Close your eyes and picture the stereotypical Valentine’s evening. Maybe there’s a handsome couple dining window-side at a scarcely pronounceable French restaurant. A candlestick on the table between them dances with each sweet nothing they exchange. Between beats in conversation, they kiss.

Now, open your eyes. Are you swooning? Angry? It probably depends on which side of the window you were on. Dinner dates, picnics in the park, a hand-delivered teddy bear on your co-worker’s desk — if you’re single on Valentine’s Day, sometimes you just want the world to disappear.

Thanks to Denver’s new-age crusade, you can. For roughly the price of a dinner date, float tanks —  also known as isolation tanks —  can offer the restless hours of sweet relief from the outside world. The tanks — which look like air ducts, giant breath mints or a completely enclosed bathtub, depending on the model — are literally designed to starve your senses.

Inside, they’re pitch black, and with the aid of ear plugs, largely soundproof. A highly concentrated mix of magnesium sulfate and water (for the pods, that’s about 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt in 150 gallons of water) that’s heated to body temperature completes the illusion: You are nowhere, and it’s right now.

Read the full story at denverpost.com.

At Samana Float Center, you have the choice of floating in either a pod or a cabin; both provide a zero-gravity environment void of external stimuli and full of potential. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)

At Samana Float Center, you have the choice of floating in either a pod or a cabin; both provide a zero-gravity environment void of external stimuli and full of potential. (John Leyba, The Denver Post)