5-day silent retreats at Easter and Pentecost

These silent days are a wonderful opportunity to get in touch with yourself and to remember your roots, allowing a space of clarity to emerge.
We celebrate the traditional and clarifying insight mediation "Vipassana" and the "Metta" meditation of kindness of heart. The individual phases complement each other fluently. The structure is accompanied by light YOGA exercises, active meditations and breathing space contemplation. Daily individual talks and short lectures round off the structure.
Both periods, Easter and Pentecost, traditionally deal with the transition from this world to the hereafter. But what does this mean for today's modern and enlightened people? How deeply are we really still attached to the old traditions and what should we be doing instead? We want to explore all these questions when it comes to being anchored in life and yet also knowing that there is more than what we can recognize. So during these days, we will sink from the outside in and always remain flexible in our minds for sensations, insights, views and realizations. We embark on a journey in various inner directions, at the end of which you and your truthfulness, i.e. your presence in life, will be tangible.

Seminar leader:
We are Marion and Bernhard Hötzel and we each have over 45 years of meditation experience, 20 of which we have been working as meditation teachers.
In our own institute, as well as guest teachers 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 the humanistic psychology of our modern times.

You will be accommodated in the Landhaus Meingast. A historic, very quiet guest house within walking distance of the ZEN_raum. As the number of single rooms is limited, it is advisable to book early. If these accommodations do not meet your requirements, we can make other suggestions.

The food is Ayurvedic, vegetarian and vegan. The food is always fresh and organic. We can also cater for personal restrictions. Please let us know when you register so that we can take this into account. We will also make eating part of the meditation. Mindful and conscious eating has fallen out of focus due to time constraints. Food that is quickly available is sacrificed for sensuality. We want to explore this aspect and also trace it within ourselves.

THE CONTENT

The participants spend more than two thirds of the seminar time in silence. At certain times during the seminar there will be
time for sharing and exchanging experiences. In addition, there will be individual discussions in which
questions and topics that arise during the silence and meditation can be named and deepened.


Essential components

the sitting meditations of the Vipassana tradition
Exercises to strengthen self-compassion
the body scan
walking meditation
the active meditations
METTA meditation

The individual exercise phases (sitting, lying down and mindful YOGA exercises) rarely last longer than 45 minutes.
The morning active meditations have a duration of 60 minutes, in which movement, breathing and silence alternate,
breathing and stillness alternate.

Lectures

In addition to the detailed instructions for the respective meditations, short talks are given,
which deal with the everyday challenges of our lives,
enrich this seminar.

Possible daily schedule

07:00 a.m. to 08:00 a.m. Morning meditation (active)
08:30 to 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 to 13:00 ZEN meditation structure with short breaks
13:00 to 13:45 Lunch
14:00 to 16:00 Break and individual discussions
16:15 to 16:30 Tea ceremony
16:30 to 19:00 MBSR meditation structure with short breaks
19:00 to 19:30 Evening snack
19:30 to 20:15 Walking meditation
20:15 to 21:00 Evening meditation (metta, tonglen, nadabrahma, heart meditation)
9:15 p.m. BETTRUHE

Seminar leader:
We are Marion and Bernhard Hötzel and we each have over 45 years of meditation experience, 20 of which we have been working as meditation teachers.
In our own institute, as well as guest teachers 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 approaches of NEURO meditation.

Take the train to Salzburg and from there take the Postbus 140 to Mondsee every hour. From the bus station in Mondsee it is only a few minutes' walk to the ZEN room and the accommodation. The nearest airport is also Salzburg. Here the city bus runs every 10 minutes to the main train station. Here you can take the Postbus 140 again.