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Thoughts on My First Floating Experience
I think I first heard about floating through the Tim Ferriss podcast — I can’t remember which guest it might have been, but after hearing about it, I did a bit of research to understand what it was about.
Essentially, you get into a tub of water that has been filled with salt (the place that I went to was at 30% but not sure if this is standard or not). If you’ve been to the dead sea, you know that water that gets a certain% of salt means that you are super buoyant — you can just lie in the water and not have to do anything to float. The tub is inside a sensory deprivation tank — that is, an enclosed space where there is no outside sound and you can close the lights if you wish. To me, it felt like it was a great combo way to do a few things: meditate, de-stress, unplug from your device, relax your muscles, and get in lots of deep breathing. With so many significant benefits (and with a gift card from a close friend), I went with my girlfriend to a floating-place called Modern Gravity.
This isn’t a post to review the float place, but I will say that Modern Gravity has top reviews from others and our experience was the same. You go in, take off your shoes, and then you watch a short video that walks through the float experience…
