5-Day Christmas Zen Silent Retreat at the End of the Year

You will be staying at the Mondsee guesthouse. The accommodations are well-renovated yet simple. The guesthouse is located near the event venue. We will book the room for you. Since there are always only a limited number of single rooms available, we recommend making your decision as early as possible. Otherwise, the double rooms are spacious. The cost is 140 euros for a double room and 180 euros for a single room.

All meals are vegetarian, Ayurvedic, and vegan. We are also happy to accommodate any dietary restrictions. Simply let us know shortly before the course begins, and we can work together to meet your needs. We view eating as a mindfulness practice and approach it with mindfulness.

CONTENTS
Participants spend more than two-thirds of the seminar in silence. At specific times during the seminar, there will be periods set aside for sharing and exchanging experiences. In addition, one-on-one sessions will be held, during which questions and topics that arise during the silence and meditation can be discussed and explored in greater depth.
Key Components
Seated meditations in the Vipassana tradition
The body scan
Walking meditation
Active meditations
Guided heart meditations and meditations for the vagus nerve

The individual practice sessions (sitting, lying down, and mindful yoga exercises) rarely last longer than 30 minutes. The morning active meditations last 60 minutes, alternating between movement, breathing, and stillness.

Seminar leaders:
We are Marion and Bernhard Hötzel, and we each have 45 years of meditation experience, 20 of which we have spent working as meditation teachers.
We teach at our own institute, as well as serving as guest instructors at other institutes and as lecturers for NEURO-Meditation at the TH-Campus Vienna. We have received traditional training in Asia, the USA, and Europe, and are very familiar with humanistic psychology and the modern world.

Take the train or plane to Salzburg. From Salzburg Central Station, take bus 140, which runs hourly to Mondsee. From the bus station in Mondsee, it’s just a short walk to the accommodation and the ZEN room.

If you’re coming by car, drive via Munich and then continue on the A1 from Salzburg to Mondsee, or from Vienna via Linz. Mondsee has its own exit.