Floating is a great modern day lifestyle hack. Great for body and mind, helps with so many conditions and intentions, works well in tandem with other therapies.
The Float Blog highlights many of the reasons why people float especially to address medical conditions, chronic pain, or other physical conditions. This comes usually after other interventions and therapies have been used or did not provide long-term improvement or success.
Float Therapy serves to get the body off the mind, as well as reducing so many other external stimuli, and in doing so, allows for a deep brain reset that results in less anxiety. Research in the world of floatation is supportive in demonstrating potent anti-anxiety effects. Floating is a drug-free, safe and effective choice for managing stress and anxiety in our culture of stress and anxiety.
Read MoreFloat therapy boosts heart health in a number of ways. Here are just a few.
Read MoreFloat Therapy boosts immunity in a variety of ways. From deep relaxation and a resetting of the brain’s perception of reality, floating helps pain, sleep and mood. Floatation affects both magnesium and hormone levels. Floating reduces stress.
Read MoreConcussions are prevalent in professional sports. Floating is one effective way to alleviate the effects of concussion. One hour in silence and the absence of sound is a treat to the brain. You can also use a red light in the float tank to help minimize the issues from traumatic brain injury like concussion.
Read MoreFloat therapy is an excellent choice of self care for home caregivers, as well as medical and alternative medical practitioners who tend to not take time out for themselves and instead take on unintended and invisible consequences of vicarious stress, anxiety and pain syndromes. Floating or floatation does not require a therapist and offers immediate, effective and lasting results for both mind and body.
Read MorePain. It can be consuming, frustrating, debilitating, distracting, yet always subjective to the individual experiencing it. Chronic pain is of epidemic proportions and is a major cause of disability. Until recently, pain was treated like a fifth vital sign. Blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, and…pain?
Floatation therapy is emerging as a valid, effective and adjunctive means for managing chronic pain.
Read MoreFloatation therapy helps Multiple Sclerosis. Here are 5 ways how floating helps MS.
Read MoreAll of us have experienced the consequences of a sleepless night. Everything the next day requires more effort. You lack energy and motivation. You feel groggy and irritable. Try floating. It might help you sleep.
Sleep has been of significant interest to the floatation therapy industry as evidenced by thousands of anecdotal instances of improved sleep after floating. While floating, like sleep, you are essentially "offline". with minimal to no external stimuli. Both floating and sleep require sensory disconnection as an essential requirement. Many floaters actually do fall asleep during part or all of their float. Most are somewhere in between sleeping and wakefulness.
Read MoreChronic back pain is of epidemic proportions. Medical professionals are seeking complementary ways to manage pain. Floatation therapy is showing promise and proof through case studies such as those being conducted at The Float Zone in Richmond, VA.
Read MorePro football player, Defensive Back Maurice Thorne after a recuperative float at The Float Zone
Read MoreCancer sucks. Floating offers a refreshing complementary way to manage mind and body during the recovery and remission of cancer.
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WAS THIS A FLOATATION INSPIRED GASTRONOMIC CREATION?
A symbiotic relationship has always existed between any culture and its food that makes culinary artists such an important subset of any community. A local example of this is the varied and talented gastronomists of Richmond, Virginia that continually carve local culture. Over the past several years, Richmond has transformed into a foodie culture. There are an impressive number of rising and talented local chefs whose creations are only limited by their own inspiration. However, the work of a chef is much more than just the planning, purchase, prep, staff instruction and execution of the meal. Administrative duties, equipment maintenance, marketing and other intricacies of the kitchen often hinder proper sleep patterns, which affect the very inspiration needed to keep producing new and different gastronomical masterpieces. This is why chefs like to float - and many Richmond chefs have floated at The Float Zone.
Floating or floatation involves a sleek 8’ by 5’ fiberglass “pod”. It is filled with 10” of skin temperature water and saturated with 1000 pounds of Epsom salt. There are light and music controls within the pod for which you can float in the light or dark and listen to music or silence. The pod can be left open or closed, while you float face up effortlessly like a cork, for an hour. By removing gravity and other sensations such as light, sound or the sensation of water temperature, the brain enters a very restful, restorative and left/right brain synchronized state. Further, the magnesium salts have a powerful muscle relaxing and pain relieving effect. The result is that one feels both physically and mentally refreshed.
A pleasant side effect of this sleep-promoting, stress-reducing therapy is that it seems to inspire creativity. Sometimes that new idea comes in the middle of a float. Sometimes it happens on the ride home afterwards or through a float inspired dream that night. But when you feel calmer for the next few days, less reactive and brighter in mind and body, you’ll appreciate the benefit of the float experience.
The month of July is culinary arts appreciation month. We appreciate great gastronomical efforts and thank all RVA chefs along with their support staff, for all the culinary inspiration that you bring to our city!
Acupuncture has been around for centuries. Long before the advent of penicillin or aspirin, acupuncture was successful in addressing a wide range of ailments and disorders. It takes years of study and practice to become a proficient practitioner in this healing art.
While only a few points are typically chosen for your treatment, over 360 acupuncture points are available to restore balance to your body’s energy systems. Like the old school telephone switchboard operators that plug and connect phone lines, needles purposefully placed in points and patterns on the skin, communicate with your inner rivers of energy.
Regardless of your reasons for receiving it, acupuncture is a surprisingly relaxing experience. During an acupuncture session, many experience a sense of “drifting off” and lucid dreaming, similar to the experience of floatation therapy.
Floatation therapy and acupuncture complement each other. Many partake in both, as part of a personal wellness strategy to combat the effects and pressures of modern day society. For this reason, many acupuncturists recommend floatation therapy to their patients.
Floating is like an instant mind and muscle relaxer. It is like meditating without having ever practiced meditation, like receiving the effects of a full body massage without being touched, like getting the most restful sleep without really sleeping, all in one hour.
Imagine a fiberglass molded “pod” which contains 10” of skin temperature water (93.5-94.5 degrees) and 1000 pounds of Epsom, or magnesium salts. You are in a private room. You shower, insert earplugs, climb into this pod, lie on your back, turn off the light (from inside the pod) and float effortlessly for an hour like a cork. Your brain gets a chance to rest, to recharge and to refresh being relieved of “normal” stimuli, like gravity. Your body soaks up the healthy magnesium salts. You emerge feeling distinctively different. And it lasts for days. The more you float, the better you feel.
Acupuncture and floating work well together. Come float at “The Float Zone” in Richmond, Virginia.
It is likely that you or someone you know has probably experienced back pain, neck pain or headaches and saw a Chiropractic Physician as part of the treatment plan. Since the 19th century, Doctors of Chiropractic have been musculoskeletal specialists who use their hands rather than pills, to manually repair a wide range of injuries and disorders.
Schooled like a medical or osteopathic doctor, but with a heavier emphasis on radiology, anatomy, neurology, rehabilitative exercise, and nutrition, a chiropractor is a good choice for managing pain from head to toe. Whether it is a bum knee causing back stress or a weak muscle group creating imbalance, a chiropractor can help identify and treat it, or refer you to the right specialist who can.
Most who seek chiropractic care for pain or injury realize that there are also preventative and wellness benefits to regular (spinal) check-ups, similar to that of a teeth cleaning at the dentist. And while the benefits are broad and valuable, there are also limitations of this healing art, especially as it relates to modern day pressures and lifestyles.
Chiropractors and health care practitioners alike, easily recognize that stress, anxiety and depression that plagues our modern world, can sabotage treatment benefits and cause collateral health issues. Chiropractic care is well suited to work in conjunction with other therapies that address stress reduction and muscle relaxation. This is why chiropractors often recommend floatation therapy to their patients.
Floating, or floatation therapy is like an instant mind and muscle relaxer. It is like meditating without having ever practiced meditation, like receiving the effects of a full body massage without being touched, like getting the most restful sleep without really sleeping, all in one hour.
Imagine a fiberglass molded “pod” which contains 10” of skin temperature water (93.5-94.5 degrees) and 1000 pounds of Epsom, or magnesium salts. You are in a private room. You shower, insert earplugs, climb into this pod, lie on your back, turn off the light (from inside the pod) and float effortlessly for an hour like a cork. Your brain gets a chance to rest, to recharge and to refresh being relieved of “normal” stimuli, like gravity. Your body soaks up the healthy magnesium salts. You emerge feeling distinctively different. And it lasts for days. The more you float, the better you feel.
Floatation therapy in combination with chiropractic therapy can have profound benefit. Come float at “The Float Zone” in Richmond, Virginia.
