The thermal baths of Saujon Thermal Spas / Health Resorts in Saujon

A benchmark spa in the management of anxiety disorders, Saujon welcomes 5,000 spa guests each year and continues its evaluation work. It is a natural therapeutic path, combining the benefits of daily hydrotherapy with cognitive behavioral therapy programs. It is positioned as a remarkable alternative to medication and psychotherapy.

For many years, Saujon has welcomed spa guests for sleep disorders, anxiety disorders, depressive disorders and any state of exhaustion. In 2023, the spa is expanding its care to disorders affecting more specific populations. Women with endometriosis or who have had breast cancer. Other courses are allocated to adolescents or even caregivers...

Thermal therapy - Water
The thermal water of Saujon comes from the drilling of the chalets. It is a cold metallic Oligo water (17°C), calcium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, magnesium, ferruginous with lithium.

Treatment techniques
The treatments practiced in the thermal establishment are:

• The baths: with ventral, underwater or immersion shower
• Showers: jet or general (column shower)
• Swimming pool baths
• Underwater massages by physiotherapist

HEALTH PREVENTION The Thermal School of Stress, bodily AND psychological care

The Thermal School of Stress is a unique concept combining a psychoeducational approach with a thermal cure. This integrative treatment offers, in parallel with balneotherapy treatments, psycho-educational workshops of 5 days or 3 weeks. The main objectives are to lower the psychic state, better understand the mechanisms experienced, identify them and know how to defuse them... A follow-up study, carried out on more than 500 patients over the past 5 years has shown, for all programs, a significant improvement at the end of the cure (compared to the start of the cure), on the reduction of stress, the reduction, or even the cessation of tranquillizers and on the quality of life of the spa guests. Consolidated and/or improved results 3 months after the cure. If the ETS was created in 2012 to organize workshops around the cessation or reduction of tranquilizers and the management of anxiety, it has expanded from year to year to new pathologies.

Specific programs

ENDOMETRIOSIS PROGRAM: 3 weeks of thermal treatments + 3 weeks of workshops at the Ecole Thermale du Stress)

Endometriosis is a complex disease generating chronic pain. The pain, which is sometimes very difficult to live with, even debilitating, impacts the quality of life, with a significant impact on personal, professional, marital and social life. The course led by health professionals and a patient resource, proposes to create a personal toolbox to learn how to live better with endometriosis and/or adenomyosis.

TEENAGERS-YOUNG ADULTS PROGRAM: 3 weeks + 1 week workshop at the Ecole Thermale du Stress)

A specific fixed price is set up for 18-25 year olds subject to specific coverage at 50% by Health Insurance. The indications selected for this program are: anxiety or depressive-reactive disorders, sleep disorders, eating disorders, addictive disorders and the avoidance of psychotropic drugs. Psychotherapeutic support can be provided in addition to the thermal program.

POST-BREAST CANCER CURE: 3 weeks + 1 week workshop at the Ecole Thermale du Stress)

The psychological management of cancer is a real hurricane that often upsets everything in its path. This cure is a bodily and psychological care aimed at lowering psychological tension and helping women to reconsider and project themselves more serenely towards new perspectives. Various workshops are offered.

BURN-OUT: 3 days, 5 days or 3 weeks or intervention in a company + 3 days, 5 days or 3 weeks of workshop at the Ecole Thermale du Stress

Saujon is a national reference center for the management of burnout (in prevention or support). It offers support via a spa treatment associated with cognitive and behavioral therapy workshops via the Ecole Thermale du Stress. In some cases, and excluding spa treatments, the center's experts can also intervene directly within companies. Identify suffering, prevent burnout, take charge of situations of exhaustion, support the management of conflicts and traumatic events in the workplace, train managers and business leaders but also health service professionals at work, offering rapid support adapted to individual situations, are the main objectives.

Cure COVID PSY for associated mental disorders: 3 weeks + 3 weeks of workshop at the Ecole Thermale du Stress).

Bodily and psychological care is organised, in order to reduce post-traumatic symptoms linked to the health crisis and lower the state of psychological tension. This pandemic has caused sleep disorders, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias of all kinds, social isolation, depressive states, and an increase in suicidal ideation, but also an almost permanent fear of the future fraught with uncertainty. This treatment makes it possible to better identify "wounds" and the mechanisms that cause suffering or exhaustion, with thermal treatments to reduce the post-traumatic symptoms induced, and workshops and individual and collective interviews, in addition to relaunch projective cognitive processes.

And still sleep disorders, withdrawal from benzodiazepines, fibromyalgia, respite from caregivers...