nss G-Club Beauty Secret: Floating A very special bath: the experience of sensory deprivation

This week’s Beauty Secret by nss G-Club it’s about a simple yet little-known way to eliminate anxiety, stress and stimulate creativity, which is winning over managers, athletes and creatives from all over the world.

It is called floating and it is, indeed, a floating experience inside a sensory deprivation tank, which allows you to completely isolate yourself from the stimuli coming from the outside world. Invented by Dr John C. Lilly at the end of the 50s in order to study the human states of consciousness, it was then readapted and began to be a part of alternative health cares, seducing also Hollywood and music stars who installed the tank in their own homes. 

The floating bathtub is egg-shaped and its dimensions (2.70m long x 1.60m wide) have been specially designed so as not to create claustrophobia or suffocation. It is filled with water enriched with magnesium sulphate salt, kept at a constant temperature of 36.5 degrees, i.e. the same as the body temperature. This allows to cancel the stimuli of heat/cold and the tactile sensation, thus laying the foundations for truly total relaxation. Salt, on the other hand, helps to relax all the muscles of the body, at the same time allowing you to float without any effort in the total absence of gravity.

The perception of one's own body boundaries gradually fades away and this allows the floater to free from the awareness of his/her own limits, even mental ones. The state of psycho-physical relaxation that is achieved is similar to a waking sleep but even deeper, able to give us a feeling of peace and estrangement from the world and especially from ourselves.

Halfway between a therapy and a wellness treatment, we are sure that we will hear more and more about this unique experience. Prices range from €80 for a 60-minute session to €200 for a 180-minute session. 

Where you can try it:
Cocoon Milano
Via Edmondo De Amicis 33 A, Milan