The Dome
PALOMA's destination for spiritual and meditative work — a sanctuary separate from our treatment rooms, designed for community, ceremony, and collective healing. Learn the two modes of The Dome, how to speak about each, and how to invite every guest in.
What Is The Dome?
The Dome is PALOMA's dedicated destination for spiritual and meditative work — a sanctuary intentionally separate from our treatment rooms. Where the spa is about individual physical restoration, The Dome is about something deeper: community, ceremony, and collective healing.
The Dome serves two modes of experience:
🔮 Private Sessions — 1:1 spiritual and intuitive services: Reiki, Aura Photography, Tarot, Palmistry, and Psychic Readings. These are personal, sacred, and intimate.
🌀 Group Ceremonies — Sound Baths, Moon Ceremonies, Reiki Sound Baths, and Solstice Ceremonies. These are shared sacred experiences held with an intimate group of 4–20 guests.
The Three Pillars of PALOMA:
🌿 The Spa — Restorative rituals and personalized treatments designed to calm the nervous system, renew the body, and bring you back to yourself.
🔮 The Dome — Transformative gatherings, ceremonies, and collective experiences that inspire connection, expansion, and shared presence.
🛍️ Retail — A thoughtful edit of elevated wellness essentials and ritual objects to extend the PALOMA feeling into everyday life.
Both modes share the same space and the same intention: The Dome exists for guests who are ready to go beyond the physical and enter the energetic, the ceremonial, and the spiritual. It is not an add-on to PALOMA — it is one of its three pillars.
Your Mindset: The Dome is not a niche offering for a certain type of guest. It is core to PALOMA's identity. Every guest should leave with awareness of what happens in this space — and an open invitation to return for it.
Mode 1
Private Sessions
One guest. One practitioner. One sacred space. Intuitive, energetic, and deeply personal work.
Reiki · Aura Photography · Tarot · Palmistry · Psychic Readings
Mode 2
Group Ceremonies
4–20 guests. Collective healing, ceremony, and community held in shared sacred space.
Sound Bath · Moon Ceremonies · Reiki Sound Bath · Solstice
Private Sessions in The Dome
When a guest books a Reiki session, an Aura Reading, Tarot, or a Psychic Reading, they are stepping into The Dome — not a treatment room. This distinction matters. These services are spiritual in nature, and The Dome is designed to hold that energy. Know what each service is, who it's for, and what to say when a guest asks.
Location Note: Aura Photography, Tarot, and all Psychic/Intuitive Readings always take place in The Dome. Reiki and Palmistry are primarily done in The Dome but may occasionally be held in a treatment room depending on availability — if a guest asks, confirm with your manager for that day's setup.
Reiki Sessions
Energy Healing · Fully Clothed · Dome or Treatment Room
Perfect For: Stress and anxiety relief, energetic rebalancing, guests going through transitions, emotional healing, or anyone curious about energy work.
"Reiki is a gentle energy healing session — you stay fully clothed and the practitioner works with your body's energy field. Most guests feel deeply relaxed or emotionally lighter afterward. It's a beautiful complement to massage or a powerful experience on its own."
Aura Photography & Intuitive Reading
30 min · $65 individual · $120 for two
Perfect For: Guests curious about their energetic blueprint, couples or best friends, guests wanting a keepsake and meaningful reading. PALOMA owns the original 1970s proprietary camera.
"Our aura camera captures electromagnetic energy from your hands and translates it into color on a Polaroid. You get a reading, a color guide card, and a keepsake box. People travel from all over Columbus for this — there's nothing else like it."
Tarot Intuitive Readings
Symbolic · Intuitive · The Dome
Perfect For: Guests seeking reflection, clarity, or a different lens on their situation — first-timers and tarot enthusiasts alike.
"Tarot is a symbolic card reading used as a tool for reflection and guidance. Our readers are highly intuitive, so it's much more personal than a standard card pull. Guests come with a question or come completely open — both work."
Palmistry Intuitive Readings
30 min $85 (Focused) · 60 min $165 (Comprehensive) · Dome or Treatment Room
Perfect For: Guests seeking clarity on love, career, or overall wellbeing. Comprehensive session includes inked palm prints and a written overview.
Focus options: Love · Career · Overall Wellbeing
"Palmistry is a reading of your hand — the lines tell a story about your personality, relationships, and life path. Guests can choose a focused 30-minute session or a full 60-minute comprehensive reading with inked prints to take home."
Psychic Intuitive Readings
60 min · $165 each · The Dome
Perfect For: Guests seeking guidance, clarity on a life decision, or deeper connection with their intuition.
Options: Past Lives Reading · Spirit Guide Reading · Intuitive Health Mapping
"A personal session with one of our gifted readers — they tune into your energy and offer insight and guidance. Guests come with questions or come completely open. We offer Past Lives, Spirit Guide, and Intuitive Health Mapping sessions. It's always a meaningful, memorable experience."
The Five Dome Ceremonies
Each ceremony serves a unique purpose and attracts different guests. Know what each one is, what guests experience, and how to speak about it so you can match the right ceremony to the right person.
What It Is
A live, full-body immersion in the healing vibrations of crystal alchemy singing bowls. Guests lie in a comfortable, supported position while our meditation instructor plays large crystalline bowls, creating rich sound waves that move through the body and nervous system. Completely passive — no movement, no prior experience needed.
What Guests Experience
Guests remove their shoes and settle onto mats in a warm, dimly lit space. As the bowls begin, vibrations travel through the body — many feel tingling, deep physical relaxation, or drift into a meditative state between wakefulness and sleep. Most report feeling lighter, clearer, or deeply rested. Many say it's the most profound rest they've felt in months.
Perfect For
First-time meditators · Guests with chronic stress, anxiety, or sleep issues · Anyone seeking nervous system reset · Busy professionals needing radical pause
What to Say
"Have you heard of a sound bath? It's one of my favorite things we offer. You lie down fully clothed on a mat, and our instructor plays these beautiful crystal bowls — the vibrations just flow through your whole body. A lot of guests say it's the deepest rest they've felt in months. No experience needed — you just show up and receive."
What It Is
A group ritual timed to the lunar full moon — traditionally a time of culmination, release, and illumination. Our instructor guides breathwork, sound healing, intention-setting, and ritual. The full moon amplifies energy and invites guests to release what no longer serves them and step into clarity.
What Guests Experience
Guests gather in circle, often seated on cushions. Calming breathwork opens the experience, followed by guided reflection — journaling, visualization, or witnessing. Sound bowls and ambient music accompany the journey. The ceremony closes with collective silence and gratitude. Guests often leave feeling lighter, renewed, and connected to something larger than themselves.
Perfect For
Guests interested in lunar cycles and ritual · Anyone drawn to journaling or self-reflection · Guests seeking closure, release, or clarity · Those aligned with cyclical living
What to Say
"We do Full Moon Ceremonies here — they're really special. The full moon is traditionally a time of releasing and letting go. Our instructor guides you through breathwork and reflection, and it's a beautiful way to mark that energy with intention. A lot of guests feel really clear and renewed afterward. Are you someone who feels connected to lunar cycles?"
What It Is
A ceremony honoring the dark moon — a time of new beginnings, intention-setting, and planting seeds for the cycle ahead. Unlike the full moon (which invites release), the new moon is about clarity, commitment, and moving toward what you desire. May include meditation, breathwork, journaling prompts, and sound healing.
What Guests Experience
Guests arrive into a quiet, contemplative space. The facilitator guides them inward, then offers journaling prompts to clarify intentions. The ceremony closes with a grounding ritual — often inviting guests to speak or affirm their intentions aloud. Many leave with a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
Perfect For
Guests starting a new chapter or project · Anyone working toward a goal · Those drawn to cyclical living · Guests seeking clarity and forward momentum
What to Say
"We also do New Moon Ceremonies — opposite energy from the full moon. The new moon is about planting seeds and setting intentions for the month ahead. It's really powerful if you're working toward something or you want clarity on your goals. You meditate, you journal, and you really tune in to what you want to create."
What It Is
Two healing modalities combined: guests receive Reiki energy work from a certified practitioner while our instructor simultaneously plays crystal singing bowls. The result is a deeply layered healing experience — energetic clearing and sound vibration at the same time.
What Guests Experience
Guests lie on a mat in the dome. They feel the gentle, non-physical presence of Reiki (often described as warmth, tingling, or subtle movement) combined with the enveloping vibrations of the bowls. Many report feeling clearer, more energized, deeply peaceful, or emotionally released — often described as the most complete restoration experience PALOMA offers.
Perfect For
Guests familiar with Reiki or curious about energy work · Anyone seeking deeper healing beyond sound alone · Guests carrying emotional or energetic heaviness · Those wanting PALOMA's most immersive group experience
What to Say
"The Reiki Sound Bath is one of our most transformative experiences. You get Reiki energy work and crystal singing bowls at the same time — you're being cleared on an energetic level while the sound flows through you. People often say it feels like a complete reset. Have you done Reiki before, or is that something you've been curious about?"
What It Is
Held twice a year — Winter Solstice (December) and Summer Solstice (June) — these earth-rooted ceremonies honor the turning of the seasons. Our instructor leads a grounding group experience that may include sound healing, breathwork, ritual, journaling, and reflection on themes of darkness, light, renewal, and balance.
What Guests Experience
Guests gather to honor nature's turning points. At the Winter Solstice, guests are invited to sit with the darkness before the light returns; at Summer Solstice, to celebrate fullness and radiance. Sound bowls, chanting, candles, and seasonal elements accompany the experience. Guests leave feeling grounded and connected to natural cycles.
Perfect For
Guests drawn to nature and seasonal living · Eco-conscious or nature-based spiritual practitioners · Anyone wanting to mark seasonal transitions with intention · Guests seeking grounding and connection to earth cycles
What to Say
"We do Solstice Ceremonies twice a year — Winter and Summer. You gather with a small group and our instructor leads you through a ceremony honoring that seasonal moment — the longest night or the longest day. It's really grounding and meaningful if you feel connected to nature. Very earthy, very intentional."
Weaving The Dome into Guest Conversation
Your role is to mention The Dome warmly, authentically, and naturally — not as a hard sell, but as a genuine invitation. Most guests will never discover it on their own. They discover it through you.
Active promotion is expected — and it's not pushy. You're inviting guests into one of PALOMA's most transformative offerings. When you believe in it, guests feel that.
At Check-In
"While I'm getting you set up — if you're ever interested in meditation or spiritual work, we have some beautiful experiences in The Dome. We do Sound Baths, Moon Ceremonies, and also private sessions like Reiki and Aura Photography. I can pull up the schedule if you're curious."
At Checkout — Guest Looks Relaxed
"You look so peaceful right now. We have a Sound Bath next week if you ever want to go even deeper with that feeling. You just lie down, let the bowls wash over you — it's pure rest."
Guest Mentions Stress or Sleep Issues
"A lot of our guests dealing with stress or sleep trouble find our Sound Baths really helpful. The nervous system reset is pretty profound. We have one coming up [date] if you're interested — I can grab those details for you."
Guest Mentions Meditation or Spiritual Practice
"You meditate? You're going to love what we do in The Dome. Our Moon Ceremonies are really aligned with intentional practice, and a lot of our dome guests have their own spiritual work and come here to deepen it with community. If energy work is your thing, our Reiki Sound Baths are incredible."
Guest Asks "What Goes on in The Dome?"
"The Dome is really special — it's our space for spiritual and meditative work, separate from the treatment rooms. We use it for two things: private sessions like Reiki, Aura Photography, and Tarot readings, and group ceremonies like Sound Baths and Moon Ceremonies. It's where guests come when they want to go deeper — into community, ceremony, or something more personal and intuitive. Very different energy from a massage."
Guest Is Hesitant ("I've Never Done Anything Like That")
"I totally understand — a lot of people feel that way at first. Here's the thing: for a Sound Bath, you don't need to do anything or believe anything. You just show up, lie down on a mat, and let the vibrations do the work. Most people who try it for the first time say it's one of the most relaxing things they've ever done. Our instructor is wonderful with newcomers. I'd encourage you to try one and see how your body responds."
Booking a Guest into The Dome
For group ceremonies: Navigate to the Class tab in Zenoti. Find the event by name, date, and time. Select the guest, confirm availability, process payment, and send the confirmation. Remind guests to arrive 10 minutes early, wear comfortable clothing (shoes removed), and avoid heavy meals 2–3 hours prior.
For private sessions (Reiki, Aura, Tarot, Palmistry, Psychic Readings): These are booked as individual services in Zenoti, not under the Class tab. Book like any other 1:1 service and note the location as The Dome.
Dome Quick Reference
Key Talking Points to Carry With You: "The Dome is our space for spiritual and meditative work." · "You don't need any experience — you just show up and receive." · "We offer both private sessions and group ceremonies." · "I can book you right now if you're interested."
Knowledge Checkpoint
Before leaving this module, ensure you can:
- Explain the two modes of The Dome — private sessions and group ceremonies — in your own words
- Name all five private services offered in The Dome and describe each in guest-friendly language
- Know which services always take place in The Dome vs. which may also be in a treatment room
- Name all five group ceremony types and describe what makes each one unique
- Deliver a natural, warm script when a guest asks "What goes on in The Dome?"
- Book a guest into a group ceremony via the Zenoti Class tab
- Know how to handle a hesitant or curious-but-uncertain guest