Float therapy
What First-Time Floaters Ask Us Most
Six questions, asked almost every day, answered in order.
Blog
Notes from Float OKC
Writing about floating, rest and looking after yourself — plus the occasional bit of local history.
Float therapy
The Second Float Is the One
If you tried floating once and were unsure, this is the post for you.
Wellness education
Why We Do Not Make Health Claims
A short note on what we will and will not tell you about floating.
Float therapy
What to Wear, and Why Most People Wear Nothing
The question everyone wants answered and nobody wants to ask first.
Stress
When Your Head Will Not Switch Off
A float does not switch anything off. It removes the things keeping it on.
Seasonal wellness
Getting Through the Holidays
The season that is supposed to be restful is reliably the least restful one.
Sauna
The Float and Sauna Combination
Ninety minutes, two rooms, one order that works better than the other.
Gift ideas
Gift Cards That Do Not Sit in a Drawer
Most gift cards go unredeemed. A few small things make ours much more likely to be used.
Relaxation
What to Do With the First Ten Minutes
The opening stretch of a float is the loud part. Here is what to do with it.
Local wellness
A Quiet Hour in Edmond
Where to find genuine quiet in the north OKC metro, and why it is harder than it sounds.
Wellness education
Why 93 Degrees
One number explains most of what makes a float tank different from a bath.
Float therapy
Booking for Two
You float separately. The interesting part is what happens afterwards.
Athletic recovery
Recovering After a Half Marathon
Oklahoma has a long race calendar. Here is where an hour in the tank fits into it.
Float therapy
How Big Is a Float Pod?
The measurements, the plain answer on weight, and why the guesswork always runs smaller than the pod.
Relaxation
The Twenty Minutes After
The part of the visit people most often skip, and most often regret skipping.
Float therapy
Floating for People Who Cannot Swim
You are not swimming. You are lying in eleven inches of water that is denser than you are.
Wellness education
What We Do Between Every Session
The least glamorous part of running a float centre, and the part we would most want you to know about.
Float therapy
Salt in Your Eyes
The most common small mishap in a float suite, and the spray bottle that sits in every pod because of it.
Relaxation
How Much Time a Float Actually Takes
The session is an hour. The visit is not. Here is where the rest of it goes.
Float therapy
Floating When You Are Claustrophobic
The single most common reason people say no. It is also the one most easily solved.
Float therapy
The Pre-Float Checklist
Six things worth doing before you come, and one worth not doing.
Wellness education
Ten Minutes Under the Panel
Red light therapy is the shortest thing we offer, and the easiest to fit around everything else.
Sauna
Infrared Sauna vs Traditional Sauna
If you have tried a conventional sauna and found it too much, the difference here is the thing worth knowing.
Gift ideas
What to Get Someone Who Has Everything
The reliable gap in most people's lives is not an object.
Float therapy
Do You Float in the Dark?
The light, the lid and the music are all switches, and every one of them is yours.
Float therapy
What Nobody Tells You About Your First Float
The first float is rarely the one people fall in love with. Knowing that in advance makes it a much better hour.
Local wellness
The Float Tank Was Invented in Oklahoma City
Not adapted here. Not popularised here. Built here, at the VA hospital, in 1957.
Membership
How to Pick Between a Package and a Membership
One is a one-off purchase, the other is a monthly habit. The right answer depends on something you probably already know about yourself.
Relaxation
An Hour Is Longer Than You Think
We are so used to filling time that an unfillable hour comes as a genuine surprise.
Wellness education
What 900 Pounds of Salt Actually Does
The number sounds like marketing. It is not — it is the whole mechanism.
Stress
The Case for Booking on a Tuesday
Saving the hour for the weekend is how the hour never happens.
Recovery
Floating After a Long Flight
Travel is sitting still while being constantly stimulated. A float is the exact inverse.
Self care
Self Care During Stressful Times
Looking after other people is easier than looking after yourself. A few small, unglamorous things that help when everything feels like a lot.
Float therapy
Five Questions About Floating
We asked a guest who has floated around twenty times to answer honestly — what drew her in, what surprised her, and how she sets up her own sessions.
Wellness education
Floatation Therapy: A 30-Second History
The first float tank was built in Oklahoma City in 1957, by a doctor at the VA hospital. The story of how floating got from there to here is shorter than you would think.
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