Our Story

This didn't start as a business. It started as a wake-up call.

Release Wellness Lounge was built from a personal journey through chronic illness — and a conviction that most of us are carrying more than we realize, long before our body forces the conversation.

01 The Wake-Up

My body forced me to redefine what "healthy" really means.

For most of my life, I thought I was doing what healthy people are supposed to do. I ate relatively well. I stayed active. I went to the gym. I pushed through busy seasons of life. I assumed that if I looked healthy and kept moving, I was doing enough.

What I eventually learned is that being fit and being truly healthy are not always the same thing.

  • You can work out and still be inflamed.
  • You can eat well and still be stressed.
  • You can look fine on the outside while your body is carrying too much on the inside.

For years, my body was probably giving me signals — fatigue, tension, a steady undercurrent of stress, a sense that something was off. Like most people, I didn’t fully know what those signals meant.

 
02 The Diagnosis

Then my life changed.

After years of chronic inflammation and accumulated stress, I was diagnosed with two blood cancers: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Myelofibrosis.

In that moment, health stopped being about looking healthy. It became about understanding what was actually happening inside my body.

I started asking different questions. Why does the body break down? What role do stress, inflammation, and recovery actually play? And what does it really take to create an internal environment where the body can do what it was designed to do — heal itself?

I’ll never know whether my diagnosis could have been prevented. But I know this: I wish I had understood inflammation, stress, recovery, and balance long before my body forced me to.

That realization became the foundation of Release.

"I learned that looking healthy and being internally healthy are not always the same thing."

Amit Malik · Founder
Our Philosophy

Self-healing isn't magic.
It's biology, supported by the right conditions.

At Release, self-healing doesn’t mean ignoring medicine or pretending the body can fix everything on its own. It means creating the conditions where the body can do what it was already designed to do — recover, regulate, and repair.

Lower stress. Deeper rest. Better circulation. More oxygen. Less inflammatory load. Nervous system regulation. Consistency over time.

03 WHY RELEASE

I built the place I wish existed years ago.

As I went deeper into recovery, longevity, and inflammation reduction, I found pieces of what I needed — but rarely everything in one place.

Some places felt too clinical. Some too trendy. Some had great technology but no sense of healing experience. Some focused on performance without prevention. Some focused on services without addressing the deeper reason people need them.

Release Wellness Lounge was built to bring it together. Advanced therapies in a calm space. Recovery and longevity in the same conversation. Science-backed tools delivered with human warmth. A place to come consistently — to reduce stress, support recovery, lower inflammatory burden, and feel better in your own body.

This isn’t just a wellness studio. It’s a place to breathe. A place to recover. A place to release what your body has been holding. A place to start feeling better before life forces you to.

The Tools

Every therapy at Release has a purpose.

Each therapy we offer was chosen for a specific reason — to support a particular way the body recovers, regulates, or resolves inflammation. Together, they’re not a menu of services. They’re a system designed around how the body actually heals.

Cryotherapy Infrared Sauna Hyperbaric Oxygen Red Light Contrast Therapy Compression Breathwork & Meditation
tHE VISION

A new kind of wellness lounge.

Release was built for people who want to take their health seriously before they’re forced to.

Busy Parents
High Performers
Caregivers
Athletes
Executives
Under Stress
Longevity Focused
Anyone Feeling Off

Our vision is to create a new standard for wellness — elevated, accessible, consistent, and deeply human. Because the future of health isn’t just treating disease. It’s creating the conditions to prevent decline, support resilience, and help people feel better in their own bodies, every day.

 
a final note

You don't have to wait until something goes wrong.

  • You don’t need a diagnosis to take inflammation seriously.
  • You don’t need to be burned out to start reducing stress.
  • You don’t need to feel broken to begin supporting your body.

You can start now.

Release was built because I wish I had started earlier. My hope is that this space helps you do exactly that.

 
Founder

Amit Malik

Founder, Release Wellness Lounge
Amit Malik is a healthcare operator, consultant, husband, father, and blood cancer survivor based on the North Shore of Long Island. After being diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Myelofibrosis, he became deeply focused on inflammation, recovery, stress reduction, and longevity. Release Wellness Lounge was built from his personal healing journey and his mission to help others take control of their health before their body forces them to.
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