Oly Float

09/04/2025

Have you made an entry in our epic Post-Float Journal yet? If not, please do feel invited to inscribe your experiences for others to enjoy or learn from.

Or if you'd like to just read others' entries either before or after your float, that's great too.

Both in its epic heft and in the depth of its content, it's quite a read.

09/03/2025

A big shout out to Patti, our very sweet client who's been bringing us these incredible fresh dahlias the past couple of weeks.

08/25/2025

Anyone else remember Ecco the Dolphin?

It’s all fun and games until you tap into a collective alien consciousness and travel back in time.

08/22/2025

Explore how saunas can affect your body, and dig into the health benefits and limitations of this millennia-old tradition.--Finnish sauna, Roman balneae, J*p...

08/20/2025

Float & Massage — the power couple in relaxation. 🌊💆

First, floating quiets the mind and melts away layers of stress. Then, massage works on muscles already softened from the float, allowing deeper release and lasting ease. Together, they reset body and mind in a way few other experiences can.

Give yourself the gift of both. Call us today to schedule your back-to-back Float & Massage experience. ✨

08/17/2025

Some incredible artwork that someone left in our post-float journal recently. It's uncredited, so thank you to whoever the amazing artist is that left that for others to enjoy after their floats.

08/06/2025

People often ask me:
“If I’m already doing cold plunges… do I really need the sauna too?”

Here’s my answer:
They’re not the same. And your body benefit from both.

New science (2024) confirms what I’ve seen again and again:
Sauna isn’t just relaxing — it’s physiological training.

A recent review looked at both Finnish sauna and infrared (Waon) therapy and found effects that go far beyond heat exposure:

🫀 Lower blood pressure
🧠 Better oxygen delivery to the heart
🏃 Improved exercise tolerance in people with heart failure
🩸 Healthier vascular function — even in healthy adults

Another study showed that infrared sauna post-exercise helped reduce blood lactate levels — meaning faster recovery and less fatigue.

If you’re interested in the science you can read below studies, but if you would like my take on it - sign up for my newsletter as I’ll have this months newsletter out soon - and it’s about SAUNA!

Finnish sauna & health outcomes: PubMed #38577299

Cardiovascular function review: PubMed #32814462

Infrared sauna recovery: PubMed #26180741

So to answer the question shortly- yes — cold builds resilience.But sauna helps you relax and train your cardiovascular system.

Use both, and you’re building a complete adaptation system — from stress response to recovery to long-term vitality.

📝 Want to go deeper?
I break down all of this (and more) in my monthly science newsletter.
Join at 👉 www.soeberginstitute.com

What’s your sauna setup?
Traditional, infrared, or wood-fired?
I’d love to hear how you’re using heat in your routine.

— Dr. Susanna Søberg

08/01/2025

A gentle July reminder: your breath is always with you.
Take a moment today to pause. Inhale slowly. Hold. Exhale even slower.
Your body knows how to come back to calm.
You don’t have to do it alone—book a float or sauna session and let us support your return to stillness.

07/31/2025

We recently passed 500+ 5-star reviews after serving our community these past 13 years. (And 9 1-star reviews; because, you know, there's always those people.) We're incredibly proud of the consistent experience that our trusty team of float and bodywork wizards provide for you all on a daily basis, and really grateful to all those of you who take a couple minutes out your busy days to write a few words about your journeys with us. Here's to 1000 ...

You can read all our reviews here: https://olyfloat.com/about-us/reviews/

07/30/2025

☀️ Summer Self-Care Reminder! 💆🏽‍♀️💧🔥

Just a gentle nudge—our BIGGEST Summer Sale is happening now at Oly Float, and you won’t want to miss it!

Take 25–50% OFF:
✨ Float Therapy
✨ Therapeutic Massage
✨ Infrared Sauna
✨ Fire & Ice Contrast Therapy

💡 All services must be used by September 30th, so stock up now and schedule your sessions while availability lasts!

Your future self will thank you for booking the rest + recovery you deserve. 🧘🏽‍♂️

📅 Book online or call us today!
🔗 https://go.booker.com/location/olyfloat/buy/series

07/29/2025

Having trouble sleeping with the longer days?
Studies show float therapy can help reduce cortisol and improve sleep quality.
Come float into restfulness—day or night.

07/28/2025

We hope you're having a great summer so far! We're about to go through another brief temperature spike, so I felt compelled to slide into your messages with a perhaps unusual perspective: sauna isn't just for winter, it's amazing during the summer too.

I know it seems counter-intuitive. “But I'm already too hot!”

Therein lies a hidden statement: “I can't handle this heat!”

And that's where sauna is an awesome weapon against temperature intolerance.

Cold water exposure is excellent for making us more resilient to the cold. It literally builds our “brown fat”, kind of like our body's layer of fiberglass insulation that keeps the heat in and the cold out.

Sauna doesn't build brown fat to do the reverse in summer, like our homes do (keep cool in and heat out), but a consistent sauna practice does influence a biological process known as “hormetic adaptation". The TL;DR version of what that means could be stated as: “whatever doesn't kill you …”. It's the process your body goes through when it's under stress. The more it experiences a stress on a consistent basis, the more it adapts to tolerate that stress.

So, in this context, the more your body experiences extreme temperature, the more adapted it becomes to experiencing extreme temperature, and so the less extreme temperature starts to feel.

When you cold plunge regularly, you can easily (relatively) immerse yourself into 45 degree water for minutes at a time without completely freaking out like your average humans would. In fact, you learn to control your breath and your stress, instead of being controlled by it.

The same is true of sauna. When you regularly spend time in 190 degree heat, a 90 degree day - like we're about to have close to for a couple of days - is a cakewalk. While everyone else is feeling overwhelmed and drained, your temperature-adapted body kind of looks around with a casual shoulder shrug and gets on with its day, relatively free of the stress of high temperature.

Embracing hormetic adaption is like levelling up your biological toolbox. While your regular humans burn up energy (and the planet) cranking up their AC during the summer, or throwing on layer after layer and again cranking up their energy use during the winter, hormetically-adapted humans become something more, something super. What's a good word for that? Super … humans? 🤔😆

🔥 Contrast Therapy in our new Fire & Ice room is our superhuman factory 🧊

Through controlled circuits of exposure to:
🔥 190° Finnish sauna
🌊 60° Nordic cold dunk
🧊 Aromatherapy-infused ice therapy for use inside or outside of the sauna
😊 And cycles of rest in between …

… you will train your body to not only tolerate, but fully relax into, both intense heat and contrasting cold.

You'll immediately come out feeling refreshed, reinvigorated, and maybe a little bit super.

But the real benefit will be later on, when you realize that you're not affected by heat the same way everyone else is. That's when the real gift of a consistent summer sauna practice shows up.

Learn more about Contrast Therapy here:
https://olyfloat.com/dt_service/fire-ice-sauna/


☀️ Now is also the cheapest time to experience Contrast Therapy ☀️
Our summer sale is still on! You can pick up 3- or 10-session series of Contrast Therapy for 25-50%, the lowest price you'll find all year.
https://go.booker.com/location/olyfloat/buy/series