Yoga Retreat with a Cacao Ceremony and Sound Bath, including half-board and a massage

If your daily life leaves little room for rest and reflection, you can use these days to invite clarity, calm, and structure into your life, shed unnecessary baggage, sort through your thoughts, and focus on what truly matters. Recharge your batteries so you can face winter full of energy and with a strengthened immune system.

We start each day with a revitalizing, invigorating yoga practice that includes natural movement, breathwork, and meditation. In the afternoon, there’s another group session, which is more gentle in nature. Following the yoga sessions, we go together for breakfast and dinner, during which you can share experiences with the yoga teacher and have your questions answered. Between sessions, there’s plenty of time for rest, wellness, spa treatments, walks in the adjacent forest, or whatever else makes you feel good.
Our certified yoga instructor, Claudia Ballhaus—who also works therapeutically in the fields of yoga therapy, Chinese medicine, fascia therapy, and homeopathy at a naturopathic practice, will mindfully guide you through the yoga classes in our bright, well-ventilated exercise room, helping you become aware of your personal limits and motivating you to expand them individually.

The yoga classes are heavily based on Katonah Yoga—a highly alignment-focused yoga practice rooted in the philosophy of the Five Elements from Chinese medicine, which in turn incorporates many elements from Iyengar Yoga and breathing techniques from Kundalini Yoga. Imagination is always integrated into the practice. To this end, Claudia Ballhaus likes to use metaphors to keep the mind present, ultimately helping you arrive fully in the moment. The yoga classes are equally suitable for beginners and those with yoga experience. Ms. Ballhaus meets each student where they are and provides precise, loving support to help them find healthy alignment and posture, thereby maximizing the benefits for the body so that, over time, a sense of stability, flexibility, and well-being can develop.
Janne Böck combines spirituality, body awareness, and creative hands-on work into a holistic practice. As a yoga teacher, certified sound practitioner, and cacao ceremony facilitator, she creates spaces where people can connect with their hearts and dive deeply into their inner worlds. Her sound baths and rituals blend intuition, grounding, and a subtle energetic alignment.

The connection to the material world is particularly close to her heart: As an aspiring ceramicist, she devotedly shapes her own cups for her cacao ceremonies—each piece carries the energy of the moment within it. With her warm, empathetic manner, she invites you to find stillness, feel your own light, and let yourself be nourished by sound, cacao, and the touch of the heart.

In your free time, treat yourself to exquisite local dishes at Fischers Fritz Restaurant and a chopstick massage at Birke Spa.

Bringing your own yoga mat is recommended, but mats are also available on site.

Additional Offer:
A one-on-one session offers the opportunity to focus entirely on your needs. Using a body reading, we’ll identify any structural imbalances and work together to design a completely personalized practice that you can take home with you.
One-on-one session, 60 minutes: €119.00