Let’s celebrate
connection & community
The symbol of our logo is formed by a fusion of two circles, creating a lens-like shape that reflects the structure of an eye, symbolizing vision and perception. It holds deep spiritual significance, representing the union of heaven and earth. The symbol can also be interpreted to convey connection and community.
Team
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.
Suparni (Supi) Neuwirth
Suparni, meaning “well winged” or “the one with beautiful wings,” was born and raised in Cologne, Germany, in a family deeply rooted in Eastern philosophies. Her father, a Buddhist, and her mother, a Sanyasin, instilled in her a love for yoga, meditation, and a spiritual way of life from an early age. However, as a teenager, Suparni chose to explore a more typical Western lifestyle. It wasn’t until she experienced burnout in her mid-twenties, after years of working as an event and marketing manager, that she rediscovered the grounding power of yoga and began her journey back to spiritual practices and started traveling. Suparni’s passion for nourishment, both physical and spiritual, is woven into every aspect of her life and work.
Having lived a nomadic lifestyle for over 11 years, Suparni has wandered in pursuit of freedom, curiosity, and spiritual growth. Over the years, she has organized and co-created retreats and festivals, from Ocean Love Fest in Turkey to collaborations at Sound & Silence in Corfu and Bloom Festival in Bali. Ecstatic dance has been an integral part of her life for the past decade. As one of the organizers of the Ecstatic Dance Festival 2025 in Corfu, she is thrilled to create a space where movement, connection, and self-expression can flourish.
Arun Ji
As a pioneer in organizing Ecstatic Dance festivals, Arun is known for creating immersive and transformative events across Europe and Asia. With over a decade of experience, he has organized festivals in Ibiza, Catalunya, Portugal, and Goa, combining music, dance, and community to create spaces of authenticity, connection, and celebration.
Renowned for his meticulous attention to detail, Arun ensures that each festival offers a safe and supportive environment for participants to explore movement and transformation. The events are valued for their thoughtful and fluid design, allowing participants to experience personal and collective growth through music and movement.
Driven by a passion for community and a sensitivity to the flow of energy, he creates environments where attendees feel empowered to connect, express themselves through dance, and experience profound moments of healing and transformation. This pioneering work continues to inspire and shape the evolution of Ecstatic Dance gatherings globally.
Helen
With lots of experience, foresight and empathy, Helen takes care of many important things in front of and especially behind the scenes of the Festival. She takes care of all the administrative work, right through to sending out the festival tickets.
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 Festival 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 the 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 Helen here if you have any questions regarding ticket purchases.
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.
Alena Ringelmann
Alena is our head of social media and has been working for AGAPE ZOE since 2019. Based in Portugal and Germany, she is dancing between her passion for Ayurveda and cooking, yoga & meditation as well as working as supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs in the conscious and holistic wellness scene.
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, is in Tantra trainings 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 Oase Sacred Rave Berlin, Oase Forest Breathwork Weekender and Tantric Massages. Find LIVs offerings in our program, too.
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.
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.