Summary

In our specially tailored yoga seminars for the back, you will learn to release tension, strengthen your muscles and make your spine more flexible. Gentle stretches and targeted exercises prevent back pain, improve your posture and promote your physical well-being. At the same time, yoga helps to reduce stress 🌿 and brings you inner peace and balance - for more ease and energy in everyday life. ✨

Our seminars are suitable for all levels - whether you are new to yoga or already have experience. You will gain insights into back health, understand how tension arises and learn simple exercises to counteract it. In addition to the yoga sessions, you will receive tips for everyday life for better posture and a greater sense of well-being. 🙌

Depending on your needs and time, you can choose from different focuses and formats:
👉 Back yoga week to feel good (07.-12.09.25 / 28.06.-03.07.26) Six days of intensive immersion in relaxation, conscious alignment and new strength. 🌞
👉 Yoga for the back - compact weekends (28.-30.11.25) Gentle mobilization, strengthening and balance for the whole back. 🌿
👉 Yoga for the back - for shoulder and neck pain, stress & headaches
(06.-10.04.26) Five days of targeted relief for tense areas and mental recovery. 🧘‍♀️💆‍♂️
👉 Fascia training for back pain (12.-14.06.26) Learn how to prevent back pain and improve mobility through targeted fascia training. 💪

Our programs offer you space to breathe deeply, let go and regenerate. In a supportive atmosphere 🌸 you can recharge your batteries and feel how your back opens up more with every exercise.

The retreat at a glance

The most important facts in a nutshell:

Categories: Fitness, Yoga Retreats, Hatha Yoga, Active Retreats, Consciousness, soul, senses & spirit, Digital Detox, Meditation, Self-discovery, Nature Vacation, Yin Yoga, Creative Retreats, Detox Retreats
Date: Nov | Apr | Jun
Language(s): German
Level: Advanced, Beginner
Place: Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Accommodation: Overnight stay included
Catering: Full board
Types of food: Vegan, Organic, Raw Vegan
Services: Nordic Walking

Meditation (guided)

Garden of silence

Tea stations

WLAN in selected area

Concerts, lectures

Satsang

Silvaticum Landscape Park

Breathing exercises

Guided hikes

Yoga (alle Levels)

Ayurveda treatments for an extra charge

Water fountains (Grander, reverse osmosis, turbulence and ghee)

Organic-certified vegan meals

Sauna for an extra charge

Yoga Shop & Cafe Maya

Co working space

Fitness room

Accommodation

The "all-inclusive" package price includes the entire seminar program, accommodation in the selected room category and vegan wholefood catering per person."

2026 (2 NIGHTS)
- Shared room: € 214.00
- Double room: 258,00 €
- Single room: 299,00 €
- Dormitory, tent/mobile home: 185,00 €

Info for your visit:
- Check-in: from 3 pm / Check-out: until 12:30 pm
- Staff speak German and English
- WiFi: free of charge in selected areas
- Dogs: by arrangement with reception (limited number of pet rooms)
- Parking: free of charge
- Transfer: from Horn-Bad Meinberg train station to the hotel (please specify train times when booking)
- Childcare: on request (children staying overnight must be registered in advance at reception)

Catering

For lunch and dinner, you can look forward to rich meals every day - vegan wholefood buffet. If you also like breakfast, you will find fruit at the buffet from 8 a.m. as a snack after meditation, or for a snack in between. Tea and water throughout the day.

We only use fresh, organic food for our dishes. We attach great importance to seasonal, sustainable products and support local farmers and partners.

Fresh salads, cucumber, carrot, beet and two different dressings are the main components of our buffet. For those who prefer to eat warm, steamed vegetable platters made from broccoli, carrots, sweet potatoes and fennel as well as curries, dal and soups are a great alternative to the green raw food bar. There is also always a selection of good oils, grains and seeds. Bread and gluten-free alternatives as well as homemade vegan spreads are available for brunch.

Info for allergy sufferers
All our dishes are homemade and 100% organic. If you have any questions about allergens, there is a list with information for allergy sufferers at the buffet. The dishes will then be labeled according to the list.

sequence

Arrival day
Please arrive by 19.00 at the latest.
Arrival possible from 13.00 hrs; rooms available from 15.00 hrs.
4.30 pm (Fri./Sun.) (other days: 4.15 pm) Asanas (yoga postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), deep relaxation.
18.00 Dinner.
20.00 hrs Actual start of the seminar with meditation, mantra singing, introductions, lecture.

Daily schedule from the 2nd day
07.00 a.m. Meditation, mantra singing, short reading, lecture
09.15 a.m. Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation
11.00 a.m. Brunch (breakfast/lunch)
14.30 Workshop/lecture *
16.15 hrs Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation*
18.00 Dinner
20.00 Meditation, mantra singing, lecture

End of seminar/departure day
07.00 a.m. Meditation, mantra singing, short reading, lecture
09.15 a.m. Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation
11.00 a.m. Brunch (breakfast/lunch)
12.30- approx. 14.30 Workshop/lecture
approx. 14.30/15.00 hrs End of seminar (for longer seminars: end of seminar after brunch, i.e. at approx. 12.30 hrs)

* Some seminars with special topics also have a workshop in the afternoon from 2.00 pm/14.30 pm - 6.00 pm and no yoga class in the afternoon or the exercises are integrated into the workshop.

SEMINAR STARTS punctually at 20:00 with meditation. Please arrive on time.
The rooms are available from 15:00. At 16:30 (Fri./Sun., other days: 16:15) there is a yoga class and dinner at 18:00. Weekend seminars end on Sunday at approx. 2.30 pm.

Arrival

The Yoga Vidya seminar house is idyllically situated on the edge of the old spa town of Bad Meinberg. The location is quiet and central at the same time. It is therefore easily accessible by train or car. Larger cities in the vicinity include Paderborn (27 km away), Bielefeld (35 km away) and Hanover (100 km away).

If you are traveling by train, we recommend the Horn-Bad Meinberg train station, which is about 5 km from Yoga Vidya House. Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg offers a free shuttle service from the train station in Horn-Bad Meinberg between 8.30 am and 7.15 pm.

Yogaweg 7, 32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

3.7 (3 Reviews)

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.

2023-09-09

Rebecca Müller

I am just thrilled 🙃 🥰 🙏

2022-04-19

Kristina Lindenlauf

It was the first time I did something like that and I liked it. I did the Laughter Yoga theme week but I didn't like the Laughter Yoga itself; I only went once because it was the same explanation and almost the same course every time, which was a pity. But I discovered many other new things and had a lot of fun, made nice hikes and had a good rest. It was a long drive from Belgium to you (5 trains I had to take), but will come back. The only thing I find a pity is that everything is vegetarian. I am not a vegetarian and was then also to the supermarket to buy other things.

2022-04-18

Marie-Hélène Jehin

Cancellation policy

Full refund up to 14 days before arrival.
After this, the booking is non-refundable.

You can cancel free of charge up to 14 days before the start of the seminar and receive a full refund.
Within 14 days we can leave 100% of the fee as a credit or refund 50%. In the event of a spontaneous no-show, 100% of the seminar fee will be charged. Rebooking to another date or another seminar is possible at any time free of charge.