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FEET & FOOTWEAR

Discover the powerful potential of your feet and how barefootwear can help you harness it.

How to care for your Vivos
08/10/24

How to care for your Vivos

We believe that the longer you care for your footwear, the longer it’ll care for you back. One of the best things we can do is buy less and fix more, so here are our go-to tips and tricks to keep your barefootwear on your feet for longer.

Bio-Inspired design in practice
30/04/24

Bio-Inspired design in practice

If we can make barefootwear that thrives in the planet’s wildest places in harmony with nature, surely we can make all footwear in harmony with nature?

Exploring the art of human nature
30/04/24

Exploring the art of human nature

We asked Jimmy Söber, otherwise known as Formbark, if he would be open to creating a cast of five ESC characters, one for each biome. We’re delighted that he said yes. To hear how he’s getting along and learn more about his work, we spoke with him as a cold, snowy winter turns into spring.

Reimagining exploration in wild places
30/04/24

Reimagining exploration in wild places

ESC stands for exploration not as conquest or escape, but connection. This blog focuses on what we hope comes out of ESC. What might regenerative exploration look like?

The Greatest story we’ve Never Told
11/04/24

The Greatest story we’ve Never Told

As we mark the launch of the Jungle ESC, the latest addition to our Ecological Survival Collection, it’s finally time to tell the ESC story in full. In this blog, the first of a series, Vivo Co-Founder and Design Director Asher Clark sets the scene.

Finding Relief: How Barefoot Shoes and Foot Exercises Can Alleviate Plantar Fasciitis
15/03/24

Finding Relief: How Barefoot Shoes and Foot Exercises Can Alleviate Plantar Fasciitis

This blog explains what plantar fasciitis is, how barefoot footwear can help with plantar fasciitis, and offers some exercises for alleviating plantar fasciitis. 

Embrace Barefoot Living: Elevate Your Health with Barefoot Footwear
04/03/24

Embrace Barefoot Living: Elevate Your Health with Barefoot Footwear

This blog explores how wearing barefoot shoes in your everyday life can benefit your foot health, overall natural health, and general wellbeing.

Strengthen Your Ankles: Exercises and Barefoot Shoes to Enhance Stability
04/03/24

Strengthen Your Ankles: Exercises and Barefoot Shoes to Enhance Stability

Ankles are crucial for stability, balance, and overall athletic performance. Yet people often overlook their ankles when it comes to sport and strength training. This blog explores how to strengthen your ankles with exercises and barefoot footwear.

Made in Mongolia Wool Felt Slippers: a legacy of heritage craftsmanship
11/12/23

Made in Mongolia Wool Felt Slippers: a legacy of heritage craftsmanship

We’re delighted to be partnering with Asral, a very special NGO from the remote Mongolian steppes in the heart of the Gobi desert to bring you the warmest, toastiest, 100% natural wool felt slippers for when it’s too cold to be barefoot indoors.

What would Mother Nature want you to do?
23/11/23

What would Mother Nature want you to do?

Here are some of the helpful TLC tips from Revivo that you can use to look after your different kinds of Vivos.

The Bare Truth about Hiking Boots
02/11/23

The Bare Truth about Hiking Boots

It’s widely understood that proper hiking footwear is padded, rigid, and waterproof, with plentiful ankle support and thick soles. Outdoor terrain requires capable boots. Except, what if our definition of ‘capable’ has been misinformed? The adventure world has evolved from its conquest-over-connection past, and so has hiking footwear. It’s time to bust some myths.

Best Barefoot Gym Shoes
14/10/22

Best Barefoot Gym Shoes

The Primus Lite III is a sustainable, high-performance minimalist sneaker perfect for anything from strength training to cross fit.

Find your wild: Let your kids run free
04/03/22

Find your wild: Let your kids run free

Unsolicited parental advice is everywhere. Encourage your kids to go wild, explore nature, and learn for themselves.

Malcom the weaver colouring competition
09/02/22

Malcom the weaver colouring competition

Nature and feet go together like peanut butter and jam. They belong together. They just do. We’ve teamed up with children’s author Malcolm the Weaver to tell us all about it!

WEAR UNIFORM, DON’T THINK UNIFORM
16/07/21

WEAR UNIFORM, DON’T THINK UNIFORM

Barefoot school shoes improve natural movement, agility and flexibility – starting with feet, but also for bodies and minds. Back to school shouldn’t be about BEING the same.

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