Humanity before profit
For us, profit is the result of trust and excellence. At our centre lies a simple principle: genuine, continuous care for the person.
Our Values & Our Purpose
Why should effective, holistic care for one's health be reserved for moments of crisis and confined to the walls of a clinic? The Local Sanctuary grew out of this question: a way of thinking that carries such care into everyday life and finds its first home in The Lake Sanctuary by the Zürichsee. We see health as a daily practice and the person as a whole: in body, in mind, and in connection with others.
The Science of Health. The Art of Living. The Sense of Belonging.
Three connections grow thin in our time: to our own body, to time, and to the people around us.
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The connection to our own body. Health fragments into separate findings: one specialist per symptom, no one for the person behind them. The view of the whole is lost.
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The connection to time. What does us good slips to the bottom of the list. Wellbeing becomes a debt we carry around rather than a daily practice.
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The connection to people. Each of us carries responsibility for our own health alone, with no counterpart to think alongside us.
The Lake Sanctuary is the place where these three connections form again, in the midst of everyday life.
Our values
Disposition, not wealth
We are a community of shared values. Belonging is decided by disposition: the willingness to take responsibility for one another.
Community as medicine
Belonging is part of health. We share knowledge, inspiration and time and create a space where masks may be set aside.
Dignity & openness
We understand ourselves as a sanctuary of freedom. Human dignity and openness are non-negotiable to us; exclusion has no place here.
Regenerative responsibility
Human health cannot be separated from the health of its surroundings. We aim to give more back to nature and to the region in which we work than we take.
Data sovereignty & digital integrity
Sovereignty over one's health data rests entirely with the Fellow. We never sell data. Technology remains a means, the person remains the purpose.
We lead through empowerment and believe in fair, long-standing partnerships as equals, built to last.
What sets us apart.
A retreat gives you one good week. What takes shape for you at The Lake Sanctuary is designed to last, as part of everyday life.
A members' club revolves around networking and pleasure. With us, both belong, set within a larger whole of body, mind and soul.
Clinics and practices usually step in once symptoms appear. We practise integrative preventive medicine: diagnostics with depth, evidence-informed natural medicine and the continuing conversation as part of the care.
Apps and wearables promise optimisation every half-minute. With us, technology works in the background. In the foreground are the people who accompany you.
Our contribution
We want our work to do good beyond our walls. A defined part of it flows back — to people in need, to charitable initiatives, to the region and to research. Exactly how, we are shaping with care, and will make transparent by the time we open. The knowledge we draw from science, we actively give back.
How we live this
To see how we translate this into architecture, medicine and everyday life, read our Manifesto and «How we are different».