Come Home to your Body
Ayurvedic bodywork for women, in a quiet private studio in Highett, Melbourne.
Warm organic oils, unhurried hands, and two decades of holding space for deep restoration.
Welcome
Soma is a private studio in Highett, Melbourne, offering classical Ayurvedic bodywork exclusively for women.
Warm organic oils, unhurried hands, and a quality of attention that most of us rarely receive. Sessions are held in a quiet, contained space where the nervous system can genuinely let go.
Rooted in a 5,000-year-old tradition that understood the body not just as something to be treated, but as something to be listened to.
Services
Warm organic sesame oil. Slow, continuous strokes across the whole body. A treatment practiced in essentially the same way for thousands of years.
Abhyanga works by nourishing — the skin, the tissues, the nervous system. It doesn't try to fix anything. It simply creates the conditions, and the body does what it already knows how to do.
Leave quieter than you arrived.
Harnessing the power of specific Ayurvedic oil blends for your current state and constitution. Ninety minutes of continuous, uninterrupted bodywork. Developed here at Soma over years of practice.
Something in the combination of oil, rhythm and quality of presence allows the body to go somewhere it doesn't usually get to go.
It's hard to describe beforehand. Expect deep nourishing restoration.
This treatment takes time — two full hours — and that time is the point.
Warm oils chosen and blended for you. Two hours, unrushed. The session moves with the body rather than to a fixed sequence.
Marma therapy is drawn on where it's needed — precise work at points where the physical and the more subtle meet. Some things only become available when there's enough time and enough stillness.
For when something is ready to shift.
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“I’ve had a lot of bodywork over the years and this was something else. There’s a real depth to the treatment. It’s not rushed, and you can feel the care in every part of it. It stayed with me for days afterwards..”
KS ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑“I carry a lot of tightness through my shoulders and neck and this helped release it without feeling forceful. It was gentle but surprisingly effective.Something really shifted during the treatment - my body felt completely at ease for the first time in a long time.”
LK ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑“You can feel Natalie’s years of experience in the way she works. There’s a depth and steadiness to the treatment that’s hard to find. It felt both nurturing and very skilful..”
RN ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑About Natalie:
My work with the body began more than two decades ago through massage therapy and continued to expand through studies in herbal medicine, aromatherapy, yoga and Ayurveda. Over the years I have been drawn more and more toward slower, traditional approaches that allow the body to settle deeply.
Ayurvedic bodywork brings together many strands of this path. The steady rhythm of touch, warm organic oils and a quiet environment invite the nervous system to soften and the body to return to its natural balance.
I offer these treatments in a calm private studio for women, holding space for rest, nourishment and reconnection with the body. More here:
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"When oil is applied to the body, it nourishes the tissues, calms the mind and strengthens the body." — Traditional Ayurvedic teaching
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