A balance of health and harmony in your workspace reduces aches and pains, increases your mental well-being, aids productivity, and can even increase creativity. Sit up straight and take notice of these six ways to a healthier new year.

1. Embody Chair, Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber - By maintaining your physical alignment, Embody’s ergonomic support reduces pressure and stimulates blood and oxygen flow. A little extra of both goes a long way to keeping you relaxed and focus. Customize yours at Herman Miller.

2. Flavor It Water Infuser Bottle - Staying hydrated is key to your health, but it can get a little, well, dull. Freshen up your fluids with this flavor-infusing, glass water bottle. A harmonious addition to your desktop. They’re popular, find yours at Overstock or Uncommon Goods.

3. Envelop Desk, Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber - Posture care is no longer just the dominion of your chair. Do your work seated with pin-height adjustable legs or opt for a standing posture with Envelop’s electric adjusting legs. Find both at Herman Miller.

+ Envelop Desk pairs perfectly with an Embody or Aeron Chair, too.

4. Flo Monitor Support - Flo’s adjustable monitor arm brings your display into clearer focus reducing eye strain, reducing clutter on your desktop, and encouraging healthy sitting posture. High or low, Flo puts your work right where you want it. Single and double monitor arms available at Herman Miller.

5. The Big Happy Family Kit, Urbio - Along with staying hydrated, staying oxygenated has unlimited health benefits. Add a little flora to your field of vision with The Big Happy Family Kit. Originally designed for urban gardens, the modular wall system can be used for both planting and office organization. Find yours at YLiving.

6. Flute Personal Light, Tom Newhouse - Simultaneously good for you and the environment, the LED Flute delivers affordable, high quality light, and a tiny carbon foot print. You won’t even need to replace a bulb, the LED light source has a lifespan of more than two decades. Find it at Herman Miller.

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1. Vitamix Blender - Are your smoothies getting a little rough? Is your blender’s “Pulse” a flat line? Move to the top of the food chain with the Indy Car of blenders. In business for 90 years, Vitamix products are individually tested and backed by full warranties and great customer service. Thanks to high-efficiency cooling fans, Vitamix blenders don’t burn — a common failing — so you’ll be well blended for years to come. Mix it up at Vitamix.

2. Specialized S-Works Tarmac Bike - Touted as the lightest and stiffest racing bike around, the SL4 Tarmac is made for high-performance competition. From the tour de neighborhood to the Tour de France, the SL4 handles with pinpoint agility and lighting-fast acceleration thanks to its carbon frame, Shimano D12 components, and Roval Fusée SLX wheels. It’s a world-class set of wheels. Hop on one at Specialized.

3. Mobilegs Crutches, Jeff Weber - Necessity being the mother of invention, Embody Chair designer Jeff Weber‘s broken heel led to the extensive review, assessment, and redesign of the modern crutch. The result is an assisted mobility solution that provides function, agility, and tremendous comfort to the injured. Get a leg up at Mobilegs.

4. Xanadu Surfboards – Named for their designer who started shaping surfboards at 15, Xanadu high-performance boards champion the entry, foils, rockers, and outlines that, with some “good push and a little bit of pocket” (that’s surfer wave lingo), will have you smacking the lip in no time. Drop in to Xanadu for yours.

5. Embody Chair, Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber - High performance, not high pressure — that’s part of what makes the Embody Chair work so hard for you. By keeping support in place no matter how you move, oxygen and blood flow are stimulated, improving your body’s performance. You stay focused, alert, and energized. Take a test drive at Herman Miller.

6. Fiat 500 Abarth Performance Sports Car – Remember the Fiat commercial with J-Lo driving around “the block”? This is not that car. This is the turbocharged, 160-horsepower, MultiAir engine, bat-out-of-hell Charlie Sheen version. As Mr. Sheen himself might say, “Winning!” See more at Fiatusa.com.

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It’s fascinating to follow our designers as they make that same journey – from chair to desk. The late Bill Stumpf and Jeff Weber were working on the Embody chair when they stumbled on another problem – how we interact with our computers, those screens that we are glued to for so much of our day. Instead of thinking just about the chair the designers took in the whole work universe – chair, work surface and surrounds. They started to consider the desk and chair as a single system. The idea was to create a synergy between the chair and desk that would accomodate all of the ways we like to sit and work. And would do it ergonomically. Ah, that magic word again. Their radical solution was the Envelop desk. A clever design that moves with you as you shift position through out the day.