MeditationStools

About our meditation stools

These unique and totally adjustable meditation stools and seats are hand made from solid wood and allow you to kneel comfortably during your meditation.

For those who like to meditate whilst kneeling, the meditation stool provides support and and reduces the pressure on the back of the knees. This reduces the feelings of compression and ‘pins and needles’ that is common in the seiza (kneeling) position.

Unlike other stools that need joints, hinges or small screws to give strength, this meditation stool has a steel rod through the centre and is fixed at either end to give strength. Once fixated into the position that is most comfortable for you, the stool will remain in that angle and position, allowing you to set your own preferred angle that does not change. This is different to cushions or pillows, which not only need to be adjusted with each use, but flatten during the meditation.

These stools will maintain their position and angle, ensuring that you do not need to constantly adjust your position or posture during your meditation.

A better posture during meditation allows a better meditation.

The meditation stools are made from plantation grown Pinus Radiata and can be made to any width or height to accommodate any sized individual. The side legs can be made in standard sizes to allow for any sized individual to use the stools, with the most common size being the medium size. The different leg sizes are small (17 cm tall), medium (19 cm tall) and large (21 cm tall) or alternatively, I can make the legs any height to suit your requirements.

When you have finished meditating, the stools and seats fully disassemble to allow for storage.

About us

I started making these stools as a way to provide better posture for the people who are meditating. I used to teach anatomy and as such was highly aware of the body and posture - so was inspired to make a stools that allowed better posture during meditation.

I was lucky enough to work on a stand at the Mind, Body and Spirit festival and noticed that there were few items made from wood - at the time I was making wooden toys for kids, so I wanted to explore what I could make from wood that would suit the people who went to the festival, and so I stared out with a stand that had a range of wooden products - from that first festival I found that the stools were successful and so focussed on them and built a thriving side business and selling them as festivals and markets.

The origin of our logo: When I first starting making these stools- they looked very different and had rectangular legs so that the user could turn the legs around and have different heights for their stool. Ove r several iterations and following feedback form customers, I refined it to the triangle shape as seen today.; The customer that ordered the first stool that had the triangle legs wanted a yin-yang symbol carved into each of the side legs - and so the logo represents that first stool in this design, as well as being a universal symbol for both zen meditation and also the trinity of Mind, Body and Spirit.