Vipassana & Metta Meditation with Marie Mannschatz and Yoga with Stefanie Baltz

Marie Mannschatz

Marie Mannschatz is an internationally renowned meditation teacher. After working for twenty years in private practice as a Gestalt and body therapist, she trained as a Vipassana teacher in the 1990s with Jack Kornfield at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California. There, she and her teacher taught numerous multi-week silent retreats over the next ten years.

Stefanie Baltz

Stefanie Baltz is a long-time student and teaching assistant of Marie Mannschatz. Since 2021, she has been co-leading the program with Marie. She has worked as a psychotherapist in her own practice for over 30 years. From 2009 to 2012, she completed yoga teacher training. Since then, in addition to her psychotherapeutic work, she has been active as a yoga and Metta meditation teacher.

We all carry a great treasure within us, whose power and diversity only become apparent when we thoroughly polish it through our meditation practice. Daily life often throws us into a haze of conflicts, overwhelming demands, and obstacles. In this retreat, we strengthen our ability to set boundaries, enabling us to wisely regulate intense emotions. All our charming imperfections deserve attention and acceptance. We open our compassionate hearts and give space to what is uncomfortable. In this way, restlessness and doubt can dissolve and transform into inner peace.

Dynamic yoga sessions in the morning invigorate us and energize us for the day. They awaken joy, vitality, and lightness. Mindful, loving yoga in the evening supports the process of opening the heart and letting go. Walking and sitting meditation alternate, and there are guided meditations, talks, and discussions in small groups.