If your body is tired in ways sleep doesn’t fix.
If you’ve been holding everything together for everyone else.
If you can’t remember the last time someone took care of you.
You don’t need a vacation.
You need a few hours — or a whole night — where you don’t have to be anything for anyone.
Essential Elevations is a private, bodywork-forward sanctuary on seven wooded acres in Volcano, California.
Small by design.
Quiet on purpose.
Created for solo guests, close friends, and couples to relax and reconnect.
What Makes This Different
This isn’t a resort spa with a menu of services to get through.
This is a private home based retreat rooted in skilled, nurturing bodywork, unhurried time, and a calm, consent-based space where your nervous system can finally let go.
No crowds.
No performance.
No rushing back into life mid-exhale.
The Pause
120 Minutes • Solo • $165
For when you need more than a massage but can’t carve out a whole afternoon.
Savor a soothing therapeutic massage and mineral salt back scrub then rest in the red light lounge or find a hammock overlooking the hills, settle and savor your snack plate and tea.
No rushing.
No agenda.
This is what it feels like to be taken care of.
The Reset
3 Hours • Solo, Duo, Couples • $255+ $55 additional guest.
Three hours to slow all the way down.
Your Reset flows through restorative bodywork in my gentle, intuitive style — combined with the Chi machine, aromatherapy steam facial, herbal foot bath, yoni steam, and the full apothecary.
There’s generous time to wander the property, sit in a hammock, and simply be.
Guided by skill.
Led with intuition.
Unhurried from beginning to end.
When there is two of you, care options available:
• Individual sessions — on the table, one at a time, in the same gentle intuitive style.
While one person is being worked on, the other rests, steams, or wanders the property.
• Restorative Touch — a side-by-side experience on yoga mats, weaving restorative yoga and gentle therapeutic touch.
Both of you held at the same time, creating tranquility and memories.
You choose what feels right.
Overnight Sanctuary
7pm – 10 am · Solo, Duo, Couples, or Small Group • $455 + $55 for each additional guest. Limit 4.
You arrive in the evening. You don’t have to be anywhere until morning.
That’s the whole point.
Your overnight includes restorative bodywork for each guest, herbal foot bath, the full apothecary, the red light rest lounge wrapped in green velvet, hammocks under the sky, oracle cards, journals, a full kitchen, and cozy accommodations inside or on the patio.
This is a beautiful space for a date night that nurtured connection — an anniversary, a birthday, a quiet celebration, or simply an evening where two can get to be completely present with each other without the noise of ordinary life.
All couples welcome, exactly as you are.
Many guests leave feeling calmer, clearer, and closer than they have in a long time.
When it’s two of you or a small group:
• The same bodywork choice applies — individual table sessions or side-by-side Restorative Touch on yoga mats.
For overnight guests, the evening holds space for both if you’d like.
• Accommodations for up to 4 guests inside. Seasonal outdoor options will soon be available.
Especially Good For
• those navigating hormonal shifts, fatigue, or disrupted sleep
• those carrying caregiver exhaustion
• people in the middle of a big life change — divorce, reinvention, loss, becoming
• Couples wanting to slow down and reconnect in a space that holds them well
• those who simply haven’t stopped in too long and need someone to hold the space while they do
The Space
Your retreat takes place on seven private wooded acres in Volcano, California — about 15 minutes from Sutter Creek.
The sanctuary includes a private suite with full kitchen, a restorative rest lounge with red light therapy and cozy sleeping accommodations, a massage room with yoni steam station, and an outdoor patio with hammocks overlooking the hills.
• 15 minutes from Sutter Creek
• 20 minutes from Jackson
• 1.5 hours from Sacramento
• 2.5 hours from the Bay Area
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