Does Sitting Weird Have To Be So Expensive?
There’s no way we can predict how much value owning a Soul Seat will bring to your life. That’s why we commit to our 90-day return policy and our BuyBack Promise. Perusing our reviews and testimonials can help with your decision as well. Many folks experience sticker shock when they see the price of a Soul Seat. We get it! It can be a bit of a letdown to see that a product so beautifully delivering permission to sit weird actually exists, but at that price?! Here are some suggestions about how to leverage that sticker shock feeling.
The intensity of the sticker shock is a sign of how much you long for the day-in and day-out permission to sit weird that access to a Soul Seat would bring. It is a measure of how clearly you understand how its use would benefit your overall health. However, you may not really need that cultural permission right now. You can be encouraged by the sheer number of copycat Soul Seats, objects that never existed 15 years ago when we introduced the first Soul Seat.
The permission to sit weird has never been more available. So go ahead and choose the floor, and hack together a low table. (Here’s a video that might help) The cultural and social barriers to bringing movement into your workday may not be as strong as you think. The price of a Soul Seat only seems like a hurdle when we tell ourselves that that’s the only way we can get permission. Yes, Ikaria Design broke the ice and started the trend, but the floor is still sitting there (pun intended) waiting for your return. It misses you from your kindergarten days.
The landscape of cultural permission can change fast. It wasn’t so long ago that there were few places to find a standing desk, say in the occasional architect's studio. But then we started seeing the courageous folks hacking up their own versions with obsolete encyclopedias and banker boxes. Now there’s no shortage of choices of stylish adjustable stand-up desks at every price range. Goethe never had it so good. BTW, Soul Seats play very well with these adjustable stand-up desks.
Some friends who knew about us when we had produced only a hundred or so Soul Seats, told me they would wait to buy one when we had sold more and the price went down. Neither of them has a Soul Seat even now because the build quality, materials, and price have increased. The good news is that each of them also took to heart our suggestions about low-cost choices to stay mobile. They leveraged the permission that the Soul Seat embodied and started choosing the floor, finding more and more allies with each choice they made.
We take every opportunity to share with folks that the Soul Seat experience is available to anyone who can still access the floor. A quick look at our resource page here will get you started on a tiny sampling of the ocean of research into the health benefits of movement. Who knows, it might help your employer kick in some funds toward Soul Seats for you and your colleagues. We’ve heard from many folks that their companies are sitting on underutilized stipends for setting up healthy workspaces at home. Ask around, and please let us know what you find out.
You can help us build out the resources that will help folks start to see more and more opportunities to sit cross-legged, to work on the floor, and to get moving. That’s what the Soul Seat experience is really all about. Our premium products exist to help give folks the permission they may need to sit weird. But there is a low-cost, high-courage path as well. Just start giving yourself and your loved ones that permission whenever you can. As Seth Godin (a Soul Seat owner BTW) would say, “Choose yourself”.
Major publications, like Time Magazine, even have your back. Here’s a blog post about choosing the floor where we point out a TIME article encouraging you to sit on the floor every day. Here’s another blog post about what my spouse Rebecca and I do when we don’t have a Soul Seat at hand. We carry the Soul Seat experience with us in our new habits, our rehabbed fascia, and our nervyness to go against the cultural tide. And we’re always encouraged to notice the number of folks who choose to join us on the floor, once we’ve broken the ice. It’s a lot like the way your brain gets re-wired once you change car models, hairstyles, or brand of shoes - you suddenly see them everywhere. Floor culture has been with us since the dawn of time, you’re welcome to join us in speeding up its healthy return.