French Massage Championship

Thursday Nov 5th 2026 - Pavilion 4

Since 2010, the French Massage Championship has been the historic event for wellness professionals and the reference for massage competitions!

With the aim of reaching for excellence in wellness massage, to ensure that this competition is always more qualitative and to move away from school codes, the candidates present a "signature" massage from the establishment that they represent.

Each candidate is selected on dossier and 40 of them will have the opportunity to present their protocol to the members of the jury.

At the end of the competition, 5 "signature" massages will be rewarded with the title of French Massage Champion, a prize awarded to the practitioner as well as to the employing centre. 

2024 contests

Each candidate was selected on the basis of a dossier, and only 40 candidates were given the opportunity to present the protocol they had worked on with their team to the members of our prestigious jury. At the end of the competition, 5 ‘signature’ massages were awarded the title of French Massage Champion, with the prize going to the practitioner and the employing centre.

As every year, the French Massage® Championship is presented by Isabelle Charrier, Founder and Editorial Director of Sense of WELLNESS Magazine.

The winners were judged particularly on the originality and quality of presentation of their massage:

> WELCOME AND INSTALLATION

> TECHNIQUES USED

> SENSES DEVELOPED

> ANATOMICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRECISION

> ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE

> PURPOSE AND COHERENCE OF THE MASSAGE

About the organiser

With nearly 200 establishments, the SPAS DE FRANCE© network, chaired by Romain Dupont, is the leading French group of wellness & beauty centres, united around the same commitment to quality, ethics and customer service. All the SPAS DE FRANCE© centres have been visited, audited and selected for the quality of their services, location and facilities, as well as for the qualifications of their staff. These centres are all committed to an active quality approach in order to better supervise and guarantee the well-being of their clients.