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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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Sensory Deprivation Boosts Musicians’ Skill Level

“Oshin Vartanian of the University of Toronto and Peter Suedfeld of the University of British Columbia report floating in an Epsom salt solution one hour per week for four weeks boosted the technical ability of a group of college music students. This suggests such periods of minimal sensory stimulation can improve performers’ perceptual-motor coordination.” This…
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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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Shhh! The Impact Of Sound And The Health Benefits Of Silence

This is why I love where we live. It’s one of the reasons I wasn’t aware of consciously when I chose to live here. It’s one of the reasons why I find floating so healing. Good sound can heal. Silence is golden. Read the full article on ideastream.com.

Sensory deprivation tanks helping people with PTSD find comfort in darkness, silence, enveloping warmth

Another article introducing floating for helping to treat the effects of PTSD. It makes a very good and important point: “We know that the talking therapies alone are not necessarily sufficient, and we need to look at options to provide people that are really holistic.” Read the full article here.

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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