For the past two years, director and weird news guy David Farrier has been living a bizarre cheese dream, following homophobic hate mail...

Auckland’s Shane Young is the current XFC featherweight champion. A veteran of upward of 15 fights across multiple disciplines, Young is...

In this float story we catch up with Israel, a champion kick boxer who has made floating a central part of his fight preparations

In the first of our float stories series we talk to Katie, a busy mother of four, as to why she has made floating a part of her weekly...

It’s abundantly clear to anyone who’s been to the beach that ocean water is far more buoyant than fresh water. This is, of course,...

In the search for sleep, insomniac Rebecca Isemonger entered the tank for three sessions at Float Culture. The benefits she discovered,...

Crunch time. Deadlines. We all have these periods that consume all our attention pop up in our lives. Often times the work seems so...

Walking around the world at large, there is a constant influx of stimuli. Sights, sounds and colour – we are constantly barraged by the...

1). It feels good! Floating is simply a uniquely enjoyable sensation in itself. There is just nothing else quite like the pleasure of the...

In February 2015 I was made redundant from a job that had got me through most of my uni years. I had a month to find a job that would...

I make a lot of noise about the benefits of floatation . It’s relaxing, it’s great for the joints, works wonders for stress. But that’s...

If you’re new to floating or find it hard to unwind, then you might be awfully familiar with the perception of ‘mind speak’ whilst...

Muscle pain, sleep disorder, anxiety, migraines, cognitive dysfunction and more are all symptoms experienced by sufferers of the...

I first heard of Floating around a year ago, when a friend described to me the surreal meditation-like experience she’d been reading...

I get sick around a week or so from deadline. It happens almost every time I work on a big project to the point where I can predict and...

Sensory deprivation (in psychology) is an experimental situation in which all stimulation is cut off from the sensory receptors. What we...

Down a dusty side street in Central Auckland lies Float Culture , a sensory deprivation centre dedicated to physical relaxation and mid...

Introducing i-sopod – our spaceship-like floatation pods. i-sopods are state-of-the-art Epsom Salt water pods, designed to transport...

“When one or more senses are restricted, the sensitivity of the others senses is expanded.” – The Book of Floating by Michael Hutchison...

I’m going to be honest with you, my first two floats were average as. In fact, it took me three floats to figure out the dos and don’ts,...