Do you love sitting crossing your legs while you are working? If yes, then this chair is perfect for you. This chair will not only allow you to sit crossed-legs but it will also help you to correct your posture. As this seat comes with a platform and perch which allows you to sit in different positions while keeping your legs fold but also it will lessen your pain and muscle tightness. Do you know which company has designed this comfortable chair? It’s designed by an American company called Health by Design specifically for those yogis and Malaysians who love to sit bersila meaning cross legs at their office desk.
Who designed the Soul Seat?
A local Twitter user, @AzyanDraws shared about this seat a few days ago, and it has since garnered over 40,000 retweets!
She wrote, “For those who love to sit cross-legged, I have found the perfect chair for you,”.
Siapa yang suka bersila atas kerusi tu, i found the perfect chair for u. pic.twitter.com/5POacIR1yS
— AzyanDraws (@AzyanDraws) December 24, 2019
Thanks to the designer who felt the pain of 9 to 5 jobbers. The Soul Seat has been designed by designer and founder, Pack Matthews. He was quite frustrated with how traditional chairs left him in pain and limited the number of sitting positions he could change while working at the computer for a long time.
According to their website, he also collaborated with a few friends and they came up with a unique design, it is even registered in the US Patent Office.
The chair has been designed to alleviate pain and muscle tightness
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The chair helps correct your posture as sitting on its special design “tilts the pelvis forward, opens the hips, and lets the spine align to a comfortable, neutral position”.
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Yoga trainers are the target group for this chair
Matthew, the founder, and designer has said that he loves doing yoga, so keeping all yogis in mind he has come up with the idea to design something like this for them. Being comfortable sitting on the floor is one of the fundamental ideas behind this chair that was purposely designed with no arms or back.
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People are already getting excited after knowing about this chair
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Malaysian peoples are getting mad over this chair, but this chair is not available in Malaysia right now. But they are happy to know about this invention as it meets their expectations.
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What is the cost of this chair?
Well, everyone can’t afford this as it comes with a hefty price tag. The chairs are currently being sold for USD875 (RM3, 610), and with the more luxurious wooden legs, they would cost USD1, 200 (RM4, 950).
Sources: says.com, mysoulseat.com, hitz.com.my
