Balancing the Change: Menopause the Five Element Way
Dear Practitioners and Students,
We are pleased to introduce our newest auxiliary class:
Balancing the Change: Menopause the Five Element Way
This 30-hour practitioner-level course is designed to deepen your understanding of menopause as a natural life transition and to strengthen your clinical confidence in working collaboratively with women moving through this phase.
Course Details
Instructors: Linda Easthouse and Gill Bauer, with assistance from Cheryl Hannah
Schedule: Wednesdays, February 4 – March 25 and April 14 and April 22 (following the Easter/Passover holidays)
Time: 10:00 AM EST (8:00 AM Pacific / 3:00 PM London)
Format: 3-hour live classes each Wednesday
Course Format & Prerequisites
This is a beta class, limited to 14 participants, and is being offered at a reduced tuition in exchange for your active participation, tracking, and feedback on the material and approach.
Prerequisite: Completion of NB 5 is required.
The Pregnancy and Childbirth Support course is beneficial but not required. However, please note that the hormone section is substantial; prior experience working with hormones will be helpful if you have not taken the pregnancy course.
The structure of this course is similar to our Pregnancy and Childbirth Support class. We are not introducing new corrections. Instead, the focus is on:
Building the theoretical and physiological understanding needed to ask better questions
Developing clearer analysis
Working skillfully with the correction menu you already have
What is new is the Five Element framework applied specifically to menopause, along with a handbook of new toning exercises that you may share with clients.
Our Approach to Menopause
Menopause is not a misfire.
It is not a problem to be fixed, a mismatch to be corrected, or a stress to be released.
Much of our Ko and Shen cycle work quite rightly looks for stress patterns and imbalances so the body can return to its innate healing capacity. Menopause, however, asks something different of us as practitioners.
In this course, menopause is approached as:
A new phase of life
A reorganization of physiology and energy
A transition toward a new normal, rather than a return to the old one
While we will certainly do many corrections along the way, the primary clinical stance is one of support, education, and adaptation, helping women understand what is changing and how to work with it rather than against it.
Learning Style & Participation
This is a theory-rich course, with extensive charts, lists, and reference material to support your understanding. Equal emphasis is placed on:
Working with clients in a collaborative, educational way
Helping women contextualize their symptoms
Supporting the discovery of a post-menopausal normal that feels stable, grounded, and life-affirming
As a beta group, participants should be prepared to:
Fully engage in the toning exercises
Track experiences between sessions
Offer thoughtful feedback on the course content and delivery
Materials & Investment
Participants will need two sets of test kits. Please order them if you do not already have them or the equivalent in other test kits.
The NB Pregnancy specialty kit, along with the new Endocrine Disruptors kit, includes everything required for this course.
Pregnancy PRC Kit:
https://www.ergopathics.com/products/pregnancy-prc
Endocrine Disruptors Kit:
https://www.ergopathics.com/products/endocrine-disruptors-eds
Ergopathis is offering the 10% discount code with eligible students:
NB/HK25
Tuition: $400 USD (beta rate)
Once released fully, this course will become a standard advanced course at $650 USD
Registration
If you would like to be considered as one of the 8 remaining beta participants, please contact Linda directly (6 are already registered). Invoices will be issued to those selected.
We are very much looking forward to working with a small, committed group of practitioners to shape this important offering together.
