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Our sleek, eco furniture for small spaces will help you green your living space by providing a calming, rejuvinative atmosphere. Our furniture helps clear the clutter and provides comfort that makes modern beds, chairs, and couches seem over built.

Body Friendly Furniture transforms your home and office into a fun, sleek place to work or play. Our unique pieces designed for bedroom living room, dining, and office go beyond comfort to make normal activities more relaxing and rejuvinative. Just the right support in just the right places to give you the benefits of yoga in your daily life. Body Friendly Furniture is a paradigm that improves quality of life by freeing us from the modern sedentary culture.

Our guiding principles are: lightweight, knockdown, space saving, beyond ergonomics, multi-use, minimalist and safe for the chemically sensitive.

_{The Zen Office™ is a Peace Bench™ combined with a Tilt Seat™ for a writing station or laptop computer work station that builds core body tone while stimulating optimal brain function. Can be used on a platform bed or on the floor.}

_{Eco Backrest™ is shown to the right on the Eco-Ergo Couch™ and shown below as an unbelievably laid back way to work on the computer or watch a video.}

The Eco- Couch is a modular, knock-down unit that doubles as a bed. See The Ergonomics of Sleep: Sweet Dreams on a Hard Surface. Super-breathable, chemical free kapok and eco-wool, removable cover for dust control, em ceramic powder for calming and restoring energy.

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Body Friendly Furniture™ goes beyond ergonomics and organics. Body Friendly Furniture is a new concept that adapts the work and home environment to make work and recreation acitivites both restorative as well as strengthening. This concept is radical in both directions. Most people consider relaxation as counter to productive work. However, studies repeatedly demonstrate that the most productive envirnmonet is also that which is the most relaxing to mind and body. And ironicaly, most people consider fitness to belong in the gym or basketball court--NOT in the office. However, studies also support movement and excersize as beneficial to creativity and productivity. Whether you work at home, in your dorm, or in an office cubical, this way of working will change your life. This is beyond ergonomics, health and fitness. This is about total well being, mind/body integration, and improving the quality of your life and effectiveness of your work.

We challenge traditional ergonomics theory. Instead of tinkering with the desk and chair sit down office which is hopelessly flawed by nature, we completely redefine the healthy office by turning your entire room into a desk. Or rather, turning your desk into a playground.

Today's office has become a stressful place to work. Stress has been proven to directly stop the brain from working creatively. That means the typical American office does not't work. It does not't support the workers in the task it is intended--to create, inspire, motivate and produce. This stress is related to several factors, but the main stressor is using the body in a way that stunts the creative flow.

Our revolutionary paradigm is based on the fact that movement is essential to productivity.

We have developed a set of props that put you in positions that burn calories, tone muscles, stimulate circulation. Other props put you in positions that do the opposite--they relax the body completely to restore energy. Each position is suitable for optimizing the flow of specific activities.

Rest and relaxation provide the energy for the active positions. The active positions provide exercise that can eventually make you feel relaxed and needing to rest. Since you have the freedom of movement built into your work, you can choose whichever position suits your mood, task and energy level at the time. You can even incorporate stretching and other exercize in-between tasks when you are waiting on something to download, talking on the phone, or trying to 'jog your memory' for that exact word needed in your article.

Do you sit at your desk for long periods of the day? Have you ever experienced back, neck or shoulder pain after a long day at the office? Perhaps you put on a few pounds after taking a desk job. Research has shown that people who work desk jobs are likely to lose muscle tone, experience back pain, gain weight and suffer from increased stress. That’s because inactivity, poor posture and bad eating habits tend to plague those who sit at a desk throughout the day.

One study by the American Council on Exercise (ACE) showed that those whose jobs require them to sit at least six hours a day are twice as likely to be overweight as those who sit for less than 45 minutes a day at work. So what can you do to stay fit but keep your desk job? Check out these tips.

Researchers at the University of Georgia found that sedentary, otherwise healthy adults who engaged in as little as 20 minutes of low-to-moderate aerobic exercise, three days a week for six consecutive weeks, reported feeling less fatigued and more energized.

Findings that low-intensity exercise improves feelings of fatigue come as no surprise to Pete McCall, Exercise Physiologist at the American Council on Exercise.

"If a sedentary individual begins an exercise program it will enhance the blood flow carrying oxygen and nutrients to muscle tissue improving their ability to produce more energy (the chemical adenosine triphosphate)," McCall said. American Council on Exerrcize

A before or after work exercise program is great, but what if your desk job itself was an exercise program? Making the work itself energizing and fun has proven to boost productivity, creativity, and motivation. We have developed a set of office furniture or props that change the way sedentary work is performed. Whether you are reading in bed, checking your email, or number crunching at work, these concepts, props and techniques will open up a whole new world and change your life. You will learn to integrate your fitness and yoga routine with your daily activities so there is no negating the benefits you receive in class. This cutting edge concept is changing people's lives. Explore our fitness office solutions and learn how to unwind as you work.

* Free Your Body, Free Your Mind, Expand Your Creativity.

* Stretch, tone, align, restore and energize your body as you work.

* Standing, Active Sitting, Laying Down--whatever suits your mood or energy level.

* Practical, lightweight, affordable, compact.

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