A new twist on an ancient therapy, floatation therapy, is attracting people who want to ease pain and reduce stress. The therapy relies on huge amounts of a simple ingredient. Greg Fischer, who makes ...

If you’ve ever drawn a bath at the end of a long day to ease sore muscles, found physical and mental relaxation when swimming laps, or sought relief in the calm waters of a lake or the rhythmic waves ...

In flotation therapy, there is no doctor. There is no sound and no light. Just you. Just your body floating in a pool of salty water. Warm salty water. Water saltier than the Dead Sea. For 45 minutes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Durango Floatation Therapy is floating a new idea to residents looking for a relaxing and meditative experience. Co-owners Kevin Kephart and Kyle Cataldo say that floating in an epsom salt bath inside ...

Iowans are warming to the idea of "floatation therapy," a concept that takes some time to wrap your head around Before the state's first floatation therapy center opened this month, word had spread ...

Wouldn't it be nice if our everyday stress would just float away? Well, there are places that offer "flotation therapy" with the goal of doing just that. Floatation therapy often involves partial ...

Allen Hughes said the concept of floatation therapy took a long time to sink in. The management consultant, a self-described “high strung” type who’s always looking for new ways to relieve stress, ...

If you’ve ever drawn a bath at the end of a long day to ease sore muscles, found physical and mental relaxation when swimming laps, or sought relief in the calm waters of a lake or the rhythmic waves ...