Three worlds under one roof
Integrative medicine, a trusting community and nature as a load-bearing element for body, mind and soul, joined in a single membership, in the same green setting, close to the lake.
Those who join early help shape it.
The Fellowship is the circle of those who help shape The Lake Sanctuary. What takes form here is a shared work: calm, committed, as equals.
The beginning is made by the Founding Fellows. They carry the venture through its early phase and help decide on its structures. The wider circle of Sanctuary and Gold Fellows follows: early enough to shape what is taking form. The two paths and the founding status are described in the section «Two paths and a founding status».
What the contribution covers
And how we settle together what it is worth.
The contribution covers everything that carries the everyday. Access to the house and the park, movement, rest, company and one person who knows you and who accompanies your health over the years.
What each person wants or needs individually is added as required. Deeper diagnostics, therapy, single treatments, the food. On terms reserved for Fellows. These services are billed individually, so that you pay only for what you use.
We are not naming the contribution here yet. We are settling it together with the first Fellows. Further down you will find how that works and how you can have your say.
Five principles
Mental resilience as a pillar
Preventive psychological support is part of the membership, embedded in the rhythm of your week.
Integrative preventive medicine as practice
Here health is understood as a long-term practice: preventive, diagnosis-based, with diagnostics at university level.
Co-creation rather than consumption
Founding Fellows shape the concept, the programmes and the culture: in the Fellow Council, in twice-yearly Council Sessions and through the app.
Guidance rather than piecemeal services
Your personal Health Guide remains your constant point of contact throughout the membership, aligning diagnostics, treatment and everyday life.
A companion that grows with you.
At the centre stands a personal account that carries you through every phase: from the first conversation to everyday life in the house. From it grows the app that accompanies you each day: every element in one place, always at hand. We begin with five and develop them continually, in step with those who are there early.
Your personal Health Guide
Human and digital.
A companion team drawn from medicine, therapy and coaching, and a living picture of your health that joins diagnostics, trends and wearable data. You decide for yourself how deep it reaches.
Communities
Small enough to know one another.
Fellowship Circles of six to eight people and the exchange from Fellow to Fellow: recommendations, knowledge and offerings within the circle.
Programmes & experiences
Curated, in the rhythm of the year.
Journeys and Science Talks, shared dinner evenings and outings, with substance before show.
Co-creation
Your voice, built in.
Pulse check, programme resonance, open initiative: your voice is part of the day-to-day. How this works is shown by the three levels further below.
Service & logistics
Thought of before you ask.
Arrival across the lake, chauffeur and valet service, personal organisation. The practical recedes, so that the day is yours.
More on the Health Guide and measurement
Where you will notice the difference
Equipment and rooms can be listed. The difference comes from something else, and it sits in two answers: who accompanies you, and how we tell whether it is working.
Your personal Health Guide
Every Fellow has a Health Guide: a medically trained person who accompanies you over the years. You will know their name, and they will know your week: your readings, your routine, your history. They see your measurements before you ask for them, and they coordinate your appointments, including those with doctors outside this house.
Alongside them, a doctor with time for you, because the operation is built for it. We plan around three hours per month and Fellow: conversations, going through your data, coordinating your appointments. Over a year that comes to around thirty-six hours. An appointment at a GP practice usually runs ten to fifteen minutes.
The app and the tele-health access are open to you around the clock, including when you travel. Your Health Guide is reachable at times the two of you agree between you. We would rather say that precisely than sound generous.
And if you would like it, they get in touch once you have not been here for a while. Some people value that, others would rather be left in peace. You settle it at the admission conversation and can change it at any time.
And an attitude that wants to measure
We work with four anchors: body composition, metabolic capacity, stress resilience and sleep. They are taken at the start and again over time, so that you see what changes, and so that we notice early when something tips.
We carry biological age alongside, and we are restrained about it. The measurement uncertainty is of the order of two years. Anyone who turns that into a judgement about a person overstretches the method. We would rather tell you so than sell it to you.
Our methodology is to be reviewed scientifically once a year, and independently: by scientists at a university centre. Where large equipment is needed, this collaboration opens the way to it.
A year as a Fellow
What we offer follows a year. Seven elements, the same as under “What we offer” — here with what lies within the contribution and what is added as needed.
Element 01
Arriving
The first appointment is a conversation: time in which someone listens and asks the right questions.
Included
the first conversation, the baseline with body composition measurement and heart rate variability, your Health Guide, the ninety days with their conversations, your digital health record, the welcome package.
As needed
further diagnostics and laboratory profiles, where a finding suggests it or you wish for it.
After that we record a baseline (body composition, heart rate variability, your history), and you are given your Health Guide. The first ninety days are a period of getting to know one another, with two interim conversations and a review.
Element 02
Moving
Strength that arrives in everyday life.
Included
unlimited use of the eGym circuits and the training floors in the Performance Floor and the Smart Movement Lab, all group offerings (yoga, meditation, mobility, masterclasses), the park and the movement stations within it.
As needed
one-to-one coaching, physiotherapy, osteopathy.
The machines recognise you and set themselves, so that you can attend to the movement and to nothing else. Alongside that, functional training, classes and the park.
Element 03
Staying healthy
We attend to things before something is missing, and help when something is.
Included
the ongoing support of your Health Guide and of your doctor, the follow-up measurements of the four anchors, virtual care through the app and the tele-health access, the coordination of every appointment, including those outside this house.
As needed
deeper diagnostics and laboratory profiles, medical treatment, psychological support and coaching, technical regeneration methods such as altitude training, whole-body cold and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and intensive programmes over three to six months, where a subject needs more than the everyday.
This is the medical part, and it is the reason this place exists.
We run these methods as evidence-informed regeneration, and we make distinctions. Altitude training and whole-body cold have limited evidence; we offer them as an experience. Where a recognised indication exists, we say so. Where the research is at an early stage, we say that too.
Element 04
Resting
The day sets itself down before it settles in.
Included
sauna and cold application, the pool, quiet zones, covered rest decks in the park that are used in winter too, silent pavilions for yoga and meditation, and the lake a few minutes' walk away.
As needed
massage and manual therapy, the private suites with their own sauna and cold-water pool for half a day for two.
Sauna, cold, water, park and quiet that stands in the calendar.
Element 05
Savouring
The good life, thought through in terms of health.
Included
access to the restaurant, the terrace and the Health Bar; taking part in the shared tables and the gatherings. Access belongs to the membership, and what you consume is charged as it is in any good house.
As needed
everything you eat and drink. Alongside that, the guest chef evenings and a few lighter days in the year: a deliberately reduced way of eating over a few days, medically supervised, that gives the metabolism a pause.
Biodynamic, regional, at a level you would otherwise book a table for.
Element 06
Belonging
A place where people know one another.
Included
the quiet rooms of the house, among them a silent room with books where the telephone stays in the bowl, and booths for confidential calls, because most of us work. The Fellowship Circles: small groups of six to eight people who accompany one another over years. The shared gatherings. And the right to propose two people each year who belong here.
As needed
This part costs only time.
The part that is hardest to describe and easiest to feel.
Element 07
Experiencing
What stays in the memory.
Included
the Science Talks and expert lectures, the monthly programme, the gatherings of the Fellowship.
As needed
the journeys, among them to the regions of the world where people grow old in notably good health, as well as special evenings and single formats outside the programme.
Something new each month, so that a year here looks different from the one before.
The same thread runs through all seven elements: the same person, the same record, the same knowledge of you. All of it grows with the years.
As a Co-Creator, you shape what we become.
A club can be entered. A Fellowship comes into being. Those who join in this early phase step into an open process of shaping and help determine how an idea becomes lived practice.
We deliberately call this circle Co-Creators. It expresses a stance: your experience, your expectations and your measure of involvement flow into what The Lake Sanctuary becomes.
An invitation from this circle leads to a first, confidential conversation.
Three levels of co-creation.
Some things are settled, much is open. We make transparent what forms the frame, what you shape together and what each calibrates for themselves.
Backbone
What is settled.
Values, medical care and the character of the house are set. They give a hold and remain dependable.
Co-Created
What Fellows shape.
Programmes, rituals, the cadence of togetherness: much comes into being in dialogue with those who are there early.
Personally Calibrated
What each chooses for themselves.
Depth, pace and closeness of data you determine for yourself. Here, companionship means: fitted to you.
Two paths and a founding status
We had three categories. Looked at honestly, there are two paths and one role, and we would rather say it that way.
Sanctuary Fellow
The path most people take. Everything described on this page as included in the contribution. Early cohorts keep their entry contribution for an assured period, even once it rises for those who join later.
Gold Fellow
For people whose scarcest resource is time. The same core, and in addition a full session of coaching or therapy each month, preferred access to the technical treatments and to the private suites, a personal locker whose contents lie ready and fresh at the next visit, and once a month a guest who pays nothing.
The supplement buys relief: time, privacy, logistics that work by themselves.
Founding Fellow
A role, to be had fifty times. Founding Fellows help decide what this place looks like — from the contribution model to the programme. Their contribution is fixed for ten years, they sit on the extended admissions panel and they experience the house before it opens.
Those who wish to go further can take a stake in the company behind it. That is a separate decision and not part of the membership.
It is the price of being there early, with all the risk and all the freedom to shape it that come with that.
Later: a second way in
Some people are mainly looking for movement, water and community. For them there will be a second way in: at quieter times of day, in defined areas, without personal guidance. We will open it once the Fellowship is in place. Write to us if you would like to be noted down.
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The contribution and why there is no figure here yet
We could write a figure down. We have one, internally, from a fully costed model. And we are in conversations with the first Fellows just now in which we learn something each time that moves the figure. Publishing it now would mean ending a conversation we still want to have.
What we can say: it will be an annual contribution, because a year is the unit this place thinks in, and the unit in which health changes. Early cohorts will keep their contribution.
Tell us what it would be worth to you
This is the way this contribution comes about. In the Self-Portrait we ask you four things, and your answer goes straight into the decision:
- What do you spend in a year today on movement, rest and medical prevention — added up across all contracts and providers?
- What would a place like this be worth to you in a year?
- At what annual contribution would it become too expensive for you to consider at all?
- Below what annual contribution would you begin to doubt the quality?
We ask the last two deliberately. A price that is too low says as much about a place like this as one that is too high.
Anyone who completes the Self-Portrait receives a personal response on which path fits, and the figures, as soon as they stand, ahead of everyone else.
What a year like this costs today
Most of the people we speak to already have all of it — spread out. A membership for movement. A check-up with a private provider. A few hours of coaching. A club for social life. Four contracts, four places, four sets of data that know nothing of one another. And a sizeable part of the year is spent in the car.
Added together, at published Zurich prices:
| What you pay today | Per year |
|---|---|
| A longevity check-up | CHF 2'500 – 7'300 |
| A dozen hours of therapy or coaching | CHF 2'300 – 2'900 |
| Personal training, once or twice a week | CHF 4'200 – 9'400 |
| A dozen regeneration treatments | CHF 700 – 2'500 |
| Together | CHF 9'700 – 22'100 |
Published prices, Zurich region, as at 2026. Swiss market prices in Swiss francs, not converted.
On top of that would come membership of a networking club. What the Zurich houses charge for it they do not publish. It lies well above the figures one finds on the internet.
The second possibility is a week a year at a clinic, in Switzerland or just across the border. In Switzerland that costs between eight and eleven thousand francs depending on the programme, and a multiple of that at the leading houses. They are good houses, and the week works. Only afterwards the everyday begins again, and the everyday is stronger than a week.
Here the everyday is the place. One contribution, one house, one person who knows you, three hundred and sixty-five days.
Why we bill some things separately
We could bundle everything and ask for a contribution that would be a multiple of it. Then people who need one massage a year pay for the therapy hours of those who need one a week. Convenient for us, unfair to you.
The line therefore runs there: what carries the everyday is in the contribution. What is individual and unevenly distributed is added as needed.
For everything that is added, Fellow terms apply, clearly below Zurich single-session prices. And part of the modules will be certified in such a way that you can claim it through supplementary health insurance (in Switzerland, cover taken out privately in addition to the compulsory basic insurance, which reimburses defined preventive and therapeutic services). What comes back depends on your policy, and we will look into that with you before you book anything.
We hold to one principle: our doctors are guided by your goal, and no one here earns anything by recommending one treatment more.
What we leave out
You can tell a place by what it leaves out, too.
No infusions without demonstrated benefit. No whole-body imaging without cause: the risk of overdiagnosis and incidental findings weighs heavier than the gain, and the radiological professional bodies see it the same way. No detox or energy-medicine language without a mechanism. And no promise of a younger age at the push of a button: no method marketed today demonstrably slows, halts or reverses human ageing.
We choose our partners by their stance, even where others would bring more reach.
It costs us attention. That is the price of being someone you can believe.
What we are working on right now.
We say openly where the venture stands. Substance shows itself in openness, too.
The individual steps
- The house and its setting are taking shape. We will announce the details as soon as they are binding.
- The personal account and the Fellowship access make the beginning; the app grows step by step.
- The first programmes and Circles come into being together with the early circle.
- For months the offering has been taking form in dialogue with doctors, university researchers, healthspan experts, therapists, wellness architects and hospitality partners. Much is in place, and it remains deliberately open to what the first circle needs. We will name names as soon as they are binding.
Those who join early see these steps first and help shape them.
Already invited?
If someone from the circle has passed on an access to you, set up your personal account here at your leisure.
The path into the first cohort.
No invitation yet? The first step is the self-portrait: a confidential questionnaire in which we come to know your circle of values and your expectations. From it grows, where it fits, a personal conversation.
The way here leads through invitation and conversation.
The aim: to live on your own terms for as long as possible, to stay mobile, and to spend time with the people who matter to you. Everything on this page serves that one purpose.
Confidential, around twenty minutes.
See the journey through a year
