Looking Where to Float in Your Area?

topic posted Wed, January 24, 2007 - 4:52 PM by  ).(KANE)*(
www.floatdreams.com is the US distributor for Samadhi Tanks.
www.floatdreams.com/wheretofloat.htm is the link to find local tanks.

May love continue to expand your Creation,

Kane
www.floatmatrix.com - San Francisco
tribes.tribe.net/floatsf - tribe
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).(KANE)*(
SF Bay Area
  • Re: Looking Where to Float in Your Area?

    Wed, January 24, 2007 - 5:17 PM
    I found Paradise Spa in Northampton on this list and would caution strongly against using the Samadhi tank there. The water is *never* changed. Semen and other bodily excretions are simply removed from the tank without cleaning, the theory being nothing can survive in the saline solution.
    • Re: Looking Where to Float in Your Area?

      Fri, February 2, 2007 - 4:40 PM
      I'm very sorry that this happenned to you. I don't know by what means you understand their filtration system. You are floating in 800 lbs of epsom salt. The salinity is so high that most organisms can't survive. Very similar to the Dead Sea. As such, changing the water is an obvious expense to be delegated reasonably. As far as semen and other bodily excretions, I'm not sure how you perceive these fluids to be in the tanks. Not to say that they can't be, but if they are being filtered out, how did you come by them? I like to give the association of a spa or jacuzzi. You don't change the water every time, you simply give an adequate orientation and supply the appropriate cleansers so that people respect the tanks. During my orientation, I make it a point to let people know that what ever does not come off in the shower will come off in the tanks. I then put a washcloth in their hand and impress upon them to use the soaps, "because eveyone wants clean tanks". I must say that I float in my tanks often and have never been affected by anything in the tank, including my own paranoia, as I know that they are clean. There are compund filtration elements, protein skimmers, and I personally use ozone filtration to oxidize any organism that can live. There is about 30 years of technology that goes into the filtration systems for the Samadhi tanks. Compared with UV filtration from most ther tanks ozone filtration not only kills much more, it also pumps your body full of oxygen. I don't know the owners of Paradise Spa, but it seems unreasonable that they would *never* change the water, as you put it. If this is the case, they won't be in business much longer. Have you floated elsewhere? Different tanks? How was your experience?

      Spreading the GOOD word,
      Kane
      www.floatmatrix.com
      • Re: Looking Where to Float in Your Area?

        Wed, November 7, 2007 - 4:05 PM
        Send your tank water to be tested by a government laboratory

        - I run a float tank centre and I don't believe your methods are sufficient, there are lots of harmful things that can live in a floatation tank, there's even salt loving bacteria.

        I suggest you speak to a biologist as you really have a dangerously limited understanding of floatation tank water chemistry.

        I'd stop breathing Ozone (O3) immediately if I was you, as it's certainly not oxygen (O)
        • Re: Looking Where to Float in Your Area?

          Wed, January 16, 2008 - 1:53 PM
          Please..."bloobuoy"

          Read carefully before submitting responses. In the heat of the moment, there is a tendency to not truly understand what is being said.

          "I run a float tank centre and I don't believe your methods are sufficient"

          -Expand on this. Do you mean to tell me that you add chemicals like chlorine or bromine to the water or do you use UV? I won't make any assumptions of your process, but there are benefits and issues with the different sanitizing processes. The Original Float Tanks were designed by Samadhi with over 40 years experience. As the research has been presented, they have developed the best filtration systems to date. We have hired Float Dreams as consultants (worldwide distributors of Samadhi) and the system that we use has been deemed the most effective from a whole body perspective. Please, if you have more research, I'd love to read it. We have chosen not to add harmful chemicals to dispose of organisms that can be neutralized with more beneficial processes.

          "there are lots of harmful things that can live in a floatation tank, there's even salt loving bacteria."

          -This is not disputed which is why we use the most effective sanitation system. Although there are many organisms that love a salty environment, there are very very few that can endure the salinity at the levels required for a floatation tank and for those we use the ozone filtration system. My wife and I both float confidently in these pods, and in the forty years that float tanks have been researched, never has there been a reported case of contracting an illness by floating.

          -To assume another's understanding is a sure lack of understanding, especially if not taking the time to read statements thoroughly. This filtration system has been fully tested by the manufacturer using excepted scientific methods.

          "I'd stop breathing Ozone (O3) immediately if I was you, as it's certainly not oxygen (O)"

          -Thank you for your concern. We now know that you know the difference between 3 oxygen molecules and 1, and the different characteristics of each. Oxygen is an element and although O3 is not O, ozone is most definitely oxygen. Enough with the fear spreading. True ozone can be harmful if breathed chronically, but the body has more than enough resources to mitigate small doses. There is ozone in many public places, airplanes being one of them. If you read above, never is it mentioned anywhere that the ozone is breathed in floatation, rather the filtration runs for 15 minutes (if you use UV it should be twice that). The ozone runs for the first five minutes and then the tanks are aired out for the rest of the filtration process. This ensures that the water has been fully saturated with ozone and that the air has been cleaned.

          I will assume that you are in the floatation business for similar reasons that I am. I experienced deep relaxation that was life changing in a way that I wanted to share with others. There is enough fear about even getting to a place of silence without sensationalizing. I believe that your comments were coming from an honest place, but there are better arenas for airing concerns. Your "charges" are not conducive to any growing discussion but are rather inflammatory and therefore hardly credible. I invite you to learn and grow together as a group as we develop this technique for healing and make it available to a global culture. We have something special, let's share it confidently.