How Float Therapy Can Aid In Your Recovery
How Float Therapy Can Aid In Your Recovery
As athletes, we often see the impressive performances and seemingly effortless movements of sports stars, but we don’t always understand the hard work and dedication that goes into honing their craft. Physical activities, whether professional or recreational, can take a toll on the body, with muscles, bones, and joints subjected to rigorous training. It’s important for athletes to allow time for their bodies to heal and recover.
But it’s not just professional athletes who need a proper recovery strategy. Whether you’re a casual athlete or just engage in regular physical activity, it’s important to give your body time to regenerate cells and prepare for the next workout.
Floatation therapy can be a helpful way to allow the body to rejuvenate and recover. In addition to promoting healing and preventing injury, it can also improve performance, speed up recovery between workouts, and reduce stress.
During float therapy, the body is submerged in a tank filled with a medical-grade Epsom salt solution, which enables it to float effortlessly and removes the strain of gravity. This weightlessness helps to relieve muscle tension and other pains associated with high-intensity activities. The Epsom salt solution also contains magnesium, a natural muscle relaxant that can further ease tension. By allowing the body to fully relax, float therapy can help to speed up and improve the body’s natural healing and regeneration processes.
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Improving Your Float Therapy Experience
Improving Your Float Therapy Experience
Float therapy is an increasingly popular way to unwind, relax and take a break from the stress of the world. Aside from reducing stress, it also helps in easing aches and pains, amongst other health benefits. What’s not to like?
Float therapy offers you a moment of peace amidst a busy lifestyle. Many people who have tried floating experience deep relaxation that rejuvenates not just their body, but also their mind.
Are you interested in experiencing the benefits of float therapy for yourself? Here’s how you can make the experience even more amazing.
Take your time.
Float therapy, allows you to take a break from the constant stimuli of daily life. This is why you are submerged in a float tank that cuts off all sounds, sights and scents, allowing your mind to focus within. When you are in the float tank, don’t rush. Instead, let yourself relax and let go. Give yourself the chance to just simply exist.
Be still.
It is par for the course, staying still whilst floating. But it’s not just physically. Try to unwind from what has been worrying you outside of the float tank. Be open to the calm that the floating experience offers. In minutes, it is easy to fall into a sort of sleepy meditative state whilst floating.
Hydrate afterwards.
Whilst you are submerged in the float tank, your body will experience a drop in blood pressure. Your spine, joints and muscles are also freed from the grasp of gravity, allowing you to float effortlessly. Your cells will also feel recharged and revitalised. To make the most out of this, hydrate well after the session. A refreshing glass of water or mug of tea can go a long way!
Ready to experience the wonders of a float therapy session?
Visit us at Urban Float! Our floatation therapy centre will act as your reprieve, and after your session, you’ll get back out to the real world feeling more refreshed than ever!
Call 03 9870 4777 to book your session or for enquiries.
Give a Unique Holiday Treat with a Float Therapy Session
The holidays are just around the corner, and it’s time to zip around town looking for the perfect gift for friends and family. With how hectic the world today is, it’s extra special if your gift brings the recipient a sense of well-deserved peace and relaxation. Sounds difficult? It’s not! Surprise your loved one with a session of float therapy for a unique gift that lets them sit back, relax and improve their health at the same time.
There’s nothing quite like finding a pocket of serenity in the frenzy of day-to-day life. Float therapy is a way to achieve that, providing floaters the opportunity to rest both their mind and body. (more…)
How Float Therapy Can Help Athletes
Float therapy has a positive effect of stimulating the body’s natural healing and regeneration processes. This is especially useful for athletes, who lead such high-performing, intense lives. Playing sports involves incredibly high levels of physical demands, putting quite a strain on one’s body.
Sports can be mentally exhausting too, especially when there’s tough competition; one would require concentration and extreme focus.
Through float therapy, athletes can help their muscles and joints recover faster and can release the stress burdening them in a safe, effective way. With the sensory deprivation that float tanks offer, their mind can easily drift into a deep, blissful meditative state that is sure to refresh their minds. (more…)
Floatation Therapy and the Health Benefits It Offers
Floatation Therapy and the Health Benefits It Offers
Floatation therapy involves being submerged in a float tank that contains a highly concentrated Epsom salt solution. This solution increases the buoyancy levels, thus helping you float effortlessly. The float tank aids in achieving sensory deprivation, in which all external stimuli are removed to help you relax.
A float tank is completely soundproof and lightproof, and the temperature is moderated to remove the sensation on your skin as well. Thus, you will feel disconnected from the world around you, allowing your mind to focus on staying calm without any distractions.
The effects of floatation therapy on the body and the psyche can be best observed over a period of time. However, even an hour of floating can bring about interesting benefits. For instance, during a float therapy session, there will be a marked decrease in the levels of cortisone in the brain, thus relieving you of feeling stressed. Additionally, the calm and peaceful sensation during float therapy helps your brain enter the theta brainwave state. (more…)
Reasons To Include Float Therapy In Your Routine
Reasons To Include Float Therapy In Your Routine
In the pursuit of your daily goals, it is easy to neglect taking care of yourself first. The immense pressure balancing work and home can often lead you to feel stressed or burned out. This calls for some much needed self-care!
There are several ways to unwind and de-stress but one of the best ways to invigorate your mental, physical and emotional state is including float therapy which will help you maintain a healthy life. Read on to learn how float therapy is beneficial for your body:
(more…)Benefits Of Epsom Salt, The Special Ingredient In Float Therapy
Benefits Of Epsom Salt, The Special Ingredient In Float Therapy
The float tank used for float therapy contains a highly concentrated Epsom salt solution. With the presence of salt, buoyancy levels increase, thus making you float effortlessly.
Now you might ask, why do float tanks need Epsom salt specifically? Aren’t all salts practically the same, making you more buoyant? There’s a reason it is far easier to float in salt water-based bodies such as seas than freshwater-based bodies such as lakes, after all.
(more…)Managing Your Stress Through Float Therapy
Managing Your Stress Through Float Therapy
Often today’s society thrives on performance and often we feel competitive in our tasks and sometimes end up competing with ourselves. We look for validation from how other people perceive us. In our pursuit of approval from our peers, we forget to take care of ourselves. This way of thinking leads to an increase in our stress levels, draining us physically, mentally and emotionally. (more…)
Ins & Outs Of Sensory Deprivation
Ins & Outs Of Sensory Deprivation
Sensory deprivation is the deliberate reduction of stimuli from one or more senses. Small-scale and simple sensory deprivation can involve the use of blindfolds and earmuffs to cut off sight and hearing. More complex methods can successfully cut off the sense of taste, smell, touch, heat and even gravity. This level of sensory deprivation can be achieved through an isolation tank or sensory deprivation tank. (more…)
Unwind On Weekends With Floatation Therapy
Unwind On Weekends With Floatation Therapy
Weekends are a time for you to relax, unwind and let go of all your worries after a week’s hard toil. If you’d like to switch into relaxed mode even more effectively why not try a float, so your stress can just drift away?
Floatation therapy reduces stress, makes it easier to relax and is a great way of making sure you really do your best to recharge when you have downtime. This therapy can be combined with other approaches too to maximise the effect. Here are a few other great ways of relieving stress and recharging so that the benefit of your float is multiplied. (more…)
Practising Mindfulness To Strengthen Mental Health
Practising Mindfulness To Strengthen Mental Health
Mindfulness is the psychological process of focusing on the present environment and centring yourself so that you feel relaxed and centred. Mindfulness can be achieved through meditation and other methods, such as float therapy. With mindfulness, you become fully aware of the present moment and experience it wholly, without distractions. Being mindful enables you to reflect on your thoughts more clearly, thus improving your mental and emotional health. (more…)
Salt Therapy: What Is It And What Does It Do?
Salt Therapy: What Is It And What Does It Do?
Whilst salt therapy has gained popularity recently as an alternative natural therapy for cleansing the airways and aiding the treatment of skin conditions.
What Is a Sensory Deprivation Tank and What Are Its Benefits?
What Is a Sensory Deprivation Tank and What Are Its Benefits?
Sensory deprivation tanks have grown in popularity thanks to its numerous benefits, such as pain relief, reduced stress, and better sleep. If you’re curious about what exactly a sensory deprivation tank is and what are its benefits, you’re not alone.
Physical & Mental Benefits Of Floatation Therapy
Physical & Mental Benefits Of Floatation Therapy
A sensory deprivation tank is a tool used in floatation therapy, in which external stimulation—such as sound, touch, and light—is reduced to create a feeling of relaxation. This promotes wellness, pain relief, and a state of tranquillity that can be difficult to achieve, especially when you’re living a hectic lifestyle.
5 Reasons To Try Floatation Therapy Now!
5 Reasons To Try Floatation Therapy Now!
In today’s world of health and wellness, floatation therapy has recently spiked in popularity. If you still haven’t been brought up to speed about it, here are five benefits you will attain when you try our float therapy.
What are Float Tanks?
What are Float Tanks?
Do you remember that Simpsons episode where Lisa and Homer tried out a sensory deprivation tank? In the scene, the two experienced a rollercoaster-ride experience full of bizarre imagery after lying down in metal caskets half-filled with water. And while it did looked like a silly figment of imagination made for cartoons, these secluded tanks are actually real!
Sensory deprivation tanks have recently risen in popularity through the years thanks to social media. The unique presentation and renewed attention to health and wellness had paved the way for float spas to pop up as an eye-catching sensation. However, not everyone is quite familiar with how it came to be. Here is how these tanks came to be the newest trend.
