Float in the Forest
Beyond relaxationFloat in the Forest is your floatation centre in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.
Floatation is the deepest relaxation you will ever feel.
Half a tonne of Epsom salt in the water means you float effortlessly on the surface and feel weightless. The body temperature water supports you in total comfort, so you can let go of tension and drift into a blissful state.
Enjoy your own private room with a beautiful I-sopod float pod. Luxuriate in your rainfall shower complete with natural toiletries and big fluffy towels. Take your time in the lounge afterwards, while you sip your choice of complimentary organic tea. Discover what makes a great float.
Emerge into a beautiful natural environment and carry the feeling of serenity on into your life.
Floating regularly brings cumulative benefits.
What our customers are saying
One of the best experiences you will ever have!
This is such a unique thing to do and you will walk away feeling super relaxed and rested.
The owners Will and Shari are extremely friendly and welcoming and will explain the steps to floating. The pods themselves look straight out of a sci-fi film and the lighting really sets the mood.
The water itself is like the Dead Sea, where you will float easily and with the lid shut and lights off you will soon completely relax and zone out.
Before you know it the hour is up and you're left feeling great! This is definitely a great way to spend your day and will be left wanting more.
I highly recommend!
Read MoreLee Scarratt
Both ladies on the desk were so calm and welcoming. They are very informative from beginning to end and the facilities were perfect. Everything is very clean, they let you choose the light for your room and give extra towels if you have long hair. Couldn’t recommend enough if you need to just switch off for a while.
Read Moremeg RussellFirst class experience from booking via the website to chilling in the relaxation lounge after the float!
The team were super friendly, they have thought of everything you need to know and communication is top class. Booking was easy, the info video you watch before the experience explains every detail to put even the most chronic over thinker's (!!) mind at ease.
The float itself is such a surreal experience once you actually let yourself go and really relax into it. I'm naturally quite a cold person and I was a bit worried I'd get chilly but the temperature was perfect.
The facilities were spotlessly clean.
Thanks team, we'll definitely be back ...
Read MoreHolly RobinsonHeavenly, the most relaxed I’ve been for a long time. Opted for total darkness and was surprised how quickly I drifted off to sleep whilst floating ❤️ So well organised, spotless and felt super safe. Treated a friend for a Xmas present and she thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Gorgeous natural products, fluffy towels and robe if needed. Beautiful local artwork on sale in the lounge area with organic teas & cold drinks.
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Just outside you can join the Bream Heritage Trail and explore the Princess Royal Pithead Bath Building.
We opted for a tasty lunch up the road in the cosy Bream cafe.
Perfect morning thx Shari & Will 🙏Helen OKaneLiving with ADHD means my mind rarely stops moving thoughts race, attention shifts, and silence can feel impossible. In the flotation tank, though, I experience something extraordinary: the ability to truly shut down. The sensory stillness is unlike anything else, and it gives me a kind of peace I don’t find anywhere else.
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Weightless calm: The salt water holds me effortlessly, so my body can let go.
Sensory relief: No noise, no light, no distractions just stillness.
Mental reset: For once, my brain slows down, and I leave with clarity and calm.
The only downside is cost. As someone who would benefit from making this a regular practice, I have to save carefully, which means I can’t float as often as I’d like.
For anyone with ADHD, flotation is more than relaxation it’s a rare chance to quiet the mind. I only wish it were more accessible, because the benefits are life‑changing.Tracey Mcintosh Smith
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Why float?
Deep Relaxation
Escape hectic daily life and let your tensions dissolve into weightless relaxation. This is time which is yours alone, free of the demands of others. Above all, the calm comfort of floatation soothes away stress and anxiety. At last a space to truly rest the body and still the chatter of the mind.
Improved Health
Floatation reduces blood pressure and improves circulation. Levels of the ‘stress hormone’ cortisol are reduced. You are bathed in salts of the essential mineral Magnesium. Furthermore, your muscles, joints and bones are released from the effects of gravity.
Pain Relief
Sufferers of chronic pain from many conditions including Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and back pain have gained relief by using floatation for pain management. Muscle tension and joint pain are reduced through being unburdened by the buoyant water.
Sleep Better
The deep rest of floating dissolves fatigue, leaving you feeling truly refreshed. Not only can a single float feel as restorative as a full night’s sleep, but certainly floating also improves sleep patterns, offering relief from insomnia and the ability to ‘reset’ jet lag.
Enhanced Performance
Sports recovery is boosted by floatation as a result of lactic acid broken down faster, allowing you to train smarter and get back to doing what you love sooner. Likewise rehabilitation times from injury are reduced, and what’s more, proper recuperation keeps you at the top of your game. Enhance your performance and visualise your success.
Pregnancy
Floating can give profound relief from the physical strains of pregnancy due to the buoyancy of the water. An opportunity to practise breathing techniques and relax. Not only is this a real rest for you and your baby, but also a chance to build a profound connection together in a peaceful and supportive environment.
Meditation
Floating is a doorway to deeper meditation. The reduced sensory input and weightlessness removes distractions, empowering you to quiet your mind with ease. As a result you can switch off your mind and be present, and make it easier to do so in your every day life.
Freedom from habits
The float environment puts the power to reprogram unwanted behaviours in your hands. Consequently, this is an opportunity to abandon your addictions. Through regular floating you can insert a pause between the stimulus and the habitual response, giving you an opportunity to act from somewhere authentic.
Mental Clarity
Discover a space of peaceful reflection, while free of all distractions. This environment fosters true focus: for improved decision-making, effective problem-solving, deeper insight, and freedom of mind. Certainly here is the clarity you need to make real progress.
Creativity Unleashed
Break creative block. Open a channel to the wellspring of your innate creativity. Calm the inner chatter and find peace of mind. Open yourself to inspiration, and maybe meet your muse in the garden of your mind.
Consciousness Exploration
You are the frontier of unlimited possibility, free to experiment without constraint. Travel through time. Explore the multiverse. Hang out with transdimensional entities. This is your space. What’s more, this is your adventure. Have fun and enjoy!
Fun
Enjoy the sensations. Revel in the time alone. Wallow in that post-float feeling. Combine your float with other activities and treatments. Bring a friend along. Above all, floating doesn’t have to be serious, and you don’t need an excuse to enjoy yourself.
Self Work
Floatation could be called a spiritual technology. The floatation pod removes a lot of work from us, and frees us up for the real work. Though deliberate work in the pod we can establish an experiential connection with our selves in the broadest sense, and uncover a way to be of service to our greater self.
Check some posts from the Float in the Forest blog
The History of John C. Lilly
Intellectual curiosity John Lilly, a pioneering neuroscientist, psychoanalyst and writer, is best known for his remarkable work in consciousness exploration and the development of the float tank. His journey into the realms of consciousness is marked by innovative...
How you are in control
First time floating 28 years ago, I tried floating for the first time. Today, I run a float centre with Shari and our team. Over that time, one thing has become very clear: people arrive at the idea of floating in very different ways, and on very different timelines....
Shower thoughts
At home, washing is a task. It’s something to squeeze in between work, dinner and the constant mental note that you “should really wash your hair tonight”. Even when we do it, we rush. We half enjoy it while already thinking about what’s next. In a float session,...
The deepest relaxation you will ever feel, the closest to weightless you can be on this planet.
Floating times:
Wed - Sun 10am-8pm
By appointment
Mon - Tue closed
