Float Tanks Offer a Strange Form of Therapy

The pod is white and sleek, like an AirPod sized for King Kong, and the water inside, rich with more than 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt. Float Seattle promises “relaxation, healing, personal growth” in return for a full hour inside the orb, 60 long minutes without the sensation of sound or surface.

Does it work? By the end of the session at the Greenwood location of this local chain, my answer is a definite…maybe.

Float Seattle launched in 2012, but flotation therapy dates back to the mid-twentieth century, when a neurophysiological researcher named John Lilly posited that suspending the body in supersaturated salt water could reveal brain activity

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