As you lie in a state somewhere between wakefulness and sleep, you feel your breathing relax as the tones of Tingsha cymbals and Koshi chimes appear in your auditory field. There’s absolutely nothing to do but surrender to the experience. This dreamy, floaty atmosphere is what typically awaits you at one of the sessions at Inner Sound, a space for sound baths, sound yoga – sound everything – that opened in Kreuzberg in November 2024. The studio is an offshoot of Har Studio on Urbanstraße, a space for creativity, focussing on Sound Healing, Yoga, Experiences and Pilates, and was started by Har founder Eugenia Har and Yasemin Vollmond from Vollmondyoga. It’s a place for all sorts of practices, from simple gong baths to different combinations of movement, breathwork, music, yoga and dance. Classes include the likes of “Quantum Meditation + Projections with Flor” and “Sunday Natural Crystal Bowls Bath with Yasemin” and there is a regular program of live acoustic and electronic concerts (“Voice Activation with Kimi“, where you are invited to sing with the group). Sessions and concerts aside, the interior of the 252 sqm loft space – located on the fifth floor of an Altbau – is itself a soothing place to be. The minimalist, downlit interior by Benjamin Brenner is all sheer curtains and soft diffused lighting and is so atmospheric in the evening. Step in on a dark grey night and you’ll immediately feel your heart rate fall – and that’s before a single gong is rung…

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Janine Khayati

Inner Sound by Har, Urbanstr.93 (Hinterhof 5th Floor), 10967 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map

You can book classes and concerts via the website.

@inner___sound

“Between forestry and research, cows and compost, agroforestry and arable farming — this is how we research and develop various forms of multifunctional land use,” is how the Gut&Bösel farm introduces itself. Benedikt, who left his career as an investment banker in 2016 to devote himself to the family business and sustainable farming, has achieved pop status with his farm. It feels like everyone has heard of it, be it through the successful 2023 book “Rebels of the Earth” or the docuseries “Farm Rebellion”, released in the same year. If you want to get to know the Madlitz estate in person, visit the Christmas farm market and sustainable Christmas tree felling on the third Advent (14 & 15.12.2024). What exactly is behind the concept of sustainable Christmas trees? It’s simple: the trees are felled from a height of 1.80 meters. This means the mother trunk is not damaged and can grow back. The process can be repeated after seven years. In addition, they work without harmful soil cultivation or synthetic fertilizers. What else awaits you at Gut&Bösel? Campfire and stick bread for the little visitors, apple punch from their harvest, and mulled wine. The farm kitchen serves homemade mushroom or beef goulash, and the organic neighboring farm Ackerpulco offers local vegetables, but also meat, home-distilled spirits and leather goods from Gut&Bösel. In other words, you can do your Christmas dinner shopping in one spot. In addition to cattle, Gut&Bösel also grows grain — you can purchase freshly baked bread at the farm. The Christmas market is just under an hour from Berlin and the trip is worthwhile because sustainable, multifunctional agriculture affects us all in times of climate change and should not only be understood but experienced. Benedikt and his team understand this, which is why they keep their doors open.

Text: Laura Iriondo / Photos: Gut&Bösel

Gut&Bösel, Schlossstr.32, 15518 Briesen (Mark); map
Merry Madlitz 14. & 15.12.2024 

@gutundboesel