Summary

In our specially tailored yoga seminars for the back, you will learn how to release tension, strengthen specific muscles, and make your spine more flexible. Gentle stretches and targeted exercises will help you prevent back pain, improve your posture, and promote physical well-being. At the same time, yoga helps 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 practical tips for better posture and greater well-being in everyday life. 🙌

Depending on your needs and time, you can choose from different focuses and formats: 👉 Back Yoga Week for Well-Being (June 28–July 3, 2026) Six days of intensive immersion in relaxation, conscious alignment, and new strength. 🌞
👉 Yoga for the back – compact weekends (November 28–30, 2025) Gentle mobilization, strengthening, and balance for the entire back. 🌿 👉 Yoga for the back – for shoulder and neck problems, stress, and headaches (April 6–10, 2026) Five days of targeted relief for tense areas and mental relaxation. 🧘‍♀️💆‍♂️ 👉 Fascia training for back pain (June 12–14, 2026) 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 your back opening up more with each exercise.

The retreat at a glance

The most important facts in a nutshell:

Categories: Fitness, Yoga Retreats, Hatha Yoga, Active Retreats, Meditation, Detox Retreats
Date: Apr | Jun | Aug
Language(s): German
Level: Beginner, Advanced
Place: Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany
Accommodation: Overnight stay included
Catering: Full board
Types of food: Raw Vegan, Organic, Vegan
Services: Nordic Walking

Meditation (guided)

silent garden

Tea Station

Wi-Fi in selected areas

Concerts, lectures

Good morning

Silvaticum Landscape Park

breathing exercises

Guided hikes

Yoga (alle Levels)

Ayurveda treatments at extra charge

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

Organic-certified vegan meals

Sauna for an additional charge

Yoga Shop & Cafe Maya

Co working space

gym

Accommodation

The all-inclusive package price includes the entire seminar program, accommodation in the selected room category, and vegan wholefood meals per person. Prices (2 nights/5 nights)
- Shared room: $214.00 / $466.00 - Double room: $258.00 / $567.00
- Single room: €299.00 / €671.00 - Dormitory, tent/camper van: €185.00 / €386.00 Information for your visit: - Check-in: from 3 p.m. / Check-out: by 12:30 p.m. - The staff speaks German and English
- WiFi: free in selected areas - Dogs: by arrangement with reception (limited number of pet rooms) - Parking: free - 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

Every day at lunchtime and in the evening, you can enjoy hearty meals – a vegan wholefood buffet. If you like to eat breakfast, fruit is available at the buffet from 8 a.m., as a snack after meditation, or for a quick bite between meals. Tea and water are available throughout the day.

We only use fresh, organic ingredients in our dishes. We place great importance on seasonal, sustainable products and support local farmers and partners. Fresh salads, cucumber, carrots, beetroot, and two different dressings are the main components of our buffet. For those who prefer warm food, steamed vegetable platters of broccoli, carrots, sweet potatoes, and fennel, as well as curries, dal, and soups, are a great alternative to the green raw food bar. In addition, there is always a selection of good oils, grains, and seeds. Bread or gluten-free alternatives and homemade vegan spreads are available for brunch.

Information 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 are then labeled according to the list.

sequence

Arrival day Please arrive by 7:00 p.m. at the latest. Arrival possible from 1:00 p.m.; rooms available from 3:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. (Fri/Sun) (other days: 4:15 p.m.) Asanas (yoga poses), pranayama (breathing exercises), deep relaxation. 6:00 p.m. Dinner. 8:00 p.m. Actual start of seminar with meditation, mantra chanting, introductions, lecture.

Daily schedule from the 2nd day 7:00 a.m. Meditation, mantra chanting, short reading, lecture 9:15 a.m. Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation 11:00 a.m. Brunch (breakfast/lunch) 2:30 p.m. Workshop/lecture *
4:15 p.m. Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation* 6:00 p.m. Dinner 8:00 p.m. Meditation, mantra chanting, lecture End of seminar/departure day 7:00 a.m. Meditation, mantra chanting, short reading, lecture 9:15 a.m. Yoga class, pranayama, deep relaxation
11:00 a.m. Brunch (breakfast/lunch) 12:30 p.m. to approx. 2:30 p.m. Workshop/lecture Approx. 2:30/3:00 p.m. Seminar ends (for longer seminars: seminar ends after brunch, i.e. at approx. 12:30 p.m.)

* Some seminars with special topics also have a workshop in the afternoon from 2:00 p.m./2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and no yoga class in the afternoon, or the exercises are integrated into the workshop. The SEMINAR BEGINS promptly at 8:00 p.m. with meditation. Please arrive on time.
Rooms are available from 3:00 p.m. There is a yoga class at 4:30 p.m. (Fri/Sun, other days: 4:15 p.m.) and dinner at 6:00 p.m. Weekend seminars end on Sunday at approximately 2:30 p.m.

Arrival

The Yoga Vidya seminar house is idyllically located on the edge of the old spa town of Bad Meinberg. The location is quiet and central at the same time. Therefore, it is 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 traveling by train, we recommend choosing the Horn-Bad Meinberg station as your destination, which is approximately 5 km from Yoga Vidya. Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg offers a free shuttle service to the seminar house, which picks you up from the train station in Horn-Bad Meinberg between 8:30 a.m. and 7:15 p.m.

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

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over 2 years ago

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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over 3 years ago

I am just thrilled 🙃 🥰 🙏

Kristina Lindenlauf

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over 3 years ago

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.

Marie-Hélène Jehin

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Cancellation policy

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

You can cancel free of charge and receive a full refund up to 14 days before the start of the seminar. Within 14 days, we can leave 100% of the fee as credit or refund 50%. In case of spontaneous non-arrival, 100% of the seminar fees will be charged. It is possible to rebook to another date or another seminar free of charge at any time.