A tale in ten breathing games
Your breath is the controller.
Exhalibur turns ten ordinary moments into small, playable breathing Games for resetting, focusing, moving, recovering and resting—without asking you to disappear from your actual life.
Discover practical techniques through an unlikely co-op of breathing wisdom, video-game thinking and personal growth.
Part personal tale, part practical quest, EXHALIBUR follows one recruiter through pressure, health, recovery and the shifting territory between Work Mode and Workplay Mode.
Along the way, legendary heroes join the party—and there’s enough banter to stop self-help taking itself too seriously.
Expect bosses. Portals. Save points. Respawns. And one controller you’ve been carrying all along.
No equipment. No perfect routine. No need to retreat to a mystical mountain.
Just choose your Game, take the next breath—and make your next move.
Breathing just got epic.
- Short, practical Games
- No equipment
- No perfect routine
The world is changing
Work and life are changing.
Exhalibur.com and the Exhalibur book series are here to help you adapt to a new Workplay Mode—bringing curiosity, experimentation and game-like thinking into ordinary work and life.
Work remains work. The play is in trying a move, noticing what happens and adapting.
Breathe. Play. Evolve.
Build your armoury
Ten games. Ten useful controls.
Choose the Game that matches the moment. Practise the move. Keep what helps. Leave what doesn't.
- Locked Bonus Game
I was promised a Ferrari.
"I ended up writing a book about breathing."
R.D. Smith brings together psychology, technology, video games, Japanese philosophy and years spent working with people in the high-pressure world of startups and scaleups, alongside his own experience of health and recovery, to explore how one small moment can change what happens next.
Fusion Mode
BOOK 1 GIVES YOU THECONTROLS.NEW MOVES ARE BEINGFORGED.
Ten NEW breathing Fusions, will pair Exhalibur Controls with Sport, Food, Music, Creativity, Productivity, Gaming, Nature, Movement and the Senses.
- Fusions
- Combos
- Stacks
- Loadouts
SCAN. EQUIP. COMBINE.
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