This Floating Experience is Like Nothing You’ve Ever Tried

The Weightlessness will leave you feeling amazing!

Get your clothes off, its time to float in the nude; sorry that was a bit forthcoming – more context next time James. This floatation experience run by Beyond Rest is incredible and literally like nothing you’ve ever felt before, or not felt before, you be the judge.

What is floatation therapy you ask? Well Beyond Rest put it like this…“floating can be life, performance, mind, emotional, creativity, well being and physically enhancing in its rewards. Floating also increases awareness, connection, clarity, control, and leads to enhancements in spirituality, while reconnecting people with their true selves.”

In short, it’s strange, it’s pure weightlessness, it’s without effort, it’s relaxing, it’s a multitude of feelings, but most of all its the end result that will leave you invigorated. Be ready to be more present and energised the next day.

Each of their locations (Prahran, Collingwood, Hawthorn East or Moonee Ponds) are beautiful spaces making you feel calm and welcome, as well as including numerous giant neo light floatation pods.

When you book a session of floatation therapy you’ll be given your own private room, with a giant white tank filled with 1000L of purified water and 500kg of Epsom salt and Magnesium sulphate (The floating ingredients). It’s literally like a giant filled up a cup of the dead sea and plonked it in 4 different Melbourne locations.

Before stepping into your giant tea cup with a lid, you’ll strip down into your birthday suit (back where we started), have a quick rinse under the private shower provided and in you get.

This is where is gets *insert lots of different emotions*. You close the lid and begin to float, before your neon light is turned off and there you are lying in complete silence, weightless and in the dark alone with your own thoughts.

Everyone will have a slightly different experience but it is amazing nonetheless and as we said earlier quite a surreal feeling – we’ll let you be the judge though.

Photo credit: Beyond Rest