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Ayurveda Parkschlösschen is not too far away at the Mosel river in Traben-Trarbach and is an oasis for the over-worked.
Kathleen Landbeck is a naturopath and psychotherapist, who leads the Resilienz Retreat at Ayurveda Parkschlösschen. Maria Hebel is an Ayurvedic Practicioner at the centre.
Dirk Hense represents Nestwärme – a family relief network across Germany, Luxembourg and Austria for families with physically or mentally handicapped children; families that need to become resilient to cope with the realities of their day-to-day existence.
Ayurveda is an ancient holistic medical system which focusses on the human being as an individual, with individual problems and needs.
Each person is viewed in terms of their ‘dosha’ (body and personality type) to help us understand our personality type and traps.
Whatever one’s background or wealth, we face different challenges in life: burdens of work, relationships and health. We also face the burden of ourselves and the weight we put on ourselves through upbringing and culture around us.
We’ve certainly come to realise that physical health impacts mental health and our microbiome.
At Parkschlösschen they try to reset the digestive tract and calm the nervous system with a series of many of the things we know ourselves: good food habits, sleep, meditation, yoga, and a digital detox.
We fall in to habits and traps, and in relationships: “Partners are our gurus, especially when it’s difficult.”
Kathleen and Maria plus the team meet people as they arrive high on stress hormones.
We are not always conscious of what’s hurting us, or our unrealistic expectations. Why is it that we are so driven? Or can’t meet the standards set by ourselves or others?
Kathleen tries to develop the self love muscle. We learn about the Four Stages of Life:
We also learn about the importance of boundaries to maintain our emotional and physical health, and also learn about the five different levels of being:
Nestwärme helps families in a holistic way, fostering the feeling of community and diversity. It’s so easy to feel alone with not much ‘extra’ energy when faced with an on-going stressful family situation.
And this is not an insignificant number – about 2-5% of families are touched by this in western European countries.
The work is focused on health and wellbeing where the body follows the mind, plus the intrinsic need for belonging.
The motto is: “Me, then you, then we.”
We cannot sacrifice too much of ourselves or we burnout.
Nestwärme have added seven elements of building resilience:
And they added the importance of humour.
Resilience is a muscle that must be trained. They have built and e-learning platform which is available in English, German and French.
Kathleen is about to become a digital nomad, travelling the world with her work and has a website here.
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