เรื่องราวของเรา · Our story

A piece of Thailand,
on Orakei Road

Siam Soul began with a simple wish: to bring the unhurried, generous healing of a Thai village to Auckland. No clocks rushed, no shortcuts taken. Just the old practice, done properly, by people who carry it in their hands.

2016Established
6Therapists
12,000+Treatments given
Our beginning

Born in Chiang Mai,
carried here

Our founder, Kwan, trained in the temple-taught tradition of Northern Thailand, where massage is not a treatment booked by the hour but a form of care passed between generations. She learned on woven mats, under teachers who measured a session by how the body felt, never by the clock.

When she settled in Auckland, she found plenty of places to be worked on, and few where she felt truly cared for. Siam Soul is her answer: a room that smells of lemongrass and warm cotton, where every therapist is trained in the same lineage, and where you are never hurried out the door.

Everything here is deliberate: the herbs we steam, the tea we pour, the pressure we match to your body that day. It is Thailand, distilled into one quiet hour.

Kwan Srisai Founder & Lead Therapist
Treatment oils and herbal compresses at Siam Soul, Orakei
The journey

How we
grew

2016

One room, one mat

Siam Soul opens with a single treatment room on Orakei Road and a borrowed kettle. Word travels quickly along the bay.

2018

The herbal kitchen

We begin steaming our own luk pra kob compresses in-house, blending lemongrass, kaffir lime and turmeric to a family recipe.

2020

A bigger sanctuary

We move into our current space: four rooms, a steam alcove and a tea lounge, designed to feel like a home, not a clinic.

2023

The lineage grows

Our team reaches six therapists, each trained in the Northern Thai tradition, several mentored by Kwan herself.

Today

Still unhurried

Over twelve thousand treatments later, the practice hasn't changed. Same herbs, same hands-on care, same quiet hour.

What we believe

The principles
that guide us

Tradition firstรากเหง้า

We practise Thai massage as it was taught: sen lines, assisted stretch, herbal heat. No trend dilutes the lineage.

Unhurried careไม่เร่งรีบ

A treatment ends when the body has settled, not when the timer sounds. Time is the most generous thing we offer.

The whole personทั้งกายและใจ

Tension is rarely only physical. We tend to the nervous system as much as the muscle: breath, warmth, quiet.

The sanctuary

A room that
slows you down

We don't measure a treatment in minutes. We measure it in how quietly you leave.

Kwan Srisai · Founder

Come and feel it

Your hour is
waiting

Words only carry so far. The rest is in the room: the warmth, the herbs, the hands. We'd love to welcome you.