Active sitting at a fine furniture convention – we were warned this might not be “our crowd.” Could people interested in the hot new shade of gray be interested in chairs designed to make you heal...
Is your office chair actually causing your back pain?
Is your office chair actually causing your back pain? Probably. Do you already know your sitting posture is bad? Probably. People spend a lot of time sitting (11 hours a day, on average), an...
You eat right, exercise at least three times per week, but still have high blood pressure and cholesterol. How is that possible? In a previous decade, we might have asked if you were a smoker (Wha...
QOR360 Supports Women's Heart Health
Our chairs have always supported heart health through active sitting. February is women’s heart health awareness month. For each chair purchased in the month of February, QOR360 will donate 5% ...
If Sitting is the Problem, is Standing the Solution? NO!
“Yes, I know sitting is “the new smoking”; that’s why I have a standing desk”. I’ve heard this a lot over the last few years. And it seems to make perfect sense: after all, isn’t standing the o...
Comfortable Chairs and the Purpose of Sitting
No one wants to be uncomfortable, and especially not for long periods of time. So it’s hardly surprising that when it comes to sitting, the activity that consumes most of our waking hours, the que...
Image: The Wisdom Daily © 2014 The Wisdom Daily. I’ve been a student of the Feldenkrais method for about a decade now, so I’m really just a beginner. But here’s what I think I’ve been learning…...
Why "Ergonomic" chairs are bad for your posture.
Posture is response of the body to gravity. It is the moment to moment conversation our bodies have with gravity. This conversation begins at birth, and continues as babies first lift their head, ...
I’m sometimes asked “How did you come up with the rocker for your chairs?” I usually deflect this question with something like “Well, it wasn’t the first thing I thought of…” and hope that’s enough...
Yoga balls: not the solution for sitting at work (or anywhere else...)
“It’s like the yoga ball, isn’t it?” I hear this often when people encounter our QOR360 chairs for the first time and are trying to figure out what sitting on one of our rockers might feel like. ...