A salt float is a session inside a flotation pod filled with about 10 inches of water and 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt, heated to skin temperature. The salt raises the water’s density so far that your body floats on the surface without effort, the same way the Dead Sea holds swimmers up without them […]

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Menopause brings a cluster of symptoms that rarely get talked about together: disrupted sleep, rising anxiety, and depression, all showing up at once, often for years. A new 2025 meta-analysis gives the clearest picture yet of why mind-body therapies help, and it points straight at the same mechanism True REST has built its entire model […]

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A sensory deprivation tank doesn’t add anything to the experience. It takes things away: light, sound, gravity, the usual background noise of being a body in a room. For 70 years, researchers have tried to describe what fills that gap once it opens up. A 2026 study out of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research […]

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Search “sensory deprivation tank” and you’ll find two very different stories. One is a fringe 1950s experiment involving a Cold War-era neuroscientist, dolphins, and a psychedelic film that scared a generation. The other is a mainstream wellness protocol backed by clinical research, used by nurses, veterans, athletes, and anxious first-timers who just want an hour […]

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“Nervous system regulation” is having a moment. Sauna, cold plunge, breathwork, red light, all of it is being repackaged under a new category wellness media has started calling “neurowellness,” the shift from managing symptoms to actually training the nervous system itself, moving it out of activation and into recovery. Float therapy has been doing nervous […]

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Float therapy research explores how Flotation-REST (Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy) affects stress, anxiety, pain, and overall mental well-being. While floating is often described as deeply relaxing, scientific research helps explain what happens inside the body and brain during a float session. Below is an overview of how float therapy works, followed by key research studies […]

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New Year float therapy is one of the most powerful ways to begin 2025 with clarity, calm, and less stress. The New Year is often filled with pressure, hustle, resolutions, goal setting, and the rush to change everything at once. But what if the best way to start the year is by slowing down, refocusing, […]

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January—the month we often associate with setting new personal and professional goals—is also International Creativity Month. With burnout and mental fatigue at an all-time high, taking time to reset is essential before diving into the year ahead. Float therapy at True REST offers a powerful way to recharge both mind and body. Just one hour-long […]

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