For 'active sitting' and 'whole brain creativity'

1--Puts you in a position called 'active sitting' which helps you tone muscles and loose weight rather than get out of shape while you study or work.

2--Helps you focus and concentrate by allowing movement while sitting. This is rule #1 of www.brainrules.net

3--It's green!
100% recycled Forest Stewardship Council certified fiberboard/100% natural finish (with 0% petroleum byproducts). Perfect even for the chemically sensitive.

4--It's versatile!
It can also be used as a low table, bedstand, or desk while sitting on the floor.

5--It's portable! It comes apart in seconds using wood pegs and straps.

6--Use in the Office or set up a classroom, waiting room or dining table. Ask us about quanity discounts.
Active Sitting engages the body so your spine is closer to a standing position. This reduces back pain caused by stress on vertebral disks.
This is not exactly a 'kneeling chair' per se.

You are somewhat in a kneeling position, but your knees are not touching anything. It could more accurately be described as a 'perching' position.

The Tilt Seat Eco Chair™ has advantages over other chairs like the "saddle seat" or "kneeling chair" or "exercise ball chair".

1--You don't get locked into one position. (Especially the Balans Chair kneeling chair is notorious for this flaw. On the Tilt Seat™ you can make micro adjustments to your sitting by easily shifting your weight and rotating your hips, waist, and lower back. (Okay, wiggling isn't allowed in some places. This has got to change.)

2--Easy to get up and down. You are practically standing anyway.

3--You can rest your ankles on the lower crossbar or place feet in front as shown.

4--Wide surface area allows optimal circulation to legs.

5--The cost of most active sitting chairs, saddle seats, and kneeling chairs is prohibitive to most. The Tilt Seat is suitable for a dining room set or a classroom.

6--It's the only GREEN CHAIR of it's type on the market.
These "kneeling chairs" which have proliferated since the 1970's (see Wikipedia entry below) provide the benefits of aligned posture and active sitting.

Ball Chairs have problems:

*Ball Chairs are made of toxic plastic in China without fair trade and no environmental regulations.

*Ball Chairs take up an excessive amount of floor space with an average radius of three feet. They don't fit under a most desks when not in use.

*Ball Chairs come in limited sizes so are not very adjustable to individual needs.

*Ball Chairs don't allow a lot of alternative positions. Your feet are in front of you and they are never going anywhere else.
Our Tilt Seat™ has advantages
over the ball chair:

*100% recycled, non-toxic,

*Looks like a nice piece of furniture,

*Takes up far less floor space,

*Offers multiple positions so you can shift around when needed. (Feet can be in front or underneath or ankles resting on cross-bar.)

*Comes in several sizes for getting the right fit.

*Sky Bench™ and Tilt Seat™ can be used in conjunction with each other to make a Zen Office™. We offer a 20% discount if you buy a Sky Bench™ or Peace Bench™ and Tilt Seat™ as a package. Sky Bench™ and Tilt Seat™ knock down so you can take your ergonomic office on a trip, even in an average sized suitcase.

Compared to other "kneeling" chairs, this has some advantages. Other kneeling chairs have issues with getting locked into one position and too much pressure on the knees.

On our Tilt Seat there is no pressure on the knees, and it is very easy to get into and out of this seat.

Also, the back of the ankles can be placed on the bar below for a variation in sitting position.

Besides a chair, you can turn this around and use it as a portable study desk when sitting on the floor. When turned around, it holds your book or writing material at a forward tilt (like a drafting table).

When used as a study table it is just the right height when sitting on a floor seat like Peace Bench™ or Zafu.

Made from a Forest Stewardship Council Certified, 100% recycled wood content composite material called Medite II. This is a wood fiber product that uses wood scraps that would otherwise be discarded.

The bench is hand-finished with a non-toxic finish (linseed oil, beeswax, and pine resin) to give it a dark honey sheen.

This Active Sitting Chair is lightweight, made from 1/2 inch material and weighs 10 lbs. It can be taken apart and packed in a suitcase that is at least 22 inches long.

Seat measures 10"x20". A Tilt Seat cushion will add one inch to the height--so if you are going to use a cushion, factor that in when deciding which size to get. Most people don't use a cushion, but you should know if you need one based on previous experience with sitting on chairs.

From Wikipedia:
A kneeling chair is a type of chair for sitting in a position with the thighs dropped to an angle of about 130 degrees in relationship to the spine (as opposed to 90 degrees when sitting in a normal chair), with some of the body's weight supported by the shins or knees.

Kneeling chairs were invented in Norway in the 1970s, starting with Hans Christian Mengshoel's experiments on sitting devices with support under the shins. Furniture designers Peter Opsvik, Oddvin Rykken, and Svein Gusrud each developed chairs based on this principle. These designs took as their starting point the strain placed on the spine by conventional right-angled chairs.

Kneeling chairs open up the angle between the thigh and the torso, making it easier to retain the natural curvature of the spine.[Galan Cranz, The Chair] This posture changes the stress distribution of the human body in comparison with the sitting position of an ordinary chair. Because the angle of the hip joint is between that of sitting and standing, it allows the spine to be in a more "neutral," or middle-of-range, position. Because the knees are lower than the pelvis, the normal curve is restored to the lower spine, which reduces stress to the lower lumbar vertebrae.

A Kneelsit kneeling chair.
Despite the name, the posture of a person in a kneeling chair is not the same as kneeling on the ground. It is sometimes assumed that the knees bear most of the body's weight when sitting in a kneeling chair, but this is incorrect – the shins bear some weight for stability, but the body is still sitting, not kneeling.
The kneeling chair is known by several names:
YogaChair (a trademark)
Balans chair (a trademark)
Various versions of "balance chair", "knee chair" or Scandinavian/Swedish/Norwegian chair
Kneelsit chair (a trademark) - incorporates an adjustable backrest for lumbar support and mounts the seat and kneeler on swivel bearings for movement