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, ...

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 ...

KERNERSVILLE, N.C. -- It can often feel like we're all moving at a mile a minute. At work, we're running around the building for nine hours at a time. Going home can be just as busy. The day can be a ...

It’s so dark I can’t see my hand in front of my face. I don’t know which way is up or down, where my body ends and the water begins. â â â All I can hear is the sound of my own heartbeat: Ba-dum, ...

There are only two float pods in the state of Iowa, and Ely’s Cloud 9 Massage and Spa houses one of them. A float pod is a round machine filled with 200 gallons of water and 1,100 pounds of Epsom salt ...

The pods look like something from outer space, kind of like a huge egg. But inside is 180 gallons of salt water that allows you to float on the surface, while closing out the world and all it's sounds ...

I cannot stop smiling, and it’s becoming a problem. My jaws actually ache. An unshakable happiness has clung to me for the last four days, ever since my first float at the brand new Pause Float Studio ...