Every House Is Built Upon
What It Believes
The House of SOMAIA was not created to offer answers.
It was created to steward relationships.
Relationships with ourselves.
With one another.
With the places that receive us.
With the body.
With the quiet intelligence of life itself.
This House rests upon a simple understanding:
the quality of our relationships shapes the quality of our lives.
When we become distant from the home within ourselves, life can begin to feel like something we manage rather than something we inhabit.
We carry more than was ever ours to carry.
Joy grows quieter.
Beauty is still present, yet we no longer fully receive it.
Not because our wholeness has been lost— but because our relationship with it has grown distant.
When relationship is restored, something within us begins to remember its natural rhythm once again.
This is the work of SOMAIA:
restoring right relationship until the way home becomes visible once again.
A house holds.
A field moves.
A lineage remembers.
SOMAIA is all three—
the room that receives you,
the living land that awakens you,
and the wisdom carried forward through relationship.
Together, they create the conditions through which you remember the way home.
The Stewardship of Welcome
Every meaningful relationship begins with the quality of its welcome.
Long before transformation, there is arrival.
Long before becoming, there is belonging.
Long before understanding, there is presence.
Long before change, there is the experience of being deeply received.
Welcome is not an introduction. It is a way of being.
It is the art of creating the conditions through which another person, a conversation, a place, or a season of life can unfold with dignity and trust.
It is also an act of harmony— listening for the right relationship between person, place, pace, nourishment, conversation, silence, and what the moment is asking.
Nothing overwhelms. Nothing is incidental.
Each element is invited into relationship with the whole.
This is what I have come to call The Stewardship of Welcome.
It has shaped my life across more than three decades in globally celebrated travel, aviation, lodging, and hospitality.
It shapes the way I hold counsel.
The way I curate sojourns.
The way I steward every conversation that begins within this House.
What SOMAIA Believes
SOMAIA believes every woman already carries the wisdom she is seeking.
Sometimes she simply needs to be deeply welcomed before she can hear it again.
SOMAIA believes that every woman is already whole.
She does not need to become someone else.
She may simply have grown separated from the relationships through which her wholeness can be lived again.
SOMAIA believes receiving is not passivity.
It is the openness through which life can meet us.
SOMAIA believes beauty is not an ornament.
It awakens sensitivity and restores our capacity to be moved.
SOMAIA believes sensuality is not performance.
It is the body's capacity to participate fully in life.
SOMAIA believes hospitality is not a service.
It is love made visible through attention.
SOMAIA believes every threshold is an invitation into a deeper relationship with life.
And that not everything meaningful needs to be solved.
Some things must be listened to, accompanied, and allowed to ripen.
SOMAIA believes true luxury is spaciousness.
Time.
Presence.
Care.
And the freedom to arrive without needing to perform.
A House Remembered
I grew up in a Greek-Australian home where the door was always open.
Long before I understood philosophy, I understood what it felt like to come home.
People were welcomed with warmth, conversation, and unhurried, generous hospitality.
There was cooking, a tended garden, and the worked land of our family farm.
There was always enough time for another chair to be pulled to the table.
Welcome was never expressed through food alone.
It lived in the songs my mother sang, the dances shared across generations, and the quiet joy of people gathered around a table.
A home could carry a living presence.
It could awaken the senses.
It could soften the body.
It could remind a person what it feels like to be fully alive.
Only later did I realise that SOMAIA did not begin with me.
Its first rooms were formed through the women who came before me—their voices, their gestures, their songs, their dances, and the quiet ways they welcomed life.
This is the lineage beneath the House: a living inheritance received, embodied, and carried forward.
They were my earliest teachers.
Their presence continues to shape every room within this House.
Life later carried me into more than three decades across globally celebrated travel, aviation, prestige lodging, and guest experience.
Over time, I began to recognise that every place I was drawn to was teaching me the same truth: welcome shapes the way people experience the world.
SOMAIA carries forward what first formed it—
the warmth of my childhood,
the refinement of hospitality,
the wisdom of the body,
the beauty of relationship,
and the dignity of presence.
Together, they became this House.
A House where women, meaningful conversations, and the places that receive them are welcomed with the same quiet devotion to relationship.
—sophia simos
SOMAIA
Founder & Steward
Relational counsel • Sojourn curator
Philoxenia
There is a Greek understanding of hospitality known as philoxenia.
Often translated as “friendship towards the stranger,” its deeper meaning is far richer.
It is the generous welcome of another human being.
Not because they have earned their place.
Because welcome comes before deserving.
Philoxenia is not simply a word carried into SOMAIA.
It is part of the cultural lineage from which the House emerges.
Within SOMAIA, welcome is also understood as reciprocal.
The woman is received by the House.
The House is changed by her presence.
And the place itself becomes part of the relationship.
Nothing remains entirely untouched.
We offer attention, and become more attentive.
We create beauty, and allow ourselves to be touched by it.
We welcome another, and something within us is opened in return.
It is my honour to welcome you here.
Καλώς ορίσατε.
Walk With Me
Every house has a doorway.
Not every visitor enters for the same reason.
Some arrive carrying a threshold.
Some are longing for a place of restoration.
Some simply recognise a quiet longing to come home.
However you have arrived...
You are warmly welcomed.
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