The room at Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg was beautifully furnished, very clean and the beds were comfortable. The food was delicious, but there was definitely not enough hot food for the number of visitors. If you arrived too late, there was only raw food. In addition to the retreat program, you could attend various yoga, mantra and shaman classes and fairs in the house. All according to your own preferences and schedule. Now to the booked program. The "Back Yoga Week for Wellbeing" consisted of two seminars or lectures per day. Overall verdict: Bottomless bad, pure waste of time! The seminar leader saw this topic as further training for yoga teachers, although no yoga teachers were present. The word "well-being" in the title was understood by her as, and I quote: "it's just an abstract concept". She then gave a 70-minute lecture on the anatomical concepts of the human skeleton and musculature in each seminar and read us a 170-page script. Nothing stuck and some participants stopped coming. At the request of the irritated and disappointed participants, the seminar leader showed some yoga exercises in the following hours in supposedly back-friendly implementations. Participants who had already attended a yoga class on this topic beforehand were able to correct the postures shown in the seminar with arguments and reveal the instructor's lack of expertise on this topic. In conversation, we then came to the topic of nutrition. This was much more important to the friendly leader. She enthusiastically and competently provided information about Ayurvedic nutrition and nutritional concepts that are gentle on the gut. Although this did not fit in with the topic we had booked, it at least filled the seminar with interesting and informative content.
Rebecca Müller
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