A Great(er Palm Springs) Getaway

It’s not all about Coachella. WH Digital Content Manager Lauren Williamson discovers why this SoCal region needs to be on your zen bucket list, stat!

When people say there’s a major buzz about a place, they don’t often (if ever) mean it literally. But in my case – as I lay within Integratron’s deeply resonant, multi-wave sound chamber as 13 quartzcrystal singing bowls sent me into a state of peak bliss – it was 100 per cent true. Just 24 hours into my Greater Palm Springs experience and I was on another level of relaxation. A world away from the sleepless overnight flight, five-too-many coffees and a two-and-a-bit hour drive from LA (which not even the mean streets of Sydney prepared me for) that got me here.

But rewind. Are you wondering WTF Integratron is and why I’m vibrating like a dodgy washing machine? Well, it’s a one-of-a-kind structure in the middle of the desert, initially designed by George Van Tassel (via telepathic directions from extraterrestrials) to be an electrostatic generator for endless youth and time travel. Although Van Tassel died prior to finishing construction (without passing on the alien’s ideas to anyone else),the space and its unique acoustic properties are now used in sound bathing sessions. This involves lying on a comfy mat as the aforementioned frequencies ‘wash’ over you, inducing a meditative state like nothing I’ve ever experienced before.