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 and 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: chronic stress, sleepless nights before quarterly reviews, and 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 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 for what a worn-down nervous system actually needs, and found that the highest performers needed a system: somewhere evidence-informed experiences were chosen with the same precision as a product roadmap, and kept genuinely private. They tested everything on themselves first (float, contrast, bioenergetics, PEMF, sound), and only what proved itself made it into SoliVana.
In July 2023 they opened SoliVana at 1922 El Camino Real in Redwood City, as the culmination of their careers. 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
One lab, built by its owners. A sanctuary.
Owner-built, in Redwood City
SoliVana is 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 burned out on the same pressure you do, engineered the way back, and turned our own recovery into a repeatable method.
Built for real people
A private suite for every experience, and care that is personal from the moment you walk in.
It's why more than 400 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
5,000+
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 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 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 ones.
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
These are the convictions that shape every room, every protocol and every interaction here.
Your body is trying to tell you something.
Chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety and burnout are signals. We listen to the body with precision instruments, and every protocol is designed to decode what your biology is actually saying.
Rest is where performance comes from.
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 work as partners.
The most powerful work happens where measurable biology meets older wisdom. Photobiomodulation alongside energy work, contrast alongside breath, biofeedback alongside intuitive assessment. We ask for both data and depth.
Privacy 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. Your health is infrastructure.
Here's to the next chapter, and to your reset.
Come experience the method for yourself.
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Questions? Answers.
Who founded SoliVana Wellness?
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 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, Bowenwork Experience, Vibration Plate Experience, BioEnergetics Scan, Zyto Biofeedback Scan, and Body Composition Analysis.