A Cocktail Bar of Mixed Emotions
In one of the last classes I taught, I found myself saying that if I had a bar, it would have to be a cocktail bar; a cocktail bar of mixed emotions. It would have to be a place where some sour is mixed with...
True Communication toward Personal Growth
The combination of verbal communication and touch is what we often consider to be key, to why the approach has such a profound effect. In our eyes, it is only when the physical experience can be connected to the verbal clarification or exploration, that a...
The Influence of Holiday Traditions on us
How many memories do you have from your childhood that have to do with your holiday traditions? Almost all of us, have memories from our holiday traditions - some of them are being passed to us from year to year, from generation to generation, creating...
The Richness of Learning in an International Class
The Pantarei School was established from its beginning as an international school. Practically, it meant that we teach in English and that the structure of the studies - six modules of five days each, allows people to come from all over the world to participate. These...
When Intuition Leads You Home
My serendipitous discovery of Pantarei Approach happened at a festival last summer. After sleeping on a tree root where our tent had been pitched for 3 nights, my spine sent me in search of a massage. A couple of hours later my friend and I...
To ‘Keep in Touch’ is to Access your Greatest Power
Our bodies are the place or space in which we experience ourselves and the world around us. They are the home to our emotions, our thinking and our imagination. Our bodies have the ability to expand beyond their physical boundaries defined by skin and are...
The Empathic Experience of the Practitioner
The interesting topic of empathy came up in a class recently and it's an experience some Pantarei practitioners share. “I feel the pain of other people in my own body”, one of our students said and asked us to teach her ways to protect herself...
The Unique Ways we Perceive our Future
Nina Simone sang “it's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life - for me … and I'm feeling good”, and her words came to me while I sat to write a post about this time when a new year begins. Dates...
Finding our Way for the Future
How to summarize two years that feel like a lifetime? So much happened, so much has taken place and taken shape. The Pantarei Approach was our vision and now it is ours and others’ reality for the future. It began as a set of observations...
How to Live Well in your Unique Emotional World
Emotions are a big factor when we think about our quality of life. All of us can easily imagine a person who has it all, yet still feels miserable, or a person who has nothing, but still has a smile on their face and great...