Category: Body

Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy for your Mind • Body • Spirit • Focus

Float Tank Explained

This youtube video is another good intro to floating, produced by float culture. Watch the full video here.

3 Ways to Bring Your Body Vibrational Balance Using Sound Healing Therapy

Given that everything has a vibrational frequency, including ourselves, it makes sense that sound frequencies impact how we feel. That’s why particular songs and types of music often bring about specific types of emotions from us. Sound healing, which is an ancient healing technique that uses tonal frequencies to bring the body into a state…
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Can You Float Your Way To Better Sleep?

The short answer: yes Here’s a very informative article on floating and how it helps address insomnia. “Scientists have over years of study identified a broad range of therapeutic benefits of REST in treating mental and physical health problems, including anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder, ADHD, substance use disorder, insomnia and fibromyalgia.” “I thought…
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Just like floating, eating well, exercising and managing stress can boost your immune system

Sierra Float Spa is here to help you improve your overall health and wellness. As our global understanding of this novel virus improves we are dramatically learning how important a strong immune system is and how proper diet and general health can protect us from experiencing severe symptoms. This article underscores the lesson that “an…
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Flotation-restricted environmental stimulation therapy improves sleep and performance recovery in athletes

Here’s another new study from clinicalflotation Conclusion FLOAT may prove to be an effective method of exercise recovery, improving aspects of performance, pressure-to-pain threshold, perceived MS and PF, and sleep quality. Read the full paper here.

For A Stronger Immunity: Natural Ways To Boost The Immune System

This from healthcareinamerica.us. We’re seeing people sharing a lot of information about how to strengthen your immune system. This article contains a list of natural ways to do it. Also, here are a few points for how floating can help. Lastly, it’s comforting to be in a space that is completely private and sterile. Floating…
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Is the water too warm or too cool? Let me know.

From wikipedia: “Normal human skin temperature on the trunk of the body varies between 33.5 and 36.9 C (92.3 and 98.4F), though the skin’s temperature is lower over protruding parts, like the nose, and higher over muscles and active organs.” One of the key components of a good, relaxing float is the right water temperature.…
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Isolation and darkness in an enclosed space isn’t a nightmare. It’s flotation therapy, and Chicago Fire forward C.J. Sapong uses it to recover.

This article on floating for athletic performance and post workout recovery comes from the Chicago Tribune. Read the full article here. Photo credit: ©Image Source/Getty Images

A Compliment to Floating: Chiropractic Care

Or maybe vice versa: floating being a good compliment to chiropractic care. Given the concentration of epsom salt and the “anti-gravity” effects of floating, it’s easy to see how they compliment each other. Here’s a blog post from Northwest Float Center that gives you some detail.

A Compliment to Floating: Benefits of Shavasana, the yoga meditation for relaxation

The meaning of the word “Yoga” is “union”. It is derived from the Sanskrit root “yuj,” (pron. “yug”) meaning “to join”, “to unite” but also “to subjugate”, with the meaning also “to control” and “to disciplinate”. The English word “yoke” is also derived from the same Sanskrit (Indo-European) root. Yoga means union of the individual…
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