BELONGING
Welcome home.
There is a place, where you belong.
It is so powerful to feel that place. To find it, again and again. It is a place in your heart and simultaneously, it is a place in the world.
Do you feel that it is the right time for you to find that place of true belonging?
We invite you on a magical journey into the depths of your body and your soul. To reconnect with your embodied wisdom, with nature, with the essence of music. Join us on this exploration of the nature of belonging.
We would love to see you there.
Welcome to the heart of Mindful Music Making, our retreat.
What to expect?
In this retreat we dive deep into the exploration or our minds, hearts and bodies as human beings and as musicians. In our magical space at Breitenteicher Mühle, we will experience and celebrate silence, connection, meditation, play, nature, amazing food and of course: music!
Who is this for?
If you want to find new ways to connect to yourself, to your body and your own wisdom, this retreat is for you. It is essential for us to create a safe space together, where you can access a deeper understanding of yourself and the guidance in your heart and your body. This retreat is for everyone, who has a relationship to music, professional or not, and who wants to deepen that relationship.
What tools we are working with?
We are drawing on our experiences with practices from different paths and traditions such as meditation, NARM, Alexander-Technique, Gestalt therapy, Vision Quest and Nature based practices. While these are all “just” tools and portals and doorways to create a space for you to drop into your own wisdom, your own wholeness and your own very personal ways of belonging.
What does Belonging mean to you?
~ Are there different ways to belong?
~ To what or whom do you belong - or you feel you don’t belong?
~ How is it related to your sense of home, to place and to the Earth?
~ Do you feel you have to be a certain way to belong?
~ Do you feel a sense of belonging to something bigger?
~ How is belonging related to your music making?
Our home for this retreat
Breitenteicher Mühle
After the experience of 2 deeply fulfilling and nourishing retreats at Breitenteicher Mühle, close to Berlin, we are returning this magical place once more.
We will be surrounded by beautiful nature and be taken care of by an amazing team with home-made organic and vegetarian food, mostly from the garden.
You can enjoy your free time by taking inspiring walks through the gardens and fields, sit by the fire and make use of the beautiful sauna.
“For me there is definitely a before and an after the Mindful Music Making retreat: it has simply changed the way I see life."
— Côme, Cellist
Pricing and details
Costs for the 5-day program with 3 facilitators:
Early Bird until 18.5.21: 390,00 Euros
After 18.5.21: 460,00 Euros
Food and accommodation (Full board including 3 meals) :
Double room: 90 Euros per day
Shared room: 80 Euros per day
Timeline:
Wednesday, August 18, 2021 17:00 AM
Sunday, August 22, 2021 15:00 PM
What our participants are saying …
“The most amazing days with the most amazing souls! In these 5 days of retreat, I took the first steps to establish a fresh relationship with myself and with my violin."
— Müge, Violinist
"There are many things I could write about the Mindful Music Making retreat I participated but to make it short and powerful: it has changed the way I view my every day life, the way I practice, the way I pretty much experience my own existence as a whole being daily"
— Tuulia, Violinist
“Apart from getting to know myself better and improving the relationship to my instrument, I connected with amazing and inspiring musicians.”
— Pauline, Violinist
The Facilitators
Alina Pogostkina
Founder & Pioneer
Award winning violinist Alina Pogostkina is the founder and visionary behind Mindful Music Making. She travels the world as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. When she is not touring or teaching, she pours every spare moment into building a thriving and engaging community of classical musicians.
Leonie von Arnim
Founder & Retreat Facilitator
Leonie von Arnim is an Integrative Gestalt & Trauma Therapist. Her experience includes two decades of personal study in the field of psychology and trauma. Over the last 9 year she has s built a thriving Therapy Practice in Berlin-Mitte and has co-led the intensive women’s retreats with Susanne Feld.
Susanne Feld
Founder & Guest
Alexander Technique teacher, Gestalt therapist, Musician and Vision Quest Guide and currently following her calling to deepen into the art of Nature Conversations. With 20 years of Body-Soul-Awareness-Work experience and co-finding and running the Center for the Alexander Technique in Berlin she has been sharing her work in lots of one on one Sessions and Workshops.
Register for the next Mindful Music Retreat
Are you ready to embark on this journey with us? Join us for the next retreat. We would love to see you there.