About this session
This practical introduction helps participants understand their heart and circulation through everyday experience first.
Rather than starting with anatomy, participants explore what happens when they walk, climb stairs, feel stressed, rest, recover, or notice their pulse — and then connect those observations with how the cardiovascular system actually works.
The session explains why heart rate changes, how blood moves around the body, what arteries, veins, capillaries, chambers, and valves do, and how movement, sleep, smoking, alcohol, nutrition, blood pressure, and other factors influence cardiovascular health over time.
Longer formats go further into individual heart-health patterns, recovery, cardiovascular risk, common myths, health technology, and practical ways to support the heart through everyday routines.
What your people take away
- Understand what happens to heart rate and circulation during everyday activity, stress, and recovery
- Learn how the heart, lungs, blood vessels, and circulation work together
- Understand the roles of the heart's chambers, valves, arteries, veins, and capillaries
- Recognize the major everyday factors that influence cardiovascular health
- Understand what pulse checks and fitness trackers can tell you — and where their limitations begin
- Build practical heart-health habits and recognize when symptoms warrant professional assessment
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30 minutes
30 Minutes — Key Points: Your Heart in Everyday LifeA focused 30-minute session on three key points from Your Heart in Everyday Life: notice what happens when you move, find & understand your pulse and watch how the body recovers.
- Notice what happens when you move
- Find & understand your pulse
- Watch how the body recovers
Covers 3 of 4 points in Your Heart in Everyday Life.
60 minutes
Your Heart in Everyday LifeA practical, accessible introduction built around what participants can observe in real life: pulse, movement, recovery, stress, sitting, and common heart-health habits.
- Module 1 — Your Heart in Everyday Life
- Live Q&A
Covers 1 of 4 parts: Your Heart in Everyday Life.
90 minutes
Understand the System Behind the ExperienceThe extended session adds the anatomy and physiology behind those everyday observations, including blood flow, chambers, valves, vessels, oxygen delivery, and heart-rate regulation.
- Module 1 — Your Heart in Everyday Life
- Module 2 — How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work
- Live Q&A
Covers 2 of 4 parts: Your Heart in Everyday Life and How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work.
3 hours
Covers 3 of 4 parts: Your Heart in Everyday Life, How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work and Your Heart Health Story.
Full day
Understand Your Heart Health in ContextThe full-day format adds personal risk factors, fitness and recovery, blood pressure, lifestyle influences, trackers, myths, and practical heart-health planning.
- Module 1 — Your Heart in Everyday Life
- Module 2 — How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work
- Module 3 — Your Heart Health Story
- Live Q&A
Covers all 4 parts.
Also available as a 4-week program, for change that lasts. Ask us about it.
What’s covered
Your Heart in Everyday Life
Every length- Notice what happens when you moveParticipants explore how their breathing, warmth, pulse, and effort change during ordinary activities such as walking, climbing stairs, or standing after sitting.
- Find & understand your pulseParticipants can practice locating a wrist pulse and observing its rhythm and rate, with participation completely optional.
- Watch how the body recoversThe group explores what happens after activity stops and why heart rate and breathing gradually move back toward their resting pattern.
- Identify the habits your heart experiences every dayParticipants connect movement, prolonged sitting, sleep, smoking, alcohol, food patterns, stress, and routine health checks with cardiovascular health.
How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work
90 minutes and longer- Follow the journey of bloodParticipants trace blood from the body to the heart, to the lungs for oxygen, back through the heart, and out again to the body's tissues.
- Understand the four chambers & valvesThe facilitator explains how the four chambers work together and how valves help keep blood moving in the correct direction.
- Arteries, veins & capillaries have different jobsArteries generally carry blood away from the heart, veins return blood toward it, and capillaries form the tiny exchange network between blood and tissues.
- The heart's electrical system sets the rhythmParticipants learn that each heartbeat depends on an electrical signaling system that coordinates contraction and determines how fast the heart beats.
Your Heart Health Story
3 hours and longer- Fitness changes how the system respondsRegular physical activity can improve cardiovascular fitness and influence how efficiently the body handles everyday physical demands.
- Blood pressure adds another dimensionHeart rate tells us how frequently the heart beats, while blood pressure describes the pressure exerted within the arteries.
- Personal risk is built from many factorsAge, family history, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, physical activity, sleep, and other factors can all contribute to cardiovascular risk.
- Trackers provide data — not a diagnosisSmartwatches and fitness trackers can make heart-rate information much more visible, but consumer devices have limitations.
Build Your Everyday Heart-Health Strategy
Full day only- Move in ways that support your heartParticipants explore walking, aerobic activity, strength work, active commuting, and breaking up prolonged sitting as different ways of supporting cardiovascular health.
- Support the heart between workoutsSleep, food patterns, smoking, alcohol, recovery, stress, and sedentary time continue to influence cardiovascular health when no exercise is happening.
- Know what deserves professional attentionThe facilitator distinguishes normal everyday cardiovascular responses from symptoms that should not simply be explained away as stress, low fitness, or tiredness.
- Choose a heart-health habit that can lastParticipants review their own routine and identify one or two realistic cardiovascular-health actions they can repeat consistently.
Who it’s for
- Employees looking for accessible, practical heart-health education
- Virtual, hybrid, onsite, frontline and shift-working teams
- Workplace wellbeing programs focused on prevention and everyday action
- Organizations seeking presentation-led and workshop-compatible delivery
How booking works
- Book online. Create a free Workbliss profile, then pay with session credits, by card or by invoice.
- Pick a date. Choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or book now and set the date later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
- Choose your expert. Within 3 working days, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date.
- We deliver it. Your expert is briefed on your people and goals, then runs the session live online or at your site.
Questions about Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work
How long is Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work?
Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work runs as 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, 3 hours or full day. You choose the length when you book. A 30-minute session covers three key points from Your Heart in Everyday Life: notice what happens when you move, find & understand your pulse and watch how the body recovers. A 60-minute session covers Your Heart in Everyday Life in full, with a live Q&A. A 90-minute session adds How the Heart & Circulation Actually Work. A 3-hour session adds Your Heart Health Story. A full-day session adds Build Your Everyday Heart-Health Strategy. It is also available as a 4-week program.
Can Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work be delivered online or in person?
Yes, both. It runs live online, so every office can join at the same time, or in person at your site, in any country.
How do we book Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work?
Create a free Workbliss profile with your work email, then open Heart Health 101: How Your Heart and Circulation Work to see the price for each length and book it. You can pay with session credits, by card or by invoice, and choose a date at least 14 days ahead, or set it later. Need it sooner? Email hello@workbliss.ai and we’ll see what we can do.
Who leads the session?
A vetted Workbliss expert, briefed on your people, culture and goals before the session. After you book, we send you profiles of the experts available for your date within 3 working days, so you can choose who leads it.
Can it be tailored to our company?
Yes. Every session is shaped around your goals, your people and the benefits you already offer, and delivered by experts in your people’s languages.