The Schloss Elmau
Transformative Longevity Retreats
high in the Alps
Holistic regeneration and healthy aging begin in the mind. Music grants our spirit silence, provides emotional relaxation, and connects us deeply with ourselves, others, and the unforgettable sense of eternity. Concerts and festivals featuring the great artists of our time are therefore an essential component of a Longevity Retreat at Schloss Elmau.
In combination with the offerings below, you can sustainably strengthen your physical and mental health, vitality, and resilience with serenity and ease:
- Mental Stillness: Find peace and enjoy sublime sleep accompanied by the soothing sound of silence and rushing mountain streams in untouched nature.
- High-End Alpine Wellness: Relax in six spacious spas (three of which are adults-only).
- The Healing Power of Water: Swim in the fresh mountain air in heated outdoor pools and crystal-clear mountain lakes.
- Therapeutic Heat: Detox in oversized saunas, brine steam baths, a Japanese Onsen, and an authentic Oriental Hamam.
- Biohacking: Cold therapy through ice bathing in a crystal-clear mountain stream.
- Mind & Body: Meditation, Yoga, Gaga, Taiji, Qigong, and Pilates with world-class instructors.
- Holistic Medicine: Soothing treatments based on the methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
- Fitness: Optimization of training intensity through spiroergometry.
- Vitality: Strengthen the immune and cardiovascular systems through running, jogging, hiking, mountain biking, and/or road biking / cycling high in the mountains.
- Nutrition: Intermittent fasting as well as healthy vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian diets—featuring two Michelin stars at Ikigai.
Sample daily schedule
07.00: Morning Swim, Walk, Run, Meditation
08.00: Personal Coaching, Mobility Check, Spiroergometry
09.00: Yoga, Taiji, QiGong, Pilates (optional)
10.00: Frühstück
11.00: TIme fort Spa, Sports, Gym, Expert Talks,
13.00: Light Lunch, Ice-Bathing (optional)
14.00: Time for Treatments
15.00: Jivamukti Yoga/Taiji/QiGong/Pilates (optional)
16.00: Sauna Aufguss & Spa Time
18.00: Dinner
20:30 Concert/Lectures
Spas & Pools
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Wild-Swimming and Ice-Bathing
Rejuvenate and boost your health with wild-swimming in the crystal-clear Lake Ferchensee, and ice-bathing in the creek in front of the sauna at the Nature Spa. he cold shock during ice bathing in a river or lake triggers the release of adrenaline and endorphins, which creates a euphoric feeling after the bath. In the long term, it can strengthen the immune system, reduce inflammation and increase mental resilience. Cold immersion can also promote muscle recovery and stimulate the activity of brown adipose tissue, which boosts metabolism.
Der Klang der Stille und rauschender Gebirgsbäche
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Concerts & Festivals
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Dr Imke König is a physician, specialist in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qigong and Taijiquan teacher, Pilates trainer, expert in pain physiology, and has developed several special massage techniques for pain patients. She has been Medical Spa Director at Schloss Elmau since 2008 and heads the Turtle Spa®, which offers the full range of Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments.
As part of the Wellbeing Retreats, she works, among other things, with traditional pulse and tongue diagnosis, Chinese herbal prescriptions, nutritional analyses and consultations, Chinese Tuina massages with cupping, moxa and gua sha, as well as Taijiquan and Qigong. Acupuncture can additionally be booked in her private practice.
She has also been a certified BASI® Pilates Comprehensive Teacher for 15 years and teaches both mat classes and personal training on large Pilates equipment (e.g. Reformer or Cadillac). Her anatomical knowledge and her experience with spiraldynamics, Taijiquan and Qigong enrich her teaching and continually open up new movement perspectives for her guests.
Johannes Mikenda is a sports psychology expert and senior advanced yoga instructor. As a sports scientist, his focus is on evidence-based movement interventions for the prevention of well-known lifestyle diseases such as obesity, back pain, etc. He draws on 20 years of experience in spinal clinics and rehabilitation clinics, as a Pilates and back training instructor, and as a running and Nordic walking coach, and incorporates the latest research findings. However, most restrictions on quality of life have their cause in the mind.
As a sports psychology coach, Johannes relies particularly on acceptance and commitment therapy techniques, combining them with a systemic approach. Meditation and yoga can be ideally integrated as techniques in this process. Johannes uses this combination flexibly and in a variety of ways in his work with professional athletes, musicians, special forces, as a psychosocial specialist in acute trauma relief, and for the guests of Schloss Elmau.