Luxury Homes That Promise to Reduce Stress—For $4 Million

Jeny Mathis practices yoga in the open-air yoga studio of her home in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga., completed last year for about $1 million. / By Jeff Herr for the Wall Street Journal

 

By Amy Gamerman | The Wall Street Journal

A meditation courtyard with a reflecting pool. An open-air yoga studio hung with silken hammocks. A medicinal garden planted with calming herbs.

It may sound like a tour of an ashram, but these are some of the features that mark a trend in luxury real estate: the mindful mansion.

“Mindfulness is paying attention—it’s being present in the moment. When you build and design a house, you can design it in a way to cultivate mindfulness,” said Jeny Mathis, who created the gauzy yoga studio for her home in Chattahoochee Hills, Ga., about 30 miles outside of Atlanta. Ms. Mathis, 46 years old, who teaches aerial yoga, often starts her day in a hammock, meditating.

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