9jj. The upgrade! Menopause Therapeutic Retreat with Lucy and Aimee 9 - 14 May 2025

The Upgrade: Menopause Therapeutic Retreat
Facilitating a positive transformation: Evidence based science meets Traditional East Asian Medicine

Our Upgrade Residential Intensive 

Grounded in the Wisdom of Eastern Medical Traditions - Yoga, Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine and enhanced by Modern Science & Western Medical information and practice - we invite you experience and benefit from the ultimate unique Menopause Retreat.

This is not just any retreat - on top of group movement and in-depth learning sessions, you will gain bespoke access to both Menopause Experts - Lucy and Aimée - your hosts. You will receive individual consultations and 1-1 therapeutic treatments to really help you and your unique set of symptoms - kicking off a healing cascade that you’ll benefit from even when you return home.

Our well researched, tailored group practice sessions will arm you with a deep
understanding of the changes happening at this life stage, this will give you the
knowledge that you need to really get on top of niggling menopausal issues. The Menopause Yoga sessions will refresh and restore balance, not only during the residential retreat but you’ll leave with a toolkit of practices to guide you through your menopausal journey.

The retreat will be tailored and personalized to each and everyone one of you attending - a small intimate group of approximately 10 women only. Each one of you will complete pre-retreat questionnaires - downloading a detailed picture for your hosts of all that’s going on with your body and health - lifting a weight off your shoulders.

Lucy Aimée

Two experts to help heal you It’s not often you get access to not one but two menopause experts....your two hosts are joining forces for this unique retreat....Lucy Heaton (mBMS and mANP, double certified menopause practitioner, Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist, and Menopause Yoga Teacher, and Aimée Centivany Aurousseau - an experienced Clinical Acupuncturist and Professor of Chinese Medicine (USA/ France) . Together we can bring you this truly transformational therapeutic experience - to truly help you thrive through your menopause.

Ready to face the world again

You will leave bursting with information, new knowledge and skillful practices to
navigate your menopausal journey - feeling in charge and in control - making better informed choices for you and your health - a new direction, fresh motivation, increased vitality and positivity are just on the other side of this retreat!

In a nutshell.....the Upgrade Therapeutic Menopause Retreat is an amazing opportunity for you to download all your menopause issues, get them off your chest, and start resolving them! You will upload evidence-based information and the latest thinking in menopause care - marrying these with tried and tested Chinese Medicine treatments to be equipped and empowered to upgrade your life!

A midlife reboot 
Together we will identify and help you put into practice the healthy habits that are the key to a stronger and healthier life in your 40s, 50s and beyond. Navigating the Mwords (midlife and menopause) is an opportunity for personal transformation ...a ditching of old habits that no longer serve your midlife body and mind and installing an upgrade - a reboot for a better midlife!
This comprehensive small-group programme is designed to empower women to be advocates for their own health and wellness, and to embrace the evolutionary process of aging while drawing from their own psychological and physiological wisdom. We’ve got your back!

This intensive reset will allow you to really hone in on what’s been going on with your transition, your peri/ menopause....
 What’s been bugging you? - Get it off your chest!
 Don’t understand your symptoms? - Let us help identify them for you! - Feel like you are going slightly mad? - Let us calm your mind and put thoughts to bed!
 Don’t know where you are, where to turn to - what to do first? - Let us draw you a road map to support you on this journey - you are not alone, we can help! 

Sign up and you will
 Benefit immensely from bespoke one-on-one consultations, with Lucy and Aimée
 You’ ll receive a 121 Nutritional Consultation with Lucy (discussing your health concerns and issues (prior questionnaire)
 And two 121 Acupuncture Treatments with Aimée to enable your body to reset and self-heal (prior questionnaire)
 Gain a deeper understanding of what’s really happening in Menopause in group learning sessions to come away with a much better understanding of the physical affects and changes happening to you, plus a deep dive on diet and lifestyle, supplements and HRT
 Partake in three extended menopause yoga sessions adapted to managing specific symptoms, physical and psychological - learning tools you can use at home to develop new daily habits, increase energy and improve self care
 Learn how hormonal changes impact mood, sleep, bone and cardiac health—and about another critical M word: Metabolism—along with optimizing strength and fitness
 Partake in 3 deep dives into understanding Menopause from a Chinese Medicine perspective and how to integrate these insights into your daily life

The investment
For this unique five day therapeutic retreat / five nights accommodation, all inclusive of meals and yoga and 121 consultations - our investment prices are:
 €1695pp own bed in shared room (twin)
 €1895pp your own room

Payment terms
You can secure your space with a 30% deposit.

Your hosts

Lucy: Yoga and Nutrition host

Lucy lives in SW France and after practicing yoga for well over 25 years she decided to complete her training to become a teacher herself to tie-in with her move to France in 2015.
She trained (200hrs RYT) in Hatha yoga and has since added on Yin teacher training under the well respected Sarah Lo, and Breathwork coaching with Lucas Rockwood. Lucy is also a qualified Menopause Yoga teacher, helping women though this transition. Lucy teaches weekly classes of Hatha, Restorative and Yin and also hosts regular workshops as well as yoga retreats throughout the year in France, Morocco, Portugal and Spain. She is also a
qualified nutritional therapist and masseuse and peri/menopause coach. Lucy is passionate about women’s health - especially midlife women. Life is for living and thriving - hence developing the Thriving through Menopause content for companies and individuals. Following training in Menopause Yoga, then the Confidence in Menopause training course for healthcare professionals as provided by the Menopause Charity, as well as undertaking a Menopause
Practitioner Diploma - Lucy is well placed to support anyone trying to manage this journey.
From a individual’s perspective Lucy uses her expertise and experience - listening to clients, understanding their issues and concerns, and then providing recommendations, strategies and resources to help optimize hormonal health, enabling women to feel like a better/healthier
version of themselves, to thrive, keeping women in work and living life to the full. We look at what is actually happening to their bodies, their own set of unique symptoms, their health history and family history, their lifestyle. We can then talk through changes, diet, movement and exercise, plus supplements to help regain an energised body, to live the life they want to live.

Aimée Centivany Aurousseau MPH, M.Ac - Acupuncture host

Aimée is an American acupuncturist with a background in Five Element Acupuncture, which she considers to be the heart of her approach as a healer. She received her Master’s of Acupuncture from the Maryland University of Integrated Health in 2010 before relocating to France to begin her private practice specializing in women’s health, fertility and pregnancy. 
Aimée currently lectures at the Ming Tao School of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine in Montpellier where she teaches advanced seminars that translate Chinese medicine principles into practice for students and new practitioners. 
Prior to becoming an acupuncturist, Aimée enjoyed a rich and varied career as a homebirth midwife in the United States and an international health advisor to reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs in West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.