Living Spirituality ... Annual Training 2026

You will be staying at Landhaus Meingast or the Mondsee Youth Hostel. Both accommodations are within walking distance of the ZENraum. Since the number of single rooms is limited, we recommend booking early. You are also welcome to contact the Mondsee Tourist Office if these two accommodations do not suit your needs.

Meals are served with the group in the ZEN_raum and are not included in the seminar price!!
The cost for a full course weekend, including all meals and beverages, is 50.- per group session, or 75.- for the final course cycle. All meals are vegetarian, Ayurvedic, and vegan. We are happy to accommodate any food intolerances. Please let us know before the course begins so that we can discuss this with you individually.

9 Fridays: 4:00 PM to 9:30 PM
9 Saturdays: 7:30 AM to 2:00 PM / 3:30 PM to 9:30 PM
9 Sundays: 7:30 AM to 1:00 PM / 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In-person group course consisting of 9 sessions, with additional individual online support.

We will work through 3 modules comprising a total of 9 themed sessions. All sessions must take place in person. Participants will receive individual online support as needed. Given the time required for this kind of individuation process, it is difficult to specify a concrete timeframe for the support.

Prerequisites for participating in this process include a history of intensive meditation practice, the ability for self-reflection, and an understanding of spiritual, psychological, and emotional interconnections.

Module 1 Seminars 1–3
In the first part, we lay the foundation, which is solely about becoming familiar with active and passive meditation techniques. During the training, we will explore 8 different active meditations through intensive personal practice.

Module 2 Seminars 4–6
Another very essential aspect of the training is dealing with primal fears and their effects on our current existence. How did they arise, how do I deal with them, and what makes it so difficult to let go of them? In this way, we gradually approach our patterns of thought and feeling, recognizing them as our own. It is usually these unconscious patterns and structures that ultimately prevent us from accepting ourselves as we are. Yet it is precisely the act of making these mechanisms and dirty tricks visible that is the prerequisite for recognizing what harms us and makes reconciliation with life possible in the first place. We ask ourselves the questions “Who is to blame?” and “Why are certain things the way they are—or aren’t?” less and less, and slowly come to understand the sense and nonsense in them.

Module 3 Seminars 7–9
The way we experience and process meditations is a highly sensitive area… Mindfulness and how we deal with what we experience allow us to slowly become authentic. We acknowledge our weaknesses and reconcile ourselves with WHAT is happening RIGHT NOW. Experiencing HUMILITY and SURRENDER to and within the present moment are existential and open up the space within us where meditation can take place. Experiencing this is not only helpful for all those who wish to share their experiences, but also forms the basis for meaningful work with oneself and others. For daily interaction in both professional and private spheres, the practice of meditation and mindfulness is of great humanistic significance. Through them, we cultivate true self-responsibility and self-determination within ourselves, without succumbing to narcissistic illusions.
We incorporate various approaches from humanistic psychology, such as Gestalt work, bioenergetics, breathing techniques, IFS (Inner Family System), psychoanalysis, neurological connections in meditation according to Ken Wilber and Gerald Hüther, the phenomenology of the 7-stage development according to Wilfried Nelles, and MBSR according to Jon Kabat-Zinn—this is mentioned to give you an overview of the content.

Seminar Leaders:
We are Marion and Bernhard Hötzel, and we each have 45 years of meditation experience, more than 20 of which we have spent working as meditation teachers.
We teach at our own institute, as well as serving 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 our modern times.

Take the train or plane to Salzburg. From Salzburg Central Station, you can take bus 140 to Mondsee every 50 minutes.
By car: Take the A1 Vienna–Salzburg or Munich–Salzburg.
Mondsee is located about 30 km past Salzburg in the direction of Vienna and has its own exit.
The ZEN_raum, your seminar room, is located directly in the Mondsee castle courtyard, in the heart of town near the basilica.