Have you ever floated? Have you played with meditation or other ways of expanding your awareness? Have you ever tried to talk to dolphins? Are you able to embrace the chaos of life? Are you curious to learn more about any of this?

In episode 12 I got to sit down with Ashkahn Jahromi at his office in Portland Oregon on my way through this past December and we had a pretty epic convo! I hadn’t met Ashkahn before, but I got to check out Float On, the business he co-founded, which is one of the original float centres in America. He’s also a cofounder of the Float Conference, an annual event bringing together most of the people in the floating industry for a weekend of epic speakers and discussion on the world of floating and expanding consciousness in general.

This one wanders a bit for sure, but to all the right places. Haha.

Enjoy!

Episode Notes:

2:30 ~ What does Ashkan believe?

3:15 ~ Diving into the grand chaos of life and accepting the unknown

6:30 ~ More info on floating

10:00 ~ Some of the benefits of floating

14:00 ~ Floating with drugs…

16:00 ~ How environment plays such a big part in letting your body and mind heal itself

18:00 ~ Lessons from camping in a treehouse in Africa

20:15 ~ Why floating? What inspired him to get started?

25:30 ~ The challenges of actually running a float centre

27:00 ~ The night of 3 floods

30:00 ~ What shifts to do you see in people through having floating in their lives?

38:00 ~ Elevating consciousness and expanding your perception of life

39:30 ~ The Float Tour - visiting 172 float centers on a 3 month trip across the US and Canada

48:30 ~ Breath work and floating

52:00 ~ My experience with floating

53:00 ~ Floating at different times of the day

54:45 ~ Theta state - that in between sleeping and awake place

57:30 ~ Ashkan’s trip to Australia

58:30 ~ A bit of the history of floating

1:00:30 ~ The creation of a float inspired cook book with guest chefs

1:04:00 ~ Listening to your heart and expanding your perception of your body

1:06:00 ~ There’s no right or wrong way to float

1:07:00 ~ Trauma release through tremoring in the tank

1:11:45 ~ Longest float you’ve seen someone do?

1:17:00 ~ John’s research into dolphins and language

1:22:00 ~ Exploring the mind and our inner seas.

1:23:30 ~ Ashkan’s reading about octopuses right now (I forgot to ask the title of the actual book, sorry, haha)

1:26:00 ~ Transformative experience - Travel - “It’s hard to hate up close”

1:30:00 ~ What is Ashkan excited about in the industry right now?

1:31:30 ~ What trends do you see coming?

Connect with Ashkahn

www.floathq.com

ashkahn@floathq.com

www.floatconference.com

References

Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma: http://amzn.to/2lViF2v

More on John Lilly, modern founder of float tanks - http://www.johnclilly.com/

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