diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 12c6fc2..d605a83 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
+ "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
 ]
 
diff --git a/overwatch-rs/Cargo.toml b/overwatch-rs/Cargo.toml
index a0b5257..696afc7 100644
--- a/overwatch-rs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/overwatch-rs/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ futures = "0.3"
 thiserror = "1.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.17", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "sync", "time"] }
 tokio-stream = {version ="0.1", features = ["sync"] }
+tokio-util = "0.7"
 tracing = "0.1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/overwatch-rs/src/services/relay.rs b/overwatch-rs/src/services/relay.rs
index 55beb38..7bbe97a 100644
--- a/overwatch-rs/src/services/relay.rs
+++ b/overwatch-rs/src/services/relay.rs
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 use std::any::Any;
 use std::fmt::Debug;
 use std::marker::PhantomData;
+use std::pin::Pin;
+use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 // crates
+use futures::{Sink, Stream};
 use thiserror::Error;
 use tokio::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
 use tokio::sync::oneshot;
+use tokio_util::sync::PollSender;
 use tracing::{error, instrument};
 // internal
 use crate::overwatch::commands::{OverwatchCommand, RelayCommand, ReplyChannel};
@@ -105,7 +109,7 @@ impl<M> InboundRelay<M> {
     }
 }
 
-impl<M> OutboundRelay<M> {
+impl<M: Send + 'static> OutboundRelay<M> {
     /// Send a message to the relay connection
     pub async fn send(&self, message: M) -> Result<(), (RelayError, M)> {
         self.sender
@@ -130,6 +134,10 @@ impl<M> OutboundRelay<M> {
             .blocking_send(message)
             .map_err(|e| (RelayError::Send, e.0))
     }
+
+    pub fn into_sink(self) -> impl Sink<M> {
+        PollSender::new(self.sender)
+    }
 }
 
 impl<S: ServiceCore> Relay<S> {
@@ -174,3 +182,11 @@ impl<S: ServiceCore> Relay<S> {
         }
     }
 }
+
+impl<M> Stream for InboundRelay<M> {
+    type Item = M;
+
+    fn poll_next(mut self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>> {
+        self.receiver.poll_recv(cx)
+    }
+}