Who can benefit from Floating?

Business People

Seeking refuge from the fast paced hectic work a day pressures of life in the Bay Area, make the world stop for an hour, and exit the flotation tank well rested and refreshed.

Lack of appropriate sleep negatively effects brain function and has been linked to everything from ulcers and depression to heart disease and cancer. Floatation therapy is a form of R.E.ST. Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy and can help you make up for that lack of sleep that far too many of us experience on a regular basis.

"As a business owner, it's easy to get bombarded with managing the day to day responsibilities. Before you know it your dream has become just another job. Floating has given me an ideal, convenient environment to continue visualizing, creating and manifesting my dreams. "

                                                                                             ~ Thomas Weatherspoon, CEO Training Ground

Floating is great for people who need to get through a creativity block, clear their minds, recharge their batteries and improve their performance in the workplace.

After a restful floatation session you will be more focused, creative and productive.

Floating in a float tank enhances higher learning and aids in visualization, just what you need before a big project or important presentation.

Allow yourself to fall asleep in the tank, it's the equivalent of 4 to 5 hours of the most amazingly restful sleep imaginable.

Floatation therapy is a wonderful tool to recover from jet lag at a record rate, and will even help you recover from a hangover.

Stress causes a fight or flight reaction in the body, floatation therapy triggers the parasympathetic response:

• oxygen consumption decreases
• breathing slows
• heart rate slows
• blood pressure decreases
• muscle tension decreases
• growing sense of ease in body, calmness in mind

Enhanced creativity by Michael Hutchison's The Book of Floating:

Floatation is the ultimate tool for enhancing creativity. Creativity is as important for business people as it is for artists. Relaxation plays an important role in the creative process. It allows one to be calm and able to listen to their mind. While floating, you are able to view your life and business from a more objective perspective, where the answers to all your questions are apparent. You float effortlessly in a silky solution of Epsom salts saturated in body-temperature water. With all distractions eliminated, including light and sound, you easily enter a profound state of relaxation unlike anything you have experienced on planet earth.

The Health Conscious


Floating in a floatation tank creates a level of virtual weightlessness, removes external physical stimuli and allows your mind to drift into the deepest possible level of sensory relaxation.
 
When you'll get out of the floatation tank you'll feel positively refreshed, rejuvenated and calm.

Floatation tank therapy results in ultimate stress reduction that improves the immune system. Floating slows down your heart rate, brain waves and slightly lowers your blood pressure.

Floating helps remove toxins from the body, and reduces your cortisol level and increases circulation. In addition Epsom salt has been used for centuries for its many healing properties.

Try something truly out of this world:

The combination of relaxation and increased endorphin levels achieved from floatation therapy coupled with acupuncture increases your level of wellbeing, thus intensifying (Qi). The body's natural energy, this combination helps increase vitality, harmony and balance.

Pregnant women

Within the 2nd and 3rd trimesters and only after a medical clearance from your doctor floatation therapy can offer a brilliant level of relaxation, and pain relief not found outside of the tank.

Floatation Therapy allows you to escape the added weight of pregnancy by floating in a weightless environment, thus taking the strain off the body and spine. It promotes excellent sleep, a lovely sense of well being, and can help with all the aches and pains normally associated with pregnancy.

Floating in a floatation tank can help the pregnant mom to be, literally float through the pregnancy with a level of calm and comfort, another helpful therapy is Hypno-birthing and the two together are amazing.
 
There is often comment about the 'mirror effect' of the baby floating in the womb of the mother, and the mother floating in the womb of the tank and the spiritual/communal pleasure for the mother in this regard, deepening her connection with her baby.

In the third trimester you are the most uncomfortable. You have all this pressure on your lungs, and organs, you may have trouble breathing and sleeping. Imagine if you will a brief respite. If we evolved from the sea it only makes sense to use floatation therapy to draw comfort, we are 80% water after all.

"I was eight months pregnant when I floated for the first time. Pregnancy takes a toll on every muscle in your body, especially your torso. Ironically, the times when you get a chance to rest is when the baby becomes more active and its weight continues to put stress on your muscles. While floating, I expected the baby to be very active, but was pleasantly surprised. Since there was no pressure from any side, the baby didn't feel the need to kick or roll around. It was the best rest I've had in several months. I would recommend floating to anyone, pregnant or not, for a time of physical and mental renewal."
--Heather

Sports Enthusiasts and Athletes

Athletes have used flotation tanks since the 80's, to enhance performance, aid in speed healing and recovery from physical activity and injury.

Visualization is enhanced in the tank, this can allow athletes to focus, and better prepare for an upcoming event.

Coach Thomas Weatherspoon, CEO of Training Ground has been training professional athletes, including NFL players for the past 18 years. He uses floatation therapy to increase mental clarity and become more focused, in order to enhance athletic performance.

Increases endorphin levels that can last up to a week, this is ideal for managing chronic pain.

Reduction of lactic acid (a toxic by-product of anaerobic glycolysis) in the muscles caused by over training. Floatation therapy will allow you to recover in record rate.

Beneficial effects of Floatation Tank Therapy

• Reduce stress and stress related pain & illness
• Cleanses the body of toxins
• Helps eliminate addictive behavior, including weight loss
• Lowers blood pressure, and cortisol level
• Enhances higher learning and aids in visualization
• Improves athletic performance
• Speed healing and recovery from physical activity and injury
• Pain relief from illness and injury
• Creates hemispheric and whole brain integration
• Increases harmonious brain patterns
• Enhances the creativity process
• Increases endorphin levels that can last up to a week
• Creates an ideal environment for meditation & lucid dreaming
• Speed recovery from Jet lag
• Floating in a zero gravity environment is ideal for managing back pain & floating through pregnancy

The Added benefit of Lucid Dreaming

Lucid dreaming is the conscious perception of one's state while dreaming, resulting in a much clearer experience and sometimes enabling direct control over the content of the dream. In other words dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming, you are in the driver’s seat.

“I found the floatation tank to be an excellent tool to enhance lucid dreams, for those of us who are strong vivid dreamers or: oneironauts meaning dream sailors, it’s even easier to control your dreams while in the tank.  As a child I had lucid dreams more easily than as an adult. But in the last 9 months of floating on a regular basis my dreams have been much more lucid, and my ability for direct control over the content of the dream has increased dramatically”  Fil - Co-Owner of FLOAT

FLOAT, Floatation Center - Art Gallery in the press:

Herndon Davis Diversity Report: Therapeutic benefits of flotation
East Bay Express 5/30/06: Sensory Deprivation by David Downs
Common Ground Magazine 6/2006: The Art of Flotation
Rod 2.0 Beta, Photography 6.3.2006 Duane Cramer WORKS
East Bay Express 7/2006: Pod People - Oakland's floating art gallery, by Kelly Vance
Oakland Tribune, Where OILS and WATER do mix 7/27/06 by Kirstin Bender
Bay Area Business Women 8/06 Floating Away Troubles and Pain by Julia Dodge
San Francisco Chronice 96 Hours EMERGING ARTISTS 'Raw': by Reyhan Harmanci, October 12, 2006
SF Station 12/22/06:  Undiscovered Terrain for Spa Babies By Nirmala Nataraj
Vision Magazine 6/1/07, FLOATING, By Pia Hagan
East Bay Express, 8/15/2007: Ms and Mr Natural, By Kelly Vance
Learning To Float, Novo Metro 8/2007, by Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar

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