What if you could live a life on your terms?

What if you stepped out of reacting to the world and stepped into creating from the power and uniqueness inside of you?

What if your place and fulfillment as a musician didn’t primarily depend on teachers, agents, and competitions?

We are missing something very important in our musical education …

“Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure“ - Tony Robbins

Our education is all about training us to become successful and fitting into a music world that has its rules and its patterns.

We learn all about how to play according to a certain standard, and what steps we need to take to find our place in this musical environment. But we are missing one important step.

Who are you deep down, and what are you longing to create?

If we only follow the path, the rules, and the structures of other people, we might achieve a certain status and earn lots of money, but we won’t find fulfillment.

Fulfillment means: bringing all of you in. Discovering who you really are deep down, understanding and re-integrating all parts of you, liberating your most authentic and free self, in order to be able to create the life that you love.

Who is creating the music world?

The musical environment is not a very healthy one. Many sensitive musicians, who try to stay connected to themselves and their love for music-making, struggle to find their way. They question themselves in this atmosphere of judgment, pressure, and competition.

I believe that we can leave behind this old paradigm. Because who creates the music world? Eventually, it is us, the musicians.

And so we can create a more holistic and humane musical environment, starting with ourselves.

Hi, I am Alina Pogostkina

When I had reached all my external goals and found myself playing on the big stages of the world, I was unhappy, lonely, and burned out. I had lots of health issues and still felt like stress and pressure were playing major roles in my life and career. So I decided to put my mental and physical health first and went on a quest for finding my way to be a thriving, fulfilled musician.

I learned to set priorities and clear boundaries and embarked on a healing journey that keeps leading me more and more toward my inner freedom and my purpose. I started to train myself in different approaches, and I keep learning in order to embody my values and vision for the music world and to be skilled to guide others into a more holistic and fulfilling life as musicians.

In this mentoring program, I support you on your journey into a fulfilling life as a musician and human being.

  • I share my experiences and learnings from decades of being a well-established soloist worldwide.

  • I guide you into your own process with mindfulness, inner parts work, embodiment practices, Non- Violent-Communication, and many other tools I have learned on my own journey.

  • I dive deep with you into your mind and heart to discover what life wants for you, what your heart longs for, what is meant for you.

And from a place of connection, your own path starts to emerge. Not the one your teacher, parent, or agent envisions for you, but one that only you can find for yourself.

It takes courage to take full responsibility for your life and to start facing and embracing every aspect of yourself. In radically turning towards yourself lies so much potential for healing, power, and true freedom.

What clients say

  • “I always though it is about how much I practice, which violin I play, how many competitions I won. It’s not about that! It’s about what you think of yourself. With Alina I went through the journey of life, which lead me to the aha moment: “I am enough”. And there all game changed and the biggest joy of life began.”

    Tjaša Kastelic

  • "With your softness and sweetness you guided me inside my inner world, we ‘visited’ together my wounds and my joy spots, looking at them with lovingly eyes. You made me aware that there is also a more tender way we can look to our dark side and you inspired me as a violinist and human being to nourish my vision and to don’t judge myself to be a 'different person' in the classical music's world. "

    Cecilia Ferron

Package 1:

3 sessions à 60 min

  • Start deepening your relationship with yourself.

  • Start exploring how to live with and not against your heart and your body as a musician.

  • I share many tools with you on how to navigate the music world and not lose yourself in it.

  • I support you in building healthy habits around your practicing and your wellbeing.

Package 2:

6 sessions à 60 min

  • Deepen your relationship with all parts of you.

  • Learn to navigate self-criticism and inner conflicts.

  • Connect more deeply to your inner resources and understand how to support yourself in moments of stress and pressure.

  • Discover how to live and work from flow and ease.

  • Start writing a new story of who you are and what you are part of.