Five Minute Clay

Five Minute Clay

Wellness while you shape a pot

Put on a five minute lesson and shape clay on a quiet 3D pottery wheel with your fingers. When the lesson ends, glaze your pot, fire it in the kiln and set it on your shelf. One calm pot a day.

Coming soon iPhone and Android

How it works

Every pot follows the same gentle steps. No timers, no scores. The lesson sets the pace.

Today screen with a Begin button over misty mountains1

Press Begin

A short spoken lesson starts. Headphones on, shoulders down.

Shaping a bowl on the pottery wheel in a sunlit studio2

Shape

Touch the spinning clay. Pull it up, press it in, smooth and stamp it.

Decorate screen with colours and bands3

Decorate

Paint colours, bands, patterns and beads onto your pot.

A pot dipped in celadon glaze in a forest scene4

Glaze and fire

Dip it in celadon, tenmoku or shino, then watch the kiln glow.

Wooden shelves full of finished pots5

Your shelf

Every pot you make is kept. Your shelf grows one quiet day at a time.

Five minute lessons

Warm, spoken episodes you listen to while your hands are busy. Each course has five short lessons.

Ink painting of mountains
Free

Meditations

Old ideas about staying steady, told for a busy modern day.

Watercolour of a calm evening
Free

Sleep and rest

Plain ideas from sleep research for winding down and resting well.

Watercolour of a tea bowl
Course

The Book of Tea

The beauty hiding in ordinary moments, from a small book written in 1906.

Made to be calm

A wellness app should leave you feeling better, not hooked.

  • No streaks that punish you. Miss a day and nothing is lost.
  • No countdown timers. Take as long as you like.
  • No loot boxes. You always see what you get.
  • Nature sounds. Forest stream, morning birds, wood fire.
  • Works without an account. Sign in only if you want to.
  • Your pots stay yours. Every one is kept on your shelf.