LONDON, England (CNN) -- Floatation tanks have long been rubbished as a New Age gimmick, where essentially you pay a large amount of cash to float in a dark room in a bath full of salts. But ...

There are many types of relaxation therapy to help practitioners take a load off, but floatation therapy could be unique in that it does so quite literally. People lie in a tank of warm water that ...

PHILADELPHIA — Allen Hughes said the concept of flotation therapy took a long time to sink in. The management consultant, a self-described “high strung” type who’s always looking for new ways to ...

Vanessa McDonald-Hobbs climbed into the small, shallow pool, pulled a large clamshell lid over the top and eased, flat on her back, into the water. She closed her eyes. Because of the high salt ...

Floatation therapy can be a wonderful way to escape the stresses and strains of everytday life, as Women's Editor Christen Pears finds out. I'M floating in a tank of water, completely enclosed. After ...

Gloria Fanning walked into a health spa in Flower Mound one afternoon to use a gift certificate her daughter had given her. The 71-year-old had never been in a float tank but planned to give the new ...

NORTHGLENN, Colo. — The capsule was small and dark and the water smelled a bit like a used gym sock, but Caleb Preuss, 28, climbed in anyway, lying supine in a bath of saline. Once inside, the ...