18Oct, 2016
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Is Floating Sanitary? We’re Busting Your Floating Fears With Our High Standards!

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This Halloween, we’re busting your floating fears! One of the top questions we hear has to do with the cleanliness of our Float Pods. REST assured! True REST Float Pods not only meet, but exceed national standards from the Float Tank Association of America. In fact, regular testing shows that our pods are more sanitary than your pool or hot tub. Here’s how we make sure YOUR health always comes first… Pod Purification: We utilize both UV (ultraviolet) and Ozone treatment in our Float Pods, both of which run constantly […]
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12Oct, 2016
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What Are You Afraid Of? Floating Myths & Facts from ‘Altered States’ to ‘Stranger Things’

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Hollywood has a fascination with floating. Without research to back up health claims until recently, for years it was considered a niche hobby for the hippy crowd…and ripe material for the sci-fi set. Floating’s most famous movie adaptation came in the 1980 horror hit Altered States. The film’s star, a professor of abnormal psychology, utilizes flotation to enhance his use of a natural psychedelic drug. The combination of the drug trip and float tank result in a distorted reality that becomes more and more permanent, ultimately threatening to transform the […]
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5Oct, 2016
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Tammy’s True REST Float Story

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“I can’t remember a day without pain in more than a decade…until I went to the float spa.” When we met Tammy, a medical condition had left her with chronic pain. Online research had led her to True REST and, like many people who arrive looking for relief, she was cautiously optimistic. The results of her first float? We’ll let Tammy tell you herself… In Tammy’s case, an hour in the pod offered her relief in ways that a laundry list of medications could not. How can a simple, all-natural […]
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28Sep, 2016
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New Research Teases Major Medical Benefits of Float Therapy

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“How can sitting in a dark salt bath be therapeutic? I’ll just fill my bathtub with Epsom Salts and call it a day.” Anyone who has tried to describe flotation therapy to the uninitiated is familiar with those dismissive retorts. An all-natural, wonderfully simple holistic therapy that boasts a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional benefits? Sounds too good to be true. Not to Dr. Justin Feinstein, a neuropsychologist with the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR), whose research on anxiety and flotation therapy is giving skeptics pause. While […]
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12Sep, 2016
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Back to School Ain’t Just for Kids: Setting a Fall Routine for Optimal Health

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The end of Labor Day weekend brings with it a collective mindset shift – the end of summer, the official date to pack away your white pants, and most famously, the start of a fresh school year. Whether you’re driving carpool or not, Back to School season is a cultural touchpoint for everyone, signaling a time to settle back into the day-to-day routine. The Type A list-makers in your life may thrive with that kind of structure, but getting back into the swing of things isn’t so simple for us […]
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1Sep, 2016
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The Medical Benefits of Epsom Salts (Magnesium Sulfate)

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Whether you come from a family of naturopaths, a long line of medical school grads, or you were regularly instructed to just “walk it off,” you probably noticed a bag of Epsom salts stashed in the medicine cabinet growing up. They may have been pulled out for the occasional foot soak, but the home remedy superstar probably didn’t get the type of regular use it deserves. There’s a reason mom always kept a salt supply handy – everyone from the high school track coach to the World Health Organization recommends […]
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25Aug, 2016
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True REST Takes On Portland for the 2016 Float Conference

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Portland played host once again to the industry’s Float Conference, a chance for float fans near and far to come together. With a schedule full of presentations by scientists, artists, healthcare professionals, and float gurus, it was a banner year for the annual conference. True REST took full advantage of the opportunity by inviting the entire team, from franchisees to corporate support, for a weekend full of education and team building. With the first ever True REST convention on Friday, followed by the Float Conference, it was a perfect occasion […]
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17Aug, 2016
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Stranger Than Fiction? Floating Myths & Facts from Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’

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If you subscribe to a streaming video service, you’re probably already familiar with Netflix’s latest binge-worthy hit, Stranger Things. At the center of the show’s plot are questions on the nature of reality, the fabric of space-time, and the depths of our own consciousness. So, of course, it was only a matter of time before they introduced the audience to sensory deprivation. Here’s the gist: After a series of mysterious research studies involving psychedelic drugs, a young girl develops telekinetic and psychic abilities. To test the limits of her skills, […]
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10Aug, 2016
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Rio’s Top Performers Join the List of Elite Athletes Using Float Therapy

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Float like a butterfly? Today’s top athletes are utilizing flotation therapy to float like a champion. Aly Raisman, a two-time Olympic gymnast with a gold medal from Rio already in the bag, recently discussed flotation therapy as a part of her training program: “You literally float in salt water for an hour or so. That stuff is really crucial because you have to find ways to rest.” Turns out she’s in good company – elite athletes have been floating their way to greatness for decades, citing both physical and mental […]
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27Jul, 2016
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Solving Seasonal Insomnia with Float Therapy

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I’ve never been described as a “sound sleeper.” Even in high school, I was the last to turn out the lights each night and the first to shuffle out of bed in the morning, making a fresh pot of coffee in a misguided attempt to replace the hours of sleep I consistently lacked. I hadn’t mentioned my tenuous history with my pillow when I was first introduced to float therapy by Mandy Rowe, a member of the True REST team. I was intrigued by float therapy for a number of […]
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