Float Horizen

1012 Russell St Suite 204, Nashville, TN

Float Horizen is East Nashville's float spa, on the second floor of a Russell Street building a block off Five Points, run since late 2017 by Nashville native Zane Ritter and a pair of partners who sign themselves "The Floating Head" and "Float Enthusiast." The heat here is a supporting act: a single Sunlighten full-spectrum infrared sauna, 110-140°F, sold in 30-minute sessions and designed to be taken before a float so the body is warm and loose when it hits the water. The main event is four private float rooms, each with about 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt in water held at 93.5°F: one enclosed Dreampod with a lid you can leave open, and three walk-in Wave rooms, taller and wider than a tank, with color-therapy lighting you control, built for people who find a pod claustrophobic. Every room has its own shower, a shelf for your things, a robe, slippers, towels and earplugs. There is no cold plunge. It suits first-time floaters and anyone who wants quiet rather than contrast. A 30-minute sauna is $35, a 60-minute float $79, and the sauna-then-float combo $114; add a relaxation massage and the three-part Experience is $219. ZEN Club memberships are month to month: Foundation ($99, two floats and one sauna), Restore ($149, two floats and three saunas), Deep Reset ($199, two floats, two saunas and a massage) and IR Sauna Unlimited ($179, one sauna a day), all with rollover credits, 10% off retail and a birthday session. Take the elevator in the breezeway or the back stairwell to the second floor, park in the customer lot behind the building, drink eight ounces of water before the sauna, and leave your swimsuit at home because you float nude behind a locked door. Note the sauna has no shower of its own; book a float after it if you want to rinse. The Nashville Scene gave the studio a Best of Nashville writers' choice nod in 2021, and it has carried a 4.8 rating across a few hundred Google and Facebook reviews. Ritter has steered it through the 2020 tornado that hit this stretch of East Nashville and the pandemic closure that followed, and his stated goal is simply to grow the floating community in his hometown.