It was sort of a bizarre gift. For my 22nd birthday, my father gave me an hour alone in a dark tank. The tank was at a spa-like center in San Francisco called Zazen, where you can pay $70 for a ...

Travis Bonovsky's hands shook from stress four years ago. He drank too much, he admitted, not knowing how else to cope with his taxing advertising job. Bonovsky knew that he needed to make a change in ...

To find an antidote to hectic and demanding lives, some people are turning to flotation tanks to reduce stress through a deep state of relaxation. Floating is credited with physical as well as ...

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 ...

A few months ago, a mysterious new business opened in my neighborhood: a “flotation therapy center” offering one-hour sessions in sensory deprivation tanks. “Aren’t you curious?” beckoned the sandwich ...

FARGO - I asked myself many questions as I drove the car to my first experience in a sensory deprivation tank. What's the big deal about floating in a big tank of salt water? Will I see health ...

I get really nervous before my rec league soccer games. I play goalkeeper and like many athletes (using the term loosely here), I put way too much pressure on myself. The day of a match, I start ...

Water has always played a massive role in the way I live. I grew up on the Jersey Shore, a stone’s throw from the ocean. Not the Jersey shore that Snooki and the rest of those fist-pumping clowns ...