For more than ten years, Dr. Justin Tan has been floating at Clear Float Spa. As a holistic and performance chiropractor and the founder of Philo Health, he treats stillness as a clinical tool, not a luxury.
“Floating in a pod allows us to come to a place of stillness and quietness,” he says, “so we can help our mental health, our emotional regulation, and our stress management.”
Why a clinician keeps coming back
Justin’s days move quickly. Between patients on the table, students on the mat, and the work of running a practice, he sees the body absorbing input from every direction. The float pod is his counterweight, a quiet container that lets the nervous system settle so the rest of the day can land.
Ten years in, he describes the impact on his practice and his life as profound. The pod has become part of how he works, not something separate from it.
The pod as integration
For Justin, the real value of floating shows up in what the body does after an experience.
“Whether you’re coming from the table, from a yoga mat, from a Pilates class,” he says, “the ability to be in a flow tank afterwards is a great opportunity to integrate your experience and to embody it further.”
Movement creates a change in the body. Stillness gives the body time to absorb it. For a clinician who works with athletes, busy professionals, and people in pain, that quiet hour after a treatment or training session is often where the real progress takes hold.
Three words
Asked how he feels after a float, Justin doesn’t reach for jargon. He chooses three words: peaceful, present, thankful.
After ten years of returning to the same practice, those three words say almost everything. The pod has not changed in that time, and what it offers, Justin says, simply cannot be rushed or substituted.
Try a float for yourself
If you have never floated, we would love to welcome you. There is no right way to do it, and no experience required. You arrive, you let go, and the rest happens on its own.
When you are ready, book your first float experience and give yourself a quiet hour to come home to.
