Personal Wellbeing Retreats

Boost your health and resilience with serenity in personal wellbeing retreats with outstanding therapists and personal trainers. Besides healthy nutrition and effective treatments, programs may include Yoga, Taiji, QiGong and Pilates according to your individual needs, as well as sports and fitness programs. The optimal intensity and duration of your program will be determined usingstate-of-the-art spiroergometry analysis.

Get into Shape

You wish to develop and feel strength, endurance, and the joy of movement? To feel good in your body?

This package will set you on the path to achieving this. Your current level will be determined by means of spiroergometry, movement analysis with high-speed cameras, and a mobility check. Individual training sessions are then designed for you based on this. In the mental coaching session, we will develop strategies to help you realistically keep up your training in your everyday life. Of course, specific goals such as a new personal best in the marathon or your first Ironman can also be addressed here. Daily wellness treatments round off the schedule.

Includes: 1x 30-minute phone conversation before arrival, 1x performance diagnostics, 1x movement analysis, 1x mental coaching, 1x personal training, 4x individual massage

Lose Weight

You wish to shed unwanted weight? To feel lighter and more comfortable in your body? Without resorting to crash diets or radical abstinence, but in a healthy and sustainable way?
In this package, Johannes Mikenda shows you how to make it happen. Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and physical fitness are determined precisely using spiroergometry.

Based on this, you will receive recommendations for exercise(s) that can be easily integrated into your daily routine. In conversation, you will learn how to attain your long-term feel-good weight without rigid abstinence, with simple strategies, and with the necessary reflection on your daily routine.
Relaxing treatments help to increase your sense of well-being and encourage you to treat your body with kindness and care.

Includes: 1x 30-minute phone call before arrival, 1x basal metabolic rate measurement & spiroergometry, 1x mental coaching – Nutrition, 2x personal training, 4x individual massage

Strengthen your Back

You wish to live a life free of back pain? Get rid of it or prevent it before it ever happens?
In this package, you will work with an experienced sports scientist to determine which areas of your body need more attention and where strength or mobility can be increased.
In conversation, you will find causes and strategies for reducing avoidable stressors in your everyday life.
In addition, daily focus massages will help your body to relax and unwind.


Includes: 1x 30-minute phone call before arrival, 1x movement analysis / mobility check, 1x mental coaching – Back, 2x personal back training sessions, 4x individual massage

Sample daily schedule

7h – Time for a swim/early-morning exercise or a morning walk
8h – Personal coaching / Movement analysis / Mobility check or Spiroergometry
9h – Optional yoga lesson
10h – Breakfast
11-14h – Time for spa, nature, exercise, gym

14h – Massage, individual, focus on the back
15h – Optional yoga class
16h – Sauna / Spa / Water
18h – Time for dinner

 

Live Well & Live Long
with Dr. Imke König

One Expert Time session daily (Monday to Thursday) with Dr. König, in which theoretical information about the findings of Chinese Yang Sheng, Chinese nutritional science, happiness, resilience and longevity research is imparted, as well as individually selected exercises from the repertoire of Qigong are practiced.

In addition, daily (4 days) 50 min Wellbeing Treatment.

The Pilates Way to Stability and Balance
with Dr. Imke König

Daily (Monday to Thursday) a session of Personal Pilates with Dr. König with classic exercises on the mat, dynamic exercises from Pilates Standing Balance and, if desired, with the large equipment Reformer, Cadillac and Wunda Chair. Exercises in the areas of strength, flexibility and balance ensure a balanced workout and a new body awareness.

Additional daily (4 days) 50 min Wellbeing Treatment

Relaxe & Recharge
with Dr. Imke König

One Expert Time session per day (Monday to Thursday) with Dr. König, in which theoretical information on the Chinese view of the causes of exhaustion is discussed, as well as ways out of exhaustion (diet, herbs, exercise, exercises, sleep culture). We also practise individually tailored exercises from the repertoire of Qigong.

In addition, daily (4 days) 50 min Wellbeing Treatment.

Holistic Health TCM
with Dr. Imke König

Daily (Monday to Thursday) one hour of Expert Time with Dr. König, initial Chinese anamnesis and holistic solutions for any disorders of well-being, theoretical information on the preventive measures of Chinese Yang Sheng, (e.g. influence of internal and external factors on health, nutrition, emotions, lack of exercise/sleep) and individually compiled exercises from the repertoire of Qigong.

In addition, daily (4 days) 50 min Wellbeing Treatment.

Johannes Mikenda

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.

Dr. Imke König


Frau Dr. Imke König ist Ärztin, Spezialistin für Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin, Qigong und Taijiquan Lehrerin, Pilates Trainerin, Expertin für Schmerz-Physiologie und hat für Schmerzpatienten mehrere Spezialmassagen entwickelt. Sie ist seit 2008 Medical Spa Direktorin auf Schloss Elmau und leitet das Turtle Spa® mit allen Angeboten rund um die Chinesische Medizin. Im Rahmen der Wellbeing Retreats arbeitet sie unter anderem mit traditioneller Puls-Erstanamnese und Zugendiagnostik, chinesische Kräuterrezepte, Ernährungsanalysen und Beratungen, Chinesische Tuina Massagen mit Schröpfen, Moxa und Guasha sowie Taijiquan & QiGong. Akupunktur kann in der Privat Praxis zusätzlich gebucht werden. 

Darüber hinaus ist sie seit 15 Jahren zertifizierter Basi® Pilates Comprehensive Teacher und unterrichtet sowohl Mattenklassen, als auch Personal Trainings mit Pilates Großgeräten (z.B. Reformer oder Cadillac). Ihre anatomischen Kenntnisse und ihre Erfahrung mit Spiraldynamik, Taijiquan und Qigong bereichern ihren Unterricht und eröffnen ihren Gästen immer wieder neue Bewegungsperspektiven.