About
Agápē means Love,
and Zoé Life.
You are perfect, exactly where you are right now – in every moment, in every place. And wherever you feel is right to arrive, you put down roots and grow beyond yourself. Arriving in the here and now, with everything you are, desire and share. Celebrate your love for life, immerse yourself in lively togetherness.
AGAPE ZOE welcomes you, anytime, just as you are.
Let’s celebrate together –
love, life and community
Philosophy
We* Love* Life*
AGAPE ZOE invites you to meet yourself and like-minded people in a loving, mindful and playful way. Discover your creativity and intuition. Be yourself and realize your potential. At the center of the festival is you as a person with your multifaceted relationships to yourself and your environment, your perceptions and needs
Healing Artists
A large team of musicians, healing artists and workshop leaders create the special quality and authenticity of each festival: full of heart, awareness & acceptance.
Workshops
More than 40 workshops with YOGA, DANCE, MUSIC, INNER WORK and much more await you in the paradisiacal festival locations in Berlin and on Corfu. We look forward to you, community & lots of space for all of us!
Ceremonies
Cacao ceremonies, rituals, breathwork and meditation – intense experiences and changes, characterised by growth, community and joie de vivre.
Music & Dance
Live concerts, singing circles, ecstatic dance, movement workshops, sound healings… Movement, silence, laughter, singing – a nourishing ground for body, mind and soul.
Personal growths
Sustainability, spiritual philosophy, satsang, self-development, inspiration, reflection and looking ahead – an oasis in everyday life, arriving and pausing in the safe harbour of our growing tribe.
Community
Over the years, a vibrant and colorful tribe has grown, coming together regularly to celebrate love & (simple) life – a peaceful, enriching connection between people.
Team
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Tony Sarantopoulos, borrowed from Walt Disney
Tony Sarantopoulos
„If you can dream it, you can do it.“ This quote has been the common theme in Tony’s life for a long time. When a burn-out demanded his attention a few years ago, he went on a trip around the world, gathered many different experiences and impressions and transformed his burn-out into a burn-in, with the help of alternative healing methods he encountered along the way. Tony’s awareness and belief ever since: He loves his life and lives his dream. His motto: Let go of what has previously made you unhappy and only do what makes you happy. As a believer in permanent paradisiac states, Tony provides us with one thing above all through AGAPE ZOE – courage … to live a self-determined, conscious, loving & liberated life. The dream: Creating a place of mindful encounters and an homage to love (Agápē) & the good life (Zoé). The AGAPE ZOE Healing Arts Festival was born with regular WE festivals in Berlin and Hamburg. And once the annual AGAPE ZOE Summer Festival on the Greek island of Corfu had been established, another international destination soon followed: the AGAE ZOE Koh Phangan Holistic Gathering in beautiful Thailand. As a passionate host with Greek roots, Tony knows how to bring people together and give them a platform for diverse encounters and (self-)healing. AGAPE ZOE Festival is Tony’s invitation for all of us to EXPLORE our very own of many ways to ENJOY life and BE conscious.
You can contact Tony here.
Anika Studenroth
With lots of experience, foresight and empathy, Anika manages all things essential in front of and even more so behind the scenes of AGAPE ZOE. Here, she rocks the whole administrative load all the way to sending out festival tickets. She also overlooks the festival cash desk & check-in procedures. Nothing can faze her, and her smile is immediately contagious. Always optimistic and full of energy, she sets processes in motion and keeps them running, even when everything around is upside down. Also, in previous positions as head of editorial department, academy lead or project manager, she has always kept an eye on the big picture and excelled in managing background structures, ensuring everything runs smoothly. She first came in touch with AGAPE ZOE as a volunteer at the Corfu Summer Festival 2018. Her enthusiasm and strength in implementing processes quickly fell on fertile ground in Greece. Thus, ever since she unfolds her practical and creative side as part of AGAPE ZOE’s core team. She keeps grounded and in the moment with lots of yoga and meditation – our “organization angel” within the dream team!
You can contact Anika here if you have any questions regarding ticket purchases.
Julia Fiehler
As an energetic all-rounder, Julia has been a permanent member of the AGAPE ZOE team since 2020. With many years of experience in event and project management, she primarily focusses on communication with the healing artists and volunteers as well as on keeping our website up to date. Her constant thirst for inspiration and personal development has made her roam the vastness of our earth many times. From trips to Southeast Asia or Central America, she not only returned spiritually enriched, but also as a certified yogini and Ayurvedic nutritionist. And not only does she like to share her energy, but it is also wonderfully contagious.
You can contact Julia here if you have any questions about volunteering or the website.
Vera Jakoby
Greeting, hugging, listening, connecting, looking out for others, and holding space … since 2017, Vera has been swarming through the AGAPE ZOE cosmos with much emotion, always foresightful and thinking outside the box. It all started as a volunteer at the first ever Corfu Summer Festival, and since then, she has been the smiling face of the welcome desk & check-in at festivals and gatherings, she co-hosts the opening & closing ceremonies, looks after the workshop leaders, team & participants during the events, and is “just always there”. Being the creative word factory she is, and with her professional background as a copywriter, translator and editor, Vera also creates content for the AGAPE ZOE newsletters, flyers, and website. Besides that, she’s busy doing what she does best: spreading love & attention, lending an ear & a shoulder, finding solutions, twirling around with a helping hand, and holding the tribe together – as tribe mama & space holder, full of joie de vivre & soulfulness, empathy, and with an infectious laugh.
Olivia Wellensiek
LIV is the creator of the visual appearance of AGAPE ZOE. As a trained media designer for digital and print media and a graduate communication designer, she loves natures magnificent beauty with its complexity in combination with modern simplicity.
Liv has not limited herself to one design discipline – she conceives, advises, photographs, collages, illustrates, layouts, programs, etc. for the environmental projects, culture and healing arts – depending on the need, communication channel and means. What counts is the person, the content, the product and the message that wants to be understood.
Liv is on a journey to explore and unfold her and your potential to create healthy connections between people and nature. She is currently focussing all her energy into the oasis in her forest garden and her horses at home in Biesenthal after her travels in recent years. For her, it is time that we finally (re)discover ourselves – and lead our world back into a healthy system. She herself has been an enthusiastic “breather” and dancer for 7 years and keeps various breathwork groups in motion. She became a certified breathwork therapist and is holding space for events and sessions. She combines her experience from Berlin’s nightlife, where she was at home for a long time, her time in deep nature and travels, spirituality in its natural understandings and offers us the Oase Rave Berlin and the Oase Forest Weekender. Find LIVs offerings in our program, too.
Alena Ringelmann
Alena has been working for AGAPE ZOE in the social media department since 2019, and mainly feeds our Instagram & Facebook channels with all the updates about our festivals & gatherings. In addition, as graphics support, she adds her creative spark to some of our flyers and marketing material. When she visited the AGAPE ZOE Festival in Berlin for the first time, she found exactly what she had been missing in Berlin: a wonderful power place with great people, where so much happens and everyone can just be. Exactly the type of slow movement that is often neglected in our fast-paced world, especially in big cities. As a yoga teacher and media scientist, Alena deals with the intersection & connectivity of media and spirituality. In addition, she is busy travelling and deep into the practice of Ayurveda and meditation.
Tobias Keller
As a yoga teacher, transformational facilitator, management consultant and trainer, Tobi is a true connector of worlds. At AGAPE ZOE, he takes care of the volunteers and, together with Anika, oversees ticketing, ever since he fell in love with the AGAPE ZOE SUMMER FESTIVAL on Corfu as a volunteer in 2022. He has already gained experience in organizing and running his own festivals with the Anahata Festivals in Brandenburg near Berlin. From his travels and life as a digital nomad, he brings curiosity, ease, excitement, and growth into his own life and that of others. With seminars and courses, Tobi loves to create a space for people in which everyone can experience and discover themselves with full curiosity and individually. At work, he deals with change processes in change management projects as well as with the qualification and training of employees, through which he has developed a very strong presence and sovereignty.
Amina Zoe
As a wonderful whirlwind, Amina brings new inspiration and structures to the AGAPE ZOE cosmos with her true zest for life. After six years as a loyal volunteer, since 2022/23 she has now been taking over the organization of the volunteers and in parts the artist support with full commitment, she also supports website to dos and enriches further AGAPE ZOE projects with her ideas. Organization, coordination, the warm contact and above all the Greek sun, have Amina perform at her best. After traveling around South America for a long time, plus learning and living there with shamans, Amina is currently back in Berlin. Her work as a freelance physiotherapist, coach and meditation teacher forms the foundation for her current life, which also includes tattooing and energy treatments.
You can contact Amina here if you have any questions about volunteering.
Want to become a volunteer?
Write to us if you would like to help at the Agape Zoe Festival.