state are constantly involved in the way we are we think, feel, perceive, respond and direct our attention.

A hypervigilant brain does not process the experience in the same way that a brain placed in a state of greater physiological safety, absorption or concentration.

This is precisely where the interest of Breathwork Infinity® lies: using multiple entry points into the nervous system to promote a change of state.

And this change in status can have very concrete consequences.

What the research has already observed

Change the state. Change what becomes possible.

Breathing and sound stimulation are not studied solely to observe beautiful EEG curves. Researchers primarily look at what changes afterwards: stress, emotion, attention, pain, cognition, and conscious experience.

Solid data

Reduce stress

This is one of the best-documented results of breathwork. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials finds significant reduction in stress among participants who practice breathing techniques.

12 randomized trials · 785 adults
Significant effect, small to moderate: Hedges g = −0.35.

Fincham et al., Scientific Reports →

Very well documented

Regulate the autonomous system

Slow voluntary breathing modifies several parameters cardiovascular variability associated with vagal activity and to the parasympathetic regulation.

In other words: breath gives a voluntary access to a function that is normally largely automatic.

223 studies selected in a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Laborde et al., 2022 →

Experienced in neuroimaging

Modifying emotional regulation

Interactions between breathing, attention and the brain have been observed directly in neuroimaging.

A MRI study on attention to breath showed a decrease in amygdala activation and an increase in its interaction with prefrontal regions involved in emotional regulation.

Amygdala + prefrontal cortex
Circuits directly involved in emotional processing.

Doll et al., NeuroImage →

15 randomized trials

Reduce anxiety

Binaural stimulation is no longer being studied only in small exploratory experiments.

A 2025 meta-analysis covering 15 randomized trials a significant decrease has been observed periorbital anxiety with binaural beats.

14 trials · 1,047 participants
The amplitude of the results, however, varies greatly. according to the protocols.

Xiong et al., 2025 →

Encouraging results

Attention and cognition

Memory and attention are also part of it fields studied with binaural beats.

A meta-analysis of 22 studies found a significant overall effect on cognition, anxiety, and pain perception, with particular importance. of the frequency and duration of exposure.

22 studies · 35 sizes of effect
Average overall effect: g = 0.45.

Garcia-Argibay et al. →

Clinical research

Changing the perception of pain

Pain is not simply a signal coming from the body. It is also built and modularized through the central nervous system.

Research on binaural beats, especially in perioperative contexts, they observed a reduction in pain in several controlled trials.

5 trials · 433 participants
Significant effect on postoperative pain in the 2025 meta-analysis.

See the meta-analysis →

Neurosciences 2025–2026

Promote absorption

Neurosciences are also starting to take off to seriously study a known phenomenon for millennia: the rhythm can favor states of mind unusual in their conscience.

A scientific review from 2025 concludes that certain rhythmic stimulations are associated with greater absorption and relaxation.

Drumming · binaural · mantra · rhythm

Aparicio-Terrés et al., 2025 →

EEG · 2026

Theta and states of consciousness

In 2026, an EEG experiment was conducted participants at different speeds of rhythmic stimulation.

At 4 beats per second, in the theta band, the more the brain followed the rhythm, the more subjective experience of altered state It was intense.

40 participants · EEG
Rhythmic stimulation at 4 Hz.

Study 2026 →

Measured directly in the brain

The breath itself rhythmizes the brain

A particularly important experience recorded directly human brain activity.

The nasal breathing synchronized the activity of regions including the amygdala and the hippocampus, two central structures for emotion and memory.

Human intracranial EEG
The respiratory phase also influenced memory performance and emotional discrimination.

Zelano et al., Journal of Neuroscience →

So in the end, Why want to act about these mechanisms? To change the state from which we are living the experience.

The same event is not experienced in the same way depending on whether the nervous system is hyperactive, calm, focused, absorbed or deeply relaxed.

Our working hypothesis at Breathwork Infinity® is therefore simple: Instead of intervening solely on the mental content, we create the conditions that are likely to First modify the state in which this content is processed.

Breath, rhythm, frequency, music and guidance then different access routes become available Towards the same goal: make the body more available to an inner experience that is different.

01 · Entrance Breathing + sound

Two controllable sensory and physiological signals.

02 · Response Nervous system

The autonomous and attentive dynamic can evolve.

03 · Brain Different treatment

Rhythm, attention, perception and emotion interact.

04 · State New availability

Relaxation, absorption or activation according to the phase.

05 · Experience Feeling differently

It is here that the experience truly becomes personal.

That might be where it is located The true power of brain work: not telling him what to think, but change the conditions in which he thinks, feels and perceives.

The innovation Breathwork Infinity®

The revolution is not about discovering the breath or the sound. It resides in their orchestration.

La recherche étudie respiration, activité autonome, oscillations cérébrales, rythmes acoustiques, battements binauraux, attention et états d'absorption. Breathwork Infinity® réunit ces dimensions dans une seule expérience immersive construite comme un parcours.

A neuro-sensory architecture

We don't just put it music behind a breath.

Each session is conceived as an architecture in which Several levers are involved at different points in the experience.

01

Breathing

Guided breathing rhythm gradually changes the physiological and attentive state.

02

Frequencies

Acoustic elements are integrated according to the different phases and intentions of the experiment.

03

Binaural

Frequency differences can create a binaural perception directly constructed by the brain.

04

Isochrone

Rhythmic pulsations constitute another mode. periodic auditory stimulation.

05

Music

The music accompanies the emotional dynamic, the increase in intensity and the return to calm.

06

Guidance

The voice directs the attention, structure the experience and promote inner immersion.

07

Spatialization

The sound environment is designed to create a sense of immersion rather than just listening frontally.

08

Integration

The intensity gradually decreases to allow the system to return to a more stable state.

One experience, several entry points

What makes Breathwork Infinity® different.

01

The breath

Changes the physiological dynamics.

02

The rhythm

It structures time and experience.

03

The sound

Stimulates the auditory and emotional networks.

04

Attention

Gradually turns away from the outside world.

05

Immersion

Experience becomes global, bodily and internal.

What the research shows

The science behind it the mechanisms we use.

2019
Meta-analysis

Binaural beats: cognition, anxiety and pain

Garcia-Argibay, Santed and Reales have combined 22 studies and 35 effect sizes. Their meta-analysis reports overall a significant effect of the average size of binaural beats on different cognitive, anxiety, and pain parameters.

See the publication on PubMed →
2020
EEG · eNeuro

From the cerebral cortex to the connectivity networks

Orozco Perez, Dumas and Lehmann have studied The brain response to different forms of auditory beats. Their results show that binaural and monaural stimuli can produce distinct profiles of activity and brain connectivity.

See the study →
2022
223 studies

Slow breathing and variability of the heart rate

An important systematic review and meta-analysis included 223 studies. Slow voluntary breathing is associated with an increase in several cardiac variability parameters, which are related in particular to parasympathetic regulation.

See the meta-analysis →
2023
Scientific Reports

Breathwork and stress reduction

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials published in Scientific Reports concludes that breathwork interventions are associated with a reduction in stress compared to control groups, with also encouraging results regarding anxiety and depression.

See the publication →
2023
PLOS ONE

Brainwave entrainment and binaural beats

A systematic review of 14 EEG studies This shows that several experiments find neuronal training in response to binaural beats, while others obtain more variable results. This diversity underscores the importance of frequency, protocol, and exposure duration.

See the review →
2025
15 randomized trials

Binaural, anxiety and pain

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 randomized trials reports significant effects of binaural beats on perioperative anxiety, as well as some effects on pain and several cardiovascular parameters.

See the publication →
2026
40 Hz · Neuroscience

40 Hz: the brain can follow an acoustic stimulus

A recent review confirms that the steady-state auditory responses at 40 Hz correspond to rhythmic neuronal oscillations capable of synchronizing with periodic stimulation.

See the publication →
Our philosophy

You are listening. Your brain does the rest.

Cette phrase n'implique pas qu'un fichier audio possède un pouvoir magique. Elle rappelle quelque chose de beaucoup plus intéressant : le véritable acteur de l'expérience est ton propre système nerveux.


Le casque transmet le signal. Le souffle modifie la physiologie. Le rythme organise l'expérience. La guidance oriente l'attention. But it's your brain that perceives, interprets, built and adaptable.

Why we are talking about the new generation

An experience of breathing designed as a system.

Breathing affects a part of physiology. Sound affects perception. Rhythm acts on the temporal organization. Music mobilizes the emotional circuits. Guidance affects attention.

Breathwork Infinity® does not consider these elements as accessories.

We use them as the different layers of the same experience.

It is this architecture that transforms a simple breathing session in a complete immersive experience.

We have not sought to replace breathwork. We tried to take it further.
Breathwork Infinity: a revolutionary method of breathing frequencies from neurosciences
Sandy and Sandrine Breathwork Infinity conference on neuroscience and breathwork
Behind Breathwork Infinity®

The old breath. Modern knowledge.

Breathwork Infinity® was born from a desire: to no longer consider breathing, the brain, sound, and emotional experience as separate worlds.

Our approach is based on contemporary knowledge regarding breathing, autonomous regulation, the neuronal rhythms, attention and acoustic stimulation.

We are observing the research. We are evolving our creations. And we build experiences in which breath and sound technology working together.

Scientific references

To go further on.

Garcia-Argibay M, Santed MA, Reales JM. Efficacy of binaural auditory beats in cognition, Anxiety and pain perception: a meta-analysis. Psychological Research. 2019. PubMed
Orozco Perez HD, Dumas G, Lehmann A. Binaural Beats through the Auditory Pathway: From Brainstem to Connectivity Patterns. eNeuro. 2020. Publication
Laborde S et al. Effects of voluntary slow breathing on heart rate and heart rate variability: a systematic review and a meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 2022. PubMed
Fincham GW et al. Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Scientific Reports. 2023. Nature
Ingendoh RM, Posny ES, Heine A. Binaural beats to train the brain? A systematic review of the effects of binaural beat stimulation on brain oscillatory activity. PLOS ONE. 2023. PLOS ONE
Xiong J et al. Binaural beats for perioperative anxiety and pain: systematic review and meta-analysis. 2025. PubMed
Mockevičius A et al. Developmental and aging trajectories of 40-Hz auditory steady-state responses. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2026. PubMed
Scientific transparency: les recherches présentées sur cette page étudient différents mécanismes utilisés dans l'univers Breathwork Infinity®, notamment la respiration, la stimulation auditive, les battements binauraux et la réponse du système nerveux. La combinaison spécifique constituant la méthode Breathwork Infinity® n'a pas encore fait l'objet d'un essai clinique contrôlé publié. Cette page est informative et ne remplace pas un avis médical.
Frequently Asked Questions

Breathwork, frequencies and brain.

Can frequencies influence the brain?

Yes. Some periodic auditory stimuli can generate rhythmic neuronal responses measurable by EEG or MEG. This phenomenon is documented, in particular, through Auditory Steady-State Responses.

What is a binaural beat?

A binaural beat occurs when two sounds of slightly different frequencies are presented separately in each ear. The brain then perceives a beat corresponding to the difference between the two frequencies.

Are binaural beats studied scientifically?

Yes. They are the subject of EEG research, of controlled experiments, of systematic reviews and meta-analyses, notably on attention, cognition, anxiety and the perception of pain.

What is brainwave entrainment?

Brainwave entrainment refers to the training or synchronization of rhythmic neuronal activity in response to periodic stimulation. The phenomenon is well documented for some of the auditory responses mentioned, and continues to be studied in the field of binaural beats.

Can breathing affect the nervous system?

Yes. Numerous studies show that voluntary breathing, especially when it is slowed down, can alter cardiac variability and several associated parameters in the regulation of the autonomic nervous system.

What is the difference between Breathwork Infinity® and a traditional breathwork?

Breathwork Infinity® is not only based on breathing. The method combines breath, music, acoustic rhythms, binaural beats, stimulations areochrones, sound spatialization and guidance in order to create an immersive neuro-sensorial experience.

Is Breathwork Infinity® a medical method?

No. Breathwork Infinity® is a method of breathing and sensory immersion. It does not replace a diagnosis or treatment. nor the accompaniment of a healthcare professional.

Breathwork Infinity®

You're not just going to breathe.
You are going to enter the experience.

A helmet. Guided breathing. An immersive sound architecture. Rhythms and frequencies that are thought out as the different layers of a single experience.

Breathwork Infinity® — breathwork enhanced by sound and neuroscience.

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