Private recovery support for unpaid carers.
Unpaid carers often carry physical, emotional and practical responsibility for long periods before they reach crisis point.
Solāis offers a private, low-stimulation recovery space where carers can access uninterrupted warmth, stillness and structured time away from demand.
Not a spa. Not a group activity. Just a calm, contained way to support recovery.
Why carers may benefit
Carers are often expected to recover in conditions that do not allow recovery.
Many spend years managing physical strain, emotional load, interrupted sleep, hypervigilance and chronic stress while continuing to care for others every day.
Solāis gives carers a quiet, private space where demand drops and the body has time to soften.
What a session involves
Sessions take place in individual, lie-down, head-out infrared pods rather than shared sauna rooms.
The body is enclosed in steady infrared warmth while the head and airway remain outside the heat. For many people, this feels calmer, more breathable and easier to repeat consistently.
No noisy environment. No crowded wellness setting. No need to be socially “on”.
How funded access works
Solāis can work with carers’ organisations, respite providers and community wellbeing services to improve access for unpaid carers.
Options may include funded or subsidised sessions, SDS-compatible wellbeing support, short-break linked access, block bookings, carer wellbeing days .
The aim is to make recovery support more realistic, dignified and accessible within the limits of caring life.
What carers often notice
People respond differently, but carers commonly describe:
Carer Stories
How carers are using Solāis in real life.
Private, repeatable support only matters if it works within the reality of caring responsibilities. These experiences show how carers have built solāis into existing routines, respite time and long-term wellbeing support.
Lesley - Full-time unpaid carer for her mum with dementia
“I love my weekly infrared sauna sessions now, and wouldn't trade them. I receive Carer Support Payment and my appointments at Solais have become a non-negotiable outlay and priority.”
Lesley has cared for her mum with dementia 24/7 for over two years and began attending Solāis after becoming curious about red light therapy and infrared sauna.
Over time, weekly infrared sessions became an important part of her wellbeing routine. She noticed physical changes including calmer eczema, reduced skin irritation and less stiffness in her feet and joints.
Although travelling from Tillicoultry took valuable respite time, she realised how much her body depended on the sessions when she stopped attending temporarily.
For Lesley, the sessions became more than relaxation. They became a consistent form of support that helped her regulate, recover and continue caring.
“I’m not a group person. I treasure my own time.”
Kathleen - Sole carer for husband with dementia
I’ve been coming to Solais Wellness since January and my weekly visits are now a crucial part of my self care, partly subsidised by Stirling Council through Self Directed Support payments.
Kathleen, who is 73 and the sole carer for her 86-year-old husband with dementia, attends weekly sessions at Solāis as part of her ongoing wellbeing support, partly subsidised through Self-Directed Support payments from Stirling Council.
She describes the infrared sessions as “an oasis of calm sanity” — uninterrupted warmth, stillness and deep rest away from the ongoing pressures of full-time caring.
For Kathleen, the benefit is not simply relaxation in the moment. It is returning to caring life feeling more rested, restored and emotionally balanced enough to continue.
“The ongoing challenges therefore need regular sessions to restore equilibrium and be in a better state to continue being an effective carer.”
Recovery should not only exist once someone reaches breaking point.
For carers especially, consistent access to warmth, quiet, rest and physicological recovery can make a meaningful difference over time. Solāis exists to provide that space carefully, privately and without pressure.
