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Inside the $2,000-a-Month, Invite-Only Fitness Clubs
Adaptogen mocktails, infrared saunas, ‘social self-care.’ Wellness is more than a luxury symbol; it’s a social status — for a privileged few.
Nestled on Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip, around the corner from Chateau Marmont, the dimmed lights of Remedy Place beckon. The newly opened 10,000-square-foot establishment has a sultry, moody feel with slate gray tones and jewel-colored velvet drapery. Tufted leather sofas and potted plants pepper a sleek lounge beside a bar where athleisure-clad individuals sip on adaptogen-packed mocktails. Remedy Place looks more like a hotel lobby than anything else.
Except for the fitness studio, hyperbaric chambers, and cryotherapy machines within view.
This elite space is not a gym, medical clinic, or biohacking lab. It’s a private wellness club, says founder Jonathan Leary, who also runs a private concierge practice.
Over the past few years, Leary heard from countless clients who complained they had no “toxic or temptation-free” place to hang out. And, as he notes, “in a place like L.A., people do love some type of exclusivity.”
