How Float Therapy Helps Your Bodies And Minds

So where is the best place to get float therapy in Boise?  At Perpetuity Skin + we love float therapy.  Why?  SO MANY REASONS!  Physical reasons.  Emotional reasons.  Spiritual reasons.  Let’s review some benefits of float therapy so you have a good idea of the best Boise float therapy center that can last anywhere from a 30 minute session to a 120 minute session.

A floatation tank is a sensory experience like no other, a soundless, lightless pod that’s filled with skin-temperature saltwater. This Epsom salt solution creates a super buoyant environment — allowing the user to effortlessly float on the surface and drift off into profoundly relaxing and meditative states.

Initially designed to explore consciousness, the float tank is now utilized to enhance health and wellbeing — which is why it’s becoming a popular addition to high-quality spas, like Perpetuity Skin + Spa on Vista avenue in Boise. 

Flotation therapy can deliver many health-related benefits, and because the tanks easy to install and maintain, they’re the perfect add-on to premium leisure facilities where customers are looking for exceptional wellness experiences. 

1. Float Tanks Help Guests to Relax

When clients come to a spa, they usually expect to relax, unwind, and leave the real world behind. An hour in a float tank promotes intense feelings of peace, calm and tranquillity and will also encourage a good night’s sleep.

2. Floatation Tanks are a Powerful Well-being Machine

Research has shown that just one hour of sensory deprivation can alleviate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. Once guests know they can leave the hotel or spa feeling mentally and physically reinvigorated they’ll be more likely to visit again. 

3. High-Quality Spas offer Floatation Tanks

We know the importance of giving guests the experience of a lifetime, which is exactly why a number of exclusive hotels across the globe have understood the benefit of adding float therapy to their portfolio of spa services. Perpetuity Skin + Spa in Boise as a luxury day spa experience with float therapy.  

4. Float Therapy aids Recovery

Floatation tanks are already used in professional sports because they help athletes to recover from injuries and strenuous sessions of physical activity. In fact, a 2016 study revealed that float therapy can help users to recover both physically and mentally after a vigorous workout. There are also plenty of research studies that prove to that sensory deprivation is an effective way to tackle acute and chronic pain. 

5. Float Therapy Give Business Clients the Chance to Unwind

Whether an affluent business client has just stepped off a long-haul flight or come out of a high-pressure meeting, giving them options to relax and unwind is essential.  At Perpetuity Skin + Spa a float therapy session is the answer.  We can impress them with facilities that promote mental restoration and jet lag recovery, they may well take their money elsewhere. Fortunately, float therapy have been proven to help in both areas. 

Getting rid of all sensory input allows the ‘constantly-make-sure-you’re-not-dying’ part of your brain to chill out for a second, allowing the creative, relaxed part of your brain to come out and play. Without the constant pressure of analyzing the world around you, your body lowers its levels of cortisol, the main chemical component of stress. Your brain also releases elevated levels of dopamine and endorphins, the neurotransmitters of happiness. Among the benefits:

Float Therapy Makes You Relax

The tank suppresses the functioning of the sympathetic nervous system which when active produces our fight or flight response. And it then activates the parasympathetic nervous system which is responsible for relaxation, healing, replenishment, etc. Some physical symptoms of the relaxation response are decreased muscle tension, decreased blood pressure, decreased stress hormones, and increased endorphins.

1. Float Therapy Heightens Your Senses

Research indicates increased visual acuity, improved tactile perception, improved auditory sensitivity, and increased taste sensitivities after floating

2. Float Therapy Helps With Pain Management

Arthritis, back pain, neck pain, tendinitis, bursitis, inflammation, and psychosomatic pain relief have all been documented via tank use.

3. You Improve Musculoskeletal Awareness

Floating decreases chronic muscle tension and creates greater awareness of less noticeable areas of muscle tension and imbalances.

4. Vitamins!  Float Therapy Maximizes Magnesium Absorption

The extremely high concentration of Epsom salts are absorbed through skin and can actually supplement your diet for a mineral that has been shown to be deficient in the average populations diet. Mg can prevent cardiovascular disease, regulate high blood pressure, prevent osteoporosis, relieve menopause symptoms, provide PMS relief, create healthier bones and teeth, and is involved with detoxification.

5. Then There’s The Anti-Gravity Benefits

Although floating is not zero-gravity (like outer space), the density of the Epsom Salt solution does create the maximal amount of the forces of gravity to be dispersed across the greatest surface area of the body. Rigid postures and chronic muscular tension from daily life can cause ailments such as lower-back pain, neck pain, shallow breathing, high blood pressure, etc. The anti-gravity environment of the float tank disperses forces to the smallest amount and thus decreases the source of gravity-related stimulation to the minimum possible value providing relief to these specific area

Not having to fight gravity lets your muscles, joints, and bones take a well-deserved break. Your body suddenly has loads of extra resources (usually spent supporting your weight, regulating temperature, and trying not to get speeding tickets), which it gets to focus on things like healing and resting.  Without gravity pushing you down all the time, your spine lengthens an inch, chronic pain is relieved, and your muscles get to fully rest. Unlike lying on a mattress, lying in water allows blood to flow freely all throughout your body. There’s no need to readjust your position to get comfortable.

About 40 minutes into your float therapy your brain stops producing its normal Alpha waves and starts churning out Theta waves. These are responsible for that ‘between-waking-and-sleeping’ state, and you make them naturally every night before you conk out. While it only lasts for a few sparse moments in your bed, you can achieve a prolonged “Theta state” in the tank, a state of consciousness that is usually only seen in children and people who have spent years practicing meditation.

Even the magnesium-based Epsom salts we use in the tank 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.  So what are you waiting for?  Try float therapy today, and see for yourself, in Perpetuity.

Come into perpetuity Skin and Spa in Boise, near the airport, and be ready for the best float therapy at Boise’s best day spa.