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Is sensory deprivation the key to relaxation? My test in a float tank
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Is sensory deprivation the key to relaxation? My test in a float tank

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Created By Today 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 board from the sidewalk, as did the eerie blue light that glowed from the second-story windows. Are float tanks the fast track to mental...

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What It’s Really Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank
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What It’s Really Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

October 6, 2020June 16, 2023

Created By Glamour When my acupuncturist, Justine Wenger (you might remember her from my account of what it’s like to get facial acupuncture), first told me about Lift/Next Level Floats, a spa in Brooklyn where you float in dark, gravity-free water tanks filled with 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt, I was…feeling a lot of feelings. But she said floating...

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Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank
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Suffer from anxiety? Try a sensory deprivation tank

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Created By The Guardian Developed in the 1950s by a psychologist interested in hallucinogenic drugs, sensory deprivation tanks are now back in vogue When was the last time you really stopped running around and just stood still? At a time when work, endless emails and a million distractions vie for our attention, the idea of...

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Getting Tanked: One Writer’s 60 Minutes in Sensory Deprivation
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Getting Tanked: One Writer’s 60 Minutes in Sensory Deprivation

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Created By Vogue It hadn’t really occurred to me to be afraid of floating in a pitch-dark, top-sealed tank until a braver and better-adjusted friend said that she’d always felt a secret hankering to try it but was scared. “Scared of what?” I asked, although by then my mind was running to extremes: the heavy...

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I Survived My Terrifying Hour in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank
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I Survived My Terrifying Hour in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

September 23, 2020November 9, 2020

By New York Before I visited Brooklyn’s new Lift/Next Level “float spa,” my entire understanding of sensory-deprivation tanks was limited to an episode of The Simpsons: In “Make Room for Lisa,” Lisa Simpson floats in a coffin-size tub and hallucinates that she’s entered the body of her cat, Snowball. So, as I waited in the Lift/Next Level lobby, I was...

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Sensory Deprivation Tanks Find New Converts
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Sensory Deprivation Tanks Find New Converts

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

By The New York Times By Courtney Rubin Gina Antioco will try almost anything once, from sky-diving to posing naked in the woods for the photographer Spencer Tunick. So in 2012, when a friend told her about sensory deprivation — floating in darkness, naked in a soundproof tank of warm water and Epsom salts — she immediately...

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Floating is Safer than your Grocery Store

July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

There are lots of us who may want to start floating again, but may also reasonably ask if this is the right time to do so. After all, going anywhere right now carries a certain amount of risk along with it. States are facing the difficult situation of how to keep people safe, and how...

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Transform Your Life With Fierce Self Care & How Floatation Therapy Can Help

August 6, 2019November 20, 2020

Self Care Helps Entrepreneurs Ease Stress & Boost Creativity Playing a big game and vibrating at your highest intellectual and creative level requires some serious stress relief and fierce self care. To beat stress, time-crunched tech entrepreneurs and celebrities alike have discovered many benefits from frequent floating, the practice of rejuvenating the body and mind...

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Huntington, Long Island Holiday Gift Guide

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018

‘Tis the Season for giving and for many, it can be a stressful time of shopping, baking gingerbread men, and searching for that elusive perfect holiday gift. No worries! We’ve got you covered! This Holiday Season, Lift / Next Level Floats in Huntington is sharing their top picks for shopping local, sharing the joy of...

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