Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

I've never been able to float. I don't know why, but flick me on my back in the water and my legs start to drag to the bottom of the pool and the rest of me follows like a loyal puppy dog. Until I'm ...

If you visit a flotation therapy center, you’ll put in earplugs and step into a rounded, podlike tub big enough for a tall person to lie back and stretch out. Depending on the center’s policies, you ...

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 ...

From laser acne treatments to cupping therapy, I'm constantly searching for the most effective wellness treatments. As a writer, I spend most of my time at home. That said, booking treatments is a ...

When I invited my friend Sarah to join me in trying sensory deprivation tanks, as invented in 1954 by a so-called “consciousness researcher” named John C. Lilly, I saw a flash of understanding on her ...

A sensory isolation or "float" tank. Source: Galen Crout/Unsplash What happens when your mind disconnects from all outside sensations? First, you undress, put in earplugs, and step into a floatation ...

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 ...

MISSOULA — Two new businesses in Missoula will be offering sensory deprivation float tank therapy this summer, a service that is gaining in popularity across the country. Customers lay down in ...

I’ve always been a bit highly strung; a self-confessed workaholic attached to my phone and laptop far more than I should be with two young children. Then there was the recent family bereavement that ...

A float therapy center likely will open by the end of the month in East Grand Forks. The Waves Float Center will be in the Riverwalk Centre at 211 DeMers Ave. Owned by Kasandra and Ben Gregoire, the ...