How Spa Ovarium Can Help During This Time of Change

This stage may bring fears or worries about the future role as a parent or life changes ahead. To calm the mind, try the immersive experience of the PSiO. Similar to massage and floatation therapy, it soothes the nervous system — an essential benefit for both mom and growing baby.

How does it work?

Sounds and colorful light stimulate the auditory and visual sensory zones of your brain. This redirects attention away from racing thoughts and toward the audiovisual experience. Absorbed in bright visual imagery, mental rumination fades.

The combined effects of positive suggestions, light therapy, and mental relaxation help improve mood and cognitive function.

Second Trimester: Energy Returns and Body Changes Become Visible

During this stage, the baby and pregnancy feel more real. Future parents attend their first ultrasound and begin sharing the big news. Energy often improves, skin glows, and the baby’s first movements bring joy and excitement.

However, the body also continues to change: the belly grows, breasts become heavier, and common discomforts may appear — swelling in the legs and feet, cramps, nasal congestion, and heartburn. Some women may also experience worries about their attractiveness and body image.

How Spa Ovarium Can Support Future Parents

Why not take time to enjoy a massage for two?
Spa Ovarium massage therapists are specially trained in prenatal massage, and they adapt the experience to the mother’s needs at any stage of pregnancy. Depending on comfort, the massage can be done lying on one side using support pillows, or even on the belly thanks to specialized cushions.

This approach helps expectant moms embrace physical and emotional changes with confidence, while also relieving discomfort. And future dads or partners are not forgotten — our therapists can also help reduce their stress and tension!

Third Trimester: Making Peace with the Body and Returning to the Essentials

By the seventh month, the body feels heavier and fatigue returns. New aches and discomfort often appear.

Emotional concerns also surface:

• • Will childbirth be painful?
  • Am I making the right decisions for my baby’s health?
  • Will I be a good mother?
  • Will I feel like myself again afterward?

All of these worries are normal and valid. The challenges of the third trimester should not overshadow the beauty of the arrival just ahead.

Spa Ovarium Helps Future Moms Reconnect with Themselves

There is a strong correlation between a mother’s well-being and her baby’s. The fetus senses and responds to the mother’s physical and emotional state.

Floatation therapy and massage are ideal for relieving muscle and joint pain. In addition, float therapy offers a unique experience: a meaningful return to origins — to one’s core self.

Many women tell us they feel “as one” again — with their baby, with themselves, and with others. Floating in salt water, like being surrounded in the womb, may have everything to do with that peaceful and deeply comforting sensation.

Special Offer for Future Parents*

• First float session of each pregnancy: 60 min: 65$ (regularly 80$)
• First Prenatal PSiO session 60 min: 40$ (regularly 55$)
• During the Prenatal PSiO session, the partner can enjoy a NeuroSpa session: 60 min: 55$ (regularly 100$)

Offer only available in person. Not offered online or as a gift certificate.

Discover why Spa Ovarium is one of Montréal’s most trusted spas with massage therapy, offering treatments that blend expertise, relaxation, and wellbeing.

Could floating help you sleep better?

Research suggests that it can. A fascinating Swedish study from 2010 looked at how flotation-REST therapy (Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy) helps people experiencing burnout. The researchers — Anette Anette Kjellgren, Hanne Buhrkall and Torsten Norlander — found significant benefits for sleep.

In the study, four women and two men took part in a ten-week program. It combined psychotherapy with 45-minute float sessions twice a week. As a result:

“Clients reported that their sleep improved during the treatment period, especially on the nights following their flotation-REST sessions.”[1]

In other words, floating may benefit anyone:
• People who feel overwhelmed at work
• Athletes recovering from intense training
• Anyone who simply wants deeper, better sleep

Benefits that continue over time

The benefits were strongest on float days. However, participants also slept better on the days they did not float. That is encouraging, especially if you cannot float twice a week.

Not only did sleep quality improve, but relaxation became easier at bedtime:

“Clients noticed a state of effortless relaxation at bedtime, along with the deliberate or unconscious ability to increase their state of relaxation by
regulating their breathing and recreating the resting body position experienced inside the sensory deprivation tank.”[2]

This suggests that long-term use of flotation therapy can help us maintain that incredible sense of relaxation far beyond the session itself and experience benefits in many areas of our lives. Regarding the extreme fatigue caused by a poor night’s sleep, participants said they felt “more rested and more energetic upon waking.”[3]

Your Ticket to Deep, Peaceful Sleep

Overall, the study showed that flotation therapy can:

✅ Help you fall asleep faster
✅ Improve sleep quality
✅ Boost energy the next day
✅ Reduce the stress that keeps you awake

Therefore, if you have tried everything and still struggle with sleep, you are not alone. Even if you sleep well but want to experience “effortless relaxation”[4], floating may become your new favourite ritual.

Try Floating at Spa Ovarium

Experience the power of deep relaxation in our sensory deprivation tanks.
Let your mind and body unwind — and rediscover what it feels like to wake up refreshed.

→ Learn more about floatation therapy

References

[1]^{, 2, 3, 4} Kjellgren, A., Buhrkall, H., & Norlander, T. (2010). Psychotherapeutic Treatment in Combination with Relaxation in a Flotation Tank: Effects on “Burn-Out Syndrome.” Qualitative Report, 15(5), 1243–1269.