5-Day ZEN New Year's MBSR Silent Retreat

You will be staying at the Mondsee Guesthouse. The accommodations here are simple, and 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 reservation as early as possible. Otherwise, the double rooms are spacious. The cost is 160 euros for a double room and 190 euros for a single room.

Meals are Ayurvedic, vegetarian, and vegan, and are prepared daily with fresh, organic ingredients. When you register, please let us know about any personal dietary restrictions so we can accommodate them.
Simply contact us before the course begins so we can discuss your preferences.

Start: 4:00 p.m.
End: 2:00 p.m.

CONTENT
Participants spend more than two-thirds of the seminar time in silence. At specific times during the seminar, there will be opportunities 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 addressed 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, during which movement,
breathing, and silence alternate.

Talks

In addition to detailed instructions for the respective meditations, short talks
addressing the everyday challenges of our lives
will further structure this seminar.
Sample Daily Schedule

7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Morning meditation (active)
8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Zen meditation session with short breaks
1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Break and individual one-on-one sessions
4:15 PM to 4:30 PM Tea ceremony
4:30 PM to 7:00 PM MBSR meditation session with short breaks
7:00 PM to 7:30 PM Evening vespers
7:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Walking meditation
8:15 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Evening meditation (Metta, Tonglen, Nadabrahma, Heart meditation)
9:15 PM BEDTIME

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 Vienna University of Technology (TH) campus. We have received traditional training in Asia, the U.S., and Europe, and are very familiar with humanistic psychology and the challenges of our modern times.

You can travel to Salzburg by car, train, or plane.
From Salzburg Central Station, you can take the Postbus 140 to Mondsee; it runs hourly.
From there, the lodging is within easy walking distance.
We will select the lodging for you. It is located within walking distance of the ZENraum. All participants will be staying there.