SPA DOCTOR: I feel like I'm floating, in a blissful bath … of sound trends now

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Can taking a 'sound bath' really help ease stress and anxiety? I was sceptical when it was suggested I try one.

For the uninitiated, a sound bath isn't going for a long soak in a tub while listening to your favourite Spotify playlist. The ancient Eastern practice involves lying down while a therapist 'bathes' you in soundwaves produced by instruments such as gongs or Tibetan singing bowls (brass vessels that produce different tones when hit by a beater).

Hollywood actress-turned-wellness guru Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kim Kardashian's model sister Kendall Jenner, are fans. And despite being unsure that anything they advocate could be up to much, I was intrigued.

I put the fabled relaxing benefits of a sound bath to the test during a hiking holiday in the Nevada desert. At the end of a week which involved many dawn starts trekking out into Red Rock Canyon in order to avoid the insane heat of the day, I hot-footed it to the Resorts World Las Vegas Awana Spa, to try its Eastern Vibrations treatment (75mins, £220).

WHAT'S THE TREATMENT?

I am promised the experience will help me 'achieve a remarkably restorative and euphoric state through the

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