Float tanks have become very popular over the last couple of years. By floating inside a float tank in a meditation-like state, you can improve your circulation and mental health. Read on to find out ...

“You don’t have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.” A simple sentence of complex proportions made by Dr. John C. Lilly, a neurophysiologist and psychoanalyst who, among other things, ...

Buffalo is home to the only full sensory deprivation float center in Western New York, “The Flo.” This therapeutic floatation center offers users a unique experience that’s creating a buzz around the ...

Am I floating in Heaven? Those words actually crossed my mind while being inside a float tank on Wednesday afternoon. FM Integrative Health just opened with many things to offer, but the most talked ...

Flotation therapy was invented in the 1950s and caught on in the 1980s thanks partly to the movie “Altered States,” in which William Hurt played a professor experimenting with sensory deprivation ...

Developed in the 1950s by neuroscientist and psychoanalyst John C. Lilly as a way to explore the nature of human consciousness, floatation tank therapy, or sensory deprivation is now a mainstream ...

LONDON — As I lay in the inky blackness, a strange noise began to rise. Scratching, rubbing, alien and unplaceable — the only sound in a cocoon of total silence. Where was it coming from? I darted my ...

To the uninitiated and claustrophobic, floating naked (or nearly so) inside a pearl-shaped tank, sealed off from the lights, sights, sounds and smells of the outside world, may sound anything but ...

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Levi Wertz’s first float tank experience began how many did in Lincoln in the early 2010s — in an industrial-looking steel box in Jeremy Warner’s basement. Wertz had been ...

“Put the phone down and go relax!” Gloria Morris told me in a text. I replied to her while floating in 11 inches of 94-degree water, a silky-salty solution saturated with magnesium sulfate Epsom salts ...

This story originally published in August 2015. It hadn’t really occurred to me to be afraid of floating in a pitch-dark, top-sealed tank until a braver and better-adjusted friend said that she’d ...