Experience

A floatation tank used for float therapy in a dark blue hued room.

What Is Float Therapy?

Benefits, Experience, Floatation Therapy, Spa

Float therapy is a type of therapy that is done in a sensory deprivation tank, which is a dark and soundproof tank or bath-like pool that is filled with saltwater. The tanks are designed to reduce external stimuli in an attempt to improve well-being. Sensory deprivation tanks were first invented in the 1950s by Dr. Jay Shurley and Dr. John Lilly. Their main goal was to examine human consciousness and the brain’s reaction to a complete lack of external stimuli. It was thought that being without any sensory input such as […]

How to ensure the best float experience.

Ways To Ensure The Best Float Tank Experience

Experience, Floatation Therapy

Best Float Tank Experience Considerations For the best float tank experience, effortlessly buoyant atop super saturated salt water, there are a few key considerations. Silence. Having silence, or an absence of ambient noise, is crucial. While the option to listen to music is a choice while floating, silence offers a way to go even deeper. Hearing traffic noise, footsteps from adjacent stairs or an upstairs suite, air conditioner vent noise, the sound of a filter engine from another room, or simply the hum of a white noise machine to disguise […]

How Float Therapy Reduced My Stress

Experience

My ears tingled as I leaned my head back into the water. I was in a giant man-made egg filled with salty liquid, with only artificial purple light and quiet surrounding me. The woman who gave my orientation recommended that everyone spend “their first float in silence”—so I figured I’d follow directions. Closing my eyes, I relaxed, letting my body succumb to its watery fate. This was the beginning of my experience trying out sensory deprivation therapy, otherwise known as float therapy. Before I ended up in that purple-hued pod, […]

Can You Float Your Way To Better Sleep?

Experience, Floatation Therapy

I had a patient in my office recently for an appointment, and she couldn’t wait to tell me about an experience she’d had. “I did my first float,” she said, her expression both excited and serene. She described the experience as nothing less than transformative. She’d been a little nervous at first, she said, but she found it surprisingly easy to relax, once she was floating in the pool of warm water, wrapped in silence and darkness. “It was the most amazing thing,” she confided. “I thought maybe I’d fallen […]

Relaxing pink flowers for floatation therapy.

I Tried Out A Floatation Tank To Help My Anxiety

Experience, Floatation Therapy

For anyone not in the know, a floatation tank is basically a giant pod filled with water and Epsom salts, which allow you to float. I experienced my first session in a floatation tank at Floatation Life, a family run business in Milton Keynes, to help reduce my anxiety symptoms. Their tanks are filled with 400-450kg of Epsom salts, also known as magnesium sulphate, which allows you to float unaided. Floatation Tanks Benefits The tanks are said to have many mental and physical health benefits and are used for all […]

First Sensory Deprivation Tank Experience

Experience, Floatation Therapy

As a birthday gift, two of my mastermind members and I went ‘floating’ in a sensory deprivation tank for the first time. It was a very interesting & unique experience and I’ll definitely do it again soon. In this article, I’m going to share my experiences with my first time in a sensory deprivation tank, so that you’ll know what to expect at your first floatation therapy sessions. What is a Sensory Deprivation Tank? A sensory deprivation tank (also called floatation tank) is a tank filled with water and Epsom […]

My First Time in a Float Pod

Experience, Floatation Therapy

It looked like a small space—a white round float pod with different colored lights emanating from inside. Sized like your typical dipping pool, the still water inside appeared deep in the dim lighting. “This is the stealth float pod. Inside this sensorial deprivation, the pod is water filled with almost 1000 pounds of Epsom salt. Because of the high content of magnesium sulfate, the body, once inside the tank, will float, ” explained Grace Obana at Recovery Spa tucked on the top level of the Upper Deck Sports Center. “Float?” […]