5-day yoga forest retreat in the ancient Odenwald along the Nibelungen hiking trail with Anna Galt and Victoria Simpson 

Enjoy spring with us on a 5-day/4-night retreat at our yellow yoga retreat location Gebhardshütte in the deep forest of Odenwald, about 1 hour from Heidelberg. You are accompanied by 2 of our regular yellow yoga teachers, Anna and Victoria, who will lovingly support you with their experience and hold various vinyasa, hatha, yin and restorative yoga classes each day. Besides yoga, the forest retreats have many other wonderful things on offer: breathing exercises (pranayama) and meditation, sound journeys and massages, talking and singing circles, sauna and campfires!

Retreat time is a time for transformation and (self-)healing, a time to recharge your batteries, a time for yourself – and a time together, in a wonderful community.

We are looking forward to welcoming you!

About the yellow yoga Gebhardshütte
In the middle of the Odenwald – near the Nibelungensteig – Claudia, the founder of yellow yoga, came across the beautiful Gebhardshütte together with her family a few years ago. Until then, the Gebhardshütte had been a hostel for pilgrims and hikers. Slowly but steadily, over the last 5 years, it has been growing into a cozy retreat center. The Gebhardshütte is deeply hidden in the forest, far away from the noises and chaos of the city. It has a beautiful and large garden, a spacious farm kitchen with a guest room for 28 people, many quiet spaces, several balconies, lovingly designed rooms and a small meditation room for up to 16 yogis. The décor, with its vintage furniture, is simple yet tasteful, authentic yet familiar. The place was maybe not created with a lot of money, but instead with a lot of care and love for our yellow yoga community. Our yoga forest vacations are community retreats and thus follow the principles of karma yoga, i.e. we cook together and everyone helps out. In this way, we can offer each and every one of you a longer and deeper retreat experience even on a low budget.

What can you expect?
– At least 2 yoga sessions daily, open to all levels. Classes are held in English.
– Many different yoga styles: vinyasa, hatha, yin and restorative.
– A daily pranayama practice and a daily meditation practice.
– Yoga theory and philosophy.
– Workshops and rituals.
– Delicious and freshly prepared organic vegetarian/vegan meals with vegetables from our own garden.
– Unlimited drinking water, herbal teas and fresh fruit.
– Campfires and sauna.
– The experience of a morning in silence and stillness.
– The possibility of massage treatments (not included in the price).
– Relaxing walks in the beautiful nature and excursions and hikes in the surrounding area.
– Karma yoga = lots of fun chopping vegetables and cooking together 🙂
– And of course: a wonderful time!

Theme: Rest and Renewal.
Spring is a time of renewal and a time when we might find ourselves naturally drawn to re-examining and transforming outworn habits or embracing new ones as everything transforms and comes back to life around us. There is a shift towards movement and doing, more energy in the body. However, we live in a culture of constant productivity and distraction, and we rarely have the time or space to truly build the capacity for such transformation. Constant activity is woven into our responsibilities, our incomes, our social lives, our nervous systems. How can we move with the upward and outward energy of spring without getting swept up with it or thrown off balance? How can we move and also rest? And how do we build our capacity to rest, something which may not come so easily to a nervous system used to constant speed?

Join Anna and Victoria for a five-day retreat in the Odenwald, where we will practice together embracing both of these aims: rest and renewal. Each day will begin with a revitalising pranayama and vinyasa practice and close with a calming yin and nidra practice, with plenty of free time to rest and explore the surrounding nature during the day. We will also practice a few hours of silence each morning to explore the space that opens up when we drop distraction. Anna will guide a workshop introducing the philosophy of yoga and Victoria will lead an evening of kirtan (devotional singing), as well as offering her wonderful massages. Let’s honour our natural rhythms and gently grow our capacities so that we can transform and practice with joy and vitality rather than force.

Prices
The total price, including accommodation and full organic catering for 5 days/4 nights, is as follows:
540€ your own tent
570€ 3-bedroom
600€ double room 
710€ single room

You can organize your journey independently. For those in Berlin, we have already purchased Deutsche Bahn group trip-ICE tickets for a total of 95€ return, including reservations, which can be utilized. It is possible to use only the outbound ticket (35€) or just the ticket back (60€) to Berlin. There is also the option to join the yoga retreat in exchange for working hours during the retreat. Please contact us at info@yellowyoga.

Reservation and payments
180€ to confirm your place.
On-site in cash: between 360€ and 530€ for the accommodation, possibly 95€ for the group-ICE-train ticket (outbound 35€ and return 60€). 

Reserve your spot for a pre-payment of 180€ today!

Example program
Wednesday
16.00                  Arrival in Beerfelden/Hetzbach
16.00 – 17.30      Snack + hike through the forest (transport of luggage)
17.30 – 18.00      Check-in
18.30 – 19.30      Welcoming Circle                                                         
19.30 – 20.00      Dinner

Thursday
Waking-up          Begin of Silence
09.00 – 10.30      Pranayama and Vinyasa                                                 
11.00 – 12.00       Brunch
12.00                   End of Silence 
13.30 – 15.00       Workshop: Yoga Philosophy                                                                   
17.30 – 19.00       Yin Yoga and Nidra                                                              
19.00 – 20.00       Dinner
21.00 – 21.30       Gong Bath                                                                  

Friday
Waking-up           Begin of Silence
08.00 – 09.30       Pranayama and Vinyasa  
10.00 – 11.00        Brunch
11.00                    End of Silence 
11.30 – 18.00        Excursion to the lake “Eutersee”                  
19.00 – 20.00        Dinner
20.30 – 22.00        Yoga Nidra and Meditation

Saturday
Waking-up            Begin of Silence
09.00 – 10.30        Pranayama and Vinyasa   
11.00 – 12.00         Brunch
12.00                     End of Silence 
12.00 – open end   Sauna
17.30 – 19.00         Yin Yoga and Nidra
19.00 – 20.00         Dinner
20.30 – 21.30         Kirtan

Sunday
08.30 – 09.30         Closing Practice 
10.00 – 11.00         Breakfast                                                                    
11.00 – 11.15         Moving out of the rooms/ Good bye/ Your luggage into the car.
11.15 – 12.45         Walk to the train station Beerfelden/Hetzbach (transport of the luggage)
12.59                      Departure Train VIA from Beerfelden/Hetzbach

How to get there
By train
Starting from Berlin, we already bought Deutsche Bahn group trip-ICE tickets for a total of 95€ including reservations, which can be used. Payment of the tickets is on-site in the Gebhardshütte.
– Departure: Wednesday, 29.04.2026, 09:08 Uhr Berlin Ostbahnhof – 15:57 Uhr arrival at Beerfelden Hetzbach Bahnhof
– Return: Sunday, 03.05.2026, 12:59 Uhr Beerfelden Hetzbach Bahnhof – 19:42 Uhr arrival at Berlin Ostbahnhof

If you want to organize your travel individually the final station is „Erbach“(Odw.) – with onward journey by bus to „Bullau“ or in Hetzbach Beerfelden Bahnhof. Let us know your arrival time in advance and we can try to organize a pick-up. Please book a refundable ticket.

By car
This is the location of the house on Google Maps. Important! Arrival by car via the village of Bullau otherwise, navigation might send you through the forest. Please use our step-by-step description!

Refund policy
yellow yoga is a non-profit project and we do our best to offer the lowest price possible and we rely on the commitment of all participants. Reserving your space is binding and the amount paid cannot be refunded in case of non-participation or cancellation of the course. However, the place can be transferred to another person if the participant is prevented from attending. The participant would then have to arrange this themselves and provide us with the contact details of the other person by email. For this type of cancellation/replacement, yellow yoga charges a processing fee of 20€. This option is only possible up to 7 days before the retreat (replacements on such short notice mean a lot of re-organisation of transport, invoices, accommodation, etc.).

Please note that the retreats will only take place if there are at least 8 participants. If there are more than 12 participants, there will be 2 groups, i.e. 2 classes in the morning and 2 classes in the evening.