Reclaim Your Mastery of Sitting

Transform the pain of conventional furniture by reclaiming your birthright of innate sitting mastery so that you can live with greater comfort, mobility, and physical freedom in everyday life.

If you’re ready to accelerate your Soul Seat journey to mastery, let yourself learn from the creative sitters who have come before you.

In fact, what you’ll learn in this course is how to address a challenge that even owning a Soul Seat at home doesn’t completely solve.

What do you do when you need to sit anywhere else and a Soul Seat isn’t at hand? Because Soul Seaters find that the tool is so effective, their tolerance for conventional chairs becomes unbearable.

Young girl sitting on a bed in front of a large window, wearing a yellow dress with white hearts, with a curious expression.
Woman sitting at a desk drinking from a mug, with a laptop and potted plants near a window.

What you’ll learn:

    • A summary of the Ikaria Reverse Hero’s Journey

      • Where are you on the Journey?

    • Three steps to take to assess where you are on the continuum of sitting mastery:

      • The Sit-Rise Test

      • What’s your Sitting Mastery story?

      • Collecting pictures of you as a toddler

    • Clarifying for yourself the benefits of regaining Sitting Mastery

    • What benefits will you enjoy on the way to sitting mastery?

      • Physical benefits

      • Emotional benefits

    • The three key facets of Sitting Mastery and how they interact with the various contexts we find ourselves in.

      • Deeper awareness of how our body functions

      • Deeper awareness of how the social/emotional landscape shapes our bodies.

      • Reclaiming a sense of agency and determination to keep our bodies from having to accommodate arbitrary rules.

    • Why we refer to it as a journey. (We believe that value is in the path more than the destination.) We’ve already been to the destination once, as toddlers.

    • The three dynamics at play during every Reverse Hero’s Journey, and how to balance them.

    • Specific areas and advice we won’t be covering, but suggestions about where you might find them. (Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Yoga instructors, specific sports trainers and modalities, etc.)

      • Choosing the right dose of floor time for your location in the journey

      • A brief history of Ergonomics and how it can inform your journey

      • Developing a new relationship with discomfort. How to interpret the signals.

    • The social and emotional dimensions of the Reverse Hero’s journey and other bottlenecks you’re likely to encounter.

      • The elements of a plan that can keep you on the path back to mastery.

      • Places to look for inspiration on the journey.

    • We’re surrounded by traumatized fellow sitters. How to invite others onto this journey with you.

    • Where to look for inspiration and encouragement when hurdles show up.

    • How to organize time and space to support your journey.

    • Affordable props and tools: yoga blocks, bolsters, yoga ties/judo straps, wedge cushions, etc.

    • Perfection can be a hindrance to progress.

    • Physical issues we aren’t qualified to address.

    • How to apply what you learn on this journey to other areas of your life that would benefit from permission structures, cultural norms that need challenging, and areas of mastery your ready to reclaim.

    • Share your stories with us!

  • This course is for you if:

    - You can remember a time when you weren’t afraid of the floor.

    - You are unwilling to give up your right to fidget to focus.

    - You have tried the Sit-Rise Test and want to maintain or improve your score.

    - You’ve wondered what happened to your mobility, why floor sitting is so uncomfortable.

    - You are on the path to less furniture, more mobility.

    - You’ve experienced sticker shock at seeing the price of a Soul Seat.

    - You’re tired of paying the price of conventional sitting.

  • This course may not be for you if:

    - You’re looking for a quick fix.

    - You find yourself feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of challenging social norms.

    - You have specific physical limitations that make floor sitting contraindicated for you.

A colorful infographic titled 'The Soul Seat Journey Road Map' illustrating a person's journey through different stages of sitting and relief, from childhood to old age, with various illustrations and descriptions of each stage.

Resources to support each stage of your journey: from inspiring stories like a family going furniture-free, to a series of six weekly newsletters from our founder on various topics related to the re-mastery of sitting, such as strategies to manage family gatherings when you’re choosing the floor

You’ll also receive:

Links to networks like the MoveNat community, Katy Bowman, and our friend Galen Cranz on the history of the chair (you’ll never look at chairs the same way again), and referrals to other brands that are taking floor culture seriously by producing wonderful products for you and your loved ones

Access to videos like how you can make an inexpensive floor desk out of just about any card table, and videos by our very own Zoe Thompson about keystone stretches to prepare you and your psoas for longer stretches sitting away from chairs

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