Resilience Yoga Retreat

October 2nd - October 5th, 2025 • Bahnitz, Brandenburg, Germany

Connect with your inner strength, practice accessing your resources more consciously and gain lasting peace and clarity in the midst of your colorful life.

Through the targeted interplay between dynamic and regenerating yoga sessions, mindful meditations, pranayama, sound baths and workshops on stress management and reflection, you will strengthen yourself on all levels.

Retreat language: German

This fall, strengthen your foundation from the inside out with Birgit Brammer and Elena Bunk as your guides

A peaceful river scene at sunset with calm water, trees lining the riverbanks, and a soft, pastel sky.

Retreat Program

16:30 Arrival

17:00 Welcome round & regenerative practice

19:30 Dinner together

Thursday

07:30 Coffee, tea & fruit

08:30 Morning practice (Vinyasa flow, meditation & pranayama)

10:30 Breakfast

Free time to relax, for sauna, swim in the Havel river, walk in nature, etc.

14:30 Snack

16:30 Workshop on resource work & strengthening resilience

17:30 Yin with soundbath / Yin & Yoga Nidra

19:30 Dinner together

Friday & Saturday

Sunday

07:30 Coffee, tea & fruit

08:30 Powerfully reflected morning practice

10:30 Breakfast together

12:00 Final round & departure

Food

We will enjoy delicious food prepared by the wonderful Mélanie Wehrli .

Mélanie is an intuitive chef and multidisciplinary artist who began her career in hospitality 12 years ago while studying fashion design in Melbourne. She loved caring for guests in the restaurant where she worked while creating a positive, vibrant energy around her. She grew up with a mother who always paid attention to a balanced, healthy diet, which naturally inspired her personal cooking style.

In 2015, she moved to Berlin and quickly found herself in the kitchen of a lovely vegetarian café in Kreuzberg. She then worked at Father Carpenter and Isla Café, and in the meantime, she founded her own pop-ups, CHEZ ELLA and PIQUE NIQUE BY US, with her friend Chelsea Turowsky.

Today, Mélanie lives in Berlin and devotes her time to her own cooking. Her dishes are simple, nutritious, and pleasing to the eye. She places great emphasis on nutrition, taste, and aesthetics.

If you have any allergies, please let us know at least two weeks before the retreat begins.

Retreat location

Haven Havelland • Dorfstraße 33, 14715 Milower

The retreat takes place in Haven Havelland – an extraordinary space for creativity.

Nestled in the West Havelland Nature Park, Haven is the ideal location for yoga and team retreats. Here, we can experience yoga sessions and workshops in a restored 1920s dance hall, unwind in the garden sauna, relax in the reading room, or simply drift along the meanders of the Havel River. At the end of the day, we can relax and recharge in the historic guesthouse. All seven rooms have en-suite bathrooms and combine rustic charm with modern comfort. There is a single room, as well as several double and triple rooms.

A three-story pink house with white window frames, a white front door, black balcony railings, and a dark gray roof with multiple windows. There are trees and greenery around the house and a parked car on the left side.

A minimalist bedroom with a simple wooden bed frame, white bedding, a chair near a radiator, dark curtains, a chandelier, and a colorful rug.

A small bathroom with a sink, mirror, and a wall-mounted shower. The sink area has a bottle of liquid soap and a round mirror. There is a trash bin underneath the sink. The bathroom door is partially open.

A bedroom with a bed, wooden chair, small table, checkered blanket, large window with sheer curtains, wooden beams, and a patterned rug.

A bedroom featuring a wooden bed with white pillows, matching wooden nightstands, and wall-mounted lamps. The room has a wooden floor and a sloped ceiling with visible wooden beams.

Bright bedroom with sloped ceilings, two windows with light blue and white striped curtains, and wicker chairs. The bed has white and blue bedding, and there is a small table with a vase and dried flowers.

Interior of a room with pink walls, a pink radiator, a framed photo of children playing by the water, and a partially open door showing a kitchen.

Empty hallway with wooden floors, light-colored walls, and modern ceiling lights, leading to a white front door with glass panels.

Interior of a room with a peach-colored wall, wooden paneling, a wooden bookshelf with books and decorative vases, a beige armchair, a tall floor lamp with a white shade, a small blue table, and part of a brown sofa in the foreground.

A clear glass pitcher with white flowers on a dark gray table in a room with beige walls and a window with orange curtains.

Cozy living room with peach-colored walls, large window, brown sofa with pillows, wooden coffee table, and artwork on wall.

A cozy dining room with wooden tables and red chairs, a vintage green cabinet, and large windows with greenery outside.

Living room with a curved black sofa, small round beige side table, and striped cushions on the floor, with a beige wall and curtains.

Yoga studio with mats, bolsters, and natural light from windows.

Interior of a modern house with wooden walls, ceiling, and hooks with hanging towel, leading to a bright door with a window and trees outside.

Two wooden lounge chairs with striped fabric seats in a minimalist indoor setting, with beige walls and shadowed light on the tiled floor.

Interior of a modern wood sauna with seating and a bucket with a ladle outside the door.

A round red dining table with six wooden chairs in a room with wooden flooring, a green wall, a pink sliding door, and a modern pendant light hanging above the table with a small vase of yellow flowers on it.

A wooden bookshelf with books and magazines against an orange wall, topped with a table lamp and art books.

Photos by Maike Grimm

Accommodation will be offered in single bedrooms, shared double or shared three bedrooms.

All seven rooms at Haven have their own en-suite bathroom.

Please indicate your preference when registering so that we can find a suitable spot for you.

Rooms

Shared Triple Room: 650€ per person

Shared Double Room: 690€ per person

Single Bedroom: 790€ per person

Investment

Included in the price:

3 x nights (incl. bed linen & towels)
all yoga classes, workshops, soundbaths, etc.
yoga mats, blocks, bolsters, and blankets are available on site
vegetarian / vegan food (3 breakfasts, 2 lunch snacks, 3 dinners)
relaxing sauna
time for you to spend out in nature

Not included in the price:

arrival and departure to the location (see FAQ)

Meet your hosts

Birgit Brammer is a deeply experienced yoga teacher whose path has been shaped by a life of curiosity, connection, and global exploration.
Her journey spans more than a decade of living and traveling with her family across Asia and Africa, where she absorbed rich cultural perspectives and deepened her yoga practice. These formative years, paired with a diverse range of teacher trainings—from trauma-sensitive yoga to neuroscience-informed approaches—inform her gentle yet powerful style today.
Birgit teaches with clarity, empathy, and presence, offering practices that strengthen the body, settle the mind, and restore balance. Her approach is rooted in resilience, joy, and a deep belief in the healing power of conscious movement.
After facing a serious illness five years ago, Birgit’s relationship to energy, presence, and purpose shifted profoundly. Now, each session she leads is an invitation to meet life with softness and strength—and to honor the body as a sacred companion through it all.
She continues to study, evolve, and share yoga not as a performance, but as a source of clarity, steadiness, and renewal.
Training
2010 | 200h TT S-VYASA | Bangalore & Singapore
2011 | Karma Kids Yoga | New York & Singapore
2012 | Township Yoga Project | South Africa
2014 | 300h TT Devahithi Yoga | South Africa
2018 | 25h Yoga Therapy Simon Borg Olivier | Sydney & Hamburg
2020 | 30h Healing power of the Vagus nerve | Copenhagen & Berlin
2022 | TT Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Helga Baumgartner & Eva Weinmann | Stuttgart
2023 | Subtle Yoga & Neuroscience connection | North Carolina
2023 | Science of Slow | North Carolina
2024 | Self-coaching & resource work Eva Weinmann | Chiemsee
2024 | Subtle Yoga for enhanced trauma recovery | North Carolina
2025 | Sequencing for the nervous system | Edinburgh
Workshops / Intensives
Forrest Yoga, Tri Yoga, Synergy Yoga, Anusara, Iyengar, Kundalini incl. Ross Rayburn, Michael Gannon, Brian Campbell, Simon Borg Olivier, Ana Forrest, Tiffany Cruikshank, Adell Bridges, Kaliji and many more.

Elena is a photographer, yoga teacher and sound healer. With her unique radiance, innate cheerfulness and varied skills, she creates nurturing spaces to rewind, connect and deeply recharge - might it be through soundbaths, putting you in touch with your creative flow and more.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, you are welcome as you are, and we can always find alternatives or adapt the practice in other ways. However, the retreat is not suitable for absolute beginners, so I welcome yogis with at least some prior experience.
Yes – as a passionate pre- and postnatal yoga teacher, you and your baby are always in safe, expert hands!
We will be a maximum of 16 participants plus the team.
The charming historic guesthouse is located in Bahnitz, in the beautiful Westhavelland Nature Park, 90 minutes west of Berlin by car. Of course, I'm happy to try to connect interested yogis for carpooling. Getting there by train is also super easy – from Berlin, the RE 1 train takes an hour to Wusterwitz. From there, it's just under 20 minutes by minibus to Bahnitz, although the costs can be shared.
Besides a lot of anticipation, maybe something to write with & maybe swimwear including a large towel in case you feel brave enough to jump into the Havel or want to use the sauna.

Resilience Yoga Retreat

October 2nd - October 5th, 2025 • Bahnitz, Brandenburg, Germany