Managing Chronic Pain with Float Therapy

Managing Chronic Pain with Float Therapy

For many people, pain is a temporary and easily managed inconvenience – a stubbed toe, a headache, or a sore muscle after a workout. It’s something that disrupts life for a few hours or days but rarely has any long-term impact on our lives. These encounters with pain,...
Floating Through Stress

Floating Through Stress

So, in today’s whirlwind of fast-paced living, stress feels like it’s always lurking around the corner. From work deadlines looming over us to the never-ending buzz of digital distractions, it’s like our minds are constantly on overdrive. And...
Floating for a Stronger Immune System

Floating for a Stronger Immune System

Introduction Stress and anxiety are all too common in today’s fast-paced world. As a result, we’re continuously seeking ways to unwind, destress, and ultimately, support our overall well-being. Floatation therapy, also known as sensory deprivation or float...
Floating and Arthritis

Floating and Arthritis

You may be surprised to learn that arthritis affects more than 60 million people yearly, making it one of the most common disabilities in the country. There are many different types of arthritis, and people are impacted in different ways by it, but two of the most...
Floating and Mystical Experience

Floating and Mystical Experience

The ideas of altered states of consciousness, mystical experiences, and voluntary self-isolation often bring with them images of shamans, spaced-out hippies, geometric art, and vibrant colors, as exaggerated stories and tales of these experiences get passed around....
50 Years of Commercial Floating

50 Years of Commercial Floating

In 1954, a young medical doctor and neuroscientist, John C. Lilly, donned a breathing mask and took the first descending steps into a large, fresh-water tank designed to cut out as much light, noise, and general sensation as possible. From that first iteration, it...
The Benefits of Doing Nothing

The Benefits of Doing Nothing

The concept of taking time away from obligations to relax and recoup is so foreign in our society that the idea is often met with confused looks; people live in a constant state of motion, often bouncing from task to task with no time to stop, breathe, and enjoy the...