What Is It: Just Float is a float therapy center that allows clients to spend an hour effortlessly floating in a private salt-water tanks Who Tried It: Gabrielle Olya, PEOPLE writer and reporter Level ...

A woman floating in a tank filled with dense salt water used in medical therapy. (Green Shoot Media photo) Imagine closing your eyes in a quiet, dark room and floating on salt water. At many wellness ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- When the Chicago Cubs re-built their club house, they included a float tank, which is the latest craze for a healthy body and mind. A float tank is essentially a personal pool filled ...

Ryan and Amarilys Henderson want to create a restful oasis on Rochester's Broadway Avenue with their new spa called Soliflo. It will feature two sensory deprivation therapy float tanks, a red light ...

Sensory deprivation tanks force you into a meditative state by eliminating sound, light, and touch. Multiple studies have shown sensory deprivation tanks relieve anxiety and depression. I tried one at ...

You might be surprised to find out that there's a better way to float — or at least there will be later this summer. If everything goes according to plan, Sarah Manzoni is hoping to open Saltwater ...

White, boxy and equipped with a futuristic exit hatch, the Samadhi sensory deprivation tank resembles a space pod. It's filled with 800 pounds of Epsom salt dissolved in 150 gallons of ...

If the words 'float tank' (or 'sensory depravation tank') bring to mind images of Homer Simpson splashing about in the dark and then going on a hallucinogenic trip (see the episode Make Room For Lisa ...

After more than three years helping people in Rochester find peace by floating in an isolation tank, Jon Makihas pulled the plug and moving on to new endeavors. "It was a good run," Maki said of his ...

Destynie Paige Photography / Destynie Paige Photography The blue light of the float cabin is very sci-fi, like a Kubrick movie. The water is soupy with Epsom salt, what I imagine amniotic fluid to be.