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Angie Dosanjh heals through sensory deprivation therapy sensory-deprivation
Finding peace in ‘nothing’ Tracy Holmes
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hen Angie Dosanjh got the devastating news of her husband’s death, she was “completely
broken.” Tej had been her high school sweetheart, they’d been married 10 years and she was just weeks away from giving birth to their second child when police rang the doorbell of their Cloverdale home early one morning in August 2012. “There’s no manual” for dealing with that kind of loss, Dosanjh said. “It opened up my heart in a way in which I realized how traumatic life can be.” Overwhelmed by grief while focusing on remaining strong for her daughters, Dosanjh began re-evaluating her life, and looked to alternative paths to find her own healing. She found it where she least expected – in ‘nothing.’ “The experience of floating is commonly referred to as experiencing nothing,” Dosanjh explained, of the sensorydeprivation technique a friend suggested
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Cloverdale’s Angie Dosanjh, owner of Salt Wellness Centre, turned to sensory deprivation to deal with the loss of her husband, Tej. she try as a means of finding relief from the heightened creativity – drawn out while chaos her life had become. “The first time I engulfed in weightless silence and darkness, floated, I couldn’t tell if my eyes were open with no sense of time or space. or closed.” For Dosanjh – who was moved to include It involves floating au naturel in a the tanks in the salt-therapy centre she sound- and light-proof tank of Epsom-saltopened last month in South Surrey (Salt saturated, body-temperature Wellness Centre, 103-15303 water – approximately 1,000 31 Ave., 778-294-7258) – “it ❝The first time I pounds of salt in 1,000 litres of floated, I couldn’t brought out stuff.” water – for 90 minutes. tell if my eyes were “Floating was an opportunity Developed about 65 years ago for me to be real for myself,” she open or closed.❞ said. “It was really profound for by Dr. John C. Lilly, who was studying the effect of reduced me.” Angie Dosanjh external stimuli on the brain, It’s been just over a year since Salt Wellness Centre it was exactly what Dosanjh Dosanjh had her first float, needed – a place where she and she acknowledges that could finally process her grief. circumstances that drove her to try it were For some, the experience evokes auditory not typical. and visual hallucinations; others report But she’s convinced there’s a place for
floating in everyone’s life – whether it’s for stress relief, help managing chronic pain, injury recovery or simply to relax. (She noted her centre is the first this side of the Fraser to offer float tanks; she also offers dry-salt therapy, for respiratory and skin ailments, as well as massage.) Next month will mark the third anniversary of her husband’s death, and while her business may have evolved from the tragedy, Dosanjh said it is not centred on it. “Losing him resulted in me going off on a different path,” she said. “As tragic as it is, it’s not going to define me, but it’s going to create meaning for me… turn my scars into sacred scars. “I really feel like I want this to be a place of healing and rest for people.”
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