Float Tank

I have to write a bit about this morning's adventure: The Float Tank

First, spa week is just one more thing that makes Fall awesome! Every October several spas around town participate in offering select treatments for $50 - sometimes this offers huge discounts! For instance, I have had my eye on the Float Tank plus massage at the Wellness Center in Minneapolis. Normally this would cost $80, so once spa week rolled around I knew it was time to make this appointment!

So what exactly is the Float Tank? Well, it is like a sensory deprivation tank. But I punked out and had the music pumped into the tank the whole time and I left a towel in the tank door so a bit of light came in. The tank itself is about 6 or 7 feet long and maybe 4 feet wide and has 9 inches of salted, heated (to body temp) water. Normally you would float for 90 minutes, but because of the spa week discount the float time is 60 minutes, which is more than enough time! The first 30 minutes I probably just played in the salt water! HA! It is crazy though - you can't help but float! It took me a few minutes to really believe that and let my neck relax.

There is a salt smell that eventually you get use to, not sure how "true" sensory deprivation tanks deal with that. After a while I really relaxed and "floated away". At some point I floated over to the side wall and my elbow hit the wall and I completely freaked out. I didn't realize I was moving and I thought a fish or something got in the tank! heehee. The treatment finished with a good, tension relieving massage. Ah....