The hardest parts of recovery often happen when no one else is around.
It might be 2 a.m. and you can't sleep. Pain is demanding your attention. You're worried about whether what you're feeling is normal. Or you're simply frustrated that recovery is taking longer than you expected.
These are the moments Alothia is designed for.
Alothia gives patients self-directed tools they can use at home — structured sessions for managing discomfort, reducing stress and anxiety, sleeping better, and feeling more supported throughout recovery.
Four moments your patients will recognize
Recovery at home is made up of long stretches of time with very little to do. These are the moments Alothia was built around.
When pain is hard to ignore
Pain is shaped by more than the physical signal alone — attention, stress, and emotion all influence how it is experienced. Alothia gives patients attention, imagery, breathing, and relaxation exercises they can reach for when discomfort is hard to set aside.
An additional tool for managing discomfort alongside prescribed care.
When you can't sleep
Pain, stress, and worry can all interfere with rest — and a poor night's sleep makes everything else in recovery harder. Alothia provides structured experiences designed to help patients settle down, quiet a racing mind, and prepare for sleep.
Extended audio experiences can continue after the session, gradually becoming quieter.
When worry takes over
Anxiety about pain, progress, procedures, and uncertainty is common after surgery — and it can build in the quiet hours at home. Alothia gives patients a structured activity they can use to regulate stress and feel calmer.
Something to do with the worry, rather than sitting with it.
When recovery feels overwhelming
Frustration, exhaustion, and the feeling that there is nothing you can actively do between appointments can make recovery feel longer than it is. Alothia gives patients something they can reach for themselves when they need additional support.
Support that is available between appointments, at any hour.
From access to session, in five simple steps
This is what your patient actually does — from the moment your team gives them access to the moment a session finishes.
Your care team gives you access
Using your phone, scan the QR code provided by your care team to access Alothia. If you already have access, simply open Alothia on your phone.
There is no complicated setup. Once you're in, Alothia walks you through what happens next.
Alothia relies heavily on visualization, so we don't expect patients to figure out what to imagine while they're already inside the experience.
The six-minute introductory Visualization Map prepares them beforehand. Animated imagery demonstrates examples of what they can picture, while the introduction explains the short cues they'll encounter later in the session and what those cues mean.
The purpose isn't to tell patients exactly what they must see in their minds. It's to give the brain a starting point for creating its own internal imagery.
Visualization is an intentional part of the Alothia methodology, not simply decoration around a meditation. Research has explored mental imagery as a tool in areas including pain and rehabilitation, and Alothia incorporates visualization throughout its protocols.
Patients only need to complete this introduction before their first session, although they can return to it whenever they want a refresher.
Headphones are an important part of the Alothia experience.
Each session combines binaural audio with an immersive, spatial soundscape designed using principles drawn from psychoacoustics and neuroscience.
Sounds are positioned around the listener to create a sense of depth, distance, movement, and environment. Rather than simply providing relaxing background music, the soundscape is designed to work alongside the patient's visualization—giving the imagination auditory information that helps build and sustain the internal scene.
Binaural audio is layered into the experience as another component of the protocol.
Alothia has also conducted preliminary exploratory EEG and HRV measurements to investigate physiological responses occurring during these experiences. These early measurements are encouraging, but they should not be presented as clinical validation of Alothia or definitive proof of its proposed mechanisms.
Explore the science behind AlothiaThere isn't a separate "press play" step. The experience is already underway.
Once the introductory Visualization Map finishes, the patient moves into a short breathing exercise designed to establish a slower, more deliberate breathing pattern before the main meditation begins.
The transition should feel continuous
Visualization MapBreathingAlothia SessionThe patient doesn't need to choose another track, remember another technique, or decide what comes next. The sequence has already been structured for them.
Once the breathing portion finishes, the main Alothia experience begins.
Alothia intentionally avoids a constant stream of spoken guidance.
Instead, an experience is divided into stages. At the beginning of each stage, the patient hears a short cue—typically a single sentence—that shifts or develops what they're visualizing.
They aren't being asked to perform complicated tasks. The cue simply gives them the next piece of the internal experience and then gets out of the way.
A short spoken cueNo spoken instruction — the soundscape continuesBetween cues, there can be extended stretches with no spoken instruction at all. The patient remains inside their visualization while the binaural audio and spatial soundscape keep working around them — carrying the experience forward through sound rather than words.
This distinction is important to the Alothia methodology. Rather than continuously directing the patient's thoughts, Alothia provides enough structure to establish and evolve the visualization while leaving space for the patient's own internal experience.
You're not just listening. You're doing.
Patients don't need previous meditation experience, and they don't need to spend the session wondering whether they're doing it correctly.
The sequence, breathing, cues, visualization stages, binaural audio, and spatial soundscape have already been structured into the experience.
The patient's job is simply to participate.
With repeated use, the process also becomes increasingly familiar. Patients spend less time thinking about what a cue means or what they're supposed to visualize and can more easily enter the experience.
Research suggests that meditation practice frequency can be associated with outcomes, so regular practice is encouraged. Familiarity with the process can also make participation easier over time.
You don't have to be good at meditation to get the benefits from it anymore.
An addition to the care plan — never a replacement
Alothia does not replace physicians, medication, physical therapy, or a prescribed care plan. It is a self-directed tool patients can use between those points of care — on the nights, weekends, and quiet hours when no one is available to help.
- Does not replace physicians or prescribed care
- Does not replace medication or physical therapy
- Requires no change to the patient's existing treatment plan
- Something the patient chooses to use, when they feel they need it
Alothia gives patients something they can do when recovery gets difficult.
See what your patients would experience at home
We'll walk you through the patient experience end to end and how it fits the practices you already run — one-on-one, at your pace.
Alothia does not replace prescribed care. It is designed to support patients between their points of care.