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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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
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
The Guardian 2016: Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank
Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank by Olga Oksman
Vogue 2015: Getting Tanked: One Writer’s 60 Minutes in Sensory Deprivation
Getting Tanked: One Writer’s 60 Minutes in Sensory Deprivation by Nathan Heller
BBC News 2016: Why do people use flotation tanks?
Why do people use flotation tanks?
TIME Magazine 2017: Mental health treatment: How float clinics treat anxiety
Mental health treatment: How float clinics treat anxiety Story by Mandy Oaklander