Meditation, Breathwork, and MBSR: 2-Day Introductory Workshop

You can book accommodations in various categories in Mondsee. The tourist office would be happy to handle this for you, or we can give you a few recommendations. The youth hostel and Landhaus Meingast are both highly recommended. Of course, you can also stay at home if the drive takes no more than an hour.
Just ask us!

All meals are vegetarian, Ayurvedic, and vegan. We’re happy to accommodate any food intolerances.
Breakfast consists of a fresh grain porridge that we prepare together with you. It is served with cooked and fresh fruits, as well as yogurt, nuts, and dried fruit.
Lunch consists of a vegetable dish with a variety of sides, such as rice, millet, buckwheat, bulgur, quinoa, or other grains.
Dinner consists of an Ayurvedic soup meal.
All meals are discussed with participants in advance.

An Introduction to Meditation and the Aspects of Mindfulness. Breathwork exercises can help us maintain or improve our physical, mental, and emotional health in the long term. They strengthen the respiratory system, calm the nervous system, and harmonize the subtle energy flow of our emotions.

Below, we present a possible daily schedule. This will give you a general idea of how the course will unfold.

Saturday:
1:00 p.m. Introductions, theory, and instruction on breathwork
2:00 p.m. Movement-based breathing session
3:00 PM Tea break
4:00 PM Group reflection
4:30 PM Breathwork session
5:30 PM Group reflection and break
6:00 PM Opportunity for one-on-one conversations
6:30 PM Evening breathwork session
7:00 PM END

Sunday:
8:00 AM Moving breathwork
9:30 AM Breakfast
11:00 Breathwork sessions, short seated session, coherent breathing
12:30 Group discussion
13:00 Lunch break and reflection exercise
14:30 Breathwork session
4:00 PM Closing Discussions and Group Exchange

Seminar Facilitators:
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 in NEURO-Meditation at the Vienna University of Technology (TH-Campus Wien). 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.

By car via Munich or Passau, Salzburg, Vienna, and Linz. Departure from Mondsee
By train via Munich or Vienna to Salzburg.
Fly to Salzburg. From there, take City Bus 2 to the main train station.
From the Salzburg main train station, take Postbus 140 to the Mondsee bus station.
All accommodations are within walking distance of the bus station.