"I go to the mountains to find my soul."
- John Muir
The Power of the Ancestors - Healing the Family Soul
Your family needs you - as the person you really are.
Many of us have experienced certain influences and old wounds from our families of origin that we carry with us and that often make our everyday lives more difficult. In order to really be there for our own family - as a partner, parent and as an adult child - it is important to resolve these old injuries and patterns.
Only when we find our own center, know our needs and are at peace with our history, can we support and accompany others from a stable inner being.
By finding and healing ourselves, we also do something good for our partners, children and all future generations. We break dysfunctional cycles and pass on new, positive impulses.
In this way, self-discovery becomes an act of love - for ourselves and our family.
Treat yourself to some time out just for you to recharge your batteries - you're worth it!
The family constellations led by Silvia Ascensão are the core of the retreat.
On three days, Friday to Sunday, you have the opportunity to discuss your personal topics in a protected group in the morning and afternoon. Participation is voluntary.
Silvia carefully introduces the method and supports each individual in selecting the representatives that are important to him or her and placing them in the room. Often, surprising dynamics and connections emerge in the spatial constellation, which enable deep insights.
Silvia approaches each participant with sensitivity and helps to find solutions for deadlocked situations. By rearranging the constellation, burdens can be released, reconciliation can be found and healing impulses can be set for the future.
Between the constellations there is time for integration, for sharing in the group and for refreshment with snacks and drinks. At the end of the retreat, the participants feel freer and clearer inside, old wounds begin to heal. They have gained strength and confidence to take control of their lives.
Please note that communication during the retreat will take place in English, including the family constellations. Don't worry if you don't understand every single word: we communicate on a heart level and overcome language barriers. If you need help, we are here for you: Gina speaks English & Hungarian. Anne speaks German, English and Hungarian. Silvia speaks Portuguese and English.
Our retreat takes place in a special place:
where "the liver is in Europe".
The liver symbolizes issues such as anger, rage and powerlessness. If you feel a resonance with these issues, you have come to the right place.
Everything that comes up can be seen, felt and transformed.
Together we will take a healing path to shed excess baggage and become free inside. We will accompany you with a lot of empathy and mindfulness.
At the end, you will go home relieved and liberated. Full of vitality and hope for a new beginning.
Here you can free yourself from old patterns and blockages. They can now go.
Our retreat is a place of healing.
Come here to be yourself. Everything that makes you who you are is welcome.
We look forward to meeting you and supporting you on your path to more lightness and freedom.
During our time together, heavy burdens will fall away from you. You will go home strengthened and connected - ready for a new beginning.
We invite you to try it with us.
Each participant receives a soothing and energizing massage from the experienced therapists Elke and Franz Hutterer.
Franz also uses the "Open Hands" method, a gentle bodywork that releases blockages and allows life energy to flow.
In the hotel's own wellness area, you can relax and unwind in the sauna or wash away the tensions of your everyday life in the jacuzzi.
The breathtaking mountain world of the Alps invites you to recharge your batteries and find peace in nature.
When hiking, cycling or doing other activities, you can switch off your mind and use all your senses to take in the beauty of your surroundings.
These components complement the retreat program perfectly to bring body, mind and soul back into harmony and to return to everyday life strengthened.
The artist Selina Külling invites you to process the experiences of the family constellation individually. In her room for creative expression, painting utensils such as brushes, paints and paper are always available for you.
There are no limits to your imagination. Selina will sensitively support you in expressing your new insights about yourself and your origins in an artistic way.
In addition, works by Selina will be exhibited in the hotel. Her paintings and illustrations will accompany the retreat week and invite you to pause and look. If you would like, you can also purchase a work by the artist.
Through the creative process and the inspiring works of art, you will find further opportunities to process your inner impressions and integrate new things into your life.
Our retreat deliberately takes place at the time of the summer solstice.
Here the universal forces are particularly supportive in letting go of old patterns and habits and in transforming yourself.
The quality of these days is ideal for conscious transformation.
Especially with regard to the liver, you can now ideally cleanse and release anger and pent-up emotions. Your system finds it easier to let go of old issues and cleanse itself.
Use the power of this time to shed ballast and realign yourself. The cosmic energies will help you with this.
Open yourself to the change within you.
For our retreat, we reserve the Alpenblick wellness hotel in the idyllic Hochkönig region exclusively for our participants. This means that the entire hotel is available to us just for our event program.
The bright, friendly rooms offer you the ideal retreat to recharge your batteries. The wellness area with sauna, jacuzzi and the option to arrange your own personal massage appointment also ensures your relaxation and well-being.
We will decorate the hotel rooms with works by Selina Külling to provide inspiration.
During the retreat, the restaurant serves a varied breakfast buffet, a light lunch and local and international dishes in the evening, optionally vegan & vegetarian.
You can end the day with a good glass of wine in the cozy bar.
With its picturesque location at the foot of the Hochkönig, the Alpenblick creates the perfect atmosphere to relax during your retreat and return home refreshed.
https://www.goed-hotels.at/wellnesshotel-sportalm/rundgang/
We focus not only on your mind, but also on your body. Our renowned chef Evgen Bunderla and his team conjure up delicious dishes for you every day, tailored to your nutritional needs.
We attach great importance to fresh, high-quality and seasonal ingredients, from tea to main courses, consistently and sustainably.
From breakfast to dinner, you can look forward to vitamin-rich and nutritious cuisine that provides you with everything your body needs.
By eating consciously, you actively participate in your healing process.
Let yourself be enchanted by the balanced flavors and be assured: With us, your palate will get what it deserves!
Enjoy every bite as part of your retreat experience and feel how it strengthens you.
07:00 am - silent morning meditation with Franz
07:30 am - Recharge your batteries at the breakfast buffet09:00 am - Family constellation in the group, with coffee break12:00 pm - Light, nutrient-rich lunch, break to do as you please2:00 pm - Family constellation in the group, with coffee break OR: Painting meditation with Selina18:00 pm - Free time to relax7:00 pm - Dinner7:30 pm - Relaxation e.g. in the hotel's sauna or jacuzzi, massage - A wonderful opportunity to loosen up and relieve the body after an intensive day of processing.
The days are deliberately designed so that phases of working on yourself alternate with exchange and rest. This way you can gain strength and process what you have experienced. We look forward to accompanying you on this deep journey!
Secure your place for this unique retreat in the Austrian Alps and experience healing on a body, mind and soul level.
Born in 1984 in Halle/Saale and raised there, I now live in Hungary with my three children and my husband. Together we have been running the EngelHerz Academy "For strong families" since 2021. Many people with special skills and a lot of passion for a new world have already joined us.
My own healing story has led me to try out a lot of things. I love homeopathy for its gentle but powerful effects. But above all, I have become a "Hellinger junkie" in the last 10 years. ;-) I find the method of family constellations not only extremely exciting, but also sustainably healing and empowering. But most importantly, I think that the human soul is deeply respected here.
It has always been my wish to accompany people on their spiritual path who are looking for solutions and are not afraid to change their lives. In September 2024, I was hiking in the Olympus Mountains with my dear friend Gina when the vision of "Reconnect Yourself" came to me. I told Gina about it and she was immediately enthusiastic. Within a few weeks, a wonderful co-creation emerged, the hotel and all team members immediately agreed and this wonderful project was born!
I am happy to be here & to honor & heal this special place, ourselves and our tribe together with you.
Hello, I'm Silvia.
I was born and raised in the north of Portugal and my connection to the spiritual world was evident from an early age.
For the first three decades, I didn't know what it was or how to deal with it when my energy was touched.
In my family this topic is still taboo.
Over the last 13 years, a new path has opened up for me. Spirituality came into my life and I let it guide me. Over the years, I learned to understand myself and my issues. This means I can now help many people I meet. I am inspired by what I have healed in myself.
I am grateful for the privilege of contributing to the healing of every soul that crosses my path. Constellation work came to me in 2020. Since I have been dealing with it, learning, applying, teaching and freeing, I have seen how my life and that of the people who come to me are changing for the better.
We find the freedom to be ourselves in service to something very important -
the future of humanity.
I am.
Born in 1986 and grew up in Switzerland.
After finishing school and a few years of orientation, he emigrated to Germany to study sculpture.
After 2.5 years I met my partner and decided
to extend art studies to life and start a family.
When our first son was one year old, we went on bicycles to find "our own piece of land". Life led us to Hungary, where we have now lived for 11.5 years.
Life - God - gives me new tasks, exercises, images, forms, puzzles, miracles, gifts every day, to come ever closer to myself - to meet myself - to be myself.
After many years of creative slumber, the strength and desire to create is pulsing within me again and spaces are opening up for it.
I would love to share and celebrate these spaces with you.
I, "Gina", am 45 years old, come from Budapest and have found my true home at Lake Bohinj in Slovenia. I identify myself as a "European Gypsy".
In my 28-year career, I have acquired a broad range of skills in over 100 jobs on 3 continents. I combine an analytical mind with emotional intelligence and an unerring instinct for quality.
Today, as a systems designer, I design sustainable projects with "heart and mind" and use my organizational skills to promote mindful interaction.
Through working together in permaculture, I met Anne and a deep friendship developed between us.
I will bring all my experience and organizational talent to this retreat to ensure that everything runs smoothly. With my empathetic nature, I will provide competent support to the participants and be available to them as a contact person.
I am 67 years old, mother of 3 grown children and proud great-grandmother. I have been married to my dear Franz for 37 years.
Franz and I travel the world together, explore foreign cultures and enjoy theater, thermal baths and meetings with friends at home.
Even in my youth, I was fascinated by spirituality - a Protestant pastor opened my eyes to the variety of religious paths. Over the decades, I deepened my knowledge, attended courses and met like-minded people. Even today, I still inform myself about historical and social contexts in order to continue to grow my spirituality.
In search of a fulfilling job, I trained as a massage therapist at the age of 50. Now I can offer healing through intuitive treatments that I lovingly tailor to each person. My husband and I have set up a room for this. The connection I feel when listening and helping fills me with joy.
I, Franz, 71, enjoy life with my wife Elke. We travel, hike and I often go climbing in the mountains. As long as I'm fit, I make our everyday life active and full of joy.
After finishing work in our craft business, I massaged people with back pain in the evenings after completing my training as a massage therapist in 2007. For me and my customers, massage is pure relaxation. My hands massage the body sensitively while loving energy is transmitted.
Meditation is part of my self and I have been practicing it for over 25 years. The inner path has made me free and relaxed and along the way I have had experiences that go beyond the rational world. I also use the laying on of hands method according to Anne Höfler. The hallmark of my spiritual path is that there is no "you should". Meditation and spirituality enrich my life.
I also really enjoy the hospice work that I learned at the end of my working life, as volunteering is important to me and I like to hold space for people making the transition from the local area.
After many experiences that culminated in financial bankruptcy and despair, I built up a craft business with my wife over a period of 25 years. I acquired orders, Elke took care of administration and employees. The crisis opened new doors. Looking back, my life was full of exciting experiences that made me who I am today.
Secure your place for this unique retreat in the mountains and experience healing on a body, mind and soul level.
completely-relaxed-arrival-package
We work in a group for 3 intensive days using this outstanding method. You will learn about hidden aspects of yourself and develop solutions for your everyday life. You will return to a changed world.
An energetic massage with Elke or Franz is included. You can use our daily meditation with Franz, as well as the hotel's wellness area: sauna and jacuzzi. We want you to relax completely!
We know that creative expression is essential for a happy life. Be inspired by Selina's nature-inspired artworks and enjoy a safe space in which you can express yourself and your experiences in an artistic and creative way!
Arrival on Wednesday, June 18, 2025: Our transfer will pick you up from the train station or Salzburg airport at around 3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m. Please let us know your arrival time as soon as you have booked so that we can plan the transfer as effectively as possible! All participants must have checked into their rooms by 6 p.m.
At 7 p.m. we warmly welcome everyone to the opening dinner in the restaurant!
Thursday, June 19, 2025: Getting to know each other and getting in the mood, reconnecting with nature and ourselves. Massage appointments can be arranged between Thursday and Monday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Whenever you can best use a soothing treatment. Additional appointments are possible by arrangement with Elke & Franz and at your own expense (50 € per 1 hour treatment).
Friday - Sunday (June 20th - 22nd, 2025): On these days, the focus is on family constellations. Participation is optional at any time. Whenever you feel that you need to retreat, you can allow yourself this. The space for creativity is always open, or you can give yourself what you need in your room, outside in nature, or in the wellness area. Whenever you feel that you need help, or need someone to talk to in order to feel through your inner processes, please feel free to speak to us. We are here for you.
Monday, June 23, 2025: On this day, we will engage in physical activity together: cycling, hiking, planting a tree - together we will make the retreat "complete". In keeping with the motto: "Imagine what the world would look like if we always left every place a little better than we found it!", we thank the place and plant a tree together near the hotel.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025: after breakfast, everyone sets off refreshed and strengthened. Would you like to extend your stay a little longer? No problem, just contact the hotel: https://www.goed-hotels.at/wellnesshotel-sportalm/rundgang/ and receive a 10% discount on subsequent bookings. If you wish, our transfer will accompany everyone who is returning home to the train station or Salzburg airport. Please let us know your departure times here too! We look forward to seeing you! ❤️
Secure your place for this unique retreat in the mountains and experience healing on a body, mind and soul level.
Please note that communication during the retreat will take place in English, including the family constellations.
Don't worry if you don't understand every single word: we communicate on a heart level and do away with language barriers.
If you need help, we are here for you:
Gina speaks English, Hungarian and Slovenian.
Anne speaks German, English and Hungarian.
Silvia speaks Portuguese and English.
The most important thing is that you feel comfortable and get the most out of this experience. We encourage you to open up to the healing process, even if it is in a foreign language. Know that you are in a safe and supportive space. We look forward to connecting with you on a heart level and transcending words. If you need help understanding at any point, just let us know.
This retreat is suitable for singles, couples and parents alike.
Unfortunately, participation with children is not possible.
If your partner wants to accompany you but does not want to participate actively, that is possible. We offer accommodation and meals for him or her. Just write to us about this.
Your partner is welcome to support and accompany you on your journey. Through their presence, they can give you strength and support. The time will also be healing and enriching for them.
We look forward to welcoming you as a couple. In the evening you can talk about your experiences together and strengthen each other. We are sure that this retreat can strengthen and deepen your relationship.
Enter your name and email address in the contact form at the bottom of this page. You will receive all information and documents from us by email.
By transferring the participation fee, you secure your place in the retreat. Please note that the super early bird price is only valid until December 31, 2024! You will receive a receipt for your payment, which you can deduct from your taxes.
The earlier you book, the cheaper your flight and train tickets will be. Let us know when and how you are arriving so we can plan your transfer.
We will send you some questions by email that will help us prepare your retreat perfectly for you.
Sit back and enjoy your decision! We look forward to seeing you!
"Invest in yourself - the first step to a healthy family."
Our retreat offers you the chance to work on yourself and your family and to emerge from this intensive time stronger. To ensure that this special experience is available to as many people as possible, we have developed an attractive fee structure.
only valid until December 31, 2024
valid until February 28, 2025
after March 1, 2025
All prices include a year's membership in the EngelHerz Academy. There are no further costs or obligations. You will receive a receipt for your payment and a proper membership application by email. Cancellation is not necessary.
Arrange a telephone consultation with us:
retreat@engelherz.org
We are happy to take time for you!
Best regards,
💛 Gina & Mom 💛
Main Office: Vienna
ZVR-Number 1232297038
Project location in Hungary
Jozsef Attila u. 18
H-8927 Nemessándorháza
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