When Dr. Jonathan Leary opened up Remedy Place in Los Angeles in 2019, he redefined the meaning of a wellness club. Dr. Leary, who spent years working as a global concierge wellness doctor for athletes, C-suite executives, and music artists, sought out to create a space where people could practice social self-care. Remedy Place is the world’s first social wellness club that offers alternative medicine treatments from doctors, ancient practices, and treatments using the latest technology.
Views of the city.
‘Remedies,’ as they’re referred, can be booked by members and non-members alike and include an infrared sauna, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, lymphatic compression suits, ice baths, cryotherapy, acupuncture, naturopathic medicine, functional medicine consults, IV drips, and much more. It encourages social self-care for those that want to combine health and socialization.
The living and kitchen area.
But it’s not just the cutting-edge holistic remedies on offer; Dr. Leary has created a chic, relaxing spot with high-end design that makes you want to spend time there. With $5 million capital raised and a valuation of $60 million, Remedy Place plans to open other destinations in Los Angeles and New York. Dr. Leary, impressively enough, designed the flagship Los Angeles club himself and decided to implement the same principles of a relaxing environment within his own home.
It has seamless indoor-outdoor living.
“With Remedy, I had a major role in the design because I had a vision of exactly what I wanted it to be,” Dr. Leary tells Forbes. “I got a lot of pushback from people saying it’s too dark or things might look bad, but when it opened, everyone was blown away. We even won a global design award.”
The bedroom.
So when it came to his own house, he sought out to create an extension of Remedy Place and a space where it evokes similar feelings: inner calm, tranquility, and a place to reset. Like Remedy Place, he was able to perfectly see a vision for his home.
“It was 70 years untouched and pretty gross when I first purchased it,” he says. “I couldn’t even shower here for the first month. I knew when I walked onto the property and saw the view that it had to happen.”
He created one open living space.
He then embarked on an extensive renovation by tearing down walls, adding extra beaming, and making the heart of the home one open space. He also had to redo the plumbing, electrical, roof, windows, kitchen, and bathrooms. The result is a beautiful home with a spacious living and kitchen area. One of the most beautiful features is the new 500-square-foot terrace at the front of the home, which features a built-in couch, fireplace, limestone fountain, and large olive tree. The patio is accessed via sliding glass doors that, when open, combine the kitchen, living, dining, and patio for seamless indoor-outdoor living. There’s a separate 1,000-square-foot patio overlooking the Los Angeles city skyline. He has plans to add an outdoor cinema, two additional olive trees, a 16-person dining table, and maybe a built-in hot tub.
Dr. Leary on his deck.
“At Remedy we say it’s designed to heal, and we focus on how our environment plays such an important role in our physiology and mental health,” he says. “The more research there is now [about the role our environments play], it makes more sense, whether it’s the feng shui of the furniture or the flow of the room.”
Creating calm at home, whether it’s adding plants, introducing artificial light, or creating a clean, safe space, might even help reduce anxiety and depression.
“I’m working 100-hour work weeks, but this home is really peaceful,” he says. “With any monochromatic color scheme, it can sometimes feel cold, so I turned up the color tone and the warmth of all the grays in the home. Lighting also creates a dramatic feel and can be very impactful to our health. The home’s lighting is totally different by day and night. Blue light is also terrible, so I found ways to eliminate that in the home with dimmers and adding warm lighting.”
Dr. Leary journaling.
Dr. Leary says that lighting can even affect our heart rate, and by incorporating dim and warm light, your heart rate can actually stay lower. He also added a lot of Venetian plaster and warm mushroom-colored concrete to not make it feel stale. Dr. Leary prefers a minimalist design, which he believes is more soothing.
Many spaces are also created for wellness practices. He enjoys working out on his decks, journaling and meditating while overlooking the LA skyline, and using his Normatec compression boots while laying on the built-in couch outside. He even has a dedicated closet to store his wellness devices. In terms of advice he has for others, he suggests a ‘less is more’ policy, especially when trying to create your sanctuary.
“A lot of people rely on others’ perspectives, but really your home should be an extension of you and what you love,” he says. “You have to make sure you love it first. I also invest a bit more in my favorite areas of the home. If you’re going to use a certain spot everyday for journaling or disconnecting, make sure it’s comfortable.”
The home has a minimalist aesthetic.
Remedy Place’s New York outpost will open later this year, and the company has even more planned on the horizon.

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