The studio you’ve been looking for

Join us at Studio Be Napa for sound healing, nervous system work, and body-based sessions for expansion, regulation, and your full self.

OUR STORY

Studio Be began as a seed.

May 2023. A place created to be the feeling Melanie wanted to see more of in the world — warm, real, unhurried, built around the body's actual intelligence. The kind of space that didn't exist in Napa yet. Two months later, the first sound bath filled the room. The community began.

In fall 2025, Rachel joined as co-owner and the studio moved to its new home at 301 Post Street, just off Silverado Trail. More space. A new chapter. Room for more.

Almost three years in, the community keeps growing. New faces, returning ones, people who drove an hour because someone they trust told them to just go.

A deep exhale…

Most spaces ask something of you before you walk in. A certain version of yourself. A level of togetherness. A performance, however subtle, of having it handled. Studio Be doesn't.

You'll be greeted with tea.

Your nervous system will begin to unclench before anything even starts. And somewhere in the room — maybe for the first time — you'll receive an invitation to exist exactly as you are. Not managed. Not assessed. Not asked to be more or less of anything. Just met.

There's no posturing here, no performance of healing, no pressure to arrive a certain way. Just a genuinely warm room, real tools, and people who mean it when they say you belong here.

 OUR PHILOSOPHY

The body is not broken.

It's adaptive. Intelligent. Everything it's doing, the tension, the shutdown, the override, made sense at some point. We don't come here to fix what's wrong. We come here to work with what's already trying to move.

Real change is felt before it's understood.

Most of us spend our lives in the thinking fraction, analyzing, managing, explaining, while the body quietly holds everything else. This is what it feels like to finally let it speak.

Regulation is not calm. It's capacity.

Feeling more without being overwhelmed. Holding more without shutting down. Staying present in the hard moments instead of managing your way around them.

Self care isn't selfish.

When one nervous system settles, it ripples outward into relationships, families, workplaces, the texture of everyday life. Doing your own work is one of the most generous things you can offer the people around you.

The Studio Be Team

Rachel McKenzie

SPINAL ENERGETICS PRACTITIONER
CO-OWNER, STUDIO BE

Rachel works with the spine, nervous system, and your body's own innate intelligence to facilitate the kind of change that thinking about change can't create. She brings precision, presence, and lived authority to every session — and a rare ability to meet you exactly where you are while quietly making room for who you're becoming.

Learn More About Rachel

Melanie Clampit

Melanie brings over 20 years of experience across sound healing, energy work, and nervous system support — alongside warmth, humor, and a grounded presence that makes the room feel safe without making it precious. She has the tools, the lived wisdom, and the ability to meet you mind, body, and spirit.

Learn More About Melanie

SOUND HEALER · SPINAL FLOW PRACTITIONER
FOUNDER & CO-OWNER, STUDIO BE

*Guest Practitioners

We also welcome a rotating roster of guest practitioners bringing additional offerings to the Studio Be community. See the full calendar for upcoming classes and events.

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Modalities Offered at Studio Be

Studio Be Napa offers a range of body-based, nervous system, and energetic healing modalities in the heart of downtown Napa — serving clients from across Napa Valley, the North Bay, and beyond.

Spinal Energetics

A clinically grounded somatic practice working simultaneously with the spine, nervous system, and energetic field to facilitate deep, lasting change.

Spinal Flow

A gentle, body-based modality that works with the spine and nervous system to release stored tension and restore your body's natural rhythm and ease.

Sound Healing & Sound Baths

Deeply immersive experiences using crystal singing bowls, gong, and chimes that promote rest, nervous system regulation, and emotional release.

Energy Work & Reiki

Intuitive energetic support including Reiki, Access Bars, and somatic energy work to help you clear, ground, and reconnect with your own innate intelligence.

Breakthrough Sessions

A powerful blend of modalities designed to facilitate meaningful shift in body, mind, and energy for those ready to move through something.

Access Bars

A gentle hands-on process working with 32 points on the head to release the electromagnetic charge of thoughts, feelings, and emotions held in the body.

We built Studio Be because we wanted to create what we couldn't find. If something brought you here — we think that's worth listening to.