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 ...

What Is It: Just Float is a float therapy center that allows clients to spend an hour effortlessly floating in a private salt-water tanks Who Tried It: Gabrielle Olya, PEOPLE writer and reporter Level ...

Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman are just a few athletes who have been vocal about their love of floating. From swimmers to runners to the Ohio State football team, more and ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. METAIRIE, La. (WGNO) – Ever want to ...

When Casey Campbell left the U.S. Army after eight years — including a year in Iraq and two in South Korea — he felt anxious and depressed, he said. “I had a hard time adjusting. I couldn’t sleep,” he ...

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 ...

If the words 'float tank' (or 'sensory depravation tank') bring to mind images of Homer Simpson splashing about in the dark and then going on a hallucinogenic trip (see the episode Make Room For Lisa ...

Technology has spoiled me. I order fresh groceries online, and thanks to web mapping apps I am never lost and only rarely caught in traffic. The flip side of this, of course, is that I now have an ...