Smiling on the Inside

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!

12/01/2026

Thank you — in a way that feels too big for words, but I’ll try anyway.
Every like, save, comment, follow, or share here might feel tiny — almost automatic — but the impact is anything but.
On a personal level, those small interactions help this work reach people who are exhausted in their bodies and nervous systems, often without knowing why.
People who think they should be coping better.
People who have never been taught that safety, rest, and regulation are foundational — not indulgent.
A save might become someone’s permission to slow down weeks later.
A share might reach someone who has never experienced care that doesn’t require pushing through pain.
A comment might help someone feel less alone in listening to their body for the first time.
And on a systems level, every interaction quietly tells the algorithm: this work is important.
It tells it to keep offering gentler, slower, nervous-system-aware care in a world that rewards urgency and over-functioning.
This work doesn’t shout.
It doesn’t promise quick fixes.
So when you engage with it, you are helping protect space for another way of healing to exist.
I feel deep gratitude for every moment you pause here.
It allows this work — and the people it reaches — to breathe.

For 10 years, every SOTI experience has begun in the same place —coming back to the body, the breath, and internal safet...
07/01/2026

For 10 years, every SOTI experience has begun in the same place —
coming back to the body, the breath, and internal safety.
Before any hands-on work.
Before any technique.
Before any change.
In 2026, I’m opening this foundation into shared practice.
This year’s offerings are not about doing more, fixing yourself, or keeping up.
They’re about slowing down enough to feel again — and learning how to support yourself gently, in daily life.
From daily breath and grounding practices,
to deeper self-study circles,
to embodied workshops exploring yoga philosophy, nervous system regulation, emotions, and energy —
each offering is held in intimate small groups and opened one at a time, with care.
There will also be school-holiday workshops for children, supporting regulation, emotional awareness, movement, creativity, and sensory grounding.
Dates will be shared gradually throughout the year.
Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced.
If something here speaks to you, you’re warmly invited to send me a DM —
to ask questions, share what you’re curious about, or simply stay connected as this year unfolds.
A year to come back to self 🤍








What if… you didn’t need to push harder right now?What if the exhaustion, tension, or numbness you feel isn’t something ...
02/01/2026

What if… you didn’t need to push harder right now?
What if the exhaustion, tension, or numbness you feel isn’t something to fix —
but something asking to be listened to?
We are living in a world the human body was never designed for.
Fast. Loud. Constant. Always on.
And yet our nervous systems still speak in sensations, rhythm, breath, and rest.
This is an invitation.
To pause for a moment.
To feel your body as you read.
To notice your breath, your posture, the way you’re holding yourself today.
At SOTI, we create spaces to gently come back into the body —
not to change you,
but to support your nervous system in remembering safety, presence, and connection.
You don’t have to disconnect from the world to do this.
You just have to begin listening again.
If this resonates, you’re welcome here.
🤍
www.smilingontheinside.net.au

In quiet reflection, I sit with 2025 and the year of challenges it was.It carried the big and the small, and everything ...
01/01/2026

In quiet reflection, I sit with 2025 and the year of challenges it was.
It carried the big and the small, and everything in between.
And within it all, it offered immense growth—
a softening, a humility, an invitation to appreciate even the smallest moments of life.
Today, I chose to begin this year in stillness,
contemplating the yogic Yamas and Niyamas—
taking true stock of myself,
and how I choose to show up in the world.
For Patanjali to begin here is no accident.
It is a reminder that this path is not about escaping our humanity,
but about meeting it honestly.
The Yamas and Niyamas are not ideals placed above us—
they are mirrors held gently, yet truthfully, to our lived experience of being human.
When we first encounter the Yamas and Niyamas, it is easy to assume we naturally uphold them.
That kindness, truth, non-harm, contentment, and self-discipline should come with ease.
Yet when we truly sit with them—
not as concepts, but as ways of living woven into every interaction, thought, and choice—
they can become deeply confronting.
To hold the light of truth to ourselves in this way asks us to notice the subtleties:
the small moments of reactivity,
the quiet compromises of integrity,
the ways fear, grasping, avoidance, or self-judgment slip into our day unnoticed.
It is here we realise that restraint (yama) and observance (niyama) are not passive states.
They require presence.
They require awareness.
They require devotion to practice—not for a season, but for a lifetime.
This is why Patanjali begins here.
Because peace is not something we arrive at once the body is flexible or the breath is steady.
Peace is cultivated in how we speak, how we listen, how we consume, how we react, how we repair.
It is built in the countless, ordinary moments of living.
What this practice looks like in daily life;
To contemplate the Yamas and Niyamas is not to judge ourselves,
but to observe with compassion.

I want to wish everyone a beautiful holiday season this year!Thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart! This ye...
24/12/2025

I want to wish everyone a beautiful holiday season this year!

Thank you so very much from the bottom of my heart! This year threw every challenge imaginable at me and I would not have got through to the other end without all of my incredibly supportive clients.

Thank you for absolutely everything this year, without all of you i wouldn't be able to do what I absolutely love and live my passion.

Thank you for sharing with friends and family.

As I step into this new chapter finally after years of non stop study and drive to learn on all levels how to support holistically in a whole new way. Finally stepping into this whole new framework and it has been an absolute pleasure to share with you all. This is very close to my heart as it began 4 years ago with my daughters diagnosis and grew and grew from there.

Thank you!

Have the most amazing time with friends and family and I will see you all soon.

Tahlia xx

There is no better gift than the gift of relaxation  🥰We have a few options for gift vouchers!Check out our menu online ...
24/12/2025

There is no better gift than the gift of relaxation 🥰

We have a few options for gift vouchers!

Check out our menu online and choose your voucher online www.smilingontheinside.net.au and your voucher will be emailed through to you or if you choose straight to your loved ones inbox.

Just doesn't get better or easier than that.

For all those out there who feel this is what you need pop a comment below or tag to drop that subtle hint 😋😌💌

Most people don’t realise their nervous system has been climbing the Polyvagal ladder all day — until the moment everyth...
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

✨ THE LENS & PHILOSOPHY OF MY WORK ✨Vedic × Somatic × Nervous System × Fascia × Aromatherapy × RelationshipMy work rests...
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.

The SOTI Method is not one modality. It is the place where all the layers of your body finally meet. Your nervous system...
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

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

Can I ask you something gently?When was the last time your body actually rested…not collapsed, not powered down,not “fin...
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

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