An ESSENCE beauty writer shares what it’s like to float in a sensory deprivation tank and why it’s her new go-to wellness treatment. From laser acne treatments to cupping therapy, I’m constantly ...

My ears tingled as I leaned my head back into the water. I was in a giant man-made egg filled with salty liquid, with only artificial purple light and quiet surrounding me. Closing my eyes, I relaxed, ...

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 ...

This story eventually will move to the potential benefits of float therapy: how it has seemed to help some people with pain management, in coping with anxiety; how it might even be used to help people ...

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 ...

As I cleared my mind during a three-month sabbatical and tried to reset from what my doctor called an “extreme case of burnout,” I was tasked with finding ways to eliminate stress, relax, and find ...

When I was a baby, the nap was a concept I had little regard for. There was too much going on in the world during the day that descending into darkness again for an hour or so was something I did only ...

Sometimes wouldn’t it be nice to just let your problems float away? That’s kind of the idea at True REST Float Spa, where an hour in one of their pods can help you de-stress and decompress. Float ...