The Vital Relaxation: free platform for resilient healthcare workers

KuóStudio today launches a free online platform focused on vital relaxation for healthcare staff. Short, accessible meditation and yoga exercises are central to the platform and are tailored to the challenges that care workers are currently experiencing.The reason for this is the cry for help from intensive care nurses. They say they feel out of control because of the pressure and stress. The aim of The Vital Relaxation is therefore: to keep care staff resilient.

Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, caregivers are experiencing many difficult situations. The long days, many sick people, high pressure and adapted measures have a great impact on the staff and their work. Over the past few weeks, caregivers in the intensive care units in particular have reported that they feel out of control due to the pressure and stress. KuóStudio has years of experience in getting people to work as energetically as possible. This is what the design agency does with The Vital Office and The Vital Education. The initiators, Martine van der Wel and Marc Vermeulen, are now using this knowledge and experience to offer support to care workers who are under a great deal of pressure.

The Vital Relaxation

The online platform is filled daily with exercises that ensure that the effects of stress, such as feelings of anxiety and insomnia, have less chance of taking over. In this practical way, care workers maintain control over their own mental and physical health.

The exercises have been developed by specialist meditation and yoga teachers – all of whom have knowledge and experience in supporting people working in stressful professions.

From guided audio meditations, yoga videos and breathing exercises to self-care tips. The short, approachable and effective exercises allow for an energetic start to the shift, a break in between and for relaxation after the workday. Registration on the site is not necessary: the exercises are free and suitable for every kind of experience. The goal is to give a breather, relax and get back into the body.

Good care

Martine van der Wel: “We want to give something back out of gratitude and respect for the people who work day and night to look after our health. A lot is asked of the care workers and in periods of unrest it is important to have good resistance. Worry and anxiety are easily around the corner and have quite an impact on that resistance. Tension in your body, your thought processes and your emotional life express themselves in cramps and constrictions. Yoga and meditation exercises help to recognize this tension and help to reduce adrenaline and lower stress levels.”

Get started with the exercises right away? Go to www.devitaleontspanning.nl.