Description
Menopause is a practical reference sheet for sophrologists, coaches, therapists, and health professionals who support women through menopause. It is an original resource built from a compilation of data and years of professional practice, and it serves as a reference both for practitioners and for the people they support.
What’s included
- Practical, everyday advice
- Targeted breathing techniques, adapted to the situation
- Complementary information
- A 25-page PDF
What’s inside
- A scientific definition of menopause, including artificial menopause, and its most common symptoms
- General advice on good health practices, backed by broad scientific consensus
- Breathing techniques, with indications and precautions: cardiac coherence (formal and informal practice), cooling breathing for hot flashes, paused diaphragmatic breathing, relaxing breathing with cellular visualization, cyclical breathing, and projective breathing
- The Caycedian sophrology techniques proposed, including those to favor for reinvesting in oneself
- Guidance on starting with informal practice, plus where to go next
How to use it
Hand the sheet to clients or patients, or use it in workshops and group sessions. It sums up breathing techniques and good health practices in a clear, practical format. It supports an educational and preventive approach at every level (primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention) for physical and psychological well-being.
Who are the reference sheets for?
- Any professional in helping relationships, support, or health care
- In particular: sophrologists, sports coaches, adapted physical activity instructors, midwives, physiotherapists, and osteopaths
- Professionals who use breathing techniques or body-based induction techniques
- Clients and patients, as a summary document for health education
Format and access
Each sheet is complete and downloadable as a PDF. Access is immediate and unlimited from your personal account: download the document and use it freely in your practice, workshops, lectures, companies, or institutions. For professional and educational use. This document does not replace medical advice.
The Author: Jean-Michel Schlupp
Health Practices and Environments Consultant – Teacher and Trainer
With more than ten years of clinical experience in hospital settings, notably in hospital supportive care, a European University Diploma in psychopathology, and several postgraduate trainings in health practices and environments, Jean-Michel Schlupp works with patients, health professionals, and organizations on therapeutic patient education, quality of care, prevention, and health environments.
His approach combines clinical practice, teaching, and attention to the systemic dimensions of care. Authorized to deliver therapeutic patient education programs, he teaches at nursing schools on therapeutic education and health prevention, and sits on the examination jury for this course unit. He is registered as an Occupational Risk Prevention Practitioner (IPRP) with DREETS, the French regional labor authority, specializing in the health sector.
Jean-Michel is the academic director and a teacher of the first European University Diploma dedicated to supportive care, alongside the renowned Dr. Mario Beauregard, a neuroscience researcher with whom he collaborates. He teaches at two nursing institutes and has trained more than 1,000 professionals in helping and care relationships, most of them sophrologists and licensed health professionals (nurses).
His work has been the subject of several evaluations of professional practice and three publications at medical congresses (the Francophone Society of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, SFNDT, and the German Society of Nephrology, DGfN).
