"In conscious walking, all hecticness ends, every feeling of being driven," says Norbert Parucha. He is a body therapist and leads over the meditation path Ammergau Alps.

"Many people find it difficult to first come down and open up to the essentials," says Norbert Parucha, who has been traveling the pilgrimage paths of Europe for two decades. And in that time has learned to pick up his participants where they are. "Only when I am centered and with myself can I feel again what the outside is doing to me and in what interrelationship I am with my surroundings," explains the 59-year-old expert, who wants to guide hikers step by step to their own center and sensitize them to themselves and their environment.

From the Wieskirche church near Steingaden - a famous Unesco World Heritage Site - to the Passion Theater in Oberammergau and Ettal Monastery to Linderhof Castle in the Graswang Valley, there are around 85 kilometers on which the region's places of power are strung together like pearls on a necklace.

Even those who hike without a guide will encounter many sources of inspiration - from the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu to St. Augustine and Chief Seattle from North America. The path is lined with 15 stations that invite you to contemplate at central points: Boards provide information about the respective viewpoint or the (natural) monument and its spiritual significance, and also invite you to do physical and breathing exercises. Above everything stands as a guiding symbol the burning heart of the Augustinians, who shaped the people here from the 12th century until secularization.