Why should I sit low?
By sitting low in your daily life you:
When you sit on FreeChair, you:
Low sitting provides your body with "incidental" healthy physical activity...
Low sitting is physical activity that is good for you!
- It strengthens the hip, stomach and back muscles
- It increases the flexibility of our joints
- It preserves skeletal resilience
- It exercises our balance
Low sitting is an "incidental" workout -
You don't need to make the time, wear special workout clothes, go to the gym, buy equipment, pay an instructor...
Just a little awareness and you can move a fair amount of your daily activities to low sitting.
And for people who have a hard time with low sitting, FreeChair is the perfect solution!
Learn how FreeChair trains your body to sit low
How low sitting keeps your body flexible, posture straight and healthy for years?
Chairs are "more comfortable", require less energy and in our culture are even more accessible.
So what's wrong with them?
There's nothing wrong with chairs. The only problem is that because they are so accessible and inviting, most of us have all but given up sitting low and even have a hard time doing it!
Giving up low sitting is:
- Giving up essential and daily exercise that makes our hip joints more flexible, strengthens the muscles and maintains skeletal resilience. To prove the point - most adults in our culture have a hard time sitting on the floor, not to mention getting up!
Moreover, we can easily connect the lack of this "exercise" to back problems, osteoporosis, falls and fractures so widespread among the elderly.
- Giving up the ability to straighten the spine while sitting, without the support of a back rest. The erector muscles weaken and the body "forgets" how to balance and stabilize itself on its own when sitting. To illustrate: most of us cannot sit straight for a long time without support for our backs.
- Reducing our physical possibilities! Giving up on low sitting over the years means giving up the ability, the option of sitting low and straight without support.
We actually become dependent on furniture!
And then we go for a picnic in the great outdoors or want to sit on the floor and play with our kids or meditate, and... Oops! How do we sit? What do we lean against?
Millions of men and women around the world live in cultures that do not use chairs at all.
They eat, cook, play and sometimes even work sitting on the ground.
Whenever they sit down or get up, they exercise, increase flexibility and strengthen their bodies.
We, western tourists, are frequently amazed to see how the local elderly stand up straight, are strong and vital.
In other words, low sitting is a little habit with a big payoff - a habit that can keep our bodies independent and healthy throughout our lives.
A few thoughts on sitting straight, dependence vs. independence...
The ability to stand upright is one we have naturally.
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Pay attention to young children - they can sit upright without leaning for what seems to be an amazingly long time.
When and why do we lose this ability?
Around the age of one, we start seating babies and toddlers in chairs - a high chair, car seat, stroller, etc. This is the start of a habit and preference for high sitting.
Read more about the culture of sitting and children
When toddlers meet chairs - they usually also meet... back rests. They quickly get used to leaning back and having their backs supported.
Slowly but surely, their bodies "forget" the secrets of balance and self-carriage, and lose the ability to remain upright, independently, for an extended period
Note that a 10 year old still have the flexibility needed to sit low, but after a few minutes the chest sinks towards the stomach, shoulders hunch...
The back, without support when leaning back, looks for it by flopping forward.
In other words: The back rest is the antithesis of erectness.
Erectness means finding the way for the spine to carry the weight of the head vertically above the pelvis.
While a back rest means: Get real, why work hard?
FreeChair - the only one that combines the advantages of low sitting with dynamic sitting
FreeChair is a low and swaying chair, the product of unique development, that allows you to benefit from the advantages of low sitting, while enjoying gentle and pleasant motion. Dynamic sitting (that includes movement) improves circulation and delivery of oxygen to the body, and contributes to alertness and ability to concentrate.
Read more on why dynamic sitting is what your body needs.
FreeChair - a smooth transition to low sitting
Have you read about the advantages of low sitting? Were you convinced? Did you get up from the computer, walk over to the rug, sit down and... Ouch! Your knees gripe, hip joints moan and your back is really unhappy... Why? It's probably been quite some time since you last sat low. Your joints are not flexible enough to open up enough for this kind of sitting, and the back muscles do not "remember" any more how to extend and stabilize themselves to bear the weight of your head.
So? This does not mean you should give up!
FreeChair is a perfect solution for people who finding sitting low very uncomfortable!
- Elevation of the pelvis
When sitting on FreeChair, the pelvis is raised 11.5 cm above the ground, making it easier for the hip joint and alleviating pressure on the knees. Conduct a small experiment - try to place a small pillow under the sitting bones. It helps, right?
- A customized angle
Have you discovered that slightly elevating the pelvis makes it much easier to sit low?
You may want to play with the height a bit - add a pillow, remove a pillow until you find the angle comfortable for you between the pelvis and knees.
This is the big gift FreeChair gives you. Since it sways back and forth, everyone can find the angle that is right for them! We sway back and forth a little and... at a certain point, you'll know you've "got it!"
Moreover, the more you practice low sitting, the longer and more flexible your leg muscles will become, and your need for elevation will change. FreeChair "goes with the flow": Since FreeChair is dynamic, each time you sit on it, without paying attention, your body will adjust to the most comfortable position, considering the amount of flexibility you have right now!
- It is easier to be flexible when in motion
If you exercise, you know - it is easier for our muscles to stretch if we add gentle motion. Motion promotes breathing, delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the muscle helping it get longer. Gentle motion when stretching eases the pain we tend to feel when stretching and gradually increases the range of motion.
FreeChair introduces movement into sitting and enables us to smoothly transition back into low sitting!
Read more about the advantages of dynamic sitting
- It's comfortable!
Breaking habits is not easy, but if we can make it easier - why not?
If you decide to make low sitting part of your everyday routine, comfort and accessibility increase the odds of keeping it up and succeeding.
Sitting on FreeChair is comfortable and nice, and the gentle motion is relaxing and invigorating. You won't feel like you're "working out". You are just... having a good time!
FreeChair - it's a revolution designed with love...
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