Brach Madrid: A Morning Designed for the Body, the Mind, and the Senses
Brach Madrid Rooftop
To enter Brach Madrid is to enter a place that feels already inhabited. Objects gathered for their sentimental value rather than their display, unexpected details at every turn, the quiet texture of a space that belongs to someone.
Philippe Starck, who conceived the hotel for the French Evok Collection on Gran Vía, described it as a place of precise poetry: every detail, every material, arranged to tell the story of a man who has known beauty and love, and who has dreamed of them ever since. Madrid's own energy, vibrant day and night, meets its match here.
At the heart of Brach lies La Capsule, a wellness space conceived with the same intention as the rest of the hotel: not as an amenity, but as an experience. Movement, beauty, and rest treated with the same care as gastronomy and design.
On the morning of June 13th, Ángeles Sánchez collaborated with AAR Method to bring together a group of guests inside Brach for a morning that honored that philosophy in full.
AAR Method: Intensity With Precision
The morning began on the hotel’s rooftop, AAR Method, founded by Ana Antón, led a floor Pilates session that redefines what a workout can feel like.
Ana discovered the Reformer in Miami in 2012, after years of exploring every discipline: classical Pilates, barre, strength, HIIT, yoga. What she found was different. Intensity and control in the same movement, real results without sacrificing elegance. She returned to Madrid with one intention: to create her own method.
AAR Method is not a fitness trend. It is a system built from the ground up, refined session by session, until each class became what it is today: a physical and mental challenge, technical and transformative in equal measure.
On the rooftop of Brach, overlooking the Madrid skyline, that precision felt at home.
Floating Sound Healing: The Sound Within
While one group moved on the rooftop, the other descended into stillness.
Sabrina Florida, wellness retreat specialist and holistic psychology practitioner, guided guests through a Floating Sound Healing Journey.
Sound healing is an ancient practice, rooted in the understanding that vibration affects the body at a cellular level. Through singing bowls, gongs, and tuning forks, carefully chosen frequencies slow the nervous system, dissolve tension, and restore a sense of internal balance. The experience is deeply immersive: guests lie still while the sound moves around and through them, reaching places that movement alone cannot.
In the intimate setting of Brach’s wellness spaces, the effect was immediate.
Stillness, clarity, and a rare kind of quiet.
Clarins: The Ritual of Skin
After the Pilates and sound-healing sessions, both groups moved to a dim-light room, draped in luxurious curtains for a private beauty ritual masterclass with Clarins.
For nearly seventy years, Clarins has remained one of France’s most respected luxury skincare houses, a brand built on the belief that the right touch, applied with the right product, can genuinely transform the skin. Their approach has always been as much about technique as formula.
Guests experienced a facial massage session using Clarins’s finest skincare line, a practice that combines lymphatic drainage, muscle relaxation, and deep hydration into a single, seamless ritual.
It is the kind of attention to skin that leaves a trace long after the morning ends.
Castillo de Canena: Olive Oil as a Culture
The morning closed with a healthy brunch built around one of Spain’s most celebrated gastronomic treasures: the extra virgin olive oils of Castillo de Canena.
Founded in 1780 in Jaén, in the heart of Andalusia’s endless olive groves, Castillo de Canena has spent more than two centuries perfecting what it means to produce oil of genuine excellence. Today, led by siblings Rosa and Francisco Vañó, the estate is recognised among the world’s finest producers of premium extra virgin olive oil.
Their varieties range from the robust Picual to the delicate Arbequina, each carrying the character of the land, the climate, and the hands that have tended it for generations.
To taste them properly is to understand that great olive oil is not a condiment.
It is a conversation with the soil.
A morning that moved through movement and stillness, beauty and nourishment, each element chosen with intention, each crafted by people who have dedicated their work to a single idea.
That well-being is not a moment.
It is a practice.
Want to experience a morning like this, curated privately for you? Contact Ángeles at info@angelessanchez.com