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Smiling on the Inside

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Smiling on the Inside

Where science, somatics and sacred ritual meet.

Aromatherapy • Fascia • Polyvagal Touch • Emotion Work • Yoga • Creative Expression
Restorative massage & facials that become nervous-system medicine.
✨ Book your transformation ↓ Come and rest in a haven from the hectic fast paced world outside, so you can slow down and unwind with some well needed “me time”. Relax in our myriad of nature’s gifts and greenery, allowing soft melodies to whisk you away to a place of calm where you can immerse yourself in a song of organic natural aromas and softly lit ambience. Enjoy indulging with complimentary hand blended artisan herbal teas and organic refreshments, that taste so good you won’t believe they’re good for you!

09/12/2025

Most people don’t realise their nervous system has been climbing the Polyvagal ladder all day — until the moment everything feels too loud, too fast, or too much.

The trick is not waiting until you’re overwhelmed.
It’s learning how to check in early and redirect your physiology before it runs away from you.

A simple 10-second nervous system check-in can literally change the direction of your day:

• Notice your body
• Notice your breath
• Notice your “behaviour clues” (e.g., walking like you’re late when you’re not)
• Choose one sensory anchor
• Extend your exhale

This is not mindset work.
This is not “just relax.”
This is bottom-up regulation — speaking directly to the vagus nerve so the rest of your system can settle.

Your body listens to you long before your thoughts do.

And the beauty of this?
Your children feel the shift too.
They regulate from your state, not your instructions.

Vinnie just happens to demonstrate these skills while sitting in full meditation pose next to essential oils — but the science is the same.

A tiny check-in.
A slow exhale.
And suddenly the whole room softens.

I hope this helps you all get through this crazy season.

Tahlia x

06/12/2025

✨ THE LENS & PHILOSOPHY OF MY WORK ✨
Vedic × Somatic × Nervous System × Fascia × Aromatherapy × Relationship

My work rests on a truth from the Taittirīya Upaniṣad:
we are five sheaths — Pañca Kośa — and no layer moves alone.

The Vedas describe this through breath, sensation, consciousness.
Modern science describes similar lived truths through neuroception, vagal tone, emotional patterning, and co-regulation.

They are not the same system —
but they illuminate the same human experience.

This is the lens I work through: ancient yogic wisdom, somatics, fascia, breath, aromatherapy, and nervous system science — all held within safe relationship.

🌿 ANNAMAYA KOŚA — अन्नमय-कोशः
The physical sheath: fascia that remembers, breath mechanics, sensory overwhelm, bracing, grounding.
Safety begins here — in the body’s truth.

🌿 PRĀṆAMAYA KOŚA — प्राणमय-कोशः
The breath + vitality sheath: prāṇa (not air, but aliveness).
Science calls it autonomic regulation.
The Vedas say: “यः प्राणेन तिष्ठति” — Life stands upon Prāṇa.”
Breath becomes the bridge.

🌿 MANOMAYA KOŚA — मनोमय-कोशः
The mind–emotion sheath: reactive mind, overwhelm, shutdown, sensory-emotional memory.
Emotions are not problems — they are movements needing safety, breath, and space.

🌿 VIJÑĀNAMAYA KOŚA — विज्ञानमय-कोशः
The wisdom sheath: intuition, discernment, the inner witness (sākṣī).
This emerges when survival softens and prāṇa flows.

🌿 ĀNANDAMAYA KOŚA — आनन्दमय-कोशः
The sheath of peace: quiet, steady contentment beneath tension.
“Ānando Brahma.”
Not created — uncovered when the system feels safe.

🌿 WHERE THE KOŚAS & SCIENCE MEET

• Polyvagal → Prāṇamaya + Manomaya
• Somatics → Annamaya + Manomaya
• Fascia therapy → Annamaya
• Aromatherapy → Manomaya + Prāṇamaya
• Yoga → All Kośas
• Co-regulation → The container for all healing

Not eclectic — coherent.
Humans are layered; healing must be layered.

🌿 NOTHING HEALS WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP

The Vedas teach Sangha.
Polyvagal theory teaches co-regulation.
Somatics teaches safe witnessing.

A nervous system cannot reorganise alone.

Clients borrow breath, calm, safety and groundedness
until their own system remembers.

05/12/2025

The SOTI Method is not one modality. It is the place where all the layers of your body finally meet. Your nervous system, your emotions, your fascia, your breath, your memories, your survival patterns — all of them speaking at once, all of them asking to be heard. Most of us were never taught how to understand these signals. Most of us learned to override, to push through, to disconnect. In SOTI, we begin again. We listen.

Your nervous system is always shifting between states of safety, urgency, and collapse. These shifts are not failures of willpower; they are your body protecting you. In our sessions, we work with your state gently. We slow the breath. We soften the bracing. We help your system feel safe enough to reorganise from the inside out. Regulation is not something you perform — it is something your body remembers when the conditions are right.

Emotional integration happens through sensation, not analysis. Before your mind has even named a feeling, your body has already tightened, held, or collapsed around it. In SOTI, emotion becomes something you can meet instead of avoid. We create enough grounding for fear to soften, enough containment for grief to move, enough safety for your body to finally let go of what it has been carrying alone.

Somatic work reconnects you with the truth living inside your tissues. Fascia holds stories — the memories, the overwhelm, the patterns of bracing that kept you alive. My touch doesn’t force; it listens. Fascia unwinds when the body trusts the moment. Breath deepens when the system feels held. Movement becomes a way home instead of a demand.

Aromatherapy becomes medicine for the limbic system. One breath can change your state before you’ve spoken a word. Oils calm, awaken, steady, anchor — shifting neuroception at the speed of scent. Paired with somatics, breathwork, and fascia release, they help the body soften its guard and return to presence.

Everything weaves. Your breath informs your fascia. Your fascia informs your emotions. Your emotions inform your nervous system. And together, they tell the story of what your body has lived through — and what it is ready to release.

www.smilingontheinside.net.au

28/11/2025

Your body is not random.
Your tension is not random.
Where you feel tight is the place your body has been whispering the loudest.

Most of us were never taught to listen.

So we learned to ignore the lump in our throat,
the heaviness in our chest,
the knot in our stomach,
the ache in our hips,
the weight on our shoulders,
the fatigue in our legs…

We called it stress or busy or tired —
but it was never just that.

Every area of your body holds a story from your life:
the moments you braced,
the words you swallowed,
the grief you tucked away,
the boundaries you never felt safe to have,
the places you held yourself together when everything felt too much.

When you take this quiz, you’re not diagnosing yourself.
You’re remembering yourself.

Your body has been carrying stories your mind forgot how to translate.

✨ Comment 🌈 and I’ll send you the full in-depth story of what that part of your body is still holding — and what release might look like for you.

Your body has been waiting for this conversation. 🌿

24/11/2025

Fifteen years ago, my world cracked wide open.

I had the privilege of training in Oncology Massage through Oncology Massage Australia — one of the first to undertake their training at a time when the teaching was deep, rigorous, and radically ahead of its time. We were given pre-reading that would later become cornerstones of my work:
Bruce Lipton’s Biology of Belief,
Candace Pert’s Molecules of Emotion,
Healing Arts of Massage*,
and Petra’s Your Life Matters.

This was the moment I realised massage was never just massage.

We were taught about fascia — not just as connective tissue, but as living, sensing, responsive intelligence woven through the entire body. We learned how disease forms, how emotion imprints itself into the physical terrain, and how the body speaks long before we find language for it.

One practice changed everything for me:

We stood behind another student.
We hovered our hands above their shoulders.
And we were asked to hold either a pure intention or a distorted one.

Every single time — without fail — the person being “held” could feel it.
Every guess was correct.

It rearranged my entire understanding of touch.

This was where my perception of bodywork transformed. I began studying differently, listening differently, approaching the body with reverence, not force.

Because the tissues we work with are not passive.
They have their own intelligence.
They respond to being listened to.
They reject being pushed.

I learned that change happens not through pressure, but through attunement.
Not through force, but through relationship.
Not through “fixing,” but through co-regulation.

We were taught to listen to the tissue beneath our hands — the subtle movements, the whispers of fascia unwinding, the body softening its guard. And I discovered that the lightest touch can be the most powerful, because the nervous system feels safe enough to let go.

This was the beginning of everything for me.
A new path.
A new way of working.
A new way of seeing the body — intelligent, intuitive, alive.

I am here to listen to yours when you are ready

www.smilingontheinside.net.au

23/11/2025

Can I ask you something gently?

When was the last time your body actually rested…
not collapsed, not powered down,
not “finally stopped”…
but genuinely softened?

Most people tell me they struggle with rest because they’re “bad at slowing down” or they “can’t switch off.”

But when you’ve lived most of your life in a mobilised state —
braced, alert, carrying everything, holding everyone —
rest isn’t relaxing.
Rest is unfamiliar.

Stillness can feel like a threat
when your safety has always lived in movement.

Maybe you know that feeling too:

⭐ The moment you stop, your mind speeds up
⭐ Your chest tightens when you try to breathe deeply
⭐ You get irritated sitting still
⭐ You want to relax but your body won’t let you
⭐ You feel tired but wired at the same time

None of this is you “failing at self-care.”

It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do.

And that’s why I wanted to make this carousel —
to show you that there’s nothing wrong with you.

Your body isn’t resisting you.
It’s protecting you.

And the beautiful thing about the nervous system is that it can learn.
It can re-pattern.
It can soften.
It can trust again.

Sometimes it just needs:

🌿 attuned touch
🌿 a safe room
🌿 a slower breath to lean into
🌿 fascia unwinding
🌿 emotional armour melting in its own time

If this resonates, if you feel something in your chest when you read this,
if your body is tired of doing survival alone…

You’re welcome to come in.

SOTI isn’t a place for perfection.
It’s a place for returning —
to safety,
to softness,
to yourself.

My books are open.
And if your system is ready for support, I’d love to hold space for you.

www.smilingontheinside.net.au

21/11/2025

There is a place your body knows…
a place between holding and surrender,
between awareness and dreaming,
between the armour you carry
and the softness waiting underneath.

This is the liminal state.
The threshold of healing.

It’s where your nervous system lets go first.
Where breath becomes warm again.
Where fascia unwinds the stories it’s been holding.
Where emotions move without force.
Where your body stops protecting
and finally starts releasing.

Most treatments work on the body.
Liminal healing works through it.
Touch that listens.
Presence that holds.
A sensory sanctuary that guides you home.

People describe it as floating…
as warmth…
as “I don’t know where I went,
but I came back lighter.”

This is the medicine of my work.
Not just a massage.
Not just a facial.
Not just somatics.

A candle-lit, botanical,
deeply human space
where your whole being
softens into itself again.

www.smilingontheinside.net.au

Welcome to the in-between.
Welcome to the place you return home.
Welcome to liminal healing.

18/11/2025

There are some therapists who leave a mark on your heart,
your work,
your clients,
and the industry itself.

And my dearest colleague and friend, Kaylie
is absolutely one of them.

For over five years, we have shared rooms, clients, stories, long days, laughter, and the kind of teamwork that only happens when you truly love and respect the person beside you.
She is one of the most deeply skilled, intuitive, and experienced therapists I’ve ever had the privilege to work with — with over 25 years in the industry.

If you’ve ever had a brow shape from her,
a lash lift,
a facial,
a massage,
henna brows, waxing, laminating, or makeup…
you know exactly what I mean.
Her craft is impeccable.
Her standard is unmatched.
Her care is genuine.

When I moved home to open Smiling on the Inside,
she made the brave decision to also step into a new chapter.

And I want to make sure that none of her clients lose track of her,
because she deserves to be found, supported, and celebrated.

So for everyone who has been messaging asking where she is:

💛 You can now find Kaylie at:

✨ Pure Hair and Wellness
📍 23 Wason Street, Milton
📞 0493934428
📅 Taking bookings now

She is still offering all her signature treatments:
• Makeup
• Henna Brows
• Brow Laminating
• Lash Lifts
• Waxing & Tinting
• Expert Facials
• Massage
• And the meticulous attention she’s famous for.

If she has ever looked after you in the past —
please follow her to her new space.
She gives her heart to her work,
and she deserves to carry her beautiful client family with her.

And to my dear friend:
I am so proud of you.
This industry is better because you’re in it.
And wherever you go, you shine.

Here’s to your next chapter.
🌿✨

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34 Pitman Avenue
Milton, NSW
2539

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 7pm
Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	10am - 6pm

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