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Riraku, The Spa of The Hyatt Regency Kyoto : The Incredible Experience of The Japanese Acuponcture

As soon as I arrived in the Riraku spa, 

I felt being in a warm refine cocon (light panelling, subdued lights, cosy flow). I choose in the Japanese Medical Therapies menu, the Bishin treatment : more than one hour of Japanese acuponture treatment. A real discovery for me!

My bathrobe worn, the Japanese medical practitioner, a Japanese young woman, gives me a questionnaire. She will be my Japanese acuponture therapist.  She completes her precise diagnostic of my back pain (due to heavy photo equipment)!

She disinfects her hands and asks me to lie down and takes a long thin needle sterilised out of the box. Oops oops! She focusses a particular acuponture point and inserts the needle from a quick movement. I feel a really mild pinching, almost nothing. 

When she finishes with needles, she covers me with a cover and comes down the light intensity and leaves me “relaxing”. I’m floatting in the air, feeling a bit cold : in a perfect sleepness when she cames back half an hour later (she said).

Removing the needles,

she sometimes presses hard on the body with her hands. Before leaving, she explains me the correct assessment for my back problems and recommends me more Japanese acuponture treatments. 

I walk out drained and shaky, in a “marsmallow” body. I just want to chill, relax and doing nothing. Zen made in Japan! But the next morning, I woke up fresh  in a new body full of an incredible energy.

You definetly have to test it at the end of the day, planning nothing after if you really want to enjoy it! Sugoi sugoi!

Informations

www.kyoto.regency.hyatt.com   

Spa reservations : T. 075 541 3180, [email protected]

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Vidago Palace: A Futuristic Spa

I take you to the Vidago Palace, a superb Belle Epoque palace in the amazingly beautiful Douro valley (picture 3), in the North of Portugal. Calm amind the lush green, the spa is located in the futuristic new wing of Alvaro Siza Vieira (one of my favourite architects). Wow!  Seduced, I cross the long corridor from the main building to the 2500 meters squares spa. The retina dazzled by the spectrum of the light, I enter in a minimalist spacious hall  in white marble : the reception of the spa. The responsible of beauty treatments diagnosed : it will be a face treatment, including the new generation mesotherapy and a hand massage. Divine. He starts with a soft skin cleansing and the meso without injection (picture 2). I feel like quite being in a high tech laboratory… with an edonist vibe.

The atmosphere changes, by candlelight and bed heating (picture 1), I fall in sleep during the massage. When I wake up, my skin looks brighter and  my face relaxer. Then I go to the chill-out room, like a sas before going back down to earth. I could stay for ages, just drinking green tea. Unfortunately, I can’t give you the name of this made-to-measure facial treatment, I lost my prescription… oops! Good news,  in this refine spa, I’ve discovered an excellent Brit skin line with essential oils, Aromatherapie Associates. To be continued in a coming-up post…

Info : Vidago Palace Spa, Phone (+351) 276 990 970.

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Nickel, Paris: Face Treatments For Men

Gentlemen, I’d really like to make you discover

those serious face treatments, with great funny names! A early thirties friend’s told me about Nickel few months ago, as: The best label. I’ve discovered it in the French magazine for men, Optimum. Efficient products for us, without too much blablabla…”.

True, considering the name of products: “Bonne Gueule “ (Good Face), the moisturizer. “Moorning After Rescue Gel” (in French “Lendemain de Fête” literately means “Moorning after partying”): to have a good complexion. “Fire Insurance”: the after shave cream! And “Super Clean”: the scrubbing gel.

So I ask five friends (from 20 to 37) to test those products. And the younger as the older wanted to have the same: a clean and comfortable skin and don’t look tired. Afraid to age? Cool, the stress has gained our male friends.

And the winner is the “Moorning After Rescue Gel “ all of them found it great! Just one problem: the “expensive price” I quote. For us, the ladies: if those skin cares can help you gentlemen, not to take our very very expensive specific super efficient creams, so we do love Nickel too!

Don’t we say somewhere in a Disney harem: an immaculate clean man’s worth three, do we? Mmm I guess: a well-manner and nicely shod and  immaculate and clean gentleman’s worth two… No: three! You’ve been warned!  

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