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Show The Park Record A-16 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, September 23-26, 2017 MARKETPLACE Nightly Lodging Tally Occupancy Report for week of September 24-30, 2017 De-stress with floating meditation FLOAT Park City offers alternative relaxation therapy 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% CAROLYN WEBBER The Park Record 10% At the end of a long work week juggling parent-teacher conferences, early morning meetings and an hour at the gym, it can feel good to let everything go. At FLOAT Park City, one can do exactly that. The company, which specializes in float therapy, opened its first float pod in April and has already served hundreds of Parkites, said Kristie Buehner, owner and founder of FLOAT Park City. “It ranges from high school kids that are super stressed about school and testing and have anxiety to people with brain injuries to elite athletes,” she said. During a therapy session, a client enters the pod room and showers to remove natural body oils. They step into a 7’ x 5’ pod full of 93.5 degree Fahrenheit water and 1,000 pounds of Epsom salts. They close the lid, insert ear plugs, adjust the lights and float in the buoyant water for one hour. With the absence of phones buzzing or loud noises, clients can enter a meditative state in which their brain switches from beta waves, or the state of active consciousness ready to problem solve and engage with the world, to theta waves. Those theta waves boost creativity and relaxation. One hour of float therapy is equivalent to four hours of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, Buehner said. “This is the easiest way to meditate,” she said. “All your stimulus is gone and you are in a complete zero gravity state. Lying on the water, there are no pressure points on your body. There is nowhere else in the world you can do that. So, everything kind of melts away.” Cristie Frey, a therapist at Valley Behavioral Health, does Sun Mon Tues 2017 - As of 8/31/17 2016 - As of 8/31/16 2016 - Historic Actuals Wed Thurs Fri Sat Week High 2017 ........Wed 52% Week High 2016 ........Wed 51% Weekly Average 2017 ....... 41% Weekly Average 2016 ....... 42% NOTE: This is not a forecast of bookings. Data presented in this report represents occupancy on the books as of the report date. Source: DestiMetrics & Park City Chamber/Bureau © 2017 CAROLYN WEBBER/PARK RECORD Kristie Buehner, owner and founder of FLOAT Park City, opened her doors in April. Patients here float in a bath of salt in order to relieve stress. a float session two to three times a month to relax and sooth her neck and shoulder pains. Frey focuses on healing both the mind and the body in her own therapy, and she has started referring her patients to FLOAT Park City. “This is the ultimate experience for connecting mind and body,” she said. According to Buehner, the magnesium in the Epsom salts also helps reduce stress, improve digestion, relieve insomnia, decrease blood pressure and relieve muscle pains or cramps. “Even if you cannot get out of your monkey mind when you’re in there, you’re soaking in 1,000 pounds of the best Epsom salts on the planet. You’re going to get that benefit anyway,” Buehner said. “If you can have a good 15, 20 minutes, maybe even 60 minutes of rest? Yeah, everyone is a nicer human when they come out of this.” She has heard many success stories from clients, such as real estate agents finding a “clean mind” after stressful bidding wars or a quilt designer who ran out of the room asking for a pen and paper because of all the ideas she had while floating. One customer talked about how the sessions helped relax her when she was pregnant, especially because she could hear her baby’s heartbeat in the water surrounding her. Buehner first experienced float therapy while out of town, and said she noticed immediate benefits. As a health coach who believes in holistic medicine, she thought the therapy would be perfect for the hectic lives of people in the area. Three months from when she proposed the idea to her husband, who also owns Silver King Coffee on Kearns Boulevard, the business welcomed its first guests. FLOAT Park City is located in the Mountain Sage Wellness Center on Prospector Avenue, where it shares a space with companies that offer treatments such as IV therapy and hyperbaric chambers. “It’s been nice to have that referral base of like-minded people,” she said. They are now doing combos where clients can get IV therapy with vitamin C and then float after. “People love that. It’s like an upgraded day at the spa,” she said. First-time users can try a 60-minute session for $50. After that, sessions are $75 or $50 each if you purchase them in a package. Currently FLOAT Park City only has one float pod, but Buehner is hopefully that the treatment will catch on and more people give it a try. FLOAT Park City 1755 Prospector Ave Suite 100, Park City, UT 84060 Floatparkcity.com (435) 655-7243 New Whole Foods Market set to open Local company Ritual Chocolate to be located inside CAROLYN WEBBER The Park Record In less than a month, Whole Foods Market will open its doors at its new location in Canyon Corners, 6598 N. Landmark Drive between Best Western Plus and The Tanger Outlets. On Wednesday, Oct. 18, customers are invited to step into the store, which is more than double the size of the original in Redstone shopping area, said spokesperson Debbie Labelle, Whole Foods Market. “We saw a need to better serve our community and we felt like a bigger space would enable us to provide more options to our evergrowing community,” she said. “We have a lot of wonderful locals that shop here as well as a lot of tourists that are coming from all over the country.” Whole Foods began planning the move from its 23,000-squarefoot property and into the 43,000-square-foot location two years ago because of the steadily increasing growth. The company purchased the space in May 2015 and is finishing construction this month. The new location will have over 200 parking spots, 100 seating areas in the cafe and a bar, the store’s first one in Utah. Labelle said that this mountain location seemed like the ideal place to open a taproom. The Silver Mine Taproom, as it will be called, will serve exclusive local beers from breweries such as Park City Brewery and Red Rock Brewing. According to Labelle, it is the flagship location of Whole Foods Market in a mountain town, and she hopes it will serve as a model for future stores. Whole Foods will also have a Ritual Chocolate Drinking Please see Whole Foods, A-17 THANK YOU Peace House golf tournament participants, in-kind donors, volunteers, Tuhaye Golf Course at Talisker Club and our generous sponsors! Bend, Break, Tweak, Pull? We Fix it All. Eagle Sponsors Comprehensive Orthopedics and Sports Medicine’s dedicated orthopedic surgeons, physicians and medical staff are ready to help no matter what bone or joint problems you face. 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