What Happens When Your Float Therapy Center Is Voted Best Spa in Richmond, Virginia?

What Happens When Your Float Therapy Center Is Voted Best Spa in Richmond, Virginia?

When The Float Zone, a float therapy spa in Richmond, VA is voted one of the winners in the Best Spa category in Style Weekly magazine’s 2021 Best of Richmond, it shows a sign of the times. We are all seeking ways to manage stress, anxiety and better sleep. Floating is a unique experience, unlike other common spa experiences, that positively and predictably improves your well-being. Humbled and thankful, The Float Zone is proud to make a difference in RVA.

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Float Therapy: Antidote to Anxiety

Float Therapy: Antidote to Anxiety

Float Therapy serves to get the body off the mind, as well as reducing so many other external stimuli, and in doing so, allows for a deep brain reset that results in less anxiety. Research in the world of floatation is supportive in demonstrating potent anti-anxiety effects. Floating is a drug-free, safe and effective choice for managing stress and anxiety in our culture of stress and anxiety.

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Boosting Immunity with Float Therapy

Boosting Immunity with Float Therapy

Float Therapy boosts immunity in a variety of ways. From deep relaxation and a resetting of the brain’s perception of reality, floating helps pain, sleep and mood. Floatation affects both magnesium and hormone levels. Floating reduces stress.

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Chronic Pain, Opioids and Floatation Therapy, Part 2

Chronic Pain, Opioids and Floatation Therapy, Part 2

Floatation therapy is proving to be a viable alternative and adjunct to managing chronic pain. Opioid managed chronic pain may respond well to floatation therapy. A new case study on chronic pain, opiate usage and floatation provides a window into the benefits of this mind and body therapy.

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Improve Sleep Quality by Floating?

Improve Sleep Quality by Floating?

All of us have experienced the consequences of a sleepless night. Everything the next day requires more effort. You lack energy and motivation.  You feel groggy and irritable.   Try floating.  It might help you sleep.

Sleep has been of significant interest to the floatation therapy industry as evidenced by thousands of anecdotal instances of improved sleep after floating.  While floating, like sleep, you are essentially "offline". with minimal to no external stimuli.  Both floating and sleep require sensory disconnection as an essential requirement.  Many floaters actually do fall asleep during part or all of their float. Most are somewhere in between sleeping and wakefulness.

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