Beyond the printed page: Inside the first Fräulein x Inan Batman x Anti Club Sound Bath

This idea became the starting point for an afternoon created by Fräulein, Inan Batman and the ANTI Club Community – the beginning of a new event series exploring well-being, connection and the question at the heart of our current issue, At Peace. The event took place as part of Inan’s 72 hours Festival, a platform dedicated to bringing together creativity, culture and community through new experiences.

Hosted at ANTI Space – Germany’s first social wellness club – the setting felt almost cinematic. Located inside a striking brutalist building in Berlin-Mitte, the 690-square-metre space combines movement studios, treatment rooms, a spa, elevated nutrition and a rooftop oasis into a new kind of destination for urban well-being. With its minimalist architecture and calming atmosphere, it provided the perfect backdrop for an event dedicated to slowing down.

Guests arrived in the late afternoon and gathered in the lounge over drinks, where conversations unfolded as naturally as they do at our Fräulein Dinners. Familiar faces met new ones, strangers quickly became conversation partners, and before the evening had even officially begun, the room already felt like a community.

That sense of connection has always been central to Fräulein. With Sound Bath, we wanted to create another space where women can come together – not to perform, but simply to pause, breathe and reconnect with themselves and one another.

As the afternoon slowly turned into evening, guests were invited downstairs into ANTI Space’s meditation room.

Immersed in deep red light, the space immediately shifted the mood. Waiting beside every mat were carefully prepared goodie bags containing an exclusive Fräulein Sound Bath T-shirt, a WHOOP wearable with a one-year LIFE membership, a WHOOP sleep mask and Fräulein stickers. Next to each place lay our current issue, At Peace – the editorial starting point from which this event had grown.

The session, guided by Alyssa Cordes and Jeena Wav, began with slow breathing exercises, allowing everyone to settle into the present moment before the first frequencies filled the room. The scent of incense lingered in the air while meditative reinterpretations of Alyssa’s own productions quietly unfolded in the background.

Then came the sound.

Moving gently through the room, Alyssa and Jeena carried singing bowls and tuning forks between the participants, placing them close to ears and above foreheads, allowing the vibrations to travel through the body. Rather than simply listening, guests could physically experience the frequencies – a subtle but powerful reminder that sound is something we don’t just hear, but feel.

As sound artists and DJs, both Alyssa and Jeena know what it means to work with music in its loudest form. Sound meditation offered them another possibility.

“It’s a deep, restful practice where you can really journey inwards,” Alyssa says. “I’ve found that I’m much more resilient when I do this regularly than when I don’t.”

For Jeena, the fascination lies equally in science and intuition.

“Sound meditation takes your brain out of fight-or-flight mode and resets it back to its natural rhythm,” she explains. “It’s such a beautiful tool for your nervous system, your body, your heart and your mind.”

Both discovered sound therapy after years spent touring as musicians and DJs – searching for a new relationship with music that could offer healing as much as excitement.

That same search inspired Inan Batman.

After more than two decades creating spaces where people connect through music, he began asking himself what happens when sound isn’t about dancing, but about arriving.

“My life as an artist is so loud,” he says. “It became important for me to create a space that is calm. One side of my work is loud. The other is about arriving.”

His wish for the evening was beautifully simple:

“I hope every woman takes a breath today and simply puts herself first.”

The evening was supported by WHOOP, the human performance company whose wearable technology helps people better understand their bodies through continuous insights into sleep, recovery, stress, women’s health and overall health. Rather than focusing solely on performance, WHOOP encourages a more holistic understanding of the body’s natural rhythms, placing recovery on equal footing with activity. In many ways, that philosophy mirrored the intention behind the event itself: listening more closely to what our bodies need.

While the wearable translates the body’s signals into data, the sound bath invited guests to notice those same shifts through sensation. Together, they offered two complementary ways of tuning in.

When the session came to an end, nobody seemed eager to break the atmosphere.

Guests slowly made their way back upstairs, where ceremonial matcha by Liquid Lab awaited before conversations continued on ANTI Space’s rooftop terrace overlooking Berlin in the golden evening light. The energy felt noticeably different from when everyone had arrived – softer, slower and somehow more familiar.

Again and again, guests described the experience using the same words: peaceful, grounding, intimate.

The event also reflected the philosophy of ANTI Club, the social wellness community behind ANTI Space. Conceived as an antidote to the stress and pressures of everyday life, it encourages a shift from constantly doing to fully being. Its vision is simple yet profound: to live with passion and community – and to die as young as possible, as late as possible. It was a mindset that resonated deeply with Fräulein’s At Peace issue and with Inan Batman’s idea of creating spaces where sound becomes a tool for presence rather than performance.

For us, the first Fräulein Sound Bath was never meant to be a one-off event. It marks the beginning of a new chapter – one that brings our editorial themes beyond the printed page and into lived experiences. A place where women can gather without expectations, without performance and without needing to become anything other than themselves.

If At Peace asked what peace looks like, perhaps this event revealed what it sounds like.

Not the absence of noise, but the presence of ourselves.