Crash Hoefler is the founder of the Float Lab, a float center in LA that is about to open its second location, and he’s also a manufacturer of float rooms. Crash has been in the float industry since 1999, and he joins Ashkahn on the podcast to discuss how he got into the world of […]

Marek Malus is researched in the Czech Republic who has started researching Chamber REST, a form of REST that involves long sessions (24 hours or longer) in a silent and dark room or house. Marek and Ashkahn chat about how Chamber REST, or as it’s known there, Dark Therapy, has become a growing sensation in […]

Joe Beaudry runs Urban Float, a float center that currently has two locations open in the Seattle area, and is in the process of opening it’s third. Urban Float has recently begun offering franchising for their Urban Float center, and has become the US distributor for the i-sopod float tank. Joe is not speaking at […]

Peter Suedfeld is one of the most well known names in REST research. Peter is one of the earliest researchers of REST, and is responsible for some of it’s most notable scientific findings. He was also the founding president of IRIS, the old REST research association. Peter talks about some of his very first REST […]

Nick Janicki is the co-founder of True REST out in Arizona, which opened in 2009. Since then, he’s started manufacturing float pods with his company Float Pod Therapies, and most recently has started to franchise his True REST center. Nick will be at the Float Conference to present alongside Andy Zaremba of Float House to […]

Rich Martin works for NSF International, an organization that certifies products for safety and sanitation. NSF International has recently started creating a certification for floatation tanks. Ashkahn and Rich discuss what that means, where the certification is in it’s process of being developed, and go into some of the finer details of the effect this […]

Andy Zaremba is one of the co-founders of Float House up in Vancouver, the world’s largest float tank center. Andy will be speaking alongside Nick Janicki at the 2015 Float Conference. Andy and Ashkahn disucss what it was like for Float House to grow so rapidly, and what it’s like to operate a float center […]

Dr. Kyle Simmons works alongside Justin Feinstein at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, which houses the new Float Clinic and Research Center. Kyle specializes in studying the brains ability to map the internal human body, and he joins Ashkahn on the podcast to discuss what that means for someone in a float tank. This […]

Jason MacDonald is a health inspector up in Canada, and is in fact currently acting as the President of the Alberta branch of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors. Jason has recently begun working with float centers that are opening in Alberta, and he joins Ashkahn on the podcast to chat about where float […]

Glenn and Lee Perry are two float pioneers who have spent the last 40 years working to keep the business of floating a journey into the realm of service and adventure. They are also the first commercial float tank manufacturers. Through the mentorship of Dr. John C. Lilly, they developed the Samadhi Tank Company. Lee Perry also serves as […]