We’re here to lift you up.
Our Story
Since 2012, we’ve been giving people a quiet hour to slow down and tune into something deeper.
It may sound cheesy, but we aim to change the world. One float at a time.
Modern life is loud. We’re always connected, always on, and rarely given a moment to just be. Even our downtime usually comes with a screen.
Floating offers something increasingly rare: an hour where nothing is expected of you. You lie back in warm water with over 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt, the lights and sound turned down. No phone, no agenda. Just you.
Some people come to us for stress, anxiety, chronic pain, or sleep. Others come for meditation, creativity, recovery, or plain curiosity. Whatever brings you in, the hour is yours.
We’ve seen what that time can do. One float can give you a reset, shift your perspective, and leave you feeling lighter than you have in a long time. A regular practice can truly change your baseline: more calm, more clarity, and more capacity for whatever comes next.
We’ve put years of care into our studios so you can leave everything else at the door. All you have to do is show up.
How we got here
From two tanks in Greenlake to five studios across the Seattle area.
- 2012
Where it all began
Our first studio opens in Greenlake in November, originally called Floasis, with just two float tanks. - 2015
Our second studio
Bellevue opens in July, bringing floating to the Eastside. That September, a regular named Andrew joins the team. - 2018
A new chapter
Andrew Loppnow and Dean Parris buy Float Seattle from its original owners, keeping it locally owned and operated. - 2019
Greenwood joins the family
Our third studio opens in August in the former Oasis Float Spa space, and infrared sauna joins the lineup. - 2021
South Lake Union opens
Our fourth studio opens in October, taking over the former Level Float Spa location. The same year, Fire & Ice (sauna plus cold plunge) joins the lineup. - 2024
Five studios
We take over and reopen Renton Landing, formerly Urban Float, and give our original Greenlake studio new float tanks and a refresh. - 2025
New tanks in Renton
Renton Landing gets all-new float tanks. - Today
Five studios. One team.
The largest independently owned float business in the world, still locally run and still finding ways to get better.
Meet the owners
Owner & Managing Director
Andrew Loppnow
Andrew first floated at our original Greenlake studio in 2013. He was working in restaurants at the time and trying to figure out what came next. Floating gave him something he hadn’t known he needed: room to slow down, think clearly, and ask bigger questions about where his life was headed.
He kept coming back. In 2015 he traded bartending for a job at Float Seattle and worked his way up to General Manager. In 2018, he and longtime member Dean Parris bought the business from its original owners.
Since then, Andrew has helped grow Float Seattle from two studios to five, and he’s still in the middle of it every day, working alongside the team on everything from the guest experience to what we build next. He’s also part of the wider float world through Float Wizards, which installs float tanks for private clients, and the Float Conference board.
More than a decade after his first session, he still floats every week.
Co-Owner, Lead Float Guide & Admin
Dean Parris
Dean has done a little bit of everything: former chef, student of transpersonal psychology and comparative mythology, professional DJ, and more than twenty-five years working across nonprofit, private, and public-sector organizations.
Having managed lifelong anxiety and depression rooted in CPTSD, he first started floating to cope with overwhelming stress at work. He quickly concluded that floating is “basically good for everything,” and it’s become “the center around which all my wellness practices revolve.” He’s been free of nerve pain since 2017, and he credits floating.
That belief is why he partnered with Andrew to buy the business in 2018. As co-owner, he’s been part of every chapter since. You’ll still find him in the studios as a Lead Float Guide, and he helps with admin behind the scenes.
In his downtime, Dean plays board games, pushes watercolors into paper, cooks rustic meals, reads voraciously, gets out into the wild, and loves ALL THE DOGS.
Co-Owner & Facilities
Andrew Ginn
Andrew G. is a Northwest native, drummer, connector, and professional problem-solver. He spent more than ten years in Seattle’s music and events world, from recording intimate sessions for 107.7 The End to producing major festivals.
He’s been floating with us since our doors opened in 2012, and the IR sauna has become his reset between big projects. These days he keeps our five studios running behind the scenes, which is exactly where he likes to be.
Outside of Float Seattle, he still takes on freelance work and teaches kettlebell classes at Kettlebility in Greenlake. His goal is to bring out joy and curiosity in the people around him. Got a few minutes? He may pull you into a good story or two.
Meet the team
Every one of us floats. Ask us anything.
Lead Float Guide & Special Ops
Kara
Kara has spent much of her life caring for others, and the float tank is where she makes time for herself. She uses it to ease anxiety and explore her curious, playful side. She’s also the reason our studios stay sparkling and cozy. A budding handywoman, she’s always organizing, fixing, and picking up a new skill.
Operations Manager & Lead Float Guide
Maggie
Maggie found Float Seattle on a chilly January evening in 2018, after years of chronic pain, and was hooked from the first float. She joined the team in 2021 and now runs our day-to-day operations. She’s fascinated by how the body holds stress and how to let it go. Find her in a lake, a good book, or a conversation with a stranger. #gosox
General Manager in Training
Jemischa
Bio coming soon.
Outreach Coordinator
Hanna
Bio coming soon.
Lead Float Guide
Ashley
Ashley is a naturopathic physician, biofeedback practitioner, and certified yoga instructor. She grew up on Florida beaches and has always loved water (and salt). She started floating during her medical residency and found it helped with focus, creativity, and old sports injuries. To her, the tank is a blank space for reconnecting, finding inspiration, or just taking a break.
Lead Float Guide
Jasmine
Jasmine loves giving back to her community and connecting with people from all walks of life. She started floating to find relief from pain and stress, and it grew into something bigger, including a spot on a team she finds supportive and inspiring. She’s here to make sure every guest leaves feeling better than when they walked in. Outside of Float Seattle, she runs her own sales, tracking down unique and popular finds and making a real connection with every buyer.
Lead Float Guide
Brandon
Brandon is a clinical herbalist with a degree in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies. He’s been fascinated by isolation tanks since watching Altered States in the fifth grade, and he brings that curiosity about the mind to every float he guides.
Lead Float Guide
Brian
Brian studies philosophy, especially ethics and the ancient Greeks and Romans, in pursuit of one question: what is the good life? He tried floating the moment he heard about it in 2018 and has been at it since. Off the clock, he’s lifting heavy things, hitting the trails, or in a mosh pit.
Lead Float Guide
Sapna
Sapna is an artist and designer with a surreal style and a sharp eye for detail. You’ve probably seen her work: she designed the Float Brain hoodie and hand-painted the signs at our Greenlake and Renton Landing studios. She started floating in 2023, and it’s become part of her creative practice, helping her push through blocks and focus deeper. Outside the studio, she’s into nature, psychology, fashion, travel, and music.
Float Guide
Wesley
Wesley “got it” from his very first float. He uses his time in the tank to dream, chase creative ideas, work through problems, and deepen his relationship with the Divine. After a year as a member, he became a Float Guide to share what he’d come to love. Around 200 floats in, he can call up that state at will to find clarity in a crisis, spark his imagination, or fall asleep on command. Outside the studio, he repairs vintage Honda motorcycles and teaches music to young kids around Seattle.
Float Guide
Royce
Royce is an artist and float enthusiast. When he isn’t losing lightsaber duels to his kid, he’s a dedicated non-practicing Taoist and Zen student. Want to talk art, film, or music for a few hours? Royce is your guy.
Float Guide
Shanley
Shanley hails from Oswego, New York, and their urge to help people started at home, giving scalp massages to ease their older brother Connor’s headaches. That led them to become a licensed massage therapist, and then to a job at a float center back home. A few floats later they were hooked, especially on how it eased their anxiety. Off the clock, it’s video games, D&D, friends, coffee, and movies. Ask them for a recommendation.
Ops & Admin Assistant, Float Guide
Alenna
Bio coming soon.
Float Guide
Malika
Bio coming soon.
Float Assistant
Julisa
Bio coming soon.
Float Assistant
Alexis
Bio coming soon.
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