Restorative time is the amount of time your body has spent in a calm and restored state.
Restorative Time is not available on Oura Ring Gen2 or older.
What is Restorative Time?
How Restorative Time Works
How to Use Restorative Time
Get the Most Out of It
Things to Keep in Mind
More Information
What is Restorative Time?
Restorative Time represents periods during the day when your body and mind are recharging. Health is all about balance, and part of benefiting from an active life is making time for recovery, too. With the help of your readiness data and insights, Oura notifies you when your body might be experiencing additional stress. By staying mindful of your Restorative Time, you can see whether you're giving your body the rest it needs to recover.
How Restorative Time Works
Restorative Time is recorded when your ring detects that your heart rate variability (HRV) is up. In general, higher HRV is associated with rest-and-digest, general fitness, and good recovery.
How to Use Restorative Time
From the home screen, you can tap on the 24-hour heart rate graph to view it in detail.
Tap on Restorative Time to see when, how often, and how much you've experienced moments of relaxation throughout your day. Your Restorative Time is highlighted in green on your main graph and timeline.
The timeline view under the graph covers your day from the moment you wake up until midnight. Each green dot represents 15 minutes of Restorative Time, while larger clusters of green indicate longer, continuous periods of rest. These green dots and segments on your timeline correspond with the vertical green bars in your main heart rate graph, making it easy to see when your body has entered a relaxed state.
Pay attention to when and where your clusters of Restorative Time appear, and how they’re spread out across your day. This can help you reflect on when you’ve allowed your body and mind to unwind and think back to the activities or moments that may have contributed to those restorative periods.
You'll also find Restorative Time highlighted in the Restored zone of your Daytime Stress graph. This zone reflects moments when your body is shifting away from stress and into recovery. Tap on the Restored box, and you can view your daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly trends.
Ideally, you'll get Restorative Time throughout the day. If you only experience calm near bedtime or early in the morning, you may not be optimally supporting your ability to recover, learn, and perform.
How to Get the Most Out of Restorative Time
Restorative Time can help you manage stress and support recovery. By regularly checking your heart rate graph, you can see if you're getting enough Restorative Time throughout the day or if you need to prioritize more moments of rest. At the end of each day, you can also reflect on whether you had enough moments of relaxation distributed across your waking hours.
Everyone's needs for Restorative Time are different. Your ideal amount of rest will depend on your lifestyle and daily routines. Over time, you'll learn what works best for you, helping you find a balance that supports both your physical and mental well-being.
Try to take short breaks between your daily activities. Sit down for a cup of tea, read, or catch up with a friend or family member—anything you find relaxing or rewarding.
Things to Keep in Mind
- It takes approximately 30 days for Oura to calibrate to your 24-hour heart rate averages and overnight temperature deviation to start receiving fully accurate measurements. You'll still see your Restorative Time during this calibration period
- Any completed meditation and breathwork sessions from Explore will be incorporated into your total Restorative Time
- Unconfirmed and confirmed naps are not considered Restorative Time, nor incorporated into your total
- If you previously used an Oura Ring Gen2, you may recall seeing Restful periods reflected beneath your daily activities. Restful periods are not the same as Restorative Time. Restorative Time takes a more holistic and refined look at your daily rest and recovery, though the general approach to tracking Restful periods is still taken into consideration
- Restorative Time is not the same as Recovery time or Recovery index, which are both contributors to your Activity and Readiness Scores
- Turning on Rest Mode does not impact the amount of Restorative Time shown in your data
