The Ex-Tech Millionaire Giving Away Health Secrets
Inside the Radical World of Human Garage..
As Bangkok's heavy evening air settles around my home in a quiet cul-de-sac in the East of Bangkok, Garry Lineham appears on my screen from a mountain resort, that sits in landscape surrounded by waterfalls and lush greenery in up county - New York state.
At 55, Garry Lineham appears remarkably fit for someone who spent decades battling chronic pain - so fit, in fact, that he looks like he works out regularly, though he insists he doesn't. "I don't have to do anything to maintain the physique," he says with a hint of amazement in his voice. "As a matter of fact, it keeps getting better."
Ten years ago, Garry Lineham was charging Hollywood's elite $21,000 for three-day treatment sessions, with some clients spending upwards of $100,000 for complete programs.
Today, he gives away his methodology for free. It's the kind of transformation story that might sound too good to be true - and depending on your perspective, it might be.
The journey that led to Human Garage reads like a Silicon Valley thriller crossed with a wellness manifesto. Before becoming a health guru, Lineham was a tech entrepreneur who built thirteen companies, taking two from startup to $50 million valuations in under five years.
Then came the fall: 17 months in solitary confinement, held as a "terrorist" for refusing to turn over servers to the government. "I was in the world of top secret," he says matter-of-factly. "I worked with governments and encrypted data."
But to understand Human Garage's radical approach to wellness, you have to start with Garry Lineham's own health journey. He spent over twenty years seeking solutions for chronic pain, investing what he estimates as two and a half million dollars in treatments worldwide. "I was that messed up," he recalls. "I was that guy that nobody could help. I could get function and work out, but I was just in a lot of pain all the time.
His breakthrough came through an unlikely partnership with Dr. David Rubenstein, whose brain-body therapy showed promise but ultimately couldn't solve Lineham's issues. "He said to me, 'I know it has to do with fascia, but I don't know what it is,'" Lineham recalls. This admission of uncertainty would become the catalyst for what followed.
The story of Human Garage begins, fittingly enough, in an actual garage in Venice Beach, California. In 2014, Lineham and a small team were treating patients in a 900-square-foot apartment, having stripped it of furniture save for a bedroom.
They were generating $75,000 monthly in treatment fees - impressive for a startup clinic.
The name came accidentally - a maintenance worker commented that they had "finally moved in from the garage" where they'd treated their first patient. The irony wasn't lost on Lineham.
Their approach focused on fascia manipulation, a painful but effective two-hour process that Lineham claims could transform the human body. "It was quite painful," he admits. "But at the end of it, you got up and you functioned." This hands-on methodology would later evolve into something far more accessible - and free.
The pandemic forced a radical pivot. Stuck in a retreat centre with mounting bills and no ability to bring in clients, Lineham and his team began experimenting with ways to translate their hands-on treatment approach into something people could do themselves. "When the pandemic happened, I was in pain again," he recalls. "So I was like, 'Well, how do I get that feeling I had on the table? How do I do it myself?'"
The result was a series of movement sequences that, according to Lineham, can achieve in two or three sessions what used to take 12 weeks. Their social media success came almost by accident. Unpolished videos of Lineham answering questions or demonstrating techniques regularly hit millions of views, while their carefully planned content struggles to reach 80,000.
Today, Human Garage claims to reach 20 million people worldwide, with Lineham insisting their offline impact is ten times greater.
The organisation's structure is as unconventional as its approach to wellness. The core team of 15-20 people lives communally, traveling together and operating without personal bank accounts.
"We kind of live like monks," Lineham explains. Even their coaches and practitioners - numbering around 40 to 50 - volunteer their time. It's a model that seems almost designed to raise eyebrows in the profit-driven wellness industry.
Lineham's views on health and medicine are equally unorthodox. He claims that humans have 380 trillion viruses in their bodies (compared to just 50 trillion cells), and that the human body can generate "700 trillion volts of electricity" - equivalent to "30 generated suns." He argues that every virus and disease in human history is already present in our DNA at birth, challenging fundamental principles of modern medicine.
Behind the free content and casual demeanour lies an ambitious data collection project. "We're conducting the largest study on human beings in the history of recorded mankind," Lineham declares, comparing their scope to historical medical data collection while emphasising their ethical, voluntary approach.
The organisation is building an AI-powered database of user experiences, tracking everything from physical symptoms to emotional and interpersonal changes.
Their global reach appears particularly strong in India, where Lineham claims "top 20 celebrities" practice their methods daily. The movement is expanding through what he calls "the original social media" - word of mouth - while also leveraging modern platforms. Their content is being translated through AI, with plans to reach all major languages by year's end.
Lineham's predictions for the future range from intriguing to apocalyptic. He speaks of a coming societal transformation starting September 1st, 2024, tied to "Capricorn moving back into Pluto." He believes the global population will reduce to four billion in the next three to five years, and that traditional concepts of money will dissolve. "Money is just taxation of human time," he muses, suggesting that the future lies in value exchange rather than currency.
In recent months, mainstream institutions have begun taking notice. Lineham mentions an upcoming appearance on "Behind the Brand," a podcast that has hosted Simon Sinek and Elon Musk. He's being approached by major media outlets after years of intentional reclusiveness. "I've been reclusive for the last four years," he explains, "because I was figuring out how I wanted to show up in the world with what we're doing."
Whether you view Human Garage as a revolutionary wellness movement or the world's most elaborate self-help experiment likely depends on your tolerance for unorthodox thinking.
Their commitment to giving everything away for free stands in stark contrast to an industry built on monetising secrets. Their methods challenge conventional medical wisdom, while their organisational structure defies traditional business models.
"We don't want to control the narrative," Lineham says when I ask about future books or documentaries. "There'll be many books written about this, many documentaries, but we've chosen not to film our own." He pauses, then adds with a smile, "I don't want to control how the world sees me."
As Bangkok's night deepens, I sit at my desk, wondering about the zoom interview I just had..slightly perplexed and not sure if this is all for real.. If Garry Lineham and his Human Garage represent the future of wellness or is it simply an interesting detour.
They've managed to build something that seems increasingly rare in today's world - a movement that thrives by giving rather than taking, growing by letting go of control rather than tightening it. Whether their radical experiment succeeds may depend less on their methodology and more on whether the world is ready for their message.
What's undeniable is their impact. With millions of followers and testimonials flooding in daily, they've created something that defies easy categorisation. As Garry Lineham puts it, "The law of attraction is completely in action right now." Time will tell if he's right about that - and about everything else.
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