Floating | What is floating?

Floatation therapy is a wonderful way of achieving deep relaxation by spending an hour or more weightlessly floating in darkness emersed in warm epsom salt filled water (34-35 degrees). Floatation Tanks are also know as Sensory Deprivation Tanks and Isolation Tanks.

Free from sensory input, the floatation theory is that 90% of a brains workload is caused by routine environment stimulation (touch, gravity, light, sound) we are living in a world where we are strongly affected by the external, whether it be work related, relational or even things as simple traffic. We don’t realise how much our minds are processing from what happens in our day and it all catches up on us if we don’t decompress!

Floating is an optimal activity for quietening the mind; to be in a space of zero gravity, no sound, no light and no touch is an experience that you can not access anywhere else other than in your dreams: regular floaters often describe the experience as entering a dream/like state is. And learning breathwork techniques to use in the tank is a exceptional tool to amplify the experience.

Breathing in the Tank

For us homo-sapiens breathing is our life force. When we get in the tank it can be hard for us to shut everything thing down; thoughts race through our mind, emotions start surfacing and it can be hard for us to be in our bodies.

Try these techniques once you get in the tank:

•Start by focusing on the breath in the tank, breathing through the nose and feeling the air entering the nasal cavity down into the lungs, noticing where do you feel the breath, trying to imagine your rib cage is expanding a little more with every breath.

•Relaxing your shoulders, arms, legs, tapping into your body breathing slowing everything down. Just consciously breathing after a period of time your body will be in a state of relaxation..

• Your para-sympathetic nervous system will have been activated through the nasal breathing, this will have an huge effect on the body including:

• Reduced stress & anxiety

• Lowered blood pressure

• Improved Heart rate

• Relaxed muscles

• Purifying the energy system

• Helping with inflammation

• A couple techniques to try in the tank.

• Boxed breathing

• Alternate nasal breathing

• 1-1 ratio breathing

These basic techniques are covered in videos that you can find on my website and on my reels on Instagram @binauralbreathwork

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