Category: Standing Desks

The new year is just around the corner, and so are New Year’s resolutions. This year, let’s resolve to move more. Our bodies are designed to move, and it’s been shown that sedentary lifestyles aren’t great for our physical or mental wellbeing. The FluidStance® Level® is designed to keep you in motion while you work, but achieving fitness this year means staying active...

As we’ve mentioned before, we love blogs. We’re excited to share some reviews that we’ve received on the blogosphere this year. Read up on a few bloggers who wrote about their experiences on the Level®:  1) Writer Unboxed “To my surprise (and immense relief), it’s not at all difficult to maintain your balance on this thing. And it’s kinda fun, too. I found myself purposely...

It’s not often that we can find a moment of relaxation in the workplace. Between meetings, deadlines, and emails, the workday too-often feels like a rush to the finish line. Jacqui Burge, the founder of Desk Yogi—a site that features fitness and stress reduction videos tailored specifically to office life—has made it her mission to change that. “I found that when...

One of our favorite new holidays is this Saturday, November 28: Small Business Saturday! FluidStance® is founded on the principle of supporting small, local businesses. Purchasing locally reduces the environmental impact of shipping products, supports local infrastructure, and builds up communities. At FluidStance, we assemble all of our products in our Santa Barbara, California, warehouse, and we source nearly all of our materials from California or the...

Guest post by Joan Dawson I love being the oldest person in the world happily standing on my FluidStance Level! We moved recently into a great retirement community, and when we were down-sizing I gave my husband my great desk and took over my antique jeweler’s bench as a standup desk (OK, I’m short). My husband fixed an extension to make my desk deeper, so...

A haven where techie t-shirts and complimentary snacks abound, 1 Hacker Way is the Menlo Park, California, home to the famed Facebook headquarters. FluidStance was lucky enough to be invited to host a pop-up shop at this Menlo Park campus last month, so we loaded up our trucks with Levels, mats, and racks and headed up to the Bay Area on a Monday afternoon....

If you’re going the DIY route with your new standing desk, you’re going to have to get creative. We’ve compiled some of our favorite standing desk creations—some of which are even adjustable—to jump-start your inspiration. 1) The Desk Hidden in a BookShelf Perfect for all you bookworms out there, this desk blends in perfectly with your office library. If you already have built-in shelves,...

If you’re looking for insight and inspiration, look no further than the blogosphere. From meditation guides and dinner recipes to fitness regimes and yoga poses, the info you can get from blogs is limitless. These are just a few of the blogs that we read to get us moving—physically, mentally, and emotionally. 1) MindBodyGreenMindBodyGreen presents articles that touch on everything that constitutes...

Innovation is what drives us all forward, but being a creator often comes with stress of its own. Incorporating exercise into your daily routine can help quell the stress that commonly accompanies creativity, according to Fast Company‘s “The Creative Brain on Exercise.” Writer Jonathan Fields tells the story of international bestselling author Haruki Murakami’s writing process. As detailed in The Paris Review, Murakami states that...

Photo courtesy of Fast Company For the first time, an elementary school has given every student a standing desk, according to Fast Company. The Bay Area’s Vallecito Elementary School cleared out the chairs and desks from its classrooms in favor of adopting standing desks customized in height for each student this school year. This move followed a successful pilot program of a single standing classroom in...