Tim Mitja Zagar
Rebuilding the birthplace of natural healing.
I grew up near Bled. As a kid, I used to walk past a villa that was slowly falling apart. That villa is the Kursalon, built in 1895 as the central hall of Arnold Rikli's sanatorium. Rikli was a Swiss natural healer known as the Sun Doctor. He arrived in Bled in 1855 and spent fifty years building what became Europe's first destination for natural healing. His legacy was systematically erased. First by nationalism. Then by communism. The building survived. The story didn't.
I acquired the villa in 2024. We're returning Rikli's story to Bled. Not as a relic. As a living place where his ideas about nature, light, and the body meet the world again. Reconstruction begins in 2026.
Bled
Villa Rikli
Authentic restoration of the 1895 Kursalon. Returning the building and the story to where they belong.
Rikli's "Natural Healing" (1905), translated
We translated Rikli's principal work from the 8th German edition into English. 1,500 paragraphs on atmospheric therapy, light, water, diet, and movement. A 120-year-old book that reads like it was written yesterday.
Background
2024
Acquired Villa Rikli, Bled
2016
Co-founded ICONOMI (digital asset management)
2014
Co-founded Cashila (first EU-licensed bitcoin company)
Building sivix.com
"Water is good, air is better, but light is the best of all."
Arnold Rikli, 1855