Fox News reports on TrueREST
Monday, February 01, 2010
SCOTTSDALE -- It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie -- getting into a pod and floating on water.
In the 1970s they were called sensory deprivation tanks, but they have been upgraded with the times.
On Nick Janicki's trip to London, he tried out the floatation device. He says as soon as he did it, he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
"Tried my very first float. After 60 minutes I got out and had this massive elated smile on my face, I just looked like an idiot, I didn't know what to do with myself and I said this thing is amazing," he recalls.
Janicki came back to Arizona and decided to open a True REST float center in Scottsdale featuring these rest pods.
"The water is heated to skin temperature and after about 20 minutes the brain stops recognizing the water and your body, so of course anyone with pain, fibromyalgia, migraines anything like that, it very much helps get rid of all that pain."
The 9-foot-long and 5-feet-tall pod has light and music inside, and its filled with 10 inches of water and 800 pounds of salt to make you float.
"Its like floating in oil, that's what blew my mind. You are in water for an hour, you think you are going to be dried out like a prune but its 180 degrees the opposite. It literally feels like you are floating in oil and even afterwards the way my skin feels now, that really surprised me," says first-time user David Farnsworth.
Janicki says that in just an hour, you can get the benefits of four hours of sleep. 1,300 people in the valley are already on a waiting list to get a chance in the rest pod.
True REST is located on Thompson Peak and Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale.
SRC: http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/business/true-rest-salt-tanks-1-31-2010
In the 1970s they were called sensory deprivation tanks, but they have been upgraded with the times.
On Nick Janicki's trip to London, he tried out the floatation device. He says as soon as he did it, he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
"Tried my very first float. After 60 minutes I got out and had this massive elated smile on my face, I just looked like an idiot, I didn't know what to do with myself and I said this thing is amazing," he recalls.
Janicki came back to Arizona and decided to open a True REST float center in Scottsdale featuring these rest pods.
"The water is heated to skin temperature and after about 20 minutes the brain stops recognizing the water and your body, so of course anyone with pain, fibromyalgia, migraines anything like that, it very much helps get rid of all that pain."
The 9-foot-long and 5-feet-tall pod has light and music inside, and its filled with 10 inches of water and 800 pounds of salt to make you float.
"Its like floating in oil, that's what blew my mind. You are in water for an hour, you think you are going to be dried out like a prune but its 180 degrees the opposite. It literally feels like you are floating in oil and even afterwards the way my skin feels now, that really surprised me," says first-time user David Farnsworth.
Janicki says that in just an hour, you can get the benefits of four hours of sleep. 1,300 people in the valley are already on a waiting list to get a chance in the rest pod.
True REST is located on Thompson Peak and Frank Lloyd Wright in Scottsdale.
SRC: http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/business/true-rest-salt-tanks-1-31-2010
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