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An Elegant Suite At The Sublime Comporta

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After A Beach Day

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Today, The Water Is Chilled And Stirred In Comporta

After some swimming in powerful waves and rolls, we chill out in comfortable chairs. Wrapped in sweet fleece blankets (yep, freezing cold wind), silent I look at the ocean and beautiful beach.

Twenty minutes later (by car), we arrive at the Sublime Comporta: a n exclusive hotel with 14 rooms and suites in an posh country house with a Mediterranean influence. This retreat is nestled in the center of a vast pine forest (17 acre-estate). The architecture tastefully blends into the setting.

By discovering our suite (the Owner’s suite), I am nicely surprised! Refined furnishing chosen with taste, a mixture of handcrafted items and famous designers pieces, the attention to detail, intimate spacious airy volume with lots of light and a peaceful view overlooking part of the property.

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A View To The Pine Trees And Swimming Pool

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Time Froze

A short stop at the spa and already 8 p.m. something … Back to the suite, warm soft light of an endless late afternoon. In the garden, a wooden hut for yoga and meditation. I have to prepare myself for dinner, but I slouch.

Extra zen, I like to hang out and the concept of having nothing else to do: the Mediterranean part of my mix. Just the pleasure of being, observing and disconnecting.

There is also a jacuzzi in the other terrace of the suite, which overlooks the shower and large bathroom. Okay, I have to hurry up, our table is reserved for 9 pm, well let’s say 9.30 p.m. (lol). Tomorrow I will test the glamorous pool before the beach.

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Many thanks to all the team of Sublime Comporta, for this beautiful invitation. Do I still need to precise that these opinions are mine?

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!

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Riraku, le Spa du Hyatt Regency Kyoto : Découverte de l’acuponcture japonaise

Quand on accède au spa Riraku

du Hyatt Regency Kyoto, on a tout de suite la sensation d’être dans un mini cocon “chaud” (boiseries claires, lumières tamisées, mouvements feutrés). J’ai choisi dans les Thérapies médicales japonaises, le soin Bishin : plus d’une heure d’acuponcture japonaise. Découverte absolue ! 

Mon peignoir enfilé, le médecin généraliste, une jeune femme japonaise, me tend un questionnaire. Ce sera elle qui me prodiguera mon traitement d’acuponcture japonaise. Elle complète son diagnostique (déjà très précis) sur mon dos maltraité par du matériel photo lourd! 

Elle se désinfecte les mains et m’invite à m’allonger, en sortant de son emballage, une très fine et longuissime aiguille stérilisée au bout supérieur rouge. Oups oups! Concentrée, elle localise un point particulier et d’un geste vif plante l’aiguille. A peine si je ressens un très léger pincement. 

Une fois toutes les aiguilles parsemées sur la zone à traiter, elle me couvre d’un duvet, descend l’intensité lumineuse et me laisse “reposer”. Je suis en lévitation, j’ai vaguement froid : en parfaite somnolence lorsqu’elle revient une demi-heure plus tard (paraît-il).

En retirant les aiguilles,

elle excerce parfois une forte pression des deux mains. Avant de me quitter, elle m’explique la nature exacte de mon mal de dos et me recommende des séances d’acuponcture japonaise supplémentaires.

Je ressors vidée et chancelante, le corps complétement “marsmallow”. Je ne rêve que d’une chose m’allonger, ne rien faire ni penser. Formidable zénitude made in Japan! 

Par contre le lendemain matin, j’ai la sensation d’avoir un corps tout neuf, comme si une énergie incroyable circulait. A essayer absolument, de préférence en fin de journée : surtout ne rien prévoir après pour en profiter un maximum! Sugoi sugoi!

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