Rückenglück & Psoas Connection - Week I
A holistic back health training workshop with Michaela Kratky (AT) and Kerstin Kussmaul (IT, AT)
Rückenglück & Psoas Connection 2026
In the second half of August 2026 we invite you to a nourishing retreat dedicated to your back and your connection to your body. Surrounded by nature and far away from everyday distractions, Rückenglück & The Psoas Connection offers space for deep relaxation, physical and mental balancing... and if you wish, to gently let go of the digital world for a while.
You can choose one week or two. Both weeks offer unique, complementary foci, suitable for newcomers as well as those wishing to deepen their experience by staying longer.
Holistic all-inclusive back training
For over 20 years, Michaela’s happiness for your back has been supporting people in counterbalancing long hours of sitting, accumulated tension and modern-day stress.
Her approach blends effective exercises from traditional methods such a yoga and Pilates with the latest knowledge from medical training theory in a joyful and surprisingly simple way.
Expect movement that strengthens, mobilizes and nourishes your back without pressure.
The Psoas Connection - individual and group lessons
The Psoas Connection complements the happiness for your back training with an individual session in which restricted movement, injuries and pain are addressed. As an experienced movement analyst and scientist, Kerstin helps you to quickly get back into the flow of movement using her extensive Myoreflex Therapy knowledge, various somatic methods and her PhD in fascia research.
In the Psoas Connection group lessons, touch and gentle movement reflect and modify individual movement habits. A deeper understanding of one's own body develops, regulates the nervous system and improves the ease with which the back happiness exercises can be performed.
This work supports you in moving with more freedom, ease and awareness long beyond the retreat.
Come as you are
Very simple and suitable for everyone. Your outlook on life deserves an upgrade.
The daily routine is basically the same in weeks I + II, but the exercises and content of the training units will of course vary.
Meet your workshop leaders
Michaela is one of the most experienced back training experts in the German-speaking world, shares her holistic method for success in hybrid (studio & live streamed) training courses, individual personal training sessions, lectures and company training sessions.
Keywords Michaela:
Meditation morning routine // city person with a love of nature // coffee always works // ImPulsTanz enthusiast // mother of 2 school children // loves dealing with people // career aspirations as a child: “Something to do with movement” // needs time for herself // night owl by nature // one-at-a-time instead of multitasking // loves to immerse herself in good books
Training & activities: www.rueckenglueck.at/ueber-uns/
Michaela's personal story: www.rueckenglueck.at/michaelas-story/
Kerstin is a dance researcher, teacher and mentor specializing in somatics and improvisation. Her artistic doctoral research at the University of Auckland, New Zealand explored myofascia in movement. Her most recent work, the matter of fascia, emerged from this research and can be viewed at www.fasciamatters.info. Prior to this she explored creative processes in contact improvisation using embodied cognition.
Kerstin leads the Embodied Myoreflex Practitioner training - in collaboration with Dr Mosetter (Konstanz) and ImPulsTanz – of which the second cycle begins at the end of 2024. Part of the training takes place at Artis Umbria, which she is building as an ecosomatic place for movement and ease (artisumbria.com). She founded IDOCDE with the associated symposium, which today operates as the Lace Symposium at ImPulsTanz. She is mentor for the ImPacT program at ImPulsTanz.
- Accommodation for 7 days (6 nights)
- 3 vegetarian meals daily
- Ten movement sessions (60-120 minutes each)
- Talks with the teachers
- Access to pool and all other amenities of Tenuta di Poggiolame
- Shuttle to and from train station Fabro-Ficulle
Total costs for 7 days (6 nights) per person: from € 1,355 to € 1,895 (single or double room, private or shared bathroom).
Upon receipt of a deposit of 400 euro, the retreat is bindingly reserved. Please take note of our cancellation policy.
Number of participants: max. 16
our rooms
Mana double
16m² fits 2 people
Mana double room looks out towards the pool. It is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana single.
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Alba
18m² fits 2 people
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus
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Psoas
16m² fits 2 people
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus
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Gracilis
18m² fits 2 people
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment
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Atlas
35m² fits 2 people
Atlas is a double room and located on the upper floor of the main building with windows and balcony doors facing north and south. It has a private terrace of 30 m2 with a view from Monte Peglia to Monte Cetona. It also has a huge double bed (180x200) made of solid cherry wood.
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Mana single
14m² fits one person
Mana single is a single room looking towards the pool. It features its own terrace looking directly onto an olive grove and is part of the Mana apartment which is a bit away from the other rooms. It shares a bathroom with Mana double.
our rooms
Alba (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Alba is a double room on the upper floor of the original building with open beam ceilings and faces east and south. Its doublebed (160 cm wide) features a canopy. It shares a bathroom with Psoas and Vitus.
our rooms
Psoas (as single room)
16m² fits one person
The Psoas is a double room located on the upper floor of the original building with a historic open beamed ceiling. The windows face south and west. Psoas has a double bed (160 cm) and shares a bathroom with Alba and Vitus.
our rooms
Gracilis (as single room)
18m² fits one person
Gracilis is a double room and looks out the west side towards Montegabbione. It contains a double bed (160 cm wide). It shares a wheelchair accessible bathroom with Soleus, with whom it makes up an apartment.
our rooms
Piriformis
12m² fits one person
Piriformis is a single room with its own bathroom. Piriformis has a north-facing private terrace, which is pleasantly cool in summer. Piriformis is close to the kitchen and is therefore best suited to guests who like to get up early or who don't mind kitchen noise.
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