Yes. The Oyster Meditation Chair was explicitly "optimized for... sitting cross-legged". Unlike viral "criss-cross" chairs that are just flat, wide cushions, the Oyster is an ergonomic platform. It's patent-pending, physiologist-approved geometry "supports your SITS bones" and "allows for hip rotation". This keeps your spine naturally aligned, making the cross-legged position sustainable and "pain-free".

Yes. The Oyster Meditation Chair encourages active, flexible sitting rather than locking you into a rigid posture. While the chair has several pre-engineered ergonomic positions, its sculptural shape, size, and geometry also let you naturally explore new ways of sitting throughout the day. The varying contours provide gentle sensory feedback—something many neurodivergent sitters find grounding and supportive for focus.

Yes. The Oyster Meditation Chair was designed to be comfortable and supportive for extended desk work. At standard chair height, it’s a functional alternative to a traditional office chair—promoting healthier alignment, reducing fatigue, and allowing flexible sitting throughout the day.

It can also be viewed as a modern replacement for a yoga ball. Like a yoga ball, the Oyster Meditation Chair encourages gentle core engagement, but without the destabilizing forces, wobbling, or strain that can make ball chairs inconsistent and potentially harmful over time. You get the benefits—active posture, core activation, and micro-movement—without the drawbacks.

Many users find that easing into it works best: starting with a few hours a day and rotating between the Oyster Meditation Chair and a traditional office chair. If you use a sit-stand desk, adjusting the desk height allows you to achieve an ideal working posture while seated on the Oyster Meditation Chair.

And just as sit-stand desks reimagined the modern workday by encouraging movement between positions, we believe the next evolution is incorporating a stable backless seating option into that rotation. Switching between standing, a conventional ergonomic chair, and the Oyster’s open-hip, upright posture promotes better long-term comfort and a more dynamic, sustainable work routine.

Back pain during meditation is common and usually caused by tight hips forcing the pelvis to roll backward. This collapses the lumbar curve and rounds the spine. Traditional cushions elevate you, but they don’t actively support posture.

The Oyster Meditation Chair solves this by supporting the SITS bones, placing the knees slightly below the hips, and lifting the pelvis into a neutral, upright position. This naturally stacks the head, neck, and hips for an effortless, sustainable meditation posture—allowing longer sessions with less strain.

Yes. This chair was created specifically to "make traditional meditation postures comfortable—even for people who usually struggle with them". It is a "great choice for people with reduced flexibility in their hips where traditional seating or sitting on the floor is simply not possible". Its multi-use design supports a modified kneeling posture (Seiza) and other positions that don't require hip-opening flexibility.

Absolutely not. This is a common myth that stops people from practicing. The goal of meditation posture is to be alert and comfortable. Forcing your body into a painful position only creates a distraction. The Oyster chair is a tool that provides correct alignment, allowing you to focus on your mind, not your body.

A yoga ball provides instability, but it lacks any back or postural support, which causes muscle fatigue and can lead to slouching and even spinal compression. The Oyster Meditation Chair is a superior solution because it provides both: it creates "controlled instability" (in that there is no back) to engage your core and offers ergonomic support to make that active posture sustainable for all-day use.

Meditation isn’t about stopping thoughts—it’s about observing them. That becomes much harder if you're distracted by physical discomfort. By supporting proper alignment and reducing pressure points, the Oyster Meditation Chair helps remove these distractions so you can stay present, focused, and comfortable.

Active sitting means your body makes small micro-movements to stay balanced, which keeps your core lightly engaged and supports healthy posture. The Oyster Meditation Chair's contoured geometry creates a stable—but not rigid—foundation, encouraging natural movement without ever feeling unstable.

The Oyster Meditation Chair was designed by Alex Muradian in collaboration with exercise physiologist Jesse Schwartzman, MS, RD, ACSM CPT. The chair was refined through more than 7,000 hours of testing, iteration, and ergonomic study.

Yes. The Oyster Meditation Chair is HSA/FSA eligible for qualified customers.