FAQs

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The more regularly you float the better. Just like any activity, the more you practice the better you become, and the more cumulative effects you will see.

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We’re not into boring and anyone who floats regularly will tell you how blissfully comfortable and deeply relaxed they feel whilst floating. You’re as close as you are ever likely to be to an experience of weightlessness; and, surprisingly, there is no feeling of being confined in a tight space.

During the day we are constantly bombarded by sensory input and mental activity. So it makes sense that in your first float your mind will be adjusting to the lack of stimulation and your brain may demand to be entertained. Take some deep breaths and relax into the experience, pretty soon you’ll float away.

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We don’t recommend pod use for epileptics whose epilepsy is not under medical control. Floating is not permitted for people under the influence of alcohol or drugs, those with infectious diseases or open skin wounds.

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es. We require that anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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Many people experience significant benefits on their first float, however like any form of active wellness, consistent and repeated usage amplifies the results. We find that after your second or third float, you’ll be able to relax both physically and mentally and you’ll really start to feel how awesome floating can be.

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We offer a full 90 minute float session for $100. The package is with showers before and after the 90 minute session. We also offer a Thump and Float Massage for $20.

Ordering a tanking session for two people in two tanks is $180 and a couple float in one tank is $140.

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Most of our sessions are 1 hour, however it has been shown that the longer you float for and the more regularly you float, the greater the benefits are. Experienced floaters often book multiple sessions from 2 to 4 hours. Please let us know if you would like to discuss your options.

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Absolutely. In fact heavily pregnant women probably achieve as many, if not more benefits from floating than anyone else. Just lying on a bed can be extremely uncomfortable for women in the later stages of pregnancy due to the massive gravitational strain placed on the body. The float tank is a wonderful haven to which pregnant women can escape.

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We recommend that you don’t wear anything so that you can feel truly free. However we completely understand this can be daunting the first time, so you can wear a costume if you like. You have your own private room to do as you please.

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We feel very strongly about our community and we see all of our customers as family. Therefore all of our memberships packages can be shared between friends and family.

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Of course. Just follow the same process you would for swimming.

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There are no known side effects of floating. Even the magnesium-based Epsom Salts we use at The Floattankscanada are good for you. They soften and replenish your skin, and help counteract the magnesium deficiency that most of us have due to depleted magnesium levels in our soil and food

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No. Everything you need is provided by us. We provide big fluffy towels. All of our showers have shampoo and body-gel provided and we have a special vanity area with large mirrors, hair dryers and hair straighteners. You will only need to bring your usual post-shower products such as deodorant, skin creams etc.

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Many clients do fall asleep in the pods, either purposely, or due to the deep relaxation. Just one hour of floating is equivalent to 2-3 hours of deep sleep. Many of our clients who suffer from insomnia or jet lag get immense relief from floating.

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The high saline content of the floatation environment ensures that nothing harmful can survive within the tank. The water within the tank is automatically filtered between each customer (and 24-hours a day when not in use). The water is filtered through a 1 micron pool filter (that’s 1/100th the diameter of a human hair!) and is sanitized with a small amount of disinfectant and UV light.

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Epsom salt is actually magnesium sulphate, a pure, time-tested mineral compound with dozens of uses. Health benefits include soothing muscle aches, reducing inflammation and treating sunburn. From facials and hair volumisers to pedicures and exfoliants, many celebrities – and their beauty teams – use Epsom salt to treat skin ailments and look their best. We also sell our Epsom salt for use at home between floats.

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Not really. It's a privacy tank perhaps. You can listen to music, you can feel the warm water, you can touch the sides, you are not isolated from sensation at all. You will in fact have heightened sensation in some ways.

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Epsom Salt is Magnesium Sulphate. It is found naturally in many spa waters. It is very different from sea salt or table salt which is mainly Sodium Chloride. Epsom Salt has been used for centuries to treat skin complaints and is used as a medicine, (an emetic). It is non toxic, it won't harm you if you swallow some, but try not to; it has a salty taste. We use it for two main reasons. Firstly it raises the density making it much easier to float. Secondly it softens your skin.

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Floating promotes profound relaxation without pressure points as in bed.
The profound relaxation promotes endorphins and natural healing.
Your brain and mind relax too; just as in meditation.
These combined effects bring many benefits of stress and pain release.
Relaxation affects every aspect of our lives and needs to be experienced profoundly to fully understand the wonderful benefit of floating.

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That's up to you. There's usually a light switch; you control the lights all the time. You can leave them on all through your float session. You can have music playing all through too if you like, and you can choose the music in advance. Floating is the best and fastest way to relax and many people find that silence and the dark help relax even more. But it's up to you, either way, floating is wonderfully relaxing and enjoyable.

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That's OK. Floating is as easy as taking a bath. You just step in, sit down, and lay back. You can touch the bottom with your hands. There is no skill required, you just let the salty water do the work.

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Is it true that floating cures jet lag?

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Yes, of course. The air inside is warm and it rises by convection. There is a vent at the top for the air to leave and fresh air enters near the water line.

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No! everyone floats in our tanks

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Some people have their own float tanks and sleep in them regularly. They claim that they need less sleep that way than in normal sleep. You could certainly float every day without harm. We also find that the relaxing effect of a one hour float lasts all day and more, so that a session once or twice a week can be enough to satisfy your desire for floating.

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No. The water is very shallow, usually just 25 cm or ten inches deep. Also it is much heavier than ordinary water because of the added Epsom Salts, so you float very easily and much higher in the water than in a swimming pool. You float on your back with absolutely no effort and there is no tendency to roll over. People often sleep in float tanks and there is no risk of rolling over even if you are asleep.

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No you can't. Firstly, the Epsom Salt solution discourages pathogens from thriving. Secondly, all float pools are continuously disinfected to remove all traces of contamination. Disinfection involves both filtration and chemical oxidisers to break down everything to harmless Carbon Dioxide and water. Between each float session all the water is pumped through a powerful filtration system which removes every particle. Floating is much safer than swimming in a public swimming pool.

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You must wash your hair before and after floating so if you have a hair-do you want to keep, you shouldn’t float! Lacquers and water based dyes are not allowed.

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No, our pools are heated continuously and silently to 35.4° C or 95.7° F which is the ideal temperature for floating.

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Yes! We sell to private homes too. In fact about 10% of our clients are private individuals.

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No! It very spacious inside with light, music and good ventilation.

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Everyone’s float experience is different. Some people report feeling extremely relaxed similar to after you’ve had a great massage, others have a heightened sense of energy and alertness. Take a few moments to check-in with yourself and/or join us in our lounge for tea. We enjoy talking with people about their float, but we also realize that perhaps you just want a few moments of solitude. Give yourself some time before you go to your next activity, you deserve it.

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A very effective stress reduction tool. Reduced sensory input (no light, no sound, no touch, no other people) combined with feeling of weightlessness and complete relaxation of every single muscle in your body allows the mind to drift into a peaceful and undisturbed state. People emerge from floating amazingly calm, grounded and happy. This state of being will linger for a week or longer.

”Floatation offers a relatively stress-free environment in which to escape temporarily from stressful external stimuli and free your system from its chronic state of arousal. This makes it a useful and life enhancing tool. But if that were all it did, floatation would be essentially a passive tool, and entering the spa would be little different from sitting quietly in a dark room. While the absence of stress is desirable in itself, it doesn’t necessarily bring about the presence of its opposite, relaxation. Floatation goes far beyond the passive. Scientists have now proven that floating activates a physiological response that is parallel to, and as powerful as, the stressful one of fight or flight. This response mobilizes the body’s resources to bring about an active, alert, positive, and beneficial state of relaxation.”

“Through all sorts of tests, including EMG (which measure muscle tension), EEG, blood pressure, and measurements of certain biochemicals, scientists have determined that the floatation spa can bring about a state of extraordinarily deep relaxation-probably deeper than is possible by any other means yet available except for certain drugs. This state of relaxation is in itself beneficial to health, since it allows the body to maintain its internal system of checks and balances, its homeostasis. That is, the body has its own highly effective methods of maintaining itself at an optimal level of well-being, and if allowed to operate freely, it will generally do so flawlessly. But certain mental attitudes can throw this delicate mechanism out of whack.

Stress causes harm by its disruption of our natural biochemistry. For example, researchers have recently discovered that, under stress, Type A personalities secrete forty times as much cortisol and three times as much adrenaline as Type B men. Cortisol has been proven to suppress the immune system. Tests have shown that floating decreases cortisol. Excess adrenaline, and related biochemical’s such as noradrenalin and ACTH also cause our bodies to rev up in fight-or-flight response, and, ultimately, to wear out. Floating, through deep relaxation, lowers the levels of the harmful chemicals.

Deep relaxation is beneficial in another way. Because of what has been called the curare effect, and as explained by the Webber-Fechner Law, floating leads to increased sensory awareness; we simply feel our bodies better, more clearly, and as a result we are able to regulate them more effectively. As John V. Basmajian’s experiments showed, we have the capacity to control the firing of a single motor neuron in the body, once we are made aware of that neuron.
Deep relaxation also leads to improved access to internal imagery. And awareness and control of mental imagery is the key to self regulation.

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Pregnancy can be hard on your body as you try to adapt to hormonal changes and extra weight. Balancing your pregnancy with daily life; including your job and family, leaves little time to care for yourself. Revel in an hour entirely to yourself, resting in warm water with gentle music and nothing to think about but you and your baby. Soothe your back in water that gives you complete support and the feeling of weightlessness. Give yourself time to bond with your baby. Pregnant women probably get more relief from the floatation spa than anyone else. Just lying on a bed can be extremely uncomfortable for a woman in the later stages of pregnancy due to the massive gravitational strain placed on the body.

The float spa is a wonderful haven for pregnant women. We do, however, recommend that pregnant women avoid floating during the first trimester. If you have any concerns about the effects of floating on your pregnancy, we ask you to consult and get permission from your physician before you float. Pregnant women find they can totally relax in the tank, relieved from the burden of carrying the baby, due to the gravity-free environment of the tank. Many report feelings of becoming better acquainted with the new individual growing within them. Floating is a pleasurable experience they can share with their baby. “Most people are in search of a feeling of oneness. Oneness within ourselves, oneness with another person, oneness with our God, or the Universe. One of the most amazing examples of this oneness might be the bond we have in the womb with our mother. Sometimes the need for that fusion with Mother’s strength is very powerful.

The float spa is a striking and convincing analogue of the womb. This may be a very compelling answer to why the floatation spa is such a satisfying and confidence building experience, and why people who float often feel that their lives take on wholeness. If an hour or two of floating can provide us with an intense experience of oneness that is the essential pursuit of our lives, then we have an explanation for floaters frequent spontaneous reduction in fears, spontaneous reduction in smoking, drinking, and drug taking, and a noticeable influx of energy, creativity, and productivity into their lives.” Paraphrased from Michael Hutchinson, “The Book of Floating” Comments from pregnant women about floating: Jessica, 2 weeks prior to delivering a 9 lb. baby – “Like a porter putting down a 30 lb. suitcase, Icould stop carrying for a moment. The burden of holding myself and this little inner body upright wasgone, and I could afford the luxury of expanding our relationship. “Bette, 8 months pregnant – “I enjoyed the lightweight feeling and the stillness.

My legs, which are heavy and retaining fluid, felt at one with the water. Floating is certainly a wonderful way to eliminate stress in pregnancy and to combat the heavy feelings found in the body due to pregnancy. “Tina, 8 months pregnant – “While in the tank, the most interesting part, was the constant movement I was getting from the baby. The baby must have been in complete ecstasy floating away with me. The other part that was most satisfying was the feeling of exhilaration afterwards.

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For decades, the physical and mental benefits of floatation therapy have been enjoyed by users across the world. The Wave Float Room offers a peaceful space to escape the hectic, stressful daily life. As you lay in a shallow pool of water and pure Epsom salt, your body floats like a cork in the solution. For true sensory deprivation, the room’s air and water are maintained at body temperature, and light and sound are controlled. Alternatively, underwater music and color light therapy can be added if preferred. From head to toe, your body will be completely rested and at ease. Meanwhile, your brain is able to relax and meditate – even achieving the elusive theta state. It is truly a unique, rejuvenating experience.

While everyone enters the Wave Float Room for different reasons, the benefits of flotation therapy can be enjoyed for days after your session.

Enhancing mind, body, and spirit:

• Promotes total calm and peaceful relaxation
• Alleviates mental and physical stress
• Expands awareness and intensifies acuteness of all senses
• Speeds the healing process
• Decreases the production of cortisol and adrenaline
• Increases production of endorphins
• Relieves pain from arthritis, migraines, and injuries
• Boosts immune function
• Improves circulation and distribution of oxygen and nutrients
• Reduces blood pressure, pulse, heart rate, and oxygen consumption
• Improves athletic performance
• Helps prevent sports injuries
• Eliminates fatigue and jet leg
• Heightens visualization
• Deepens meditation
• Diminishes depression, anxiety, and fear