Float therapy is a unique practice that activates deep rest by shifting your nervous system into ‘healing mode.’ This state, known as the parasympathetic state, allows your body to recover faster, reduce stress, and restore balance.
Whether you’re seeking stress relief, better sleep, or improved mental clarity, floating provides benefits far beyond relaxation—it’s a foundation for lasting well-being.
In a float session, the sensory-free environment calms your mind and body, helping your nervous system transition from fight-or-flight (stress) to deep rest (healing mode). This reset accelerates recovery, reduces stress, and supports overall well-being.
This reset activates healing by lowering stress hormones, reducing tension, and improving your body’s ability to recover.
The pod is 7 ½ feet long and 4 ¾ feet wide. You’re always in control of your environment.
Zero-Gravity Support: Feel completely weightless as the water supports your body.
Sensory Deprivation: Cut out external stimulation, allowing your mind to truly rest.
Effortless Relaxation: The Epsom salts soothe muscles and promote deep physical recovery.
By eliminating external stimuli, floating shifts your body into the parasympathetic state—‘rest and digest’ mode. Here, cortisol levels drop, heart rate variability improves, and your brain enters delta wave activity, the same state as deep sleep. This is where true healing and recovery occurResearch shows floating can:
By resetting your nervous system, floating not only relaxes you but also promotes lasting physical and mental health.
Don’t drink coffee for four hours beforehand (it can make your system jittery). Also, don’t shave or wax since the salt water can irritate your skin. Eating a light meal about an hour to 90 minutes ahead of time stops your stomach from sounding like an angry monster while you float. Other than that, there’s no specific preparation needed.
If you have just had a coffee
Before shaving or waxing
If you have eaten a large meal or nothing at all (you will be distracted by the sounds of your gargling stomach)
If you have just had a fresh tattoo within the past 5 days
If you have dyed your hair with a water based dye within 2 days
If you are intoxicated by alcohol or drugs
If you are an epileptic where seizures could endanger your safety in the float tank
If you have extremely low blood pressure
If you have impaired kidney disease
If you have a severe skin condition (raw and broken skin) or a contagious disease or infectious skin condition and open/infected wounds
If it has been less than 2 days since you experienced gastroenteritis/diarrhoea
Those with asthma, a heart condition, diabetes should seek advise from their health care provider before coming in.
If you have had chemotherapy (you will need to wait 1 week)
Note: If you are pregnant it's perfectly safe in all trimesters, however in the 1st ask your physician.
People with claustrophobia consistently report no problems with floating. The pod is 7 1/2 feet long and 4 3/4 feet wide. You’re always in control of your environment, and you can get out at any time. Our pods also come with the new Breathe™ Float Fan, created by our very own staff member Ross. This fan improves the air quality in the tanks, which makes breathing much more natural.
(For those spec curious floaters: During a 60 minute float, the amount of CO2 that accumulates in the tank steadily rises despite the passive vents in the tank. The fan helps deliver fresh air through the rim of the tank, resulting in a 3.5x reduction in ambient CO2.)
Nope. Some people fall asleep, but the water is so buoyant that you stay afloat. The worst that can happen is getting woken up by a bit of salt water in your eyes.
The high saline content of the floatation environment plus a tiny amount of disinfectant ensures that nothing harmful can survive within the tank. The highly sterile salt water is fully filtered three and three quarter times between each float, passing through a 1 micron filter and is sanitised with UV light.
Further cleanliness is assured as we tell all customers to shower before and after each float session. See here for more info on how sanitisation is maintained within the tank.
Absolutely. You can’t float together in the same tank, but you can book floats at the same time.
Yes. Just follow the same protocol you would for a swimming pool.
Floating has been around for over 50 years, and has oodles of published research to back it up. No mumbo or jumbo here.
Yes, you have your own private pod room equipped with your own personal shower, which you’ll use before and after your float. For this reason, most people do not wear a swimming costume as this presses against the body and takes away from the experience.
If you have longer hair, you may want to bring a comb. Also, something to put your contact lenses into while you’re in the tank. Other than that, we provide everything you need (towels, robes, earplugs, body wash/shampoo).
Not in the true sense of the word. Some first-time floaters can emerge from the tank feeling slightly nauseous. This is actually a good sign as it indicates that built-up stress is in fact leaving the body. We very rarely experience any cases of nausea in subsequent visits.
Nausea can also be caused through dehydration and middle-ear issues, making sure you are properly hydrated is important before your session.
No, your skin doesn’t even prune up! You do absorb a lot of magnesium from the Epsom salt though.
There aren’t any latches on the tank doors, so you can get out anytime. That said, the 60-minutes usually goes by waaaay faster than you’d expect (the average floater usually says it felt like 20-30 minutes long).
Our pregnant customers love floating! There is even a special position you can float in that relieves all of the weight of the baby off of the mother’s body. The float tank is a wonderful haven to which pregnant women can escape. It's perfectly safe in all trimesters, however in the 1st, please ask your physician.
Float therapy is suitable for anyone looking to improve their well-being. Whether you’re managing chronic stress, recovering from physical strain, or simply seeking a moment of stillness, floating can help. Common reasons people float include:
Chronic stress or burnout.
- Sleep difficulties or insomnia.
- Muscle pain or tension.
- Overthinking or mental fatigue.
Floating is a practice for everyone, whether you’re an athlete, a professional, or simply someone seeking balance
Life today keeps our bodies and minds in overdrive, blocking the natural healing process. Float therapy offers a solution: it resets your nervous system and allows your body to enter a state of deep rest and regeneration.
- Reset Your Nervous System: Move out of chronic stress and activate your body’s natural healing abilities.
- Accelerate Healing and Recovery: Boost your body’s ability to regenerate and repair itself.
- Improve Sleep Quality:Trigger delta brainwaves, similar to deep sleep, for unparalleled restoration.
- Relieve Physical Tension: Ease muscle pain, stiffness, and headaches in a zero-gravity environment.
- Enhance Mental Clarity and Focus: Reduce mental fog, relieve overwhelm, and restore your ability to focus.
The water in the float tank is about 40% Epsom salt in order to ensure that there are no surviving pathogenic organisms.
The entirety of the water is filtered through a one micron filter three and three quarter times after each float and skimmers are used to keep the surface completely clear.
We measure and maintain the pH, alkalinity, specific gravity, the sanitisation levels of the H202 & UV and temperature of the tank air and water.