Floating in San Diego
Bro napust si vanu a zhasni svetlo, budes to mat rovnake
Floating in San Diego is the first memory that is on my mind as I’m flying out from this lovely city and thinking what was the main thing I remember from it. Floating is for me new experience as I have never tried it before and heard of it just briefly long time ago, so this information was lost in vast empty space behind my eyes and between my ears. Anyhow I have been informed that I should try this experience as way to expand my consciousness and relax as well by Jean who is healer and spiritual person who I met in San Diego since he is partner of my cousin Marcela and I have the privilege to stay in their home and I mean home not just house. House is description of four walls, with some beds in between them but home, home is the warm and comfortable family feeling, where the understanding and welcome is standard operation procedure or as the fridge magnet said “this home is running on love, laugh and coffee” and what love it was. After the some time on the road it is so nice to feel this comfort of family home and warm welcome with like-minded people with whom I can have conversation about all the interesting topics. Well that how the floating spa came into my vision as we spoke about lots of meditation, healing and spiritual topics when Marcela mentioned that I should try Floating spa as Jean was there with his sister and highly recommended this way of meditating and relaxing so I said yes as you do when you are travelling and experiencing new things on the way around the world. What an amazing experience ! well I found it truly amazing and great way to meditate and increase no thoughts / no thinking time. It is amazing feeling to be suspended in warm EPSON salt solution that I do not knew where the water stops and the air starts and as soon as I closed the tank and fell into pitch black dark I felt like floating in space and my first thought was movie Gravity as I lay down and started to float around tank and on the surface of the solution. Drifted in and out of consciousness as I was working on stopping thoughts flying in the emptiness of my skull it was a bit harder that I thought as I was more concentrating on the experience itself and trying to figure out where my skin is submerged and where not as well as relax my neck and let he head sink into the solution as the natural instinct is to keep head above the water so my neck muscles were always tight, until I breathed out and let go of the head what surprisingly sank only inch or less and then it was supported by the solution itself and now I could relax more to be in the now, what was about one hour as I woke up or regained consciousness as the fresh air was blowing on my chest and I felt a bit cold but that was literally minutes before the music started to announce that the session was over. I have experienced something new and pleasant that I was hooked up and already booked another session straight away as I wanted to be IN PRESENT as long as I can. Also the fact that I chatted to Carlos who is owner for about two to three hours after session ‘time does not mean anything for me’ helped to feel great as we had fantastic and interesting chat and if he did not had to go home we would probably be chatting more ‘jeysus we were worse than teenage girls’ but I felt that we have some connection and we talked and talked and get from the floating, what was his great field of expertise to real estate and property, family, life and it was like I felt home and welcomed in San Diego or U.S for that matter and considering the previous experience with immigration officer who was amazing I have to admit that U.S got under y skin a bit. So I left the place but not before I provisionally booked another session but need to clear the date and time with Marcela as she took time off from work and therefore I need to talk to her about the plans for the coming days.
Anyhow the second session was even more mind blowing as since I started driving towards the 5th Avenue I turned off the radio in the car and just enjoyed the drive, what I had not done in long time ‘I mean enjoying drive’ and just looked out to the scenery passing by as I closing by to the town on interstate 8 and getting into zone, without even noticing it ‘you can understand life looking back most of the time’ and when parked and entered the Floating Spa I was so relaxed already and after brief chat with the girl at the counter I have entered sauna and just sit and sweat in silence for thirty minutes to be IN with minimal thoughts. Then as my body was like fecking Niagara sweat fall ‘swear I could get paid as the another world wonder from tourists’ the timer said done, realistically just showed 0 and beeped but when I used the three washcloths to keep myself relatively dry and scoured to clean skin I was ready to leave the hot sauna and change to the warm womb of the floating pod. After quick shower I entered pod and this was the best floating session from the three I took there. Nearly immediately after the closing lid on the pod and getting horizontal I heard my own heart beating like drums and so I talked to it to slow down a bit and take it easy and drifted away to dream land or higher consciousness where I was lost for a long time until I woke up remembering the dream or message about me sending wedding invitation as I was about to getting married ‘second time’ as fabulous island where I lived with THE ONE, at least that it was what I remembered immediately after waking up. I was gone from hour as after the waking up and thinking of the dream the music started blasting to announce end of the session. I realized that my last thought was about the heartbeat and then this dream so I must be gone for a good bit in the no thinking zone or dream land. After floating I had stayed a bit longer sitting at lobby and chatting to the girl at reception who is studying criminology and her anthropology professor is from Slovakia so figure out the world is so small. We had nice chat but not as deep as with Carlos and I knew that I want to go to bed early I left quite shortly afterwards but stopped in this great coffee ‘more like tea shop as they had more than one hundred teas menu’ house Bassem on the corner of 5th Avenue and Redwood street, what was full of students on their laptops with books and papers all over the tables, studying, typing and listening to something on headphones. Fabulous vibe in this place I have to admit and I realized that it is open till midnight, what a long hours but I can see that people are there for long and I realized that if I had laptop with me I would probably stay there too till closing hours and type all of this there. Hibiscus and chamomile teas later ‘including three tasty fig cakes’ I left the place and drove home in amazing state of bliss and peace. Floating took me by surprise and I mean positive surprise of experience beyond the anything I have experienced before, close by is only diving where I float but I’m awake to see all the beautiful underwater animals. Well I have no expectations for the things I come to experience and this was really so big that it blow my mind and I see that I will seek it again if I could. Third time was day before the departure and maybe due the fact that my mind was switched on the packing and preparing the departure I could not get to IN state that easily and I had to really work on turning off the thoughts and focusing on the hearth beat to get relax. Anyhow as Carlos was on duty again we chatted and again had great time in down town and learn new things about San Diego and this neighborhood but since we had arranged go away dinner with Marcela and Jean I had to cut or talk with Carlos short as I need to start driving and 5pm is not the best time to leave San Diego as the traffic is quite busy. However I made it on time to go for 6pm dinner at Mexican restaurant to get fish platter and I made myself a promise that I will come back as I want to go to Tijuana for real Mexican food or to Mexico City as Maria ‘girl I know from Koh Tao’ promised me to invite me for her wedding as we have not met this time, since she did not continued our conversation previously where we discussed meeting up during my stay in San Diego, well not mean to happen as much as she is gorgeous girl with beautiful smile. As well as I would like to float more, so need to get package for more sessions but this time I need to stay in San Diego for longer to be able to see and discover all.
Float Sanctuary
3138 5th Ave (2,557.17 mi)
San Diego, California 92103
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(619) 795-9264