Time seems to stop as soon as you enter the spa of the Royal Monceau, signed Philippe Starck. Under the banner of My Blend by Clarins, this luxurious cocoon of immaculate white design invites zenitude with the Balance Massage with Essential Oils .

This classic of the brand, based on the six fundamental touches to relax the body and restore energy, is made on demand with the Relax oil with extracts of chamomile and basil, or with Tonic oil with rosemary extracts.

Enveloping maneuvers more or less deep according to the tensions, laying of warm towels on the belly and the cervical, vibratory movements on the solar plexus and at the top of the skull on the crown chakras to reactivate the IQ favor the positive sensations.

The mind stalls, the body recharges its batteries, the skin becomes more satin.

Royal Monceau Spa (and in Clarins spas), 37 avenue Hoche, 75008 Paris 01 42 99 88 99

Another soothing massage that transports you to unknown countries: the new Care of the 4 Seasons, created Lanqi, native of Mongolia, based on the concept of humidity of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Associated with cold or heat, humidity is the most disruptive element for the body. It infiltrates it gradually, engendering physical and intellectual blockages.

To evacuate and strengthen the energies , the protocol begins with a Tuina massage. First the back and the neck to identify tensions and loosen the knots in depth, then on the rest of the body with a series of friction, kneading, stretching, tapping. The maneuvers are light or fast, slow or fast to circulate fluids.

Then the practitioner stimulates in a determined order ten specific meridian points, from head to toe, to eliminate toxins via the lymph and balance the Ying and Yang.

Total relaxation assured.

Lanqi Spa , 48 avenue de Saxe, 75007 Paris, 01 44 38 72 05, 91 rue de Javel 75015 Paris, 01 45 79 63 67, 18 rue de Beffroy, 92200 Neuilly, 01 47 38 10 69.

Specialized for 15 years in rituals from elsewhere, Cinq Mondes proposes to sail to other shores during the Sublime Massage of Polynesia.

Inherited from island healers and inspired by Lomi-Lomi, care by a quick modeling of the back in fetal position. It is made with a mixture of nutritive dry oil and repairing balm , both based on Noni and Monoi which leave a velvety finish.

The practitioner alternates pressure with the folded phalanges and long movements smoothed with the forearms. The protocol ends with a final massage of the cervical seated.

The work on energy flows has helped to relieve tension and to ease facial features.

Results: the cortisol level, the stress hormone, is reduced and back pain or trapezius flight.

Cinq Mondes Spa, 6 Louis Jouvet Square, 75009 Paris, 01 42 66 00 60.

Just a stone's throw from the Trocadero, mixing the mineral and woody elements, the Villa Thalgo spa includes a Relaxing Hot Stone Massage on its menu. Appreciable when temperatures are low, this Native American ritual deeply relaxes the muscles.

After applying the water massage oil (which combines the energizing primalgTM and essential oils of sesame and soy), the practitioner massages you first manually, then with volcanic stones heated in water at 50 degrees.

The pebbles of an infinite softness are sometimes used to touch, press, rub, sometimes deposited along the meridians and on the painful points. The heat boosts the action of the oil that penetrates more easily, warms the sore musculature and relieves even aches after physical exertion (it promotes the rejection of lactic acid).

We leave the body and mind appeased, the tone found.

Villa Thalgo (and in the institutes, spas and thalassotherapy Thalgo ), 8 avenue Raymond Poincaré, 75016 Paris 01 45 62 00 20

Named after the Japanese tea-making ceremony, the Thémaé Spa focuses entirely on the exceptional benefits of tea (an age-old plant with 200 times the antioxidant power of vitamin E ).

After an invitation to tranquility with the tasting of a white tea flavored peach / pineapple (one of six infusions of the brand), we continue the sensory journey with a Relaxing Oriental Massage. "This is the favorite of those who are not followers of institutes," says Catherine Gassmann, spa manager.

With a pendulum movement, the therapist chained kneading and smoothing to release tension and soften the tissues.

Spray of tea mist that releases tonic aromas, warm towels, warm mask on the eyes, divine cranial massage: all these little extras, tinged with cultures and ancestral influences, contribute to total letting go.

Thémaé Spa , 20-22 Rue des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris, 01 40 20 48 60.