Slightly claustrophobic, we never dreamed we would turn up in a float therapy tank (this, a euphemism for sensory deprivation tank) but the folks at two-year-old Lift/Next Level Floats, an outpost of the original one that operates in Brooklyn, were gently reassuring, dubbing the experience as “gravity-free bliss” and a chance to relax and reset....
Created By Brooklyn Magazine Floating in a dark, silent little pod full of water and 1000 pounds of Epsom salt could become your new favorite way of escaping the stresses of city life. Lift Next Level Floats, Brooklyn’s first sensory deprivation center, has recently opened in Carroll Gardens, offering a sci-fi-esque form of therapy that promises to cure...
Created By Fox news Forty-eight-year-old Christine Jagde thought she had tried everything to relieve her debilitating migraines, until she stumbled upon a simple holistic therapy: floating in a tank. “When I walked out of the float the first time, I felt relaxed, my headache felt better, and I thought, ‘OK this is something that I...
Created By PIX CARROLL GARDENS, Brooklyn — Naked and wet in the dark. It might sound horrifying to some, but my experience inside the sensory deprivation pod at LIFT in Carroll Gardens was one of the most peaceful, rejuvenating experiences of my life. Just make sure you’re not scared of being alone with your own...
Created by The New York Observer It’s a stormy morning when I enter the Carroll Gardens brownstone that houses Lift/Next Level Floats, but you’d never know it from the inside. The atmosphere is tranquil: fluffy white pillows line the walls, like they would at any upscale Equinox gym, and a young, scruffy man scribbles in a...
Created By Gothamist There’s a new place in Carroll Gardens where, for $99, you can experience pretty much complete sensory deprivation as well as Space Camp-level weightlessness as you float alone for an hour in total darkness in a large pod of extremely salty mineral water. When I first found out that Lift: Next Level Floats, which...
Created By Bazaar GETTY IMAGES There’s beauty in the habitual activity of everyday life, but every now and then, I like to challenge myself to break away from routine and get out of my comfort zone. That’s why I’ve ridden, paralyzed with fear, in hot air balloons, become a solo global traveler, planned a New Year’s Eve trip to an...
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...
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...
