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Wednesday, 30 March 2016
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Tuesday, 5 January 2016
Seen the Float Nation documentary yet?
Funded
with a very successful Kickstarter campaign, filmmakers Jory Piglowski and Carl
Jessee created a documentary feature that
delves into the world of floatation (Flotation Restricted Environmental
Stimulation Technique).
The full film can be watched for free in HD
The full film can be watched for free in HD
The film is the end result of a month-long road trip across the United States and parts of Canada.
Float Nation explores the common use of ‘floating’
and its many uses and health benefits. Puzzled by the vast amount of flotation
research and recreational use, and a general lack of awareness amongst the public at large, the film-makers set out to talk to
researchers, float tank innovators, tank users, doctors, and float centre
owners to figure out what floating really is and why it was relatively
obscure to the mainstream.
Experts and talking-heads share and
exchange views on the benefits sensory deprivation can bring to all of us.
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Top US Basketball player Steph Curry's Floatation Tank secret
Here’s a great opportunity to find out
just how good floatation tanks are and how they work.
Featured in this clip from American
sports show Hang Time in which EPSN – The Magazine’s journalist Sam Alipour
visits a floatation centre with Stephen Curry (Warriors Guard) and Harrison
Barnes (Warriors Forward) of the Golden State Warriors basketball squad.
We learn that one of the biggest trends
in the sports science world is athletes using floatation tanks to protect and
repair their bodies and minds.
In the clip, the two basketball players
use i-sopod tanks, based at Reboot Spa in San Francisco. They go on to discuss
the benefits of regular float sessions and they both agree that it’s good to
let go of their thoughts and see where their mind takes them as they lay back
in the Epsom salt solution. They endorse
the experience because it soothes their bodies as well as their minds.
Stephen mentions that he begins the
session by planning play strategies but within minutes he’s relaxed and it’s
Russian roulette as to what his mind may turn up.
All in all, our i-sopod floatation
tanks are certainly having a positive impact on these two player’s game. The
team’s performances speak for themselves just as they are getting closer to the
longest regular season winning streak in NBA history.
Coincidence? We don’t think so.
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
The Floatation tank and the Musician
Much has been written about the therapeutic qualities of using floatation pods. The isolation can centre the mind, induce deep relaxation and heighten the senses through reduced sensory stimulation. But why does it enhance creativity?
Here’s what happened when some jazz
musicians immersed themselves in the realms of the floatation pod to give themselves
a creative boost and increase good technique use. But did it work?
Back in 2011 professors from the
Universities of Toronto and British Columbia thought they’d find out if an hour
in a floatation tank would have any effect on jazz students who had already
spent a full day sweating lbs over their instruments.
The researchers found “a significant
difference between the treatment and comparison groups on technical ability, but
not on any other dimension”. Thanks to this enhancement of skill level, those
who had floated “had significantly higher grades in their jazz improvisation
class than the comparison group.”
The results of the studies led by Oshin
Vartanian and Peter Suedfield found that one hour per week (over the test
period of 4 weeks) boosted the technical agility and ability in the group. The outcome suggested that limited periods of
minimal sensory stimulation could well improve an individual’s skills.
To read more about the study visit: http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/flotation-isolation-boosts-musicians-skill-level-31182
Thursday, 16 July 2015
History of Floatation Tank Therapy – part 1
Although
the Floatation Tank was not developed for therapy in the first instance, its
current uses where discovered as a ‘by-product’ of experiments in sensory
deprivation.
Originally
invented by an American neuroscientist called Dr John C. Lilly in the 1950s.
By the 1970s he had perfected the design of what was then known as the Sensory Deprivation Tank.
By the 1970s he had perfected the design of what was then known as the Sensory Deprivation Tank.
The
tanks were developed to prove whether or not the brain needed external stimuli to keep its conscious states active. They needed
a device that would essentially cut test subjects off from the outside world
and limit sensations to the body.
Early models of the device would see users submerged vertically in a large cylindrical chamber filled with water.
Early models of the device would see users submerged vertically in a large cylindrical chamber filled with water.
Subjects were given breathing apparatus and were
then suspended (with buoyancy aids) upright just atop of the surface.
The accessories proved to be too distracting so new designs that have
much in common with today’s models were prototyped.
By the 1970s, he had developed a model in which users would lie horizontally in a high concentration Epsom salt laden water (which has super buoyant
qualities). Users would report its
positive relaxation qualities, so beyond its origins in
mental health exploration it began to find popularity as a well-being and
health enhancement application.
Read more about the Floatation Tank’s development
throughout the 1980s and 1990s in part two:
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