You’ve never done a headstand? Perfect.

Gravity spends your whole day compressing you: spine, shoulders, mood. Turning upside down reverses the load, and most people describe the feeling as instant decompression, “like a massage” for the back. The head-below-heart switch gives your circulation a change of scene, your core and shoulders wake up to hold the shape, and honestly: it’s play. Adults almost never get to feel their body do something brand new. No miracle-cure promises. It just feels remarkably good, which is why people who start rarely stop.

In short:

• Temporary back-pain relief: less spinal loading can ease certain low-back complaints.
• Spinal decompression: gentle traction gives the vertebrae room to breathe.
• A deep stretch for hamstrings and the whole posterior chain.
• Relaxation: many report less muscular tension and a calmer head.
• Body awareness & balance: inverted work trains proprioception and core control.

Practitioners also swear by more: flushed toxins, fresh circulation to the brain, even a role in reversing aging. We’ll let your own practice be the judge of those.

Specialized in inverting your body, FeetUp is a support stool that carries your bodyweight on your shoulders while your head hangs completely free. You kneel, rest your shoulders on the cushion, and go upside down with your feet still on the floor until you choose otherwise. That’s the whole machine.

Neither do most owners. No poses required, no Sanskrit, no incense. It’s for spines that sit in chairs all day and for people that want to stay healthy and fit - not for any particular spirituality.

Perfect combination! FeetUp is how class yogis practice between classes: safe inversions at home, without waiting for a teacher’s assist, at your own pace. You may even have met one already - partner studios around the world keep FeetUp in class, some with more than 30 on the floor. Ask your teacher about it, or simply bring your practice home.

Mostly people who never inverted before: a 70-year-old reaching a life goal, desk workers, a 260-pound skeptic, plus teachers and long-time yogis protecting their necks.

Our most devoted owners are 58 to 72. One is “70 years old and always wanted to do a headstand”; a 72-year-old and his wife have used theirs for years. Age is usually the reason people start, not the reason they can’t.

Some people are upside down in the first 5 minutes. Careful starters take up to three weeks of short daily sessions. Both are normal, and both count.

Because everything must work at once. One missing piece and the whole thing collapses, usually onto your cervical spine. Every skill you’ve ever learned had training support. This one never did… until now!

Because the thing that failed you isn’t there anymore. Whatever ended your last attempt (the neck load, the balance, the kick-up) physically doesn’t exist on the Trainer: nothing rests on your head, your hands hold the frame, and there’s nothing to kick.

The wall catches your fall. Your neck still carries your bodyweight. On the Trainer it’s the reverse: nothing to fall against, because nothing is asking your neck to hold you up in the first place.

Teachers use it to save their own necks (“as a yoga instructor, FeetUp has saved my neck”), client studios feature up to 36 Trainers at once, and there’s a certified FeetUp Teacher Training. Less “training wheels”, more “prop”, in the same lineage as blocks and straps.

The base is wider than your shoulders and lab-tested to 900 kg / 2000 lbs. For your first week we recommend a wall behind you anyway. Belt and suspenders.

The exit is the entrance: put your feet down. They’re half a meter from the floor the whole time.

Nice for the first days, never required. One owner kept her husband nearby “until I feel absolutely 100% confident”, and that’s a perfectly good plan. A wall behind you does the same job.

Honestly: a light head-rush at first. It fades with practice. Most people describe the after-feeling as “like a massage.”

Breathe continuously. Hold for 20 seconds, not minutes. Keep a wall behind you. Come down before you want to. That’s the whole protocol.

If you can kneel down and stand back up, you can start. The frame carries your weight; the strength you’ll eventually be proud of gets built up there, not required up front.

The frame is lab-tested to 900 kg / 2000 lbs. Whatever you weigh, the answer is yes, with an enormous margin.

The cushion carries your shoulders, so height matters far less than in a classic headstand. Users from 5'0" to 6'5" report comfortable fits.

Shoulder and collarbone comfort is real feedback we take seriously: start with short holds. For anything structural, ask your physio first. We mean that.

High blood pressure, glaucoma or eye conditions, and pregnancy need a doctor’s yes before inverting. We’ll ask you directly before anything goes in a cart, because we’d rather lose a sale than pretend this doesn’t matter.

Gravity spends all day compressing you. Inverting reverses the load on your spine and gives your circulation a change of scene. People describe it as a reset button. No medical miracles claimed; it just feels great.

Morning wake-up hang. Desk-break decompress. Core work if you want it. Deep stretch support. Evening wind-down. Some owners scroll their phone upside down. We don’t judge. And the Upgraded FeetUp clicks into a sitting stool between sessions.

Tables strap you in and tilt you like, in one owner’s words, “a glorified ironing board”. The Trainer is a piece of furniture you flip onto in 20 seconds, no straps, no clamps, and it looks good enough to leave in the room.

A corner of a bedroom. The footprint is 64 by 40 centimeters, about a bedside table, and at 5 kg it moves rooms under one arm.

What the Trainer holds for you is the entry, not the pose. Balance, stillness and control are still yours to train, and the core work is real from day one. Many owners graduate to freestanding Sirsasana; many keep the Trainer as the way they’ll always invert. Both count.

Hips over shoulders, feet feather-light, press to pike, lower with control. The Trainer removes the crash penalty, so you can do 20 honest reps instead of 3 scared ones.

With the pelvis supported and the neck unloaded, you can explore hollowback shapes without compressing the lower back under your full leg weight.

Build like any practice: start at 20 to 30 seconds and add slowly, letting breath be the timer; when the breath shortens, come down. With zero cervical load, the usual hard limit on Sirsasana time isn’t the limiter anymore. Listen to your body anyway.

Grounded inversions, backbends, twists, shoulder openers, deep hip work, arm balances and restorative holds, organized from first-day to advanced. It ships in the box, and the full library lives on the site and in the app.

In-person, Friday afternoon through Sunday. Certificate of attendance; homework earns Certified FeetUp Teacher status. Current dates run in Germany, more locations coming.

Client studios feature up to 36 Trainers at once. There’s a bulk order form with dedicated pricing. Mention your studio when you reach out.

Fear-free first inversions for beginners, alignment work for intermediates, and a safe station for students who should never load their neck.

A durable animal-free upholstery over a firm cushion core, wipeable and long-wearing. The whole Trainer is an ethical vegan product containing no animal products.

The vegan leather wipes clean with a damp cloth, and the Honey models’ fabric cushions respond well to gentle spot-cleaning. White stays white with 30 seconds of care a month; if your household laughs at that sentence, Chocolate Black exists.

“It took literally 10 minutes to assemble (8 screws)”, in one owner’s words. If anything is ever missing or misaligned, support replaces parts free under warranty.

30 days, counted from delivery, any reason. Keep the box and inserts, email support, send it back, and the refund is processed within 5 working days of arriving at the warehouse. EU and UK returns pay no handling fee.