Boosting Athletic Performance and Recovery with Floating

The pursuit of peak performance requires a delicate balance between intense training and sufficient rest to recover properly. Whether you’re a professional athlete or someone who regularly hits the gym, unless you prioritize your recovery, the demands on the body can lead to fatigue, muscle soreness, and even injury. Traditional recovery methods like stretching, massage, and proper nutrition are critical. Still, many athletes are now turning to floatation therapy as an innovative way to enhance both their performance and recovery.

The reason? Floating provides a unique environment in which we experience a variety of physical and mental benefits, which can contribute directly to improved athletic performance and allow the body to recover in ways that are essentially impossible to achieve through other means.

Why Float?, Recovery, Tools & TipsFloat Tank SolutionsSeptember 8, 2024

Floating and Hair Color

As a girl who floats regularly and highlights her hair, I definitely understand concerns about floating with colored hair. Getting the gorgeous hair color you want is no easy (or cheap) feat, so here’s a quick 101 on when it’s safe to hop in the tank….

Tools & Tips, Floating 101Guest UserNovember 2, 2022

Floating and Yoga: An Enlightening Combination

The idea of yoga in the west often begins and ends with pictures of various movements you do in a cramped studio surrounded by other sweaty people. In reality, this is but one sliver of what yoga truly is. Rather than a physical workout that you do, yoga is more of a way of life that you pursue. It is an internal practice involving the mind and body, working towards alignment.

Some Things Never Change

Although the environment for floating is carefully constructed and controlled, it doesn’t stop every float being its own unique experience. This is true, not only from person to person, but also from float to float. The float tank is a neutral environment, but every individual brings in their own unique state of mind and body. It’s one of the reasons we always recommend playing around with different times of day (and days of the week) when you’re starting to float, so that you can find what you enjoy most consistently for your own practice.

What you’ve been thinking about, how much you’ve exercised recently, how sleepy you are, and even how long it’s been since your last visit can all impact the nature of your experience. With that said, there are a few surprising things that have way LESS impact on your float experience than you might think. These include the temperature and weather outside, the style of tank that you use, and even what your intentions and expectations are going into your session.

Design Your Dream Home - and Life!

Visual-Spatial Intelligence is the ability to rotate an object in your mind. Those with a strong visual-spatial intelligence see the big picture, recognize patterns, and are very inventive. We often see this in professions that work in three dimensions such as architecture, engineering, and sculpting.

Architects, for example, plan a building by examining many points of view. They see how each space flows into the next and what vibe that might create. Plan your future house by envisioning spaces that are customized to your ideals of comfortable living. Sensory deprivation tanks provide a unique opportunity that’s free of distractions and allows you practice visualization. When you reach stillness, the Epsom salt relaxes your muscles while your mind focuses on processing information, weighing decisions, and considering your dreams.

Growth, Creativity, Productivity, Tools & Tips, Why Float?EmilyMay 22, 2022

Finding Yourself in Quiet Darkness

“The tank is a general-purpose tool, not a design for something in particular. It is nothing and it is a powerful instrument for change. It is an environment for learning about oneself, in whatever way one wishes. It does not tell us what to do… we trust in the inherent capacity of the individual to discover what is best for themselves.”

- Glenn and Lee Perry, Floating in Quiet Darkness
(manufacturers of the first commercial float tanks)

The Secret to Record-Breaking may be in the Float Tank

Stephen Curry carries the record for most 3-point field goals made (3PM) in the NBA and attributes much of his success to his practice in float therapy. Along with elaborate dribbling drills, Curry is not afraid to experiment with innovative training technologies. In 2015, the Warrior’s new head of physical performance and sports science, Lachlan Penfold, suggested the implementation of floatation therapy for preparation, performance, and injury management…

Growth, Recovery, Productivity, Tools & Tips, Why Float?, Stress ReliefEmilyMay 6, 2022

Creative Notion from the Silent Ocean

If humanity defines itself by anything, it is by our capacities to think critically and to adapt through our creative abilities. Although the critical thinking part gets a lot of attention, creativity is at the core of our being and is one of the main driving forces of productivity.

Unfortunately, society values this productive output so much that it’s often willing to sacrifice our health and sanity in the short term to get there. This can cause a perverse cycle where our health suffers, so our creative force takes a serious dip, and our productivity is brought along as an unwilling and unwitting passenger. The intimate relationship between self-care, creativity, and productivity is both fascinating and often frustratingly elusive to balance in our lives.

Sometimes we "just get it" and everything seems to flow effortlessly from our intentions, through our actions, into being. However, when our creative fuel is running low our outlook can suddenly change, and lots of the creative tasks that would normally come easily to us end up being difficult to manage. This can manifest itself in things like writer’s block, listlessness, or even chronically cleaning the same spot in your kitchen over and over again in the hopes that you’ll somehow metaphorically wipe away your current mental obstacles.

Growth, Float Research, Productivity, Tools & Tips, Why Float?, CreativityFloat Tank SolutionsApril 5, 2022

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