Welcome Back to Serenity: Our Floatation Therapy is Reopen!

We’re thrilled to announce that our state-of-the-art floatation therapy pod is back in service after a comprehensive overhaul, ready to provide you with the ultimate relaxation experience. At Petts Wood Spa, we’re committed to your well-being, offering a serene escape from the everyday.

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The stresses of modern life can leave us vulnerable to physical and emotional conditions that can have detrimental effects on our well-being. With three sessions of deeply relaxing floatation therapy – also known as sensory deprivation – you can experience the full benefits of meditative floating, expand mental awareness and increase the effectiveness of your immune system. All while doing absolutely nothing! 

Meet a unique experience of tranquility and well-being and obtain all the benefits for your physical and mental health with this therapy that has already many fans Worldwide.

For a floatation session, you only have to make a booking, set aside just over an hour of your day for you and we’ll take care of the rest.

We have towels, shower gel and shampoo available for you to use before and after the floating session, at an additional cost. Simply add these to your booking for a seamless visit. .

When entering the floatation tank you will feel the comforting touch of water on your skin at your own body temperature.

This water contains over 450 kilograms of Epsom salt, which provides you the necessary density to float without any kind of effort. It’s as if you levitated, in the absence of gravity.

While you float, you will release yourself from your sense of touch. Your body, now free from the force of gravity, does not distinguish water temperature from air temperature. All the visual and hearing stimuli are eliminated so that in the total absence of senses you can achieve a state of absolute rest, which takes you into a unique experience of peace and tranquility.

In these conditions, thoughts and concerns will slowly go away and the brain becomes working in theta brainwaves.

This is the brain frequency that the Buddhist monks achieve after many years of practice and meditation.

All muscles relax and the tensions disappear.

The physical and mental fatigue is replaced by the restoration of energy, and stress gives place to well-being. These effects will extend way beyond the duration of the session and by the end of the day, you will sleep in a very reposeful way.

To maximize the effects of the floatation is advisable to float in absolute silence and in the deepest darkness. However, you may choose to turn on or off the light or the chromotherapy effects using a button placed inside the floatation tank.

After the session, if you wish to combine the floatation with another Float In service you can wear a robe and move straight to the corresponding room. If you prefer, you can relax a little more in the relaxation room, where you will have some tea.

You can also make a more practical use of the float tank and, after the session, return promptly to your routine, now without stress, relaxed and revitalized.

General well-being

  • Promotes total calm and peaceful relaxation
  • Eliminates fatigue and jet lag
  • Improves sleep
  • Alleviates stress (mental and physical)
  • Energises rejuvenates and revitalizes
  • Increases motivation, diminishes depression, anxiety, and fear
  • Facilitates freedom from habits, phobias and addictions
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Mental benefits of floatation

  • Stimulates left/right brain synchronization
  • Shifts brain waves from beta to lower frequency alpha, theta, and even delta
  • Creates mental clarity, alertness
  • Increases creativity, problem-solving
  • Heightens visualisation
  • Deepens meditation
  • Expands awareness, intensifies acuteness of all the senses, accelerates learning
  • Enhances hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis
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Physical benefits of floatation

  • Decreases the production of cortisol, ACTH, lactic acid and adrenaline
  • Increases production of endorphins
  • Speeds up rehabilitation and recovery
  • Relieves pain (arthritis, migraines, injuries and so on)
  • Boosts immune function
  • Improves circulation and distribution of oxygen and nutrients
  • Reduces blood pressure, pulse, heart rate and oxygen consumption
  • Improves athletic performance
  • Help prevent sports injuries, speeds healing process
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About our Pod

The i-sopod is a revolutionary float pod packed with superior features and technologies. It is the biggest on the market at 8ft 6″ long by 5ft 6″ wide with lots of space to maneuver around meaning you do not feel claustrophobic and you can get in and out whenever you like. You control the opening of the pod and even the light, to ensure your experience is right for you.

Our pod has an under-body heater to maintain a constant temperature during your float so that you don’t get cool during your float sessions.

There are around 10 minutes of music to help you relax, then the music resumes 5 minutes before the end. We control the music from reception and there is a range of tracks available. If you prefer to float without music, just tell us beforehand.

Contra-indications

While some reports have found that some people with clinical depression can experience unpredictable effects, other people with depression have reported major benefits from regular floating. You are advised to discuss floatation with your clinician and carefully consider his or her advice.

Obviously, patients with open wounds or incontinence are unsuitable candidates. Patients with severe hypertension may experience such drastic reduction in blood pressure as to faint but when this is controlled by a drug regimen, there is little risk. Similarly, there is little risk for controlled epileptic patients, but it is recommended to have a suitable helper present during the float session.

Floating under the influence of narcotics or soporifics or indeed any drug affecting consciousness is strongly opposed because deep sleep can result. 

Most commercial centers will exclude such use in their terms.