“If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your own path.”
Other names for float tanks include , sensory deprivation tanks, and R.E.S.T. – which stands for Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (or Technique). They all involve floating in ten to twelve inches of warm water semi-saturated with Epsom salt — 800 lbs to a tank! The Epsom salts increase the density of the water to greater than the Dead Sea, allowing you to float effortlessly — easily keeping your nose and mouth above the waterline.
We hope to bring a commercial float center back to Boston area, after too long an absence. But many things need to occur first — we’re still in the planning stages.
About Us
Introduction to Floating
, teaser trailer for a 2013 documentary about various float experiences. “Sixty minutes of relaxation, pain free. And for someone who lives with pain every single day, every minute – that’s priceless.”
Washington Post, Sep 23rd, 2013. “I didn’t just feel relaxed, I felt like the giant baby at the end of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.”
, Slate, May 13th 2013. “I emerged in a profound daze. I spoke slowly and quietly, like a smooth-jazz DJ, to the person at the spa desk who inquired how my session had gone. I felt more rested than if I’d slept for 16 hours on a pile of tranquilized chinchillas.”
, Nautilus, Aug 14th 2014. “The only way I can describe it is that floating feels like being meditated. As if the tank does it for you, from the outside in.”
photo essay by imgur user , Feb 7th, 2014. “The more you go, the easier it gets to get to that state of meditation that you will hallucinate more and sooner. But don’t expect anything crazy. You’ll probably see weird colors. I personally hear a lot of different tones and muffled voices. It’s actually pretty cool.”
““, The Atlantic, Oct 12, 2012. “To experience complete sensory deprivation is, ideally, to delve into one’s psyche. It forces contemplation of facets of life, that — similar to less ‘heavy’ types of meditation — is meant to leave us healthier and happier.”
, Portland Mercury, Feb 2nd, 2012. “Additionally, I begin to write creatively for the first time in months, but with an uninhibited ease that I haven’t experienced in almost five years. In short, I was astounded by the changes I saw in myself.”
. “The way you physically feel afterwards is like getting a massage, doing a full workout, and getting 8 hours of sleep all at once… Until you try it, you won’t understand what I’m talking about.” Posted March 28th, 2012.
, The Nation, Oct 14, 2013. “Some of sensory deprivation’s sublime attraction seems to lie in the way it fortifies the floater against the perceived harm of twenty-first-century culture.”
, Wikipedia.
. A nice primer from Oasis, a manufacturer of classic tanks.
Science & Medicine
, Psychology Tomorrow, Aug 2014. “Lilly, Suedfeld, Borrie, and other researchers in the field published dozens of studies that concluded REST could be beneficial in countless ways: improving memory, increasing hand-eye coordination, even reducing spasticity in sufferers of cerebral palsy.”
. Have you been diagnosed with fibromyalgia? Consider participating in the non-floating control group while waiting for our center to open.
, 31:35. An investigator talks about the disease, his research, and the project results. “Without exception, the immediate intervention effects (average pre-post change) are highly significant [improvements] for all variables.” .
, 18:38. There are no published controlled studies on flotation REST and PTSD specifically. PTSD is a stress disorder notable for elevations in cortisol, ACTH and epinephrine; research on flotation clearly shows it can reduce all of these. .
““, Pacific Standard, May 16, 2011. Half of a university-level jazz improvization class does a month of floating, and has significantly greater performance improvement.
, Harvard Gazette, Nov 13, 2012. “These results are consistent with the overarching hypothesis that meditation may result in enduring, beneficial changes in brain function, especially in the area of emotional processing.”
, BBC News, Sep 30, 2013. “In a study of 800 Swedish women, those who had to cope with events such as divorce or bereavement were more likely to get Alzheimer’s decades later. … The study authors say stress hormones may be to blame, triggering harmful alterations in the brain.”
, Scientific American, Oct 30, 2013. “Although areas of the brain responsible for sustaining attention usually shrink as we age, meditation counteracts this decay.” The relationship between meditation and REST is virtually unstudied, but anecdotally many people expect there to be similarities.
Part III ~ Benefits)”, Hyperborean Health, Oct 23, 2014. “Learning how sit still and meditate has ironically been the biggest challenge of all. It turns out that besides the ambitious goal of spiritual enlightenment, meditation is simply good for our over active, reason-stuffed minds. My own personal best breakthrough as an adult came after a ten-day silent Vipassana retreat. But that was back in 2011. I needed a practice that I could do without becoming a temporary acetic or going nuts. Something gentle that I could fit into my daily life.”
, 5:44. “The sensory deprivation chamber is the most important tool I’ve ever used for developing my mind, for thinking, for evolving.”
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