Reduce: Stress, anxiety, pain from injury and medical conditions such as Fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, high heart rate, muscle tension, back pain. Improve: Low mood and depression, sleep problems and Insomnia, creative thinking and problem solving and concentration strength and span, cardio vascular efficiency, uptake of nutrients and oxygen. Strengthen: The Immune system, Lymphatic System drainage and Toxin removal, self… Read more →
Recovery
In the modern world recovery is an important part of life today. Whether its recovering from an accident, rebuilding yourself after an injury or just simply the ravages of life itself REST will help you to do that faster and more effectively. This is not just simply something we believe, the evidence based research is there to prove it!
So in this part of the site we provide the evidence based research that demonstrates the benefits of Floatation Therapy and what it can do for you, whether you are a performance athlete, part time runner or just unfortunate enough to have injured yourself.
For the athlete in all of us;
Add an extra dimension to your warm down day.
Improve recovery without additional exertion or risk aggravating knocks and niggles.
Increase endurance and performance without additional exertion and preserve energy for game day.
Team GB Sprinter Adam Gemili on relaxation, recovery & Floatation
Our good friend Adam Gemili talks about injury recovery, performance and how relaxation following competition and training helps him to de-stress and unwind using our Floatation Pods here at Calm Water. “Being mentally strong is as important as being physically strong, if not more. If you’ve got two athletes and they’re both in a great place physically then the one… Read more →
Decrease stress, depression, anxiety, and pain…then just float!
A study looking at stress-related ill-health such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia in relation to sick leave has come up with some fantastic findings and, through randomised trials, has proven the benefits in relation to receiving the aforementioned issues and their associated symptoms. The study demonstrates clear benefit of REST floatation and its ability to facilitate the reduction of “stress-related… Read more →
We are all remarkably human…
Whether you’ve floated 100 times before or are thinking of taking the plunge for your first, we can’t recommend enough this podcast by the guys at Remarkably Human! A complete and total, extremely grounded, 360 degree exploration of Floatation Therapy… Check it out here… Read more →
Floatation thoughts…
The following quotes are take directly from a very interesting study by Anette Kjellgren, Francisca Lyden, and Torsten Norlander of Karlstad University Sweden that garnered peoples opinions of floatation therapy, their experiences and its effects and impact on them as individuals. Comments and feedback was taken from the subjects at varying stages of the study and they were asked about… Read more →
Improve your sleep… Reduce your stress…
A controlled research study authored by Anette Kjellgren of Karlstad University, Sweden, has confirmed that there is a “significant correlation between mindfulness in daily life and degree of altered states of consciousness during the relaxation in the flotation tank.” To clarify, this means that Floatation Therapy (as well as being relaxing itself) enables you to sleep better with a better quality… Read more →
Performance Athlete Recovery with REST
A 2014 academic study from the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, that investigates the benefits of REST and Floatation Therapy for Performance Athletes. This study looks in-depth at the intrinsic benefits that therapy can bring to any athletes performance, recovery and how it is able to significantly improve both. Read the full details and findings… Read more →