Be Well: Float Horizen

The July issue of Nashville Lifestyles featured our all-inclusive guide to relaxation and rejuvenation. Each day we’ll be sharing one of our favorite wellness practices and procedures with you. Supplied Relax, recharge, recalibrate. That’s the promise of Float Horizen , a float spa in East Nashville’s Five Points. Its private rooms contain individual tanks, each filled with 12 inches of Epsom salt-saturated water heated to skin temperature, thus effortlessly supporting the body. Moreover, in darkness, in silence. So much of my day is spent in the barrage of the physical world, connected to devices that stream a steady and often stressful diet of information. What would it feel like to unplug for an hour, immerse myself in a warm buoyant bath, and surrender to the stillness of the moment? Float Horizen founder and native Nashvillian Zane Ritter is ready to guide me. Ritter became entranced with the therapeutic benefits of floating while he was a student of biology and psychology at UT Chattanooga. “In my neuroscience classes, I came across research that showed a correlation between healing of traumatic brain injuries and floating,” he says. “It was called sensory deprivation. In that quiet environment, the brain can rest and heal.” Further exploration led Ritter to a float conference in Portland, Oregon. This exposed him to a diverse wellness community: athletes using floating to speed recovery from injuries, business people as a means of de-stressing, artists to increase receptivity to the creative flow. He also attended a comprehensive seminar on how to start your own float spa. In December 2017, with his family’s backing, Ritter opened Float Horizen. Supplied He gives me a tour of the facility. The Dream Room has a state-of-the-art pod with hydraulic door, modern yet womblike. The Wave Rooms are more expansive—you don’t have the sense […]

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