Enso HeartThe method
Fromunderstandinginto feeling.
The Enso method is a guided experience in which you hear your own heartbeat live, through headphones, while a carefully written audio guide leads you. Attention moves out of your thoughts and back into your body.
01 · How it works
From heartbeat to experience.
Enso links five elements into one experience. The stethoscope captures the sound of your heart, the app joins it with a guided audio text in real time, and headphones bring it straight to you.
01 · Stethoscope
It captures the sound of your heart.
The digital Enso stethoscope uses the chest piece of a Riester medical stethoscope. You rest it gently on your chest, over your heart, and plug it into your phone via USB-C. It picks up heart sounds directly from the body — clearly and up close.
No stethoscope? The app also works with your phone’s microphone or a Polar H10 sensor. The stethoscope gives the fullest experience. More about devices
02 · Heart sound
Your heartbeat becomes audible.
What you hear is not a recording and not music. It is the sound of your heart in this moment — every beat and every change of rhythm, in real time. Something that has been with you all your life, finally heard directly.
Enso stethoscope · connected
03 · App
Heart and voice in one experience.
The Enso Heart app joins the live sound of your heart with guided audio texts. The voice directs you to your heartbeat, breath and bodily sensations, while the rhythm of your heart stays with you throughout. You set the volume of heart and voice separately.
04 · Headphones
The world recedes. Your rhythm remains.
Through headphones you hear your heart clearly and up close, while outside sounds fade into the background. Wireless or wired headphones both work. Sit or lie down comfortably and, if you like, close your eyes.
05 · Effect
Attention turns inward.
When attention rests on your own rhythm, many people notice their breath slowing, their body becoming easier to sense and their thoughts growing quieter. Whatever arises — sensations, images, memories, emotions — is part of the experience.
What participants most often report
02 · Why the heart
When talking reaches its limit.
As a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr. Klemen Rebolj saw that conversation sometimes reaches a limit. A person understands what is happening — yet the body stays tense, frightened, closed or overwhelmed.
He looked for a way to bring a direct bodily signal into the therapeutic process: something personal, living, rhythmic and safe. The heartbeat became the centre of the Enso method, because it connects a person with the most basic sign of life — their own rhythm. When you hear your heart, attention begins to return to the body. The rhythm becomes a support: the body settles, the breath deepens, and inner sensations become easier to reach.
03 · Scientific background
Heart, breath and nervous system — one loop.
Enso builds on well-researched links between body awareness, breathing and the autonomic nervous system.
You hear your heartbeat
Perceiving your own heartbeat is a central form of interoception — the sensing of the body’s internal states.
Breathing may slow
Research shows that slow breathing, around 5–8 breaths a minute, often increases heart rate variability (HRV).
The nervous system settles
Heart rhythm, breath and the autonomic nervous system can move toward coherence.
Attention turns inward
Focused attention on the body supports bodily presence and a calmer stress response.
Heart coherence
A state in which the heart’s rhythm becomes more even and connected with breathing and the autonomic nervous system. In greater coherence, the body moves more easily into calm, focus and a sense of inner order.
In Enso you don’t watch numbers on a screen, as in classic HRV biofeedback — you hear your own heartbeat directly. Research on HRV biofeedback shows that heart rate variability training can reduce stress, anxiety and other psychophysiological symptoms, especially when it combines breathing, attention and feedback from the body.
General research and EnsoThese mechanisms come from wider research on interoception, slow breathing and HRV biofeedback. They are not proven effects of the Enso method — those we are still studying. Our first data follow below.
04 · Research · Pilot study
Connection with oneself grew the most.
In a pilot study, adults with symptoms of anxiety, depression and burnout took part in a 12-week Enso group programme. After every session they rated how connected they felt with themselves and with the group, and they completed standard questionnaires before and after the programme.
Master’s thesis · Ela Rebolj · Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Tanja Repič Slavič
5.7 → 8.4
The sense of connection with oneself grew through the programme and was highest at the end.
3.4 → 8.3
Participants felt increasingly connected with one another — the rating more than doubled.
Participant ratings after sessions · start → end of programme
Symptoms before and after
Burnout
CBI · scale 0–100Depression
PHQ-9 · scale 0–27Anxiety
GAD-7 · scale 0–21How to read this
This is a pilot study with a small sample, so the results are not proof of effectiveness. We read them as first encouraging data that Enso has potential as a supportive group approach — and as direction for further research.
The study also included a comparison group in a programme based on MBSR practices. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups.
05 · Who it’s for
For anyone who wants more calm and contact with themselves.
Individuals, groups and organisations — especially people facing tension, overload, inner scatteredness or a need for deeper relaxation.
Enso Heart at home
The app and the digital stethoscope — a guided heart-listening experience, whenever you need it.
Explore the app
In person
Enso experiences
Individual and group sessions with a mentor: heart listening, guidance and shared reflection.
See experiencesIn companies, Enso is used for calming down, connection, restoring focus and preventing burnout.
Enso for teams06 · How to practise
Quiet room. Your heart. A few minutes after.
Find a quiet place
Sit or lie down comfortably where you won’t be disturbed.
Listen
Hear your heartbeat through headphones, together with a guided text — in the app, under Meditations.
Reflect
Take a few minutes to write down what you noticed: heartbeat, breath, body, feelings, thoughts, images, ideas.
The Enso method does not replace medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, but it can meaningfully complement it as an experiential practice of bodily presence, relaxation and inner regulation.
Enso HeartThe method
Fromunderstandinginto feeling.
The Enso method is a guided experience in which you hear your own heartbeat live, through headphones, while a carefully written audio guide leads you. Attention moves out of your thoughts and back into your body.
01 · How it works
From heartbeat to experience.
Enso links five elements into one experience. The stethoscope captures the sound of your heart, the app joins it with a guided audio text in real time, and headphones bring it straight to you.
01 · Stethoscope
It captures the sound of your heart.
The digital Enso stethoscope uses the chest piece of a Riester medical stethoscope. You rest it gently on your chest, over your heart, and plug it into your phone via USB-C. It picks up heart sounds directly from the body — clearly and up close.
No stethoscope? The app also works with your phone’s microphone or a Polar H10 sensor. The stethoscope gives the fullest experience. More about devices
02 · Heart sound
Your heartbeat becomes audible.
What you hear is not a recording and not music. It is the sound of your heart in this moment — every beat and every change of rhythm, in real time. Something that has been with you all your life, finally heard directly.
Enso stethoscope · connected
03 · App
Heart and voice in one experience.
The Enso Heart app joins the live sound of your heart with guided audio texts. The voice directs you to your heartbeat, breath and bodily sensations, while the rhythm of your heart stays with you throughout. You set the volume of heart and voice separately.
04 · Headphones
The world recedes. Your rhythm remains.
Through headphones you hear your heart clearly and up close, while outside sounds fade into the background. Wireless or wired headphones both work. Sit or lie down comfortably and, if you like, close your eyes.
05 · Effect
Attention turns inward.
When attention rests on your own rhythm, many people notice their breath slowing, their body becoming easier to sense and their thoughts growing quieter. Whatever arises — sensations, images, memories, emotions — is part of the experience.
What participants most often report
02 · Why the heart
When talking reaches its limit.
As a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr. Klemen Rebolj saw that conversation sometimes reaches a limit. A person understands what is happening — yet the body stays tense, frightened, closed or overwhelmed.
He looked for a way to bring a direct bodily signal into the therapeutic process: something personal, living, rhythmic and safe. The heartbeat became the centre of the Enso method, because it connects a person with the most basic sign of life — their own rhythm. When you hear your heart, attention begins to return to the body. The rhythm becomes a support: the body settles, the breath deepens, and inner sensations become easier to reach.
03 · Scientific background
Heart, breath and nervous system — one loop.
Enso builds on well-researched links between body awareness, breathing and the autonomic nervous system.
You hear your heartbeat
Perceiving your own heartbeat is a central form of interoception — the sensing of the body’s internal states.
Breathing may slow
Research shows that slow breathing, around 5–8 breaths a minute, often increases heart rate variability (HRV).
The nervous system settles
Heart rhythm, breath and the autonomic nervous system can move toward coherence.
Attention turns inward
Focused attention on the body supports bodily presence and a calmer stress response.
Heart coherence
A state in which the heart’s rhythm becomes more even and connected with breathing and the autonomic nervous system. In greater coherence, the body moves more easily into calm, focus and a sense of inner order.
In Enso you don’t watch numbers on a screen, as in classic HRV biofeedback — you hear your own heartbeat directly. Research on HRV biofeedback shows that heart rate variability training can reduce stress, anxiety and other psychophysiological symptoms, especially when it combines breathing, attention and feedback from the body.
General research and EnsoThese mechanisms come from wider research on interoception, slow breathing and HRV biofeedback. They are not proven effects of the Enso method — those we are still studying. Our first data follow below.
04 · Research · Pilot study
Connection with oneself grew the most.
In a pilot study, adults with symptoms of anxiety, depression and burnout took part in a 12-week Enso group programme. After every session they rated how connected they felt with themselves and with the group, and they completed standard questionnaires before and after the programme.
Master’s thesis · Ela Rebolj · Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana
Mentor: Prof. Dr. Tanja Repič Slavič
5.7 → 8.4
The sense of connection with oneself grew through the programme and was highest at the end.
3.4 → 8.3
Participants felt increasingly connected with one another — the rating more than doubled.
Participant ratings after sessions · start → end of programme
Symptoms before and after
Burnout
CBI · scale 0–100Depression
PHQ-9 · scale 0–27Anxiety
GAD-7 · scale 0–21How to read this
This is a pilot study with a small sample, so the results are not proof of effectiveness. We read them as first encouraging data that Enso has potential as a supportive group approach — and as direction for further research.
The study also included a comparison group in a programme based on MBSR practices. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups.
05 · Who it’s for
For anyone who wants more calm and contact with themselves.
Individuals, groups and organisations — especially people facing tension, overload, inner scatteredness or a need for deeper relaxation.
Enso Heart at home
The app and the digital stethoscope — a guided heart-listening experience, whenever you need it.
Explore the app
In person
Enso experiences
Individual and group sessions with a mentor: heart listening, guidance and shared reflection.
See experiencesIn companies, Enso is used for calming down, connection, restoring focus and preventing burnout.
Enso for teams06 · How to practise
Quiet room. Your heart. A few minutes after.
Find a quiet place
Sit or lie down comfortably where you won’t be disturbed.
Listen
Hear your heartbeat through headphones, together with a guided text — in the app, under Meditations.
Reflect
Take a few minutes to write down what you noticed: heartbeat, breath, body, feelings, thoughts, images, ideas.
The Enso method does not replace medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, but it can meaningfully complement it as an experiential practice of bodily presence, relaxation and inner regulation.