Float REST
Restricted Environmental
Stimulation Therapy
An hour with no gravity, no sensory input and nothing being asked of you. A rare chance for your nervous system to properly switch off.
Our float cabin is a full standing-height enclosure on a king-size footprint, holding 900kg of pharmaceutical-grade Epsom salts in skin-temperature water. The water is so dense you float without any effort at all, and with nothing to see or hear, your brain finally has nothing to process. What you get is a depth of rest most people simply haven't felt before.
Duration
60 minutes
Capacity
1 or 2 people
Water Temp
35.75 – 36.50°C
Epsom Salt
900kg
Cabin
Full standing height
King size footprint
Privacy
Private room
with ensuite shower
Your session
What to expect
Arrival & briefing
Before your first float we'll talk you through everything: how the cabin works, what your body and mind might do in there, and how to get the most out of the hour. You decide how you want it, lights on or off, music or silence, or the full sensory deprivation. It's your session to set up.
Your private room
You float in a fully private room with its own ensuite shower. Everything's there for you, towels, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser and a natural fragrance, and the room is kept warm. You come and go at your own pace.
Pre-float shower
A quick shower before you get in rinses oils and products off your skin, which keeps the water clean and lets the salts do their thing. Ear plugs are provided to round out the experience.
60 minutes of stillness
The water sits between 35.75 and 36.50°C, right around skin temperature, so the line between your body and the water starts to disappear. The 900kg of Epsom salts hold you up effortlessly. Your muscles let go, your mind quietens, and a lot of people find a level of calm in the first twenty minutes they've never quite reached before.
Post-float
A full shower afterwards with everything provided. Most people describe leaving rested, clear-headed and physically light, and that feeling often deepens over the next few hours. Float works beautifully on its own, or as part of a protocol (it's the back half of both The Ritual and the Reset Journey).
Why people float
What people come for
Stress relief and deep relaxation
Better, more restful sleep
A break from physical tension
Mental clarity and focus
Muscle recovery after training
Time and space to switch off
Research-backed
The science
When sensory input drops away in the cabin, the nervous system tends to shift from sympathetic (stress) toward parasympathetic (rest) dominance. Research into floatation REST has looked at how this affects cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, with studies reporting lower cortisol during and after sessions, linked to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis settling down. The takeaway people describe is a body that unwinds, not just a mind that does.
Floating takes the load of gravity off your muscles and joints. Researchers have studied this mechanical unloading, along with reduced muscular tension, as a reason people report feeling physically released after a float. Studies in this area have investigated floatation for various kinds of musculoskeletal discomfort, with participants generally describing lower tension afterwards. We're describing what the research has explored, not making a medical claim about your body.
One of the most common things people mention is sleeping better after a float. The proposed mechanism in the research is that deep relaxation calms an over-aroused nervous system, which is a major driver of poor sleep. Studies have explored floatation's links to sleep quality, with some reporting effects that linger for a few days after a session.
There's a growing body of research into how floatation REST affects mood and mental state, exploring things like serotonin, amygdala activity and connectivity between the prefrontal cortex and limbic system. People often describe a calmer baseline and less mental chatter that carries on past the session itself. If you're managing a diagnosed condition, floatation isn't a treatment for it, so please keep working with your doctor and treat this as something that may sit alongside that.
The 900kg of Epsom salts make a highly concentrated magnesium sulphate solution, which is part of what makes the water so buoyant. Magnesium matters for a huge range of processes in the body, from muscle relaxation to nerve function and sleep. Whether meaningful amounts are absorbed through the skin during a float is still debated in the research, so we'll let the studies speak for themselves rather than overstate it, but the salts are central to how effortless the float feels.
Full research references on the Float REST science page →
Go deeper
Part of a protocol
Float is brilliant on its own, but it really lands as the closing act of one of our sequenced protocols, when your body reaches the float already primed.
Reset Journey
Our flagship. A full contrast cycle of sauna and a guided plunge, then an hour in the float. Fire, cold, then deep stillness, in one visit.
View the Reset Journey →The Ritual
An hour in the float followed by an hour of massage. Your body comes out of the float at its most receptive, so the bodywork goes deeper.
View The Ritual →All Protocols
See the full set of sequenced protocols, from the Forge entry session through to the full Reset Journey.
Explore protocols →Mind Over Matter Practice is a science-led recovery and wellness studio. We don't diagnose, treat, or replace medical care. If you have a health condition, are pregnant, or have any concern, please consult your doctor before booking.