Treating Stress-Related Pain in a Clinical Sample With Floation-Rest: A Further Report on Improvements in Pain Assessed by the Pain Area Inventory (PAI) by Annika Landstrom Et al The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether using flotation tank … Read More
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Study shows that float tank users were more able to be in the present moment, that they were less reactive to circumstance and that they had more energy throughout the week. There was also a unique aspect to floating; that this state could not be achieved through anything else.
What is the Lived Experience of Flotation – REST? By KImberley Carder, May 2018 This study begins with a very thorough literature review which finds evidence for the benefits of flotation therapy in areas such as: Reduced pain Positive effects … Read More
Peeling Away Layers of the Self
I was recently teaching the koshas (the 5 layers of the self) on a yoga teacher training and it suddenly occurred to me whilst teaching that one way of explaining the magic of the float tank is that it is … Read More
Health and therapeutic applications of chamber and flotation restricted environmental stimulation therapy by Peter Suedfeld and Roderick A. Bow
Health and therapeutic applications of chamber band flotation restricted enviromental stimulation therapy by Peter Suedfeld and Roderick A. Bow This review of previously published studies looks at the benefits of flotation therapy and finds evidence for: Improved general relaxation. Stress … Read More
Finding the Flow
The tank, it is said, can be a useful space to ponder life’s important questions… whether to change job, house or relationship; those major life decisions. Go in with a question and you may just find the answer in those … Read More
Stages of Samadhi
When we begin the process of closing our eyes and going within, stuff starts happening. Not in the external world, but on the inside. And when this stuff starts happening, it’s not just one thing that happens and that’s it … Read More
Contemplation
Contemplation: The action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time. In the tank, I do not replicate my seated meditation practice, early on I tried to and it just didn’t work. I use it in other ways and … Read More
It’s Not the Tank, It’s You
I often say to customers: “The tank tank will give you what you need.” And i often think to myself before I go in: “So then tank, what are you going to show me today.” And I’m sure for anyone … Read More
The Spaces In-Between
I was recently indulging in my other passion; teaching an ancient branch of yoga philosophy called Kashmir Shivism. Within this tradition, they describe 4 different upayas. These upayas are methods, modes or means of obtaining spiritual liberation. The metaphor I … Read More