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A float tank in Rochester's Bodymind Float Center. The center is opening a branch in Syracuse.

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SYRACUSE, NY - Want to try salt therapy or floating suspended in a tank of warm salt water?

After opening in Rochester in 2013, Bodymind Float Center is expanding and coming to Syracuse next month.

The center will be at 2949 Erie Blvd. E. in Syracuse and is targeted to open in early February, officials said.

Syracuse is Bodymind Float Center's second location, said David Brinkman, speaking for the center.

"We chose Syracuse for a few reasons, proximity among them. Syracuse is also fairly similar to Rochester in size and affluence, so it's a market that is not unfamiliar,'' Brinkman said.

Brinkman said he believes Bodymind is the only business in Syracuse offering a float center and salt therapy.

Salt therapy, or halotherapy, comes from the Greek word "halo" or salt, and is designed to mimic naturally occurring salt caves in eastern Europe.

Visitors will sit in a room where a generator grinds pharmaceutical-grade sodium chloride into micro-particles, which are then dispersed in to the air.

Prices range from $25 and up.

Flotation involves floating in a special tank of warm water infused with 800 pounds of dissolved salt. The float tank is dark and quiet, and is supposed to reduce stress, anxiety, pain and more.

Flotation tanks, first used in 1954 and then called isolation tanks, were designed to test the effects of sensory deprivation. They are now opening up all over the U.S

Floats start at $65.