ABOUT
IV OCEAN THERAPY
OUR MISSION: Restoring Health: Healing the Whole Person
Aloha and welcome to Wellness on the Waves!
IV Ocean Therapy, in partnership with Island Medical Group, offers a holistic approach to health that integrates mind, body, and spirit. Based in Hawaii, our unique service combines Eastern and Western medical practices with IV infusion therapies and the ocean’s natural healing properties. We cater to both Kamaʻāina (locals) and travelers from around the world, providing a distinctive way to restore balance and wellness. Why settle for just IV therapy when you can experience a complete holistic approach to health and wellness, with the ocean’s healing powers followed by a rejuvenating IV therapy?
What to Expect
Your holistic health journey with us begins on the ocean, not in a MedSpa. Each one of your visits is comprised of 90 minutes out on the ocean (Ocean Therapy) followed by a rejuvenating, targeted IV Therapy treatment. All infusions are conducted after the vessel returns from the ocean excursion portion of your therapy. After booking an IV infusion treatment and selecting an excursion time you will receive an email confirming your reservation with pre-post infusion instructions, and directions to the vessel.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled departure time, allowing time for traffic and to get comfortable on the boat. Please bring sunscreen, towels, & comfortable boat shoes. All snorkel gear, floatation devices, and refreshments will be provided. You can also upgrade to a scuba diving experience with your therapy! Just ask one of our providers.
Our mission is to accompany you on your journey to wellness by helping build a bridge to health, healing, and hope. We achieve this by seamlessly integrating the best of conventional and natural medicines to address the holistic well-being of each individual. We believe, here at IV Ocean Therapy, there’s no better locale to commence your wellness journey amidst the rhythmic waves than right here in Hawaii with us.
On board our vessel, “Ocean Therapy”, we provide luxury comfortable seating for six therapy sessions, enhanced by aromatherapy, meditative music, air conditioning, and restroom facilities for your utmost convenience and therapeutic rejuvenating well-being.
Choose the IV therapy treatment that aligns with your health and wellness goals. Whether you’re seeking preventive care, symptom relief, or disease management, we can customize your treatment to meet your needs. Health is a journey, and we’re here to guide you along the way to vitality and longevity.
Water is Life...Restores Life....Balances Life....
“Wai”, the Hawaiian word for water, symbolizes life. The ocean encompasses boundless medicinal benefits. Saltwater contains all of life’s vital elements with the dynamic massage of the sea. Hawaiians honor the ocean, understanding it as a therapeutic, limitless reservoir of health. We here at IV Ocean Therapy respect and uphold our Island’s host cultural beliefs.
IV Ocean Therapy focuses on restoring the body via the use of natural minerals, vitamins, amino acids, tripeptides, antioxidants, and other essential nutrients combined with the awesome healing powers of the ocean. Our holistic approach to wellness encompasses the totality of restoring the balance of the mind, body, and spirit to live life with vitality!
Each treatment plan is individualized and tailored for each patient. Not only do we treat the symptoms of common ailments like hang-overs or boosting immune functions, our specialty is also with chronic disease management. Whether it is diabetes, neuropathy, cancer, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, anxiety, stress, PTSD, or substance abuse, we take your well-being to heart offering holistic integrated practices utilizing both natural and conventional medicine for a complete mind, body, and spirit approach. We can work directly with your personal physicians and specialists to continue and improve current treatment plans for complete continuity of care to increase therapeutic benefits.
We combine the healing properties of the ocean with Integrative Holistic approaches including functional medicine, with concentrations in diet deficiencies, prescription-grade supplements and IV infusions of antioxidants, minerals, electrolytes, vitamins, essential nutrients, and medications that are 100% bioavailable as it bi-passes the gastrointestinal system and goes straight to the cells of the body for maximum health wellness.
All our treatments are prepared by Board Certified Nurse Practitioners and/or trained, licensed registered nurses who compound your personalized IV and IM injections under a laminar flow hood with HEPA filtration to maintain the highest standard.
Ocean Therapy
Waikiki is known not only as a place of peace and hospitality, but a place to come to heal.
The royal ali’i, the traditional nobility of the Hawaiian Islands
long ago, would come to Kawehewehe to bathe in the
natural healing waters. Wearing a limu kala, or seaweed lei, a symbol of asking for forgiveness for past sins (“Kala” to
forgive) would offer the lei to the waters. Hawaiians believed that this offering would remove all burdens, ailments of their physical, spiritual, & emotional states, relieving them of sickness.
Wai, the Hawaiian word for water symbolizes life. The Ocean contains all of life’s vital elements including mineral salts,
vitamins, amino acids, and other trace elements. Our Ocean holds amazing medicinal benefits. The Ocean is rich in iodine, which helps to regulate the thyroid gland, our metabolism, boosting energy levels. The refreshing ocean sprays & breezes carry tiny negative ions that are absorbed through the lungs and spread throughout the body strengthening our immune system.
When we bathe in the ocean water the full therapeutic benefits begin with opening our pores allowing toxins to be eliminated out of the body and permitting living microscopic organisms to enter which secrete hormonal & bacteriostatic substances that contain potent biological healing properties. The constant surge of the waves wraps around our bodies providing a healing, pulsating massage to reduce inflammation, pain, and alleviates a diverse array of chronic conditions, injuries, and ailments. The Hawaiian culture revere and honor the sea, acknowledging it’s powerful, therapeutic, and limitless health benefits.
At IV Ocean Therapy, we hold in high regard and honor the cultural beliefs of our island hosts. We share a common philosophy that encompasses the interconnectedness of all elements in life. In our approach to health and wellness, we acknowledge the seamless connection of mind, body, and spirit and the life waters of our oceans.
Dive into Wellness…Ride the Waves of Health…
Ocean Flotation Therapy
Dr. Deborah Cracknell, author of “By the Sea”, The Therapeutic benefits of being in, on, and by the water, discusses the role of magnesium and other essential minerals, both in our ocean and in our body’s. The therapeutic benefits of magnesium by absorption through our skin while in the ocean through flotation therapy. Many research studies have shown that flotation therapy can help with lowering levels of the stress hormone cortisol, helping lower blood pressure, weight loss, improve wellbeing and enhance performance. Flotation therapy reduces stress levels and cortisol levels in two ways. The first way is magnesium inhibits (stops) adrenocorticotropin (ATCH), a hormone that instructs our adrenal glands to release cortisol, and secondly, magnesium helps with improved sleep quality, thereby reducing stress levels. More studies showed that floatation therapy helped lower levels of lactic acid in our blood, improving muscle stiffness and pain.
Magnesium is one of the most important minerals found in every cell in our bodies. Magnesium is an essential mineral needed for muscle contraction, conducting nerve impulses, regulating a normal heart rhythm, building strong bones and teeth, cellular energy production, regulating blood glucose levels, and blood pressure.
Magnesium is gained naturally through the food we eat; however, it is not always easily absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract. Gastric bypass, GI disorders like IBS, Crohn’s disease, vitamin D deficiency’, poor gut health, anxiety/stress, depression, PTSD, among many other chronic health conditions, all can limit absorption of this essential mineral. Here at IV Ocean Therapy, we can offer you fun and easy ways to supplement your magnesium and other essential mineral and vitamin levels to restore and enhance your body and mind while immersed in the healing ocean waters.
Ocean Flotation Therapy
for Anxiety/PTSD/Substance Abuse
Immersion into the healing ocean waters begins the therapeutic benefits of relieving symptoms of anxiety, stress, depression, and PTSD. Flotation therapy may not cure the condition, however reducing the worst symptom of stress, in combination of other therapeutic treatments, bad habits such as drug and alcohol abuse, pain & loss of sleep are more likely to be managed. Numerous studies have shown that flotation therapy promotes overall wellness of the body providing the sufferer a more focused, objective, and productive life.
In combination with ocean floatation therapy, we treat with IV infusion therapies to provide “biochemical restoration” with NAD+, and essential nutrients.
So, what is Biochemical Restoration?
For our brain & bodies to function correctly, we need all the necessary macronutrients, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. With disease states like PTSD, depression, & substance abuse the biochemistry of the body is altered, changing hormone levels, causing nutritional deficiencies, poor gut health, increasing inflammation leading to further diseases and illness states. We here at IV Ocean Therapy offer ocean flotation therapy & IV nutrient infusions to start the biochemical restoration process helping with returning the mind and body back to functioning optimally; relieving stress, cravings, and providing
balance so you may begin the healing process.
Are you struggling with stress, PTSD, depression, substance abuse, or dual diagnosis?
Ocean therapy can help build skills to manage healthier coping mechanisms. During recovery finding healthy ways to heal is invaluable and needed especially in the beginning of treatment.
Bio-chemical restoration can start with holistic interventions like ocean therapy, IV therapy treatments, proper nutrition and supplements which are evidence-based treatments to promote recovery from addiction, dual diagnosis, PTSD, stress, and depression.
So why Ocean Therapy?
Ocean therapy is also known as thalassotherapy. Thalassa, a Greek word for the ocean has been practiced for centuries, dating back to the Romans, who used to soak in the waters after a battle to promote relaxation and improve physical and mental health wellness.
There are many forms of ocean or floatation therapy including exercise in heated pools, saltwater baths, and sensory deprivation float pods filled with Epson salt (magnesium); however, nothing replaces the power of healing from mother nature in the ocean.
How some mental health disorders develop.
Modern society is always on the go with no down time. Daily stressors can trigger depression and anxiety leading to unhealthy coping mechanisms like alcohol or drugs. Many people with undiagnosed and untreated mental health disorders often self-medicate, providing only temporary relief leading to worsening symptoms of stress and depression.
People unable to cope with stress using healthy coping mechanisms leads to high levels of stress that affects the Cardiovascular symptom (high blood pressure, heart disease), Immune system dysfunction (often run down or sick), Digestive system (bloating, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, poor gut health and malabsorption issues), Musculoskeletal system (muscle and joint pain, stiffness), Central nervous system (nervous ticks, anxiety ) and your Brain is depleted from the needed neurotransmitters of serotonin and dopamine that regulate mood (depression, and fatigue).
The Psychology behind why Ocean Therapy is so effective.
Study after study by researchers have increasingly explored the calming effect of nature on the mind. Just being in, on, or around water has a powerful positive influence on your wellbeing and mental health. The color blue, in itself, is associated with peace and tranquility, experiencing the “Blue Mind”.
Our brain waves are altered while looking at the ocean placing us into a slight meditative state allowing us to reflect and contemplate. The ebb and flow of the ocean waves relaxes us like a rocking baby.
The ocean encompasses boundless medicinal benefits….start your path to wellness today with IV Ocean Therapy. Schedule today….start your health journey with wellness on the waves.
