… our story begins with an old book about a princess of Al-Qamar and a slightly crazy engineer who found a 100-year-old couch.
Listen to the story of Al-Qamar
In the old tale, a princess has fallen into a deep and lasting sadness. She is withdrawn, downcast, and unable to find rest. Nothing seems to lift her spirits, and the Caliph does not know how to help her.
One night, an ancient sage from Yemen appears to the Caliph in a dream. He tells him of the desert cats and their mysterious purr — a continuous, low-frequency vibration the cats produce when they withdraw and seek comfort.
The sage tells the Caliph to have the artisans build a lounger that carries this purr within its frame.
The artisans build it. On the night of the full moon, the downcast princess rests upon it. For the first time in years, she sleeps deeply. In the morning, she wakes refreshed and full of life.
The story stayed with us. Not because we believed an ancient tale had already solved something, but because it raised a fascinating question:
Why does a cat purr when it is injured, frightened, or simply seeking comfort?
That continuous, low-frequency vibration has fascinated researchers for decades. We wondered whether there was something in this ancient instinct worth exploring.
Across very different traditions, people have long used continuous sound and vibration to create stillness and presence. In the ancient practice of Yoga, the sound of Om is sustained as a long, resonant tone — felt as much as heard. The cat’s purr seemed to tell a remarkably similar story in another language: a continuous vibration, created naturally, without words.
We began to wonder whether there was something universal in this simple principle — something that could be explored with modern materials, engineering and a deeper understanding of how the human body responds to vibration.
Then we found the couch.
We started with the lounger itself. The LC4, designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, was an obvious place to begin: a Zero-Gravity design created around the human body, movement, balance and rest.
A 100-year-old design became the starting point for something entirely new.
From there, we brought together the ingredients we knew mattered: exceptional materials, Swiss craftsmanship, German engineering, and a precisely calibrated system of low-frequency vibration that can be felt through the body rather than simply heard.
After years of experimentation, testing and refinement, that idea became a physical system.
We call it The LifePod.
It is not a prescribed program. It does not tell you what you should feel or how you should respond. It simply creates an environment in which you can explore your own response to sound, vibration, stillness and time.
Perhaps that is the most important part of the story.
We did not invent the purr. We followed the question it raised.