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 ...

Editor’s Note: The Vail Daily’s Tricia Swenson searched the valley for alterative wellness modalities that are lesser-known and have proven benefits. Follow along each Sunday in January and discovery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘In the float tank, robbed of any ambient distractions, my brain set off at full speed, like a wild horse that had slipped its ...

It took less than two minutes of floating in complete darkness in the tank for me to panic. I was drifting face-up in 210 gallons of water and 800 pounds of epsom salt inside a tank, inside of First ...

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 ...

LOVELAND, Ohio -- In a world where everyone is plugged in all the time, what would you give for an hour of absolute peace and quiet? In fact, it would be an hour of total sensory deprivation. Welcome ...

Our fair city is home to its first two flotation tanks, thanks to Kenna Herrmann, owner of IsoFloat in Old Colorado City. Now some of you, upon hearing the words sensory deprivation tank, might flash ...

Ryan and Amarilys Henderson hope to have their Soliflo spa ready to open at 217 S. Broadway Ave. in early June. It is located ...