Inside LERÉI, Knightsbridge's £1,000-a-Month Wellness Club for Women

London's private members' clubs once competed over wine lists, dining rooms and the right sort of address. One of the capital's newest luxury propositions arrives with a rather different inventory: Lagree machines, infrared mats, a Himalayan salt sauna, Japanese scalp rituals and a wellness programme that can be informed by genomic testing.

Anyone who has tried to fit a Lagree class, facial and scalp appointment into the same London week will understand the appeal of LERÉI. Opening on Brompton Road in September, the new women-only members' club plans to put fitness, beauty treatments, recovery facilities and personalised health testing in the same building, with a lounge and bistro upstairs for the hours between appointments.

It sits somewhere between a private club, a spa, a beauty department and a health clinic. Membership begins at £1,000 a month and will stop at 150 women, so the audience is easy enough to picture: clients who already spend heavily across several parts of the wellness market and would rather manage that routine from one familiar address.

The opening comes as London's private clubs are becoming markedly more health-conscious. The Global Wellness Institute valued the worldwide wellness economy at $6.8 trillion in 2024, while some of the capital's best-known clubs are adding longevity clinics, recovery rooms and serious training facilities. LERÉI is taking that appetite and narrowing it to a smaller, female membership for whom privacy is part of the service.

Why the women-only model

Founder Tanya Chaudhary began working on the idea after struggling to find a place where she could exercise and recover without feeling watched, hurried or lost in a crowd. Her answer was a club built around the way women's needs change over time, with the programme divided into movement, beauty, restoration and longevity. LERÉI also uses five house terms - Restore, Renew, Replenish, Reconnect and Revitalise - to organise the different ways a member might use it.

"I was searching for a space where fitness and restoration could exist without scrutiny," Chaudhary explains. "Somewhere curated rather than crowded, luxurious in its silence, and elegantly feminine in its design."

A private entrance leads to the second-floor club by lift or sculptural staircase. Visionnaire, the Italian interiors house whose London showroom occupies the same Brompton Road building, has designed the rooms to feel furnished and lived in, with dressing suites and a vanity lounge taking the place of the usual gym changing room. It should feel possible to spend several hours here without the sense of waiting around between services.

The movement schedule leans towards controlled, low-impact training: Lagree, aerial and suspended work, sound-led restorative sessions and Mat Sculpt on Bon Charge red-light mats. Effe has installed the hydrothermal area, which includes a Himalayan salt sauna, an ice fountain and seated marble steam showers. LEMI treatment beds continue the Italian thread through the beauty rooms.

The treatment list moves from familiar maintenance to the more elaborate end of the spa menu. Korean Glass Hydrafacials sit alongside enzyme peels, oxygen treatments, 24k Elixir and Diamond Veil facials, caviar rituals, Brazilian lymphatic massage and body wraps. Takara Belmont has supplied the Japanese head spa, where Oribe products will be used for hair and scalp treatments. BTL devices add EMSculpt for body composition, EMSella for pelvic wellbeing, EMFace for facial toning and ExoMind for neuro-wellness can be found in the body sculpting room. And the wellness space promises to expand it’s offering even further, teasing an introduction of a cryochamber, an event room and a fully functioning kitchen which will serve feel good food.

Putting all of this in one club reflects how clients already behave, even if the beauty and wellness industries still tend to separate fitness, aesthetics, hair, spa and preventative health into different businesses. A woman might come for Lagree and the sauna one week, book a head spa the next and use the lounge for work after a facial. LERÉI has arranged the building around that crossover.

Where beauty meets health data

The most unusual part of the membership is a partnership with Precision Health Clinics and genomics specialist Dr Mansoor Mohammed. Clinical DNA and genomic testing will be available to help inform recommendations on exercise, recovery, nutrition and long-term health. That brings a different level of responsibility from the standard spa consultation: members paying for personalisation will expect their results to be explained by qualified people and turned into advice they can actually use.

LERÉI is also making room for the less clinical side of club life. Talks, small seminars, the co-working lounge and bistro give members somewhere to meet or work, while staff will record personal preferences and organise visits through a concierge service. Chauffeur transfers are included at the highest membership level.

The price of privacy

Monthly membership starts at £1,000, with a one-off joining fee of £2,000. The tiers provide set allowances for classes, facials, head-spa appointments, lymphatic treatments and use of the hydrothermal facilities, so further visits and treatments may still be charged separately, but despite this price tag more than 60 per cent of the 150 memberships have been reserved ahead of the September opening.

An annual bill of at least £12,000 places the club firmly at the rarefied end of London's wellness market but LERÉI has done what many other member clubs have been unable to - it has followed the customer rather than the industry's old categories. Its members are unlikely to think of a facial, a strength class, a scalp treatment and a genomic consultation as four unrelated purchases; they are all part of the same health and maintenance routine. The question after September will be whether members genuinely use LERÉI as a residence, staying to work, eat and recover, or continue to treat it as a particularly luxurious collection of appointments. If the former wins out, London is likely to see more wellness clubs built like private homes, with increasingly sophisticated treatment rooms behind the sitting room door.