In Sam’s workshop

Before creating Sam’Relaxe, I needed an escape myself.

Sometimes you build the thing you needed most at your lowest point. For me, that is how Sam’Relaxe began.

In 2019, a few months before Covid, a severe asthma attack put me in hospital. I stayed there for a week.

At the time I was a qualified mason in road and utility works. I had my trade, my responsibilities, my routines. Then the attacks kept coming, months of sick leave piled up, and I was finally declared unfit for my job.

I had to imagine another working life, while I was still trying to understand what was happening to me.

A few months after my stay in hospital, my partner’s mother died suddenly. Nothing had prepared us for it. She was a deeply kind person, and we had grown very close. She meant a great deal to me.

Her death left a great emptiness.

Then Covid arrived.

With my asthma, the warnings were especially worrying: catching the virus could have serious consequences for me. That fear piled onto the grief, the health problems and the uncertainty about my future.

While I started the steps towards a new career, skills assessment, work placements, the search for a new direction, I slowly sank into depression.

Panic attacks, sleepless nights, dark thoughts… In the evening I struggled to fall asleep. I was exhausted, and my mind kept turning.

It was during that period that, one evening, I clicked on a guided meditation video for sleep.

The first voice was not for me. So I tried another video, then another, following the suggestions. Until I found the one that felt right.

That night, it helped me fall asleep.

I did it again the next day. Then the following evenings. Those videos became a ritual, a way of leaving a little room for calm at the end of the day.

My partner, for her part, would have liked to fall asleep without a meditation voice in the background… So I ended up wearing headphones. To each their own way of finding sleep!

Over time, my YouTube home page filled up with meditations, relaxing music and nature sounds. I discovered ambiences I liked to stay in, landscapes that let me think about something else and breathe a little.

Then, one morning, I came across a tutorial explaining how to make that kind of video.

And I wanted to try.

I wanted to give shape to my own imaginary world. To create places where you would enjoy settling in, listening, letting your mind wander. And above all, to share with others what had brought me comfort.

That is the wish Sam’Relaxe was born from.

Today I create worlds and ambiences for anyone looking for a pause. For the evenings when anxiety takes up too much room. To unwind after work, to accompany a quiet moment, or simply to escape into a place you love.

Behind every creation there is this story and this intention: to give you a place where you feel good, for as long as you listen.

I know what it can mean to find the right video at the right moment.

Welcome to my world. I hope you find a little calm here too.

Sam

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