Spa Mariana

Spa Mariana’s Bloomfield Hills location runs the full day-spa menu — massage, body treatments, foot reflexology, a proper wet room — under the direction of owner and master massage therapist Maciek Lyko, whose treatments reportedly draw on techniques picked up during his travels. It’s appointment-only and unhurried, the kind of spa built for people who want a genuinely tailored massage rather than a templated 50-minute rubdown.

The seasonal sound bath sessions are the more unusual draw: 75 minutes of Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls, gong, and steel tongue drum, aimed at pulling your nervous system out of fight-or-flight rather than working out a literal knot. It’s a smaller, quieter operation than the downtown hotel spas, which is either exactly what you want or a sign you should look elsewhere if you’re after amenities like pools and steam rooms.

On our radar for the reflexology-and-quiet-luxury crowd, or anyone curious about sound bath therapy who wants to try it somewhere that isn’t a folding chair in a yoga studio.