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-Alex in Ohio

 

 - Paulus Berenson, author, Finding One’s Way With Clay 

• Discount price is only $279. + s/h. This is the lowest price on the internet. The chair's manufacturer in China went out of business, and we have the only remaining stock on the planet. So ignore old ads from other sellers — they don't have any chairs.
• Our price is the suggested retail price. Sorry, we had to raise our price - we paid a premium to secure the remaining stock because we want Healing Tao customers to have the chair. WHEN OUR STOCK IS SOLD OUT, NO MORE WILL BE AVAILABLE UNTIL A NEW MANUFACTURER IS FOUND. It may take a year or more, or never happen. So buy NOW if you want this wonderful chair.
• Ball chair has a 5-Year Warranty against material defects, will be supported by U.S. Distributor, who remains in business.
• RISK-FREE 100% Satisfaction Guarantee:
Return chair for full refund within 90 days less $30. re-stocking and shipping fees paid to US Distributor. See below.
(Note: there are very few souls who ever returned this chair to us!)

 

   • Heals low back, grows a flexible spine.
   • Feel more sexually energized and creative.
   • Great classy gift for yourself or others.
   • Elegant design enhances any office or home.
   • Save thousands in future doctor/chiropractor bills.
   • Have fun getting more work done!

 

 

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Why I Love My
Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball Chair

 

 

I would like to share a secret with you.

 

My name is Michael Winn. I have noticed over three decades of teaching the arts of body movement and meditation that many people make fast progress in improving their body's physical and energetic structure with tai chi, qigong (chi kung), yoga, and other great body-mind exercise systems.

 

But after getting all relaxed and tuned up, people go to their office or home. They slump into a chair, in deep body-unconsciousness, while staring at their computer. How do I know this to be true? To be honest, my wife Joyce Gayheart pointed it out to me. Joyce is a certified Alexander, Feldenkrais, Authentic Movement, and Healing Tao instructor of tai chi and qigong. She is a teacher’s teacher, trained in just about every kind of therapeutic movement art ever invented.

 

Yes, Joyce pointed out that I was slouching over my computer, and that it was probably draining my energy. It was hard to deny. I was the guilty party. I was doing this wicked thing to my own poor body - inflicting unnecessary stress on my spine while staring at my computer screen. I wasn’t the hunchback of Notre Dame – it was a more subtle collapse. But once I noticed it, I had to ask myself the hard question. Why would I do such a thing to my body? Especially after spending all my time teaching other people the secrets of body structure and easy chi flow?

 

Why Back Problems are Widespread

 

Answer #1: Bad Sitting Habits that I hadn't trained myself to let go of.

 

Answer #2: Bad chairs that supported my bad habits.

 

I suppose I can claim expertise in this field. I have spent thousands of dollars over the years trying out different office chairs claiming ergonomic superiority. Most of them were in fact great improvements over the basic office chair, but they all had drawbacks. The Balans chair (remember that one from Scandanavia?) hurt your knees after a while, and you couldn't turn. Another one had a split back that let me turn to the side easily, but didn't relieve compression in the spine.

 

This is a serious issue, as back pain & spine problems is the number one health complaint among modern office slaves, which includes nearly everybody who has a home office. The spine is the primary physical structural support of the body. It also stabilizes the core energy channel in the center of our body, thus is essential to whole-body/mind enlightenment.

 

So it is not a superficial issue on any level. Spinal health and flexibility is essential to well-being, and to maintaining strong energy flow. One of my Chinese teachers used to say repeatedly in his simple English: “Flexible spine is young spine!”. Translation: steady chi flow up the spine is the secret of eternally feeling young.

 

Relief is on its way. I have been road-testing for more than a year a new chair designed by a friend of mine, June Ekman. June is an Alexander teacher, dancer and choreographer at Sarah Lawrence college in New York. Joyce and I met June while studying with Marjorie Barstow. Marge was a delightful and youthful being in her 90's. She was also at the time the only living student of F. M. Alexander, the founder of the Alexander Method.

 

I consider Alexander an intuitive tai chi/qigong master. I would not be surprised if some aspect of Alexander’s soul had re-incarnated from China. If Alexander had actually received qigong or tai chi training in his lifetime, I am sure he would have pushed his wonderful discoveries even further.

 

Marge, Posture & the Tao of Alexander Work

 

Marge was also an unnamed Tao-ist in all ways: her goal was to discover the most effortless way to live in each moment, both in thought and in physical movement. She would float through a room, yet still be grounded, unlike most 90 year old folks. She could spot tension a mile away, and dissolve it with a light touch of her finger, like a fairy godmother waving her wand. She effortlessly moved on to other dimensions a few years ago. The Chinese would consider her a human immortal - someone who lives long enough to fulfill their destiny.

 

Marge's work was seminal in inspiring June to solve the problem of stressful sitting. Like myself, June loved the large, lively colored rubber Swiss gymnastic balls as an exercise tool for playing with body flexibility. I had even tried to use my exercise gym ball as an office chair, but found the big size ball too awkward behind my desk, and unstable.

 

June spent 12 years, working with top designers and engineers and manufacturers, to come up with the best ergo office chair ever invented. It incorporates a smaller gymnastic ball atop an elegant office chair frame that has many classy features.

 

These included a sensuous velvet fabric cover, five rolling wheels for easy movement, gravity brakes on each of those five wheels, pneumatic height adjustment, 360 degree swivel, a portable hand pump to inflate the ball, high quality beautiful craftsmanship, and - most important – a chair that energetically works!

 

The Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball Chair Experience

 

My name for June Ekman’s “ball chair” is my own. She gives a safe, mainstream name, the Sit-A-Round Ball Chair. I feel my name for it is more authentic – it comes from my experience of sitting on it. The Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball Chair. It’s a bit long, but it gives you the juicy details of what the experience of this chair is like.

 

Let me break down my naming of this chair for you.

 

"Tai Chi": You are constantly forced to find the balance point atop the inflated ball. So just the act of sitting becomes an existential statement: You must CHOOSE to be in balance. You cannot slump, no matter how bad your posture or sitting habits were in the past.

 

In the martial art language of Tai Chi Chuan, the ergo ball chair helps you achieve balance between the yin sinking force of Earth's gravity and the yang rising force of Heaven. You collapse down, the ball has a counter-force that bounces you back up. When yin-yang balance is achieved in any domain of your body-mind, it spills over to many other categories of yin-yang dynamic. These traditionally include your ability to shift instantly between being empty and full in your weighting, substantial and insubstantial in your "chi presence", contracting and expanding in your joints, yielding and being firm, and so on.

 

I have noticed that this Tai Chi ball chair activates a whole chain of these yin-yang complexes in my body-mind. These yin-yang terms are all Chinese ways of talking about subtle polar forces that have reached some type of equilibrium. Tai Chi (or “taiji” in modern pinyin) is a cosmological term that refers to an invisible “Great Pole”. Tai Chi is the cosmic axis balancing all the positive and negative forces in the universe around the original unifying force of the Tao.

 

"Dynamic-Sit": the inflated gym ball fits comfortably under your buttocks. But it doesn't sit still; you have to make tiny micro-movements constantly. This stops your low back from freezing up the muscles, and becoming hard as rocks, to the dismay of your poor kidneys laboring silently beneath your low back muscles.

 

Take a moment and put your hands on your lower back, and feel around to see how tight it is. Ideally it would not be tight and hard, nor soft and flabby. Most healthy is a flexible and springy low back. Your two "kids" hiding inside your lower back will love you if you buy this chair for them. Sitting on the ball chair will make your lower vertebrae muscles work a little bit harder.

 

But guess what? Your spine loves being supported, and it will love you if you get the right chair that makes you support it. Consider it a genuine act of self-love.

 

How Can a Chair Possibly Promote Sexual Health?

 

"Sexy Ball": I don't mean to imply that the chair is an erotic sex toy, even though in fact it is rather sleek and sexy looking. I wish to distinguish the ball chair from the heavy Darth Vader I-have-a-huge-phallic-force-behind-me, typical of the high-backed masculine CEO office chair. That chair is good for power-seekers who want to intimidate the person facing them.
The drawback of this chair is that it takes up a lot of space, the high back blocks the light and chi flow in the room, and excessive reliance on the "prop" ultimately makes the CEO develop a weaker spine, and hence weaker energy field.

 

This ball chair is for Tai Chi people who want to feel they are sitting light-and-easy-on-top-of-the-world. It is for folks who want a pleasurable dance between Heaven and Earth, between male and female. Sitting on the ball chair, you can feel like you have found the delicate and sensual point of moving balance between the sexes.

 

Now, we could extend our imagination, and speculate there may be an unconscious cross-sexual content in the totally unique shape of this chair. Men may feel they are sitting atop a large egg, hatching creative new ideas. Women may feel the chair's large dynamic phallus shape beneath them is firmly, yet gently supporting their inner pelvic structure. Its male aspect is something that can be trusted; this chair will never wrongly exploit the beauty of their Goddess-given anatomy.

 

But the real sexy part comes from having your pelvis move freely. I have noticed that when I invite friends to sit on the chair, they immediately discover that they can freely wiggle their pelvis around. There is no other chair on the market that lets you freely wiggle your hips while sitting.

 

I watch my friends go through a series of predictable responses. It begins with an initial moment of innocent envy: they see me sitting on the chair, having fun, and their Inner Child naturally wants me to get off the chair and let them sit on it. I pretend to reluctantly give up my perch. Then comes their first delightful feeling of glee. Laughter arrives next, as they test the extremes of the ball chair's bounce. Then they start to lose balance. That brings out an even bigger smile. Some of them fall off, but it's OK. It’s the little kid in them, remembering the first time they tried to ride a bike. The adult disappears, they are having real FUN.

 

Finally, there’s a satisfied sigh of relief as they stabilize atop the ball. The recognition sinks in, that one can sit and be free at the same time. No more squirming in your seat – the seat squirms with you, and it is totally allowed.

 

Can We Allow Ourselves the Deep Pleasure of Dynamic-Sitting?

 

This sign of relief is often followed by a small self-conscious moment. It is possibly a furtive feeling of embarrassment. Its almost unavoidable: sitting on the chair, and wiggling your ass around on the soft-yet-firm ball, grants a feeling of sexual pleasure. It feels good, because it reminds us of the same pelvic movement we enjoy during love-making.

 

Sometimes there is a small moment of guilt. Perhaps the unconscious question arises: Am I permitted to feel so liberated in public, allowed to enjoy a moment of sexual pleasure by simply sitting on an office chair? Behind it is an even deeper question of self-worth: Am I good enough a person, to be allowed that much continuous pleasure, even while slaving away on dull office reports?

 

A lot of people are attracted to the Healing Tao, or to my particular version of it, which integrates qigong & inner sexual alchemy meditation. One reason they like it is because it naturally blends sexuality and spirituality. It offers rhythmic whole-body qigong movement, and the grounded energetics of internal male and female chi cultivation. This chair supports that same process. But because many people spend more time sitting at their desk than they spend practicing qigong or meditation, the chair is a really valuable support.

 

Ancients Recognized Sexual Chi Flows Up the Spine

 

This new Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball Chair integrates sexuality and sitting. So not only do you get better posture and energetic support from your spine, you steadily release sexual energy ("jing chi", in Taoist lingo) trapped in the pelvis and sacrum, so it can flow easily up your spine and nourish your brain. It’s part of what I call an “ergo orgasm”. When body structure is aligned, and mind is clear, energy flows. Bliss can happen spontaneously.

 

"Raise Sexual Essence to Nourish the Brain" was the title of the original sexual practice first mentioned in Taoist texts 2000 years ago. Eventually this became the famous Taoist “microcosmic orbit meditation” that I teach as part of my Qigong (Chi Kung) Fundamentals 2.

 

My "Open Chi Flow in the Orbit" qigong and the secret Wudang orbit spinning pearl meditation method stimulates the chi flow to move up the spine. It helps the chi to continue flowing over the crown of the head and down the front of the body, forming a continuous spiral inside the body. It creates a wonderful feeling of balance and harmony. What causes this feeling? I believe the Orbit, when properly done, stirs up and mixes the sex hormones in your blood with the "bone marrow" or cerebral-spinal fluid. They alchemically interact with your chi or consciousness flowing through them, producing a higher spiritual awareness (shen).

 

It’s what I believe that Marge and F. M. Alexander were unconsciously trying to stimulate by guiding the spine to release its collapsed tension upward and forward. But the spine cannot release its tension unless the pelvis and sacrum first release their sexual tension. You could track it further, all the way to tension with gravity pulling us down into the ground.

 

My point is that everyone is subconsciously tapping into the pool of sexual energy trapped in the lower half of the body - all of the time. Taoist qigong and inner alchemy chi circulation techniques are just designed to make it conscious and more efficient. The solo Taoist sexual energy cultivation practice has nothing to do with the act of sex intercourse. It’s just about sexual energy being converted into creative energy which gets converted into spiritual awareness.

 

What’s cool about this chair is that sitting on it is a dynamic process that does it for you. You could say it stimulates a very mild, slow-acting kundalini effect up the spine. This is what good tai chi or qigong practice will do for your spine – the chi will go rippling through it.

 

The proof for me that this chair works is that I feel much more alert on the Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball chair. I’ve noticed it even when I am working for hours at a time writing, or answering the dozens of emails I get everyday. Anybody who feels dynamic and sexy even while sitting for hours is going to be more productive. Not to mention the main issue: you will enjoy your life a lot more.

 

The Challenge of Staying Body-Conscious While Sitting

 

Most people sitting for a long time forget they have a body. Their body becomes rigid and immobile, like the chair they are sitting on. They essentially become a big head floating above the chair. They get totally disconnected from the ground. Energetically, their head floats into the computer screen (or book, or report, or whatever you are looking at). The ball chair is different. It forces you to engage your whole body-mind.

 

This is a chair for Tai Chi and health lovers who seek flexibility and chi flow. It’s not a chair for CEO type old paradigm power trippers, as they are not allowed to have this much fun. It is more suitable for new generation CEO's and co-creative types who want more power flowing their life process. If Lao Tzu is your hero, this chair is for you. It’s full of “Tao-Wow”!

 

Just sitting on this Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Sexy Ball Chair promotes flow of the Life Force. In fact, just pronouncing my name for the chair will get your chi flowing! Seriously, when you sit on the chair, you will have a much more dynamic relation with the earth. The Chi (Qi) pulses up from the Earth, through your legs, drawn up by the micro-pulsations of your pelvic movements. From there it can flow effortlessly into the spine, heart, and brain. Don’t forget the heart part.

 

Summary of Tai Chi Dynamic-Sit Chair Benefits

 

To summarize, this chair helps reduce body stress by:
1. Releasing spinal pressure by avoiding fixed sitting slump.
2. Strengthening back muscles with micro-movements.
3. Encouraging correct spinal alignment over the ball.
4. Increasing circulation and sexual energy pump from pelvis to brain.

 

Adjusting to the Dynamic Sitting Process

 

You actually have to build up your ability to sit for hours on the tai chi ball chair, because most people don't have much movement in their lower back muscles from so many years of slouching and slumping. A moment ago, I asked you to feel your low back. Feel it again. Ask yourself, is my low back the most relaxed part of my body, ready to let the chi flow effortlessly through it?

 

Chances are your back could use some dynamic support and greater flexibility. But you cannot get it a few minutes of sitting on this chair – as fun and incredible as the chair is. Reason: it takes YOU time to change and become as flexibile as the ball chair. So if you buy this tai chi chair, don't throw away your old rigid chair immediately.

 

Healing your back and posture might take a week or longer to work up to full time sitting ability, until you adjust to your dynamic new reality. Then you will have a sitting process that supports your qigong, yoga, meditation or tai chi process!

 

The ball chair is easy to inflate, and it comes with a free hand pump that takes about 30 seconds to inflate. It takes about 5 minutes to assemble, its so simple that anyone can do it. Its also really strong - it supports up to 500 lbs (170 kg) in weight capacity. There is even a wheel lock mechanism so the chair doesn't slip away from under you while you are having fun bouncing around on it like a little kid. Your weight on the ball chair keeps the brakes on the wheels, and gives you a greater feeling of security.

 

The whole seat adjusts its height pneumatically, as we've come to expect from a classy office chair. Tall folks – anyone over 5 foot 10 inches – might consider ordering the Tall version of the chair for $9. extra. The manufacturer will send you both the short axle and the long pneumatic axle, so you can always change it later if you want to give their chair to one of your kids. You just substitute the other length of axle (use a rubber mallet to knock out the old axle from its setting).

 

The other thing I’ve noticed is that because you are sitting on air, instead of foam padding used in most chairs, the ball chair is much cooler and more comfortable in summer. I find regular foam chairs start to feel sweaty after a few hours in the summer. Conversely, I found it nice to warm the ball chair in winter, as I live in the mountains of North Carolina. All I do is toss a wool scarf or shawl over the top of the ball chair’s velvet covering. Then the inflated ball feels more comfortable and toasty in winter.

 

The 100% NO RISK GUARANTEE

The chair has a 5 year, 100% no risk warranty on parts. The manufacturer's USA distributor is excellent in standing behind its product and will overnight you any missing or defective piece. You have absolutely zero risk if the chair is defective in any way - just notify us and then we will give you the address to return it to. Once it arrives back at the USA distributor, you will receive a full refund.

You can even return the chair if you don't like it for any other reason, and get a full refund on your initial purchase, less a factory-imposed $30. re-stocking fee. Again, chair must be returned in good condition within 90 days.

Note: Chair must be returned direct to distributor's warehouse. Please, if you decide you want to become one of the few people in Healing Tao USA history to return one, don't ship it to my office. We will give you the distributor's address in Oklahoma and issue the check immediately for your refund once the chair is received in Oklahoma.

 

Am I Getting the Very Best Deal on my Ball Chair?

 

I bought my two chairs for $250. each from June about two years ago. As they became popular, the price came down a bit. Now its back up to $279, full retail is $300. They are about to become extremely valuable as we don't know when manufacturing will be resumed. I wouldn't be surprised to see used models of this ergo chair selling on ebay for over $500. The fact is, any and all of these prices are a bargain in my opinion, especially if you are suffering back pain or paying for chiropractors and massage.

There are already some cheap knock-offs of June's chair on the internet, but because she has really good legal patents, the knockoffs were forced to put the inflatable ball on really ugly stands or giant balls. The knock-offs are bulky with four legs, and lack all the features that makes June's single pneumatic axle ball chair such an elegant and functional work of art.

So don't bother with the knockoffs, they don't even come close and are hideous to behold. You don't want to go for a cheap knockoff just to save a few bucks. Your lower back and spine will feel insulted, and probably force you to get the real deal eventually.

It's a bargain even if you add on the $20. shipping and handling (usa price). These high quality ergo chairs are solidly made, so they are heavy to ship. But after you place your order, they are drop shipped immediately by Fed-X direct from the USA distributor and should arrive at your home within a couple of days of ordering. If you are ordering at a holiday time of the year, it's good to get your order in a couple days earlier.

 

WARNING for Couples – and a Better Deal for Multi-Chair Buyers

 

June Ekman spent 12 years thinking of every possible design innovation to make this the best ergo chair on the market. I love the chair, and had to fight my wife Joyce for it after the first one arrived. There was no peace in the house until we got a second one....and remember at that time, the chairs cost $250. each. Again, it was a bargain, money well spent. A good chair is like good shoes – its something your body needs, not a luxury. You’ll never remember the money you spent, but your back and pelvis will always remember the pleasure it now receives from sitting.

 

So please be warned: if you've got more than one person in the house/office likely to develop a craving for the hottest, most fun, sexy, and dynamically functional ergo chair – there could be problems. Two people cannot sit on this chair at the same time. I don’t want to be held responsible for creating any in-fighting and jealousy. I’m serious – this chair is real magnet. Everyone else sitting around in old rigid chairs will feel their old chairs are dead. By comparison, other chairs are lifeless. It’s human nature to seek fun and freedom and more life in your pelvis and spine.

 

•I am referring here to normal daily use. Couples are free to experiment. :)

 

I don't normally endorse products outside the domain of my own expertise. But weak backs and poor posture are a universal problem, even amongst my students. I've tested this chair. My wife Joyce – the Teacher of movement teachers – has tested it, and we both agree. It's a great chair at a fabulous price. But let me say it again: having a good ergo chair is really an essential in life, not a luxury. I figure that if my students are being supported at home to sit dynamically, that their tai chi or qigong practice will also improve.

 

Order Your Chair Now

 

So I am whole heartedly endorsing this chair - because its fun, sexy, and healthy. It puts you into a high energy moving mode common to qigong/tai chi/yoga for all those hours you are sitting at the computer or doing other desk tasks.

 

 

 

Just call our Asheville, North Carolina Office of Satisfaction:
888-999-0555 (inside USA), or 828-505-1444.

You can leave a message ordering it with your credit card number, billing and shipping address. Specify how many chairs you want. Or fax it to 828-505-1044.

 

Questions? Email our fulfillment office at info@healingdao.com

 

Wishing you a lifetime of Dynamic Sitting in the Tao,

 

Michael Winn