Who We Are
The Founders of Mindful Music Making
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 6 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
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. She has also been co-creating many intensive retreats in the past 7 years, including the Mindful Music Making Retreats.
Our Co-facilitators
Mathew Barley
Matthew Barley’s musical world has no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries. His activities in performance, improvisation, cross-disciplinary projects, composition, and pioneering community programmes have developed to form a uniquely eclectic international career. He has been described as ‘the world’s most adventurous cellist’ and is as comfortable with core-classical repertoire and improvisation as he is in a night-club or the Amazon rainforest. He will be co-facilitating “ freedom of expression” and leading workshops on improvisation.
Jones Kortz
Jones Kortz has been practising and teaching Non Violent Communication for 20 years. He works with individuals, teams and whole organisations who are dedicated to shift their mindset to an empathic and mindful world-view. As a mediator and coach for conflict resolution he builds bridges between different worlds. His trainings always consider the life situation of the participants and radiate a deep commitment to contribute to a more peaceful personal and professional life. Jones will be co-facilitating the Mindful Music Retreat “Connection”.
Nimrod Guez
Nimrod Guez, born in Israel, is violinist and violist and professor of viola at the conservatory of Wuerzburg. Out of his great affection for early music, he has played the baroque violin since 2010. He created the trio "The Caravans" , an ensemble that consists of three musicians from three different countries, with varying musical backgrounds. Correspondingly, the repertoire is composed of three music genres: Klezmer, gypsy jazz and Hungarian resp. Nimrod will be coaching and performing on our Mindful Music Concert in September 2020