Float Therapy
What is Floating?
Floating is the act of utilizing a “floatation tank, pod, or open-air pool.” Float Therapy has also been referred to as “sensory deprivation therapy” or “restricted environmental stimulus,” also known as R.E.S.T. It is utilized as a therapy to combat the stressors of everyday life.
Floating minimizes this external sensory input on the nervous system, allowing our minds and bodies to experience an environment they have never encountered before, which is why many people report levels of intense relaxation. This type of relaxation can bring about a plethora of benefits pertaining to stress. The most common are decreased blood pressure, decreased heart rate, and decreased anxiety, as well as increasing one’s sense of overall wellbeing.
Many people with meditation practices report floatation therapy as a great place to meditate. The two combined can bring clarity, focus, calmness, creativity, and give the brain time to turn inward and listen to the body instead of all the outside noise.
Float therapy is proven to relieve stress, anxiety, and depression, and reduce chronic fatigue. stimulate creativity, accelerate mental clarity and learning, deepen meditation practices, soothe chronic pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia, back and neck pain, inflammation and tendonitis, decrease muscular tension caused by daily stresses and prolonged sitting, improve circulation and reduce blood pressure, accelerate healing strengthen the immune system, and much more.