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 ...

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 ...

People are embracing holistic healthcare and practices like float therapy are becoming increasingly popular. While float therapy has been used for centuries, it has become very popular in the last few ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reporter Shelby Hartman floats on a "zero body dry float" tank at Quantum Wellness Spa. (Dania Maxwell / For The Times) It was all a tad dystopian. I parked on a scalding day in late winter at an ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - A Northeast Portland woman says float therapy has become her go-to tool for managing chronic pain and anxiety — and a local float studio owner says demand for the practice is ...

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 ...