PRESS/MEDIA
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VIDEO/PODCASTS
Joe Rogan Experience #517 – Crash, from Float Lab® (Part 2)
Float Lab Technologies® specializes in designing and manufacturing high-quality Floatation Chambers. A Float Lab® floatation chamber provides a light- and sound-free environment.
Sensory Deprivation Tanks?! (Beauty Trippin)
Today we went to "Float Lab®" and spent two hours in a sensory deprivation tank alone with our thoughts...AHHH! Watch & see how it went.
Sensory Deprivation Tanks: Part 1/3 (Documentary)
The best way to eliminate all sensory input is to step inside a sensory deprivation tank. In part 1, we talk to Joe Rogan about what happens to the mind, body, and spirit while [...]
Graham Hancock’s Float Tank Experience
In this clip extracted from the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, Joe features author Graham Hancock. They quickly get into talking about Graham's first floating experience.
People Try sensory deprivation tanks for the first time
People Try Sensory Deprivation Tanks For The First Time
Joe Rogan Experience #517 – Crash, from Float Lab®
Float Lab Technologies® specializes in designing and manufacturing high-quality Floatation Chambers. A Float Lab® floatation chamber provides a light- and sound-free environment.
Smart Drug Smarts
In Episode #49, Jesse speaks to Crash, owner of Float Lab Technologies ®, a sensory deprivation tank center in Venice Beach, California. Crash explains the ins and outs of the Float Lab® experience, and what can [...]
The Dent Report
Andy is joined by Float Lab® founder Crash. They discuss sensory deprivation and the history of Float Lab®. Click to listen to the podcast
Lukestorey
Did you know there is an entirely natural way to 'get high on your own supply', without any side-effects? Imagine yourself losing all sense of your physical body, and being totally alone in a [...]
Float Conference Podcast
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 [...]
Edibles Magazine Interview with Crash from The Float Lab®.
Edibles List Magazine visited The Float Lab®, facility at Venice Beach to combine Sensory Deprivation Tank Therapy and THC/Cannabis Edibles! We're researching possible benefits for treating PTSD. This is our interview with Crash, the [...]
Float Conference
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 [...]
BuzzFeed Sensory Deprivation Is Like?
Ever Wondered What Sensory Deprivation Is Like? Click to watch the video
UCLA students experience sensory deprivation tanks
As popularized by Eleven on Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” sensory deprivation tanks plunge participants into salt and water, creating an experience that leaves them with their thoughts. Westwood has its own eight tanks at the [...]
Sensory Deprivation Tanks?! (Beauty Trippin)
Today we went to "Float Lab®" and spent two hours in a sensory deprivation tank alone with our thoughts...AHHH! Watch & see how it went. Click to watch video
ARTICLES
Crash Hoefler: Pioneer of Sensory Deprivation
The sound of my heartbeat began to fade. I didn’t know silence could be so loud. But I’ve been waiting for this… Here I am, completely naked as I step into the chamber and [...]
Floating in a sensory deprivation tank is quite the experience mentally and physically
After getting my consciousness transported to another realm of major relaxation and psychedelia under the PandoraStar, it was now time for me to undertake my real purpose for coming here. Floating in a sensory [...]
INC. Floatation Tanks
Otherwise known as sensory deprivation tanks, these tanks are best described as a forced meditation. Without any senses, sight, sound and touch thanks to salty body-temperature water, your mind is forced to retreat into [...]
Edibles Magazine re-visits Float Lab®, this time in Westwood
Edibles List Magazine re-visits The Float Lab®, this time it's their custom facility in Westwood, and once again we combine Sensory Deprivation Tank Therapy and THC/Cannabis Edibles! We're researching possible benefits for treating PTSD. This [...]
Edibles Magazine
Edibles List Magazine visits The Float Lab® in Venice to combine Sensory Deprivation Tank Therapy and THC/Cannabis Edibles! We're researching possible benefits for treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Click to watch video [...]
the floating experience a massage for the brain
At a recent dinner party, the host asked: “Tell us about your latest dates.” I prepared myself for some deplorable Tinder stories, but instead, was surprised to hear how one guest had been invited [...]
Editor’s Message: Testing the Waters of Float Therapy
At Float Lab® in Venice, Calif, adults of all ages ease themselves into individual salt water tanks to let the external world bob away. While once known by the less friendly names of “sensory [...]
Stress: Bad for you, good for these businesses
When weeks had passed and her anger about the presidential election still hadn't subsided, Jill Weiss figured she had two options: She could keep replacing broken home furniture or she could find a therapeutic [...]
Daily Bruin
Students and Westwood residents will soon be able to relax and float in simulated zero gravity chambers at an incoming Westwood business. Float Lab®, which allows customers to use their flotation chambers, recently began construction [...]
A WINDOW INTO THE FLOATING WORLD
MEL sent photographer Jared Ryder to hang out with Crash Hoefler, founder of Float Lab®, at his original flotation center on the Venice Beach boardwalk. Hoefler has spent the last 17 years developing sensory deprivation chamber [...]
Sensory Deprivation Tank Science: How ‘Floating’ Works & Proven Benefits
Whether referred to as sensory deprivation tanks, float tanks or simply “floating,” deprivation therapy treatments diminish nearly all sights, sounds, smells and touch, earning a reputation for naturally easing many ailments. Floaters report sensory [...]
5 Facts You Learn About Lea Michele in a 5-Minute Interview
She’s tried sensory deprivation and she likes it. "The recent thing I did was Float Lab®, where you go and it’s sensory deprivation, and it’s supposed to be the best meditation, calming, really clears [...]
Detox Mondays | Float Your Stress Away In a Sensory Deprivation Tank
Sensory deprivation tanks are a fad with both eastern and western-minded individuals as a way to relax both their bodies and minds without any former training in meditation or using any prescription drugs or [...]
The Quad: Realities of being in an isolation tank like Eleven from ‘Stranger Things’
In Cold War-era “Stranger Things,” we see Eleven, a girl with psychokinetic abilities, in an isolation tank as Dr. Martin Brenner prepares to have her attempt to intercept communication with Russian officials. However, she [...]
I Tried Float Tank-ing My Stress Away—And Here’s What Happened
Awards season is well underway, and New York Fashion Week is just around the corner. If that doesn't stress you out, tax season is upon us. So, how do A-listers like Susan Sarandon and pro-athletes unwind? By floating. [...]
ADVENTURES IN SO. CALIFORNIA
A surreal experience located, no surprise, just off the Venice Boardwalk, Float Lab® is a good if strange place to forget your troubles for a couple of hours. You’ll shower in and shower out [...]
BEST ISOLATION TANK Float Lab®
If you are feeling at all uneasy about spending two hours floating in water in total sensory deprivation, Crash, the shaggy-haired, flip-flop–wearing owner of Float Lab®, will make you feel at ease. Each of his two [...]
7 reasons why you’re about to fall in love with floating
What used to be rather grimly called "sensory deprivation" or "isolation" therapy has resurfaced as the far more appealing "flotation therapy": Those in need of some de-stressing and mental relaxation can bob about, alone, [...]