Floatation Therapy

Most people are not aware that 90% of our muscles energy is spent dealing with our nervous system and the effects of gravity. Our float rooms consist of 1000 pounds of Epsom salt being dissolved into a ten-inches of water. The solution is so thick it is impossible for you not to float effortlessly. Your muscles are instantly and totally relieved of all their normal work allowing your body to use its energy to repair itself. Unless you have floated before, you have never experienced this level of absolute relaxation.

Our blood pressure is controlled by our nervous system which has two main parts. One part, looks out for dangers and tells us when to fight or to run away, the other part is responsible for relaxing us. When you float the part of your nervous system that needs to be alert goes on pause while the part responsible for relaxing us takes over. Due to the zero gravity environment and the restricted input from our senses the we enter a state of complete calm which can causes blood pressure to lower significantly.

Each of us has an internal clock that we’ve likely been running on for more or less our whole lives. When this get disrupted, thrown off, or ignored we become fatigued and eventually need to rest. In our fast paced global society, it is easy to ignore the needs of our body. Fortunately, with powerful technology like floating we can effectively give our bodies the rest it needs in less time. A 60-minute float is the equivalent to six-eight hours of deep sleep.

Soaking in Epsom salt baths has been used by many cultures for hundreds of years. By taking one it allows for a reverse osmosis to occur. During this process harmful toxins are pulled out of the body while magnesium and sulfates are allowed to enter. Magnesium plays a critical role in over 325 enzymes in the body some of which promote the healthy functioning of our immune system which in turn regulates inflammation in the body. Its believed that over 68% of American’s are deficient in magnesium and is likely a key reason for many suffering from an over active inflammatory response.

Athletes around the world use floatation therapy to prepare for and recover from sports activities. While floating, you are able to experience the lowest state of gravity – without leaving Earth. This total relaxation gives every muscle a break from fighting gravity, and the benefits can be startling. By relieving the stresses of gravity, floating takes the weight off strained bones, joints and muscles, and increases the efficiency of the blood circulating through the body – leading towards a faster recovery time. Athletes who use floatation therapy in conjunction with visualization techniques have experienced rapid improvement in their sporting performances. As the brain enters the theta wave state, commonly experienced in deep meditation, it becomes more open to suggestion. The central nervous system can essentially be trained to produce the ‘perfect performance’.

Flotation therapy allows 90% of the energy our brain and nervous system continuously use to be freed up. No longer concerned with managing gravity and our senses all of our attention can be used in other ways. As a result, our circulatory system speeds up allowing muscle regeneration to happen more quickly.

Insomnia caused by stress, anxiety and an over active mind can be reduced with float therapy. While floating, the body goes into a state of deep relaxation allowing the brain to reach a Theta State that is only reached during sleep. This deep relaxation, Theta State, and calm mind will contribute to a good night sleep. It is very common for people to fall asleep while floating and break the sleepless patterns. It is safe to fall asleep during a float session. The water – Epsom Salt ratio, buoyancy, will not allow you to sink. Floaters may fall asleep on their first session while it may take several sessions for other. Even if the floater doesn’t fall asleep during the session, it is a common denominator to have a good night sleep after a float session.

Floating provides us a space where we can both physically and mentally relax. In doing we energize every system in our body as well as your activating natural killer cells within the body. These special cells have the responsibility for killing defective cells that hinder our immune system. While in float mode you’ll find you give your body a big upper hand in overcoming whatever may be keeping you down

Much of the joint pain we experience is due to wear and tear we’ve sustained in our lives. A big part of that is the extra load we carry operating under gravity. This force which holds us down, quite literally, also causes damage to our bodies in doing so. Floating allows us to bypass this otherwise inescapable entity. In doing so the you experience unparalleled relaxation and give the body its best rest to date. Remove gravity, enjoy relief!

As gravity keeps us in place it is also pushes down on us, compressing our bodies from head to toe. Given that the top of the spine is located in the neck and the bottom in our lower back it makes sense that these are common places for injury or occur. As stated above gravity can be a force for both good and bad. However, we rarely if ever get to escape its more negative effects. This is where floating comes in giving us an place to enjoy a short reprieve from the universal forces. Now that we can at ease out body can begin to decompress and create space for additional blood flow.

Floatation Therapy for pregnant women within the 2nd and 3rd trimesters can bring you to a much needed state of relaxation and pain relief not found outside of the float room. Floating is most valuable during the third trimester of pregnancy, when the weight is putting uncomfortable pressure on your lungs and organs, making it difficult to breathe and sleep. By floating in our zero gravity float rooms, you can escape the added weight that you have been carrying around and take the strain off of your body and spine. Floating also promotes excellent sleep, a lovely sense of well being, and can help with all the aches and pains normally associated with pregnancy. There is also an amazing ‘mirror effect’ in which the unborn baby is floating in the womb of the mother, and the mother is floating in the buoyant float room. This bond of floating together can be spiritually uplifting and deepening the connection between mother and baby. Check with your doctor or midwife to see if floating is right for you.

The power of floating can reduce the probability of recurring migraines as well as alleviates the pain of an existing one. Through floating we find ourselves no longer needing to worry about or even think about anything which provides a great place for letting the body find calm. Floating can often end recurring migraines.

Epsom salts is named for a natural spring at Epsom, in Surrey, England. It is a natural, pure compound of magnesium and sulfate, which are both readily absorbed through the skin into the blood stream. Most Americans suffer from a Magnesium deficiency which plays a role in maintaining many of the bodies systems – we need Magnesium to regulate more than 325 enzymes and pathways. When you float the solution contains 1000 lbs. of Epsom salts which is dissolved into the ten inches of water, heated to the temperature of your outside layer of skin and placed inside one of our float rooms. Shortly after you begin to float, a detoxification of your body begins as the healing Magnesium enters your body. The first thing Magnesium does is to greatly improve your body’s digestion, which increases its ability to get rid of harmful bacteria. The way Magnesium does this is by improving how your body uses oxygen, which greatly increases the flow of blood. Don’t be like 68% of Americans who are Mg deficient come for a float!

It is said one couple in seven has problems when they try for a baby. There are many reasons but, one of the most important is also one we can help with – stress. Floatation therapy is the most powerful stress relief technique known. For fertility treatment, we recommend for women, a course of ten floats in a month, approximately every two to three days right through the fertile period. The degree of relaxation achieved is wonderful and will of course benefit you in many ways but if stress is the principal cause of your failure to conceive, then floating really is the best treatment. We believe the benefit of floating is the same for natural conception and for IVF treatments.