Shoshana Leibner and Kevin Johnson are two of the board members of the Floatation Tank Association. The FTA will be hosting a Friday Activity this year entitled, “FTA: Shaping the Future of Floating.” Shoshana and Kevin join Ashkahn to chat about the FTA, and what to expect from their Friday Activity. Read more about it […]

Justin Feinstein is the head researcher the Float Clinic and Research Center, a float specific research lab housed in the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Justin and Ashkahn chat about the current research Justin is doing, and about his path forward towards publication and funding future studies. This episode is brought to you by the […]

Duncan Trussell is a comedian and host of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast. He’s an avid floater, and talks about floating frequently on his podcast. Duncan will be doing a live recording of his podcast on stage at the 2017 Float Conference, with Christopher Ryan as his guest. Duncan and Ashkahn chat about the […]

Bob Mangine has worked in sports therapy for many decades, and is currently working in the athletics department at the University of Cincinnati. He’s installed a float tank in the university’s training facility thanks to the STRONG program at the Air Force, and has started to conduct float research with his student athletes. Bob joins […]

Lydia Caldwell and Josh Hagen work for the Air Force Research Laboratory in the 711th Human Performance Wing. They work on a program within the research lab called STRONG, Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training. Through this program they have started conducting research on float tanks, focused both on human optimization and recovery. This […]

Sahib Khalsa is a researcher at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Sahib has been conducting a multi-step research project on how floating affects people with Anorexia. He’ll be coming to the conference to show the results from the first part of that research, the safety study. Sahib and Ashkahn discuss the study Sahib has […]

Dan Larsen, Matt Smith, Brad Dauk of the Float Collective are hosting a Friday Activity this year entitled, “The Soul of the Float Industry: 2017-2018.” The event is a a forum for conversation on the needs of the float industry, and how collective action can help accomplish those needs. Dan Larsen, Matt Smith, and Brad Dauk […]

Joe Beaudry is the owner of Urban Float. Based out of Seattle, Washington, Urban Float has three of their own locations, along with one franchise location open and a handful more on the way. Joe and Ashkahn talk about the logistics in growing into a multi-location float business, and go over some of the finances […]

Christopher Ryan is well known by many people in the float industry. He’s got a podcast called Tangentially Speaking, as well as a New York Times bestselling book called Sex at Dawn. He’ll be a guest on Duncan Trussell’s live podcast at this year’s Float Conference. Chris hops on to tell us about himself, his […]

Jason MacDonald is a health regulator in Alberta, Canada. He’s been deeply involved in the world of float tank sanitation and regulations for the last several years, and will be speaking at this year’s conference about how how float tanks do and don’t fit into the regulatory scene. Jason and Ashkahn discuss the emerging world […]