Sliding Scale Programme
Collective Healing
The Sliding Scale is a programme that pays-it-forward and supports the power of collective healing.
Together, we rejoice in a system that supports our business, you, and many others in need of healing and self-care.
To borrow Ram Dass’ words, “we’re here to walk each other home.” At Soma Haus, we believe in reparative action, authentic community-building by honouring human connection and the power of collective healing.
As an approved RaiSE Emerging Social Enterprise and a recognised Company of Good, we reinvest in our community every month. Here's what we've made possible together since 2023.
Help keep the door open
Every gift funds subsidised care for someone struggling to access it — a student, a carer, someone navigating chronic illness or a hard season. Give once, or sponsor a place on the scale.
Soma Haus contributes 1% of monthly revenue, and several of our programmes and events are run primarily to raise funds for the scale — your gift multiplies what we can offer.
We are all inherently worthy; health, community, and connection is our birthright.
We are all inherently worthy; health, community, and connection is our birthright.
Recognitions & Social Impact
Driven by social purpose, Soma Haus is recognised as an Emerging Social Enterprise with RaiSE and a recognised Company of Good.
These recognitions reflect our commitment to our social impact and supporting accessible care initiatives in everything we do.
How the Sliding Scale Programme Works
As part of our commitment to becoming socially responsible wellness centre that recognises individuals’ varying access to resources, we will be:
Offering a tiered pricing for our treatments (Sliding Scale)
Contributing 1% of our monthly revenue towards the Sliding Scale Programme
Support Pass for Chronic Pain or Trauma— complimentary group care that wraps around active therapy for chronic pain or trauma.
At Soma Haus we believe that our circumstances should not impact our access to care. We are choosing to offer a Sliding Scale pricing for our services and treatments, to acknowledge that different people have varying levels of access to resources and accumulative degrees of societal privilege within a community.
Sliding Scale Tiers
Our Sliding Scale relies on honest reflection and respect in order to be effective.
Before claiming a Sliding Scale price, we ask that you consider your economic privilege. We have set aside simple guidelines that will help assist your reflection. Together, we can rejoice in a system that pays-it-forward, supports our business, you, and many others in need of healing and self-care.
Tap any tier to read the full description.
If you:
- Have full-time employment or can comfortably not hold employment
- Have financial security, meaning you have personal savings, are comfortably able to meet your basic needs* and have expendable income**
- Have access to healthcare when needed or have personal or corporate insurance coverage
- Own a property, car, or rent a private property
- Can afford an annual holiday
You would not traditionally qualify for the Sliding Scale pricing. If you spend little time worrying about securing necessities in your life and comfortably pay for "wants", you have economic privilege and power in our community. You leverage your privilege/power and support accessible care for others in need when you contribute to our Sliding Scale fund.
This tier receives 15% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
We accept that you have reflected that you do not find yourself in either descriptions for the highest cost (supporting) or the lowest (supported).
If you:
- Stress about meeting basic needs* but still regularly achieve them
- Are currently employed but have varying financial liabilities such as supporting dependents (children, parents, and/or anyone else relying on your finances)
- Are a freelancer or part-timer worker with unstable income or irregular paychecks but you still have some expendable income**
- Earned an income in the past but currently in transition and in need of temporary assistance
- Are a single-parent household and possess/have financial resources for self-care
- Monthly gross household income below $9,000 or per capita income of $2,250 or below
- OR Monthly salary is $3,000–$5,000 and can allocate 2% of your salary on health and wellness services
We remind that the subsidised tier is reserved for individuals who will be further restrained if they are paying the supporting tier. Safeguard this subsidised tier for those struggling in this category and for the sustainability of the program.
Thank you for using the Sliding Scale ethically and appropriately so that we can continue to offer this discounted program for those truly in need of support. Being honest with yourself and your financial situation when engaging with the sliding scale helps to nurture strong, sustainable communities with the belief in healing collectively.
This tier receives a 30% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
This tier is reached at review, not self-selected.
This is the bridge between deep support and full price. You don't apply for it directly. If you're on the Supported (50%) tier and your situation is stabilising, we'll talk at your 3-month review about easing you to this rate — a gentler step back toward standing on your own, rather than a sudden jump. It's how we make sure recovering doesn't mean losing your care overnight.
Stepping to this rate is also an act of collective care: by moving to 30% as you're able, you free up a deeply subsidised place for someone else who now needs it most. In this way, your own healing helps make room for another's.
This tier receives 50% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
This price is reserved for those who have the desire to access healthcare and spaces of wellness but struggle to maintain access to basic needs.
If you:
- Are currently unemployed or underemployed
- Frequently stressed about meeting basic needs* and/or don't always achieve them
- Have no or very little expendable income**
- Have debt and sometimes prohibits you from meeting your basic needs
- Qualify for government assistance in food, healthcare and/or education
- Single-parent households and little to no financial resources for self-care
- Monthly gross household income below $5,000 or per capita income of $1,000 or below
- Your monthly salary is below $3,000 and cannot allocate 2% of your salary on health and wellness services
This is our most-subsidised tier, so places are the most limited. If it fits you, please reach out — and if there's a waitlist, we'll let you know where things stand.
Verified by a card or proof of employment — no financial review needed.
This tier receives 20% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
This tier is reserved for those whose main livelihood is caring for the wellbeing of others, and whose income is modest. This work is demanding and often undervalued, and this tier exists to honour and support those who do it.
If you:
- Work primarily as a social worker, frontline healthcare worker (e.g. a nurse or caregiver)
- Depend on this caring work as your main livelihood — not a side practice held alongside a separate full-time income
- Earn a modest income — as a guide, a monthly salary of up to about $5,000 (we especially want to support those early in their careers or earning below ~$4,000)
- Are not otherwise financially cushioned, for example, comfortably supported by family or a partner
If you're comfortably above this, please celebrate that privilege and choose the Supporting Tier — or, for fellow practitioners, the Wellness Ally rate. Simply share proof of your work to claim this tier.
We're glad to complement, not replace, any support your sector already offers — our care focuses on the ongoing, body-based wellbeing that other schemes don't usually cover.
This tier receives a 30% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
For up-to undergraduate students paying for treatments and classes on their own. Kindly show a valid student card to claim this tier.
For students facing severe financial hardship, counselling sessions are available at a flat rate of $50 per session. Please reach out and share your situation with us.
If your circumstances are more difficult than this tier reflects, you're warmly welcome to self-assess into one of the need-based tiers above.
This tier receives a 10% subsidy for all treatments. This subsidy does not include classes and packages.
This tier is a collegial courtesy for fellow wellness practitioners and allies who are part of our wider community but don't rely on this work as their main livelihood — for example, those who teach or practise alongside a separate income.
Offered with gratitude for the shared work of holding space. Simply share proof of your practice to claim it.
* Basic Needs: Food, Housing, and Transportation.
** Expendable income: You are able to buy coffee or tea at a cafe, go to movies or concerts, buy new clothes, books, and similar items each month.
All subsidies apply to treatments; classes and packages are excluded. Every place runs on a 3-month cadence with a gentle check-in and review on a needs basis. Your confidentiality is our promise. Please fill up the form to claim your Sliding Scale pricing option.
FAQs
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Start by reading through the tiers and reflecting honestly on which one fits you. Then complete our short application form — one for the need-based tiers, one for the role-based tiers — and we'll be in touch to confirm the right fit together.
We require all applicants to fill out the form accordingly to understand your situation and keep the programme fair and sustainable. Everything you share is kept confidential.
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Yes. Each place runs for 3 months at a time. And because a tier discounts each session, very frequent use — weekly, for example — on a deep subsidy may mean we agree a set number of subsidised sessions with you. We'll always talk this through openly when you begin. Subsidies apply to 1-1 treatments only — not classes or packages.
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Near the end of your term we'll check in and review together. Depending on where you're at, we may continue at the same tier, gently ease you toward full price as things improve (for example, to our Transition rate), or extend your support if you still need it.
Renewal isn't automatic — it's a caring conversation — and it's also how we open up places for others who are waiting.
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Yes. The Sliding Scale is funded collectively and has limited capacity, especially in the deepest tiers, so there may sometimes be a waitlist. We'll always let you know where you stand, and our regular reviews open up new places.
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Because the fund is collective and finite, we may occasionally need to revisit the tier that fits — always in conversation with you, never as a surprise.
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Yes. Alongside the need-based tiers, we offer role-based support: Heart Work Heroes (20%) for social workers and frontline healthcare workers on modest incomes, Student Support (30%), and a Wellness Ally rate (10%) for fellow practitioners. Just share proof of your role to claim it.
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If you're in ongoing 1-1 therapy for chronic pain or trauma, the Support Pass offers up to 3 complimentary classes each month to complement your care and support your nervous system. You can read more on our Support Pass page.
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Absolutely. When you choose the Supporting Tier, you help fund the remaining Tiers as Soma Haus contributes 1% of monthly revenue to keep this initiative going.
If you would like to donate to the scale, reach out to us separately.