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Educational Leave with Fasting, Detox, Yoga, Hiking, and Stress Management at Waldbreitbach Monastery
Waldbreitbach, Germany
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Summary
Course duration: 5 days (Mon–Fri, 4 nights). Arrival on Sunday can also be booked. Various fasting and meal options are available during the course. More information upon request.
Finally feel completely at ease again!
Would you like to use your educational leave away from the stress of everyday life to establish sustainable healthy habits, boost your performance at work and in daily life, and at the same time experience a special week of fasting? That’s exactly what awaits you here.
Our educational leave programs focused on health, stress management, and self-management are complemented by activities from our proven fasting and hiking courses, such as hikes, yoga, exercise, and fasting. Theory, practical sessions, and personal reflection are thoughtfully interwoven throughout the program.
Here’s what you can expect from your educational retreat seminar:
The focus is on how you can sustainably strengthen your health, resilience, and self-management in both your professional and personal life. It’s not just about theoretical knowledge. You’ll learn about interconnections, reflect on your own habits and stress patterns, and develop concrete strategies that you can apply to your daily life after your week-long program.
Among other topics, you’ll explore:
Stress and its effects on the body and performance
Recovery, stress management, and resilience
Self-management and mental self-leadership
Personal habits and automatic behavioral patterns
Nutrition, metabolism, and the basics of fasting
The microbiome and micronutrients
Communication and coping with stressful situations
Mental load and individual stress factors
Theoretical and practical knowledge is conveyed through expert lectures, presentations, group work, and self-reflection in our beautiful seminar rooms as well as outdoors. During lunchtime and in the evenings, there is plenty of time for leisure and relaxation.
Your learning objectives for the course:
An introduction to a healthy, balanced, and wholesome diet
How can I improve and maintain my health and integrate it into my work life?
How can I recognize and manage stressful situations in my daily work life?
How can I relax during my workday? What exercises can I use to do so?
How can I prevent depression and burnout?
How can I find my work-life balance?
How can I apply what I’ve learned for my body, mind, and soul to continue mastering the demands of my daily work life?
Stay overnight at the fully equipped conference hotel and enjoy your educational leave in the peaceful tranquility of the monastery
Venue: On the edge of the Westerwald, barely an hour’s drive from the bustling centers of the Rhine-Main (Frankfurt) and Rhine-Ruhr (Cologne) regions, the monastery’s Rosa Flesch Conference Center offers an extraordinary setting for our seminars. Here you can recharge with the energy you need to meet the demands of your career and daily life. A sauna, swimming pool, and massages are available on site.
Rooms/Accommodations: We stay directly in the former nuns’ quarters, within traditional walls. Of course, the single and double rooms meet the latest standards, but their intentional simplicity is meant to keep the monastic tradition alive. Each room features a bathroom with a shower and toilet, a TV, and Wi-Fi. The rooms on the front side offer a sweeping view of the Wied Valley, while those on the back side overlook the sisters’ peaceful garden.
Relaxing Sauna Area: Fasting is a conscious time of regeneration—for body, mind, and soul. Starting now, you can enhance your course experience at Waldbreitbach Monastery with a special wellness component: the new wellness area is now open! Look forward to a classic Finnish sauna, a gentle infrared sauna, and a stylish relaxation room where you can let go and unwind. As course participants, this area is open to you for free use.
About Us:
Since 2006, we have been dedicated to promoting healthy, balanced nutrition, various types of fasting, physical activity in the workplace and daily life, relaxation, stress reduction and prevention, as well as yoga and meditation.
Our courses are thematically focused on profession-specific continuing education in the areas of nutrition and yoga. They are specifically designed to renew, maintain, expand, and improve interdisciplinary or profession-specific knowledge, skills, and contextual understanding. This includes, for example, meditation techniques, nonviolent communication techniques, stress management, and education on balanced diets and healthy nutrition.
We teach key skills such as improving physical, mental, and emotional flexibility in the workplace and daily life, promoting physical stability, self-management skills, and self-assessment.
The retreat at a glance
The most important facts in a nutshell:
- Categories
- Detox Retreats, Monastery Retreats, Alkaline Fasting, Fasting hike, Nutritional advice, Nature Vacation, Alkaline fasting, Work Life Balance, Self-discovery, Consciousness, soul, senses & spirit, Meditation
- Language(s)
- English, German
- Level
- Advanced, Beginner
- Group Size
- 20
- Place
- Waldbreitbach, Germany
- Accommodation
- Overnight stay included
- Catering
- Full board
- Types of food
- Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Vegan, Vegetarian
- Services
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Seminar Topics: Detox/Fasting, Nutrition, Stress Reduction: Lectures, videos, discussions, and Q&A sessions covering all aspects of fasting and nutrition
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Detox fasting meals, including beverages (see description of the detox fasting method)
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Yoga (75 minutes each)
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Hiking (about 2 hours each)
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Morning walk (45 minutes each)
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Heart Chakra Meditation
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Evening feedback sessions
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Certified nutritionists, detox and fasting coaches, and yoga instructors
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Overnight stay in single or double rooms
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Accommodation
Kloster Waldbreitbach
Am Rande des Westerwalds, kaum eine Autostunde entfernt von den pulsierenden Zentren Rhein-Main (Frankfurt) und Rhein-Ruhr (Köln), bietet das Rosa-Flesch-Tagungszentrum ein außergewöhnliches Ambiente für das Fastenseminar. Hoch über dem Wiedtal, vor klösterlichem Hintergrund, atmet dieses Haus franziskanischen Geist. Hier kann man die Energie tanken, die erforderlich ist, um den Anforderungen im Alltag gerecht zu werden. Der Ort Waldbreitbach bietet verschiedene Freizeitmöglichkeiten und ist mit seiner idyllischen Lage im Wiedtal als Ausflugsort und wegen der Krippenausstellung und der Adventsbeleuchtung als Weihnachtsort bekannt.
Free Wi-Fi
Internet access
Multilingual staff
Parking lot
Wireless internet
Conference room
Dining area
Garden
Bar
Restaurant
Tour assistance
Sauna
Spa
Rooms
Doppelzimmer, Einzelperson
from $1,220 / person
Standard-Doppelzimmer Komfortbett (200 cm x 210 cm) – Badezimmer mit Dusche – Haartrockner – Satelliten-TV (Flachbild...
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Dr. Buchinger’s detox method is a modified form of fasting in which solid food is avoided. The body completely switches to a fasting metabolism and draws its energy almost exclusively from stored reserves (fat and protein). Drinks include juices and broths (¼ liter each), as well as water and tea. All the body’s cells enter a protective state, deposits are broken down, and degenerated cells regress.
Detox 16:8 Intermittent Vegan Alkaline refers to a detox diet in which protein is almost completely eliminated. You eat only foods that are primarily metabolized as alkaline. In this vegan alkaline detox regimen, the body does not fully switch to fasting metabolism. Instead, the body undergoes a deacidification process that has a positive effect on well-being and health.
We follow the 16:8 intermittent fasting concept, which involves a fasting period of at least 16 hours. This triggers autophagy, the body’s own detoxification process. Autophagy (self-digestion) is currently the detox method with the strongest scientific evidence. The detoxification process takes place directly within the cells. We start the morning with tea, and starting at 11 a.m., we serve homemade alkaline porridge along with fruit and/or vegetables and salads. For dinner, a meal consisting of soup, vegetables, potatoes, dips, and/or alkaline bread is served at 6 p.m.
Simulated Fasting (Pseudo-Fasting Method): Simulated fasting means that for 5 days, the body receives a scientifically precise dietary composition that provides the highest possible amount of micro- and macronutrients without the body realizing it is being fed, since the corresponding metabolic signaling pathways remain deactivated. Therefore, despite having regular daily meals, the body remains in fasting metabolism (simulated fasting). The daily calorie intake ranges from 800 to 1,150 kcal. We have further refined this method and incorporate intermittent fasting as well as spermidine-rich foods into our meal plan. This further stimulates autophagy (cellular cleansing).
Do you have any questions? Please send us an inquiry.
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We'd be happy to send you the educational leave program upon request.
Arrival
Waldbreitbach does not have a train station. The best routes are:
– via Neuwied, then by bus to the “Hausen Brücke” stop. From there, it’s uphill to the monastery. This can be difficult with luggage, so we recommend taking a taxi from there to the monastery (2 km).
– via Bad Hönningen, then take a taxi from there to Waldbreitbach Monastery (12 km)
Flat rate as a special price from Bad Hönningen to the monastery with:
Taxi Waldbreitbach (0.26389493800)
for Lenten information: 30.00 euros/trip
(The taxi fare can be split).
Cancellation policy
Full refund up to 15 days before arrival.After this, the booking is non-refundable.
Cancellation/Rebooking Fee: 50.00 euros
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