Floating Meditation Unique Experience

In the tank, my body bobbed in space. I couldn't tell where my limbs ended and the water began. Were my eyes open or closed? Was I drifting from side to side? After a while, I decided it didn't matter. I was floating.

"It's sensory deprivation, but in a good way," said Allison Walton, co-owner of FLOAT, Floatation Center-Art Gallery in Oakland. She gave me a 10-minute briefing before my float.

"It's really spending an hour with yourself," Walton said.

Floating is used as a form of meditation, as well as therapy for ailments of all kinds, especially back and joint pain.

The floatation pool is an enclosed tank with 800 to 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt dissolved in about ten inches of water, allowing for a person to float effortlessly on the surface. (More)

Source: The Mills Campanil