The Pantarei approach is a somatic bodywork process that combines our conversation with touch and empathic listening. The Pantarei approach is a hands-on coaching approach that brings you in touch with yourself through your embodiment, and offers you a new way of experiencing and sensing into your process of empowerment, development, and growth. As a somatic trauma-informed therapy it offers you a safe space for your personal healing journey.
Pantarei Approach takes you out of isolation
Your Pantarei process will look individual as per who you are. You are met from your point of uniqueness. A Pantarei process invites you to be curious about your own unique process. The Pantarei Approach is not about quick solutions to your problems, or implementing new habits, but about connecting you to your strengths and your inner wisdom. The Pantarei approach includes your embodiment in your life story, and gives it a safe space where all that your body holds is honored for its inner wisdom. Allowing the flow of your life to unravel has a profound impact on your life.
The somatic bodywork lets your analytical mind quiet down for a moment and lets the body find its ways to communicate. The somatic bodywork allows the body to process your emotions and life experiences in its own time. Perhaps you will also find that letting your own body lead the way is more beneficial for you than following the steps of any self-help book? Finding flow in your body, in your body’s own time, allows you to drop any expectations of needing to complete your self-improvement through someone else’s checklist.
Uniqueness at the heart of the Pantarei Approach
We all bring our personal uniqueness with us into everything we do, and the Pantarei approach emphasises that we are all unique even if you might not think so, or still don’t know exactly what it is that makes you unique. As we connect you to your embodied life experiences, your strengths and resources, the uniqueness becomes brighter and clearer. A skilled Pantarei practitioner will see your uniqueness clearly, perhaps offering you a completely new perspective. Uniqueness can sound like a very general positive compliment, but it is also our character – that which makes us resilient and resourceful. You are you, and no one is like you, because your life experiences are different, your upbringing is yours alone, your values are specific to your upbringing and beliefs, and your dreams and desires are uniquely yours.
Knowing and embracing your uniqueness is empowering and will build trust in yourself and your role in society. Exploring and being curious about your uniqueness opens up your self-awareness and perception of compassion for yourself and others. It helps you understand your emotions. It helps you have understanding for your faults and wrong-doings. It softens your heart so that you are able to find forgiveness for others and yourself. In the processes I have with my clients we find so much beauty under the heavy rocks, and relief after a wave of tears. Where there is pain there is joy, and where there is trauma there can be a flush of hope.
I accompany you in each life chapter
Similarly, us Pantarei Approach practitioners are also unique, with our life experiences, cultural backgrounds, and professional experiences. When you find a practitioner who you resonate with you might well have found a beautiful connection that will last for a very long time, accompanying you throughout your personal life chapters, as we move forward in times of change, expansion and growth. As the world continues constantly to change and expand, it requests us to grow with it too, and to flow, grounded in our values, truth, wisdom and strength.
Pantarei creates space for emotions and experiences
As our life experiences are embodied in us the Pantarei Approach strives to connect the client to their embodied resources. As we connect to our life story, our past or current life experiences, our desires and needs through the body, we access our resources and strengths from within. Our body contains our past, present and future, and when we create the space for the body to be included in our telling of our life experiences, we can be aware of the constant flow of opportunity; a flow of change that we are in.
Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher on movement and change, and he stated that no man ever steps into the same river twice, because the river does not stay the same and he is not the same man. As we are in constant change, in constant motion, we have the opportunity to embrace that as well as discover what it is to embody it – to embody the motions of life, and to connect to it through our body, our felt life experience. The meaning of Pantarei in ancient Greek is ”everything flows”. The founders of the Panateri Approach Vered Manasse and Claudia Glowik wanted to expand on this idea in somatic trauma-informed therapy. Together with Merav Gur Arie they run the training in Berlin.
Contact me for sessions at kristin@me-embodied.com
I am a certified Pantarei Approach Practitioner abiding by the ethics of the Pantarei Approach. To learn more about the approach, familiarize yourself with the content written by the founders on pantareiapproach.com
