A vacation at Château les Merles is meant to bring you complete relaxation and a full break from your daily upheaval.

Because we are aware of the importance of wellness in our lives, we would like to provide you with the opportunity of finding/maintaining a healthy balance between body and mind.

You will have the chance of being pampered and to feel your body fully re-set by two experts in beauty-care and wellbeing, Marga Bruns & Mariëlle Spee.

Château les Merles, has created a special wellness package which include daily spa treatments, yoga classes and not to forget, an extra pleasure for your senses… healthy gourmet food - more information


Marga Bruns (1951, The Netherlands) has worked for 20 years as teacher of Physical Education and as School Dean at a Secondary Education in Holland.
Her interests in finding tranquillity, harmony and balance, and the possibility to practice this all, lead her to several studies. In Utrecht, Amsterdam and Leens she specialised in to become a yoga and meditation trainer. This Hindu discipline, Yoga, has influenced her views of life, diet, health and illness. Consequently, Marga studied Naturopathy for 5 years in Hilversum, and specialised in Dietetics, Phytotherapy and Iridology. She keeps improving her expertise: Ear Acupuncture and Foot Reflexology and Massage.
After her teaching career she ran a Yoga and Naturopathy Centre in Oosterhout (The Netherlands) for more than 10 years. She offered the personal one to one (small group) purification and wellness treatments and sessions in The Netherlands and France.
Marga became part of Château les Merles' team in 2007.


Marielle Spee (1977), sports masseuse and qualified beautician, gained her experience over many years of working in various sport and health institutes in The Netherlands, including 5 years at Thermaalbad Arcen.

When her husband, a Dutch tv-film maker, had to travel America and Australia Marielle joined him. After returning to Holland found it too crowded and stressed and looked for somewhere nearer to nature. The Dordogne offered such a possibility.

By this time Marielle had her first child and the family chose to move to France where she continued her career as masseuse and beautician. She often noticed how massage and pampering calmed and relaxed her clients and this made her think more about links to wellness and other therapies. She is now part of the team at Chateau Les Merles whose aim is to offer clients access to a combined quality treatment.

• Stimulate Your Senses - Ritual (60 min.)
  Body scrub and wrap followed by foot and head massage, finishing of with a relaxing shower and a short hydration and nourishing skin massage
• Revitalising Ritual (60 min. or 90 min.)
  Cold and warm foot-bath followed by scrub and foot wrap to finish of with a foot-reflexology massage
• Detoxifying & Purifying Ritual (60 min.)
  Warm bath, which will prepare the body for the transpiration phase. Cleansing shower followed by a hydration and nourishing skin massage
• Rejuvenating Ritual (60 min.)
  The Thai sauna will be followed by shoulder and neck massage, and includes a partial body wrap