If there is one person who immediately creates a good mood, it is Gwenaelle De Grouchy-Waché. Meet the woman who works for well-being.
To find it, all you have to do, after making contact of course, is to go to the Relais de Saint-Michel (municipality of Villegusien-le-Lac). There, in a brand new and specially designed spacethe one we only know by the nickname Gwen, welcomes you with open arms.
Pleasant and always in an even mood, she has only one wish: restore well-being to those who need it. A mission that she has been offering for several years now, after a completely different journey.
“Daughter of a soldier, since the age of fourteen I have always been in the restaurant business, or in related fields, depending on my father's assignments. Later, in 2009, when we took over, with my partner, the Ferme de Suxy, in the territory of Saint-Broingt-les-Fosses, I raised laying hens, while working with a pizza chef..
However, as quarantine approached and confinement loomed, Gwen felt the need to change pathsin particular by turning to a world that had fascinated her for a long time, namely well-being.
Massage, a no-brainer
A real click when “I did a massage discovery day in Sombernon, the first time I started massaging, I immediately felt at home”, remembers the young woman, without knowing what awaited her! A tough period during which it was necessary reconcile catering, breeding and training not financially supported.
No matter, motivated and tenacious, Gwen began training as a well-being technician-practitioner in the Paris region, cumulative with a spa manager specialization. Wanting to go even further “I then began, with a school run by a physiotherapist, a real course where we learn anatomy, pathologies, physiology, palpation, massage techniques… all supplemented by numerous practice sessions.
Practices requiring a lot of energyhence the need for the young practitioner to channel herself through Reiki.
Well-being for the whole family
Thus, for two years, after numerous other specializations, Gwen has been able to massage everyone, from children and adolescents to pregnant women,are with multiple disabilities to seniorsparticularly by intervening in retirement homes.
A set of services which it offers at home (within a 30 km radius) but especially at the Relais de Saint-Michel. “I got closer to this place when I learned that the new owner, François Thévenot, was planning to open a balneotherapy center. Our two activities being complementary, they allow hotel guests to have access to well-being treatments and in particular massage sessions “specifies Gwen, while admitting that the majority of its customers still come from southern Haut-Marnais.
Everyone comes there looking for tailored massages (California, Thai, Swedish, etc.) but also lymphatic drainage, different types of relaxation and energy healing. A set of techniques that Gwen adapts to each story, to each experience, particularly taking into account the background.
“In summary, I constantly do tailor-made products. And it's gratifying to see people leave my office relaxed, soothed, relieved… and with a big smile.”she concludes.
A profession in which the practitioner is totally involved, especially since as destiny does things well, the Relais de Saint-Michel and its famous thatched roofwas built and operated in the past by Gwen's grandparents, who are still very present in the memories of the oldest.
Indeed, who does not remember Captain Alain De Grouchy, dynamic president of the Rhine and Danube association, organizer of festivities on Lake Vingeanne. So for the bubbly Gwen, it's a sort of return to… family roots!
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