OUR STORY · EST. 2023
Built by People Who Lived It
Silicon Valley's only nervous-system optimization lab — created by the people who burned out on the exact pressure this valley runs on, then engineered the way back.
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We didn't study burnout from the outside. Our own nervous systems gave out under the same pressure — so we built the way back.
HOW IT BEGAN
For more than two decades, Natasha and Anna were deep inside the machine. Natasha spent her career in management consulting at IBM, EY and Deloitte, then in senior leadership at LinkedIn, Charles Schwab and Levi Strauss & Co. Anna was a lead senior designer at Oracle and a marketing executive across a string of Silicon Valley startups. They drove enterprise transformation, built high-performing teams, and delivered the kind of results this valley rewards. On paper, everything looked like success.
The pace extracted a price. The chronic stress. The sleepless nights before quarterly reviews. The signals a body sends when it has been ignored for too long. What they experienced is something Silicon Valley rarely names out loud — the burnout that comes not from weakness, but from running a human nervous system like enterprise software, with no downtime ever scheduled. They looked around and realized every brilliant person they knew was running on empty.
So they went looking, and found the options wanting. Generic spa days that felt like a pause button rather than a reset. Supplements sold without any sense of what a body actually needed. Meditation apps that spoke to the mind while the body kept breaking down. What the highest performers needed was not a day off. It was a system — somewhere evidence-informed experiences were curated with the same precision as a product roadmap, and kept genuinely private. They tested everything on themselves first: float, contrast, bioenergetics, PEMF, sound. Nothing made it into SoliVana that had not proved itself.
In July 2023 they opened SoliVana at 1922 El Camino Real in Redwood City. Not a pivot away from their careers, but the culmination of them. Every experience, every private suite, every protocol is an answer to a question they had lived themselves: what does a brilliant person actually need in order to stay brilliant?
That recovery became a method. Every program in the building runs on the NSOS™ Nervous System Optimization System and the RESET Architecture™ — evidence-informed, deeply private, and built for people who would rather reset before burnout does it for them.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Not a chain. Not a script. A sanctuary.
Owner-built, not a franchise
SoliVana isn't a chain or a template dropped into a strip mall. One lab, in Redwood City, where every program was designed in-house — often by the person who greets you at the door.
We lived it ourselves
We didn't learn recovery from a manual. We burned out on the same pressure you do, then engineered the way back — and turned our own recovery into a repeatable method.
Built for real people
A private suite every experience, never a shared room, and care that treats you as a person — not a number on a schedule. It's the difference guests feel from the moment they walk in.
It's why more than 300 neighbors gave us 4.9 stars — and why so many call SoliVana, in their own words, “my sanctuary.”
2023
FOUNDED IN REDWOOD CITY
Fourteen
SCIENCE-BACKED EXPERIENCES
Nine
PRIVATE SUITES
500+
CLIENTS SERVED
OUR FOUNDERS
Meet the two women behind SoliVana
Natasha Berness
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
Natasha brings together the analytical and the intuitive. Twenty-five years in the technology industry taught her how high performers break down; the years since taught her how they come back. Her work centres on nervous system recovery and on helping people reach their full capacity without paying for it later.
CREDENTIALS
- Certified Advanced Ayurvedic Practitioner
- Certified Bioenergetic Energy Practitioner
- Master Biofield Tuning & Reiki Energy Healer
- Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
- Certified in Mental & Emotional Release
- Certified Holistic Wellness Coach
- Member, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)
Anna Berness
CO-FOUNDER & CMO
Anna complements Natasha with a background in marketing, design and client relations. Her focus is the experience itself — the meaningful connections and the details that make people feel genuinely looked after from the moment they walk in.
FOCUS
- Client Experience Design
- Brand & Marketing Strategy
- Community Building
- Operational Excellence
NATASHA’S JOURNEY
Twenty-five years of seeking, studying and mastering
Every experience at SoliVana was earned before it was offered. For Natasha, the path did not begin in a classroom. It began every time the corporate world pushed her to her edge, and she chose to heal rather than push through.
Ayurveda
One of the world’s oldest healing systems became Natasha’s first framework for understanding the body as a whole — seasonal rhythms, doshas, and the link between digestion, energy and mental clarity.
Bioenergetics & Biofield
Trained in bioenergetics and Biofield Tuning — the study of the body’s electromagnetic field, and how stored stress shows up as measurable energetic disruption. Certified at master practitioner level in both.
Hypnosis & Subconscious Work
High performance breaks down when the subconscious is still running old scripts. Natasha studied hypnosis and subconscious reprogramming to reach the layer no amount of strategy can override.
Mental & Emotional Release
A Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Natasha trained in somatic and emotional release work that operates below the cognitive level, because the nervous system holds what the mind does not fully process.
Reiki & Energy Healing
A Master Reiki Energy Healer, Natasha integrates subtle energy work with measurable bioenergetic practice — bridging the older traditions and the instrumented.
Holistic Coaching
As a Certified Holistic Wellness Coach, Natasha pairs her executive background with a whole-person approach, addressing lifestyle, nutrition, mindset and biology together rather than in isolation.
25+
YEARS OF HOLISTIC STUDY
8+
MODALITIES MASTERED
OUR PHILOSOPHY
What we refuse to compromise on
Wellness is full of nice words. These are the ones we actually mean — the convictions that shape every room, every protocol and every interaction here.
Your body is not the enemy. It is trying to tell you something.
Chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety and burnout are not character flaws. They are signals. We listen to the body with precision instruments rather than silencing it, and every protocol is designed to decode what your biology is actually saying.
Rest is not the opposite of performance. It is performance.
Silicon Valley taught a generation of high achievers to treat recovery as weakness, something you reach for once everything else has failed. We believe the opposite. Regulated rest is the edge most high performers never develop, and it is available to anyone who learns how to reach it.
Science and spirit are partners, not opposites.
The most powerful work happens where measurable biology meets older wisdom. Photobiomodulation and energy work. Contrast and breath. Biofeedback and intuitive assessment. We do not choose between data and depth. We ask for both.
Privacy is not a luxury. It is a requirement.
You cannot fully let go while you feel observed. Every suite is private and every conversation is confidential. The space is designed so that the moment you walk in, the world outside stops having access to you, because that boundary is where recovery begins.
Staying brilliant means investing in what keeps you brilliant.
We serve the people who build and lead this region, and we take that seriously. The valley needs its sharpest minds at full capacity, not running on cortisol and caffeine. Your health is not an indulgence. It is infrastructure.
Here's to the next chapter — and your reset.
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Questions? Answers.
Who founded SoliVana Wellness Lab?
SoliVana was founded by Natasha Berness and Anna, two Silicon Valley executives who spent 25 years inside the technology industry before burning out on it. Natasha worked in management consulting at IBM, EY and Deloitte, then in senior leadership at LinkedIn, Charles Schwab and Levi Strauss & Co. Anna was a lead senior designer at Oracle and a marketing executive at several Silicon Valley startups.
When was SoliVana Wellness Lab founded?
SoliVana opened in July 2023 at 1922 El Camino Real in Redwood City, California.
How do I book?
Book online at solivanaspa.floathelm.com/booking, or call/text us at 650-564-4325. A credit card is required to book. We have a 24-hour cancellation policy.
What makes SoliVana different from a regular spa?
SoliVana is a private, science-backed nervous-system optimization lab. Every program is designed in-house, every experience is in a private suite, and the work is built around the NSOS™ Nervous System Optimization System and RESET Architecture™.
What experiences does SoliVana offer?
We offer 14 private experiences including REST Float Experience, Fire & Ice Contrast Experience, Halotherapy Experience, PEMF, EMTT, Red Light Experience, Pressotherapy Experience, NeuroVIZR Brain Reset Experience, Biofield Energy Healing Experience, Bowenwork Experience, Vibration Plate Experience, BioEnergetics Scan, Zyto Scan, and Body Composition Analysis.