Time Out Float Center Opens Soon in Catoctin Area
Deb Abraham Spalding
Hoping to get some relief from a pain or injury? What about improving your cardiovascular health and reducing stress and anxiety? Maybe a good night’s rest is what you are trying to find. Floating is an increasingly popular form of therapy that can help. And, it’s much more exciting than going to the doctor’s office or standing in the prescription line.
The Time Out Float Center will be located at 224 N. Church Street in the Thurmont Plaza. The projected opening is January, and with the holidays coming up, owner Michael Blevins, wants folks to be in the know because he’s offering a pre-opening member sign-up special: a FREE float session. It’s as simple visiting the website and signing up.
Blevins grew up in Thurmont. A dog trainer, steam fitter, and paint welder by trade, he has shifted his life’s goals, as a result of a spiritual awakening that took place for him about eighteen years ago. Now, he has clear direction to help other people and has attended the Monroe Institute in Virginia for training. He has also completed an apprenticeship at the Chrystal Waters Float Spa in Tolle, Utah.
By opening the float center, he is creating a facility where his clients can work to achieve desired results in many different areas of their lives. You can simply lie back in the magical waters of the float pod and receive the wonderful healing properties of the Epson salts.
In addition to float therapy, Time Out Float Center will provide light journeys by Lucia no3 and the Pandora star. Both are hypnogogic light machines, capable of inducing altered states of consciousness. A special type of audio guidance called Hemispherical Synchronization® (Hemi-Sync for short), engineered and patent by the Monroe institute in Virginia, can be used for your light journey or your floating experience. It’s like meditation on steroids.
When someone chooses to go inside and do some work on themselves, for whatever reason, it helps to have some tools in your backpack that you can use. Floating and the light journey, combined with the audio guidance called Hemispherical Synchronization®, gives the user a brand new set of tools that they might not know exist. At that point, the possibilities are endless!
Michael is the only light therapy service center in the state of Maryland. There are only thirty-five light therapy providers in the United States.
The Center’s space will be fully renovated, with six tank rooms that have showers. A restroom is located outside of the room. The float takes place in a highly concentrated Epson Salt bath, in a big fiberglass tank that has a lid.
When you enter the Time Out Float Center, a receptionist logs you in, walks you to the room, and explains what to do during the float. You shower before you enter the tank, so you don’t get oils in the tank, and you shower when you get out of the tank, so you don’t leave with salt residue on you.
A chemical injection pump cleans the tank water between clients. Shampoo, conditioner, soap dispensers, and towels are provided. When finished in the tank room, you exit the room after dressing to free it up for the next person. A styling room is the next stop, where you can do your hair, etc.
The benefits of these therapies are many, including relaxation, meditation, relief from pain, faster recovery from injury, improved sleep and mood.
Everyone is a potential customer at the Float Center. The customer just has to have the intent to stop feeling bad and start feeling healthy and happy. Anything is possible. Start the healing process and feel the layers of stress fall away. It’s up to you. It’s always been up to you.
For more information, view their ad on the back cover, visit FloatationTankTherapyInMaryland.com, email [email protected], or call 240-549-4019.
Michael Blevins is shown in front of his Time Out Float vehicle, equipped to transport wheelchair-bound individuals to give them access to float therapy services.
