Pantarei is a method of bodywork that combines touch, movement and verbal communication. ​​By engaging all these levels, we tap into your deep physical, emotional and psychological resources. While sessions can look very different person-to-person, processes often centre on restoring a sense of agency, trust and confident in yourself.

There are so many ways that we get hurt from early childhood onward, from subtle and overt forms of violence and neglect, and from constant exposure to our often less-than-life-affiriming world. These pressures manifest differently in all of us but can include anxiety, fatigue, chronic or recurring pain, unsatisfying personal relationships, burn-out, and much more. A Pantarei process is one way of rediscovering trust. Psychosomatic symptoms resolve and change, as we listen deeper to whats needed.

A core part of this process is guiding you to face, see, feel and integrate emotional wounding and overwhelming experiences (past and present), as well as learning to allow and express difficult emotions. Not merely to learn to release or to “cope”, but to dare to feel what hurts and build resources to transform it.

As we build capacity to meet wounds from a place of safety, confidence in your resources and strengths is also restored. This is a process of freeing up the parts of yourself that may have been restricted, suppressed or hurt - often including some of our most unique qualities and gifts.

In sessions together, you will always be received as a person. Not as a symptom, a trauma, a pattern or a problem. A Pantarei process will never be about ‘fixing’. We will feel, grow, shed, trust and allow; making space for you and the gifts you have to offer life.

This can feel like reclaiming our birthright - a more life-affirming way of being, a feeling of home in your own skin.

A first session with me is 90 minutes.

Follow-up sessions are 60-80 minutes. Sessions generally include:

• 15-30 minutes for a conversation about you - who you are, what you love, your past experiences, etc. A theme for our session may organically arise from this conversation, but you are also welcome to bring a specific subject/theme/experience that you would love to explore in the session.

• 30-45 minutes of hands-on bodywork - this is where we let the body do its magic. You are invited to let your body move and respond to my touch.

• 10 minute rest, for you to digest your experience alone.

• 5 minute follow-up conversation, questions, reflections, take aways.

You are an active participant at every point in the session - expect to be moving, speaking, and feeling all throughout our sessions together.

Rates: I work with a sliding scale between 60-100 euros. This scale reflects (a more affordable version of) the “market price” for psychosomatic bodywork in Amsterdam and most other European cities, which is generally offered for between 90-140 euros per session.

You are free to choose a flat rate along my standard scale that will apply to all your sessions (unless something changes in your life situation/costs of living) based on what you can give.

You are welcome to pay with cash after each session, or via an invoice at the end of the month (for all sessions of that month).

I always make free or donation-based slots available. These slots are primarily for people who are lower-income, experiencing unemployment, housing insecurity, displacement or any other kind of crisis. If a rate along my sliding scale is not feasible for you for any reason, please let me know - this option is always available.

Location: I give sessions from my home in Amsterdam Oost. Full address upon session booking. I also work in Berlin and Athens on a semi-regular basis; please feel free to inquire about dates for Berlin/Athens.