March 10, 2023
Could Simply Changing Your Chair Add Years to Your Life?
The profound difference between sitting and ‘active resting’ Note: Although I’m an academic researcher, because I…
October 27, 2022
What Is an “Exercise Chair”? (Besides an Oxymoron)
Why do we sit? On the face of it an “exercise chair” seems an odd…
October 4, 2022
This Just in (again): Passive sitting is bad for us.
Exercise cannot undo the harms of passive sitting. Evidence has been accumulating for years that…
April 16, 2022
Can Active Sitting Help with Acute Low Back Pain?
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest…
March 9, 2022
Active Sitting: Can it keep you young?
It is a personal failing of mine that I don’t monitor my phone very carefully,…
January 8, 2022
Why does my office chair hurt my back?
If you’ve ever shopped for an office chair you’ve likely noticed that all the designs…
December 28, 2021
Unnecessary “ergonomic” chair parts
Why do office chairs have so many parts? People searching for the “best ergonomic office…
August 15, 2021
The inventor of the Barefoot Shoe loves our office chair
We recently connected with the inventor of the VivoBarefoot Shoe, and he loves our office…
July 6, 2021
Best chair for people with ADHD?
Can active sitting help people with ADHD focus better? Research shows that alternative seating and…
June 12, 2021
Can active sitting help people with scoliosis?
Can active sitting help people with scoliosis? Possibly. In the least, it helped relieve the…
May 20, 2021
Effortless Fitness: Why there are no gyms in Japan
Japanese people embrace walking as regular exercise. As a result, few people use gyms, but…
April 2, 2021
Active sitting – what’s it for?
“What’s it for?” Or, occasionally, “What’s it good for?” I get this question about our…
February 21, 2021
The Feldenkrais Approach to Healing Back Pain
Uwe Mester is a Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, and Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of America.…
January 27, 2021
Back Pain: The Feldenkrais Perspective
A Guest Blog by Uwe Mester, Certified Feldenkrais Teacher, Member of the Feldenkrais Guild of…
December 17, 2020
Somehow, Every Ergonomist Gets Sitting Wrong
The field of ergonomics hasn’t changed their approach and recommendations for chairs in many, many…
April 24, 2020
Squatting in the 21 Century
We force kids to abandon squatting so as adults, the position is nearly impossible and…
February 14, 2020
You sit still, you get old
You sit still, you get old We often hear from folks who want to…
October 16, 2019
Disrupting the furniture landscape… or forging a new one?
One marker for a disruptive technology is that those pushing the old technology won’t “get…
June 20, 2019
6th Graders Take on the ButtOn Chair
“80% of Americans have back pain.” The sixth grade class had just been asked what…