
What if we told you that Milan you can enter inside a sensory deprivation tank? Experience a unique sensation and regenerate body and mind in an innovative way? With floating in Milan you can now. Detach from the world for a while and find yourself immersed in more than 700 liters of water. But let’s go step by step.
Before explaining this unique experience, some practical information. The sensory deprivation tank is located at Cocoon, this center, in the Sant’Ambrogio area, dedicated specifically to floating. Actually, Cocoon offers several services, always very special and for the well-being of the person: the infrared sauna, 7 times more effective than the traditional one; restorative yoga to calm the mind, balance the nervous system and relax the body; and healing touch, an energy massage performed through body touch.
The Cocoon center is not just a spa but a center where you can truly find yourself and leave there new and in harmony.
What is Floating
Floating, literally translated, means floating, floating and alludes precisely to the act of floating, as when at the sea you stay at the water’s edge enjoying the sun lulled by the waves. The principle is the same. Only in this case you float inside a large, egg-shaped sensory deprivation tank. The tank is filled with water with a very high salt content, about 30 percent, and this allows you to stay serenely afloat.
Of course, this is not just table salt but a salt called Epsomite. It takes its name from the town of Epsom, Great Britain, where it was first found.
Epsomite is known for its highly beneficial properties for the body. It contains a high percentage of magnesium that the body absorbs while submerged and has multiple benefits, for hair, muscles, heals the skin, aids protein assimilation, and many other benefits that you can find here if you are curious to learn more.
The benefits of floating and the sensory deprivation tank
First, it is good to clarify what “sensory deprivation tank” means.
You will be immersed in a tub filled with water at a neutral temperature so your body will not feel hot or cold. The experience is lived in the dark so no stimulation for sight, and as well in silence so that hearing is also not stressed. Plus by floating you are not in contact with any solid surface, therefore, touch is also left out. So is the sense of smell in that there will be no special smells. And taste is also left out because there is no eating during the experience….
In this way all 5 senses will be unstressed, and this will allow the brain and nervous system to “rest” because it will not be spurred on in any way.
The body will thus be deprived for an hour or more of any stimulus. The mind will reset and reach the so-called “Theta State,” an extremely deep level of rest and relaxation but at the same time mental presence. The benefits are many and the therapy has no particular contraindications. It reduces stress, improves sleep, decreases blood pressure, helps fight migraines and back pain, can help eliminate anxiety, fear, depression and much more.
Where: Via Edmondo de Amicis, 33a, 20123 Milan – Open daily from 11 am to 8:30 pm. Mondays until 4 p.m.