It may look like something straight from the set of Aliens.
But according to husband and wife Maya and Brett Horth, this Australian-first technology is helping improve people’s well-being by helping them enter a state of half-sleep.
Element Health and Wellness Centre has opened in Claremont, offering an array of treatments to boost mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.
Amongst the therapies available is Australia’s first theta chamber, designed to induce a person’s brainwave activity into a wavelength scientifically referred to as the “theta state”.
“Theta is the state of relaxation we all know as that drowsy, abstract sensation we feel as we’re falling asleep,” Mrs Horth said.
“This allows the brain to take the majority of its focus off of sensory perception and conscious thought and to withdraw into the more profound regions of mental activity that we now know as the bio-magnetic field.
“In this state, ‘reprogramming’ or ‘remapping’ can be achieved.”
She said the pod-like chamber spun about the same speed of the natural rotation of Earth, which helped throw off the brain’s natural sense of time and space and enhance the flow in a person’s bio-magnetic field — the place where thoughts and emotions reside.
It is claimed the treatment can assist with disorders including anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain and PTSD.
The clinic also has an infrared sauna cocoon, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, red light therapy and cryrotherapy and will soon add hydrogen inhalation therapy to its list of unconventional but sought-after treatments.
“From athletes to those in recovery or just people who are looking to improve their well-being, infrared sauna and cryotherapy both have immense benefits to boosting immunity, reducing inflammation, improving mental clarity as well as sleep, increasing productivity and energy, improving metabolism and enhancing overall performance, just to name a few,” Mr Horth said.