What challenges you? What do you wish for?
Any challenge and wish you encounter in your life is a valid starting point for and focus of my work with the Pantarei Approach with you. I believe you and your body hold knowledge, insights, and energy in order to master your life with your challenges and your wishes. Your body is an essential, valuable, and unique companion along your journey called life, bringing you close to yourself.
PANTAREI is derived from the ancient Greek words expressed by the philosopher Heraklit: πάντα ῥεῖ - everything flows. These ancient words inspire my work approach, as we invite your (embodied) knowledge, insights, and energy to surface and flow in order to nurture the flow of your life.
Through your breath, my touch, and our communication
we want you to access, sense, and connect to
your (embodied) knowledge, insights, and energy.
We complement the bodily dialogue with words. I want to assure you know how to take your (embodied) knowledge, your insights, and your energy into your everyday life and to make use of them.
(Still) Got question marks buzzing around in your head?
Believe me, you are not the only one. Quite often, I hear: Your work with the Pantarei Approach sounds fantastic and you made me curious, but I can’t really grasp it. My response is: Yes, indeed it is a novel approach. From my experience, it is an approach to master your life that usually is not considered and thus, is not tapped into. Once you experienced its power, you might not want to live without it any longer. Simply, because it truly feels like magic – magic inside yourself.
My work with the Pantarei Approach comprises elements that you might know from other places, where you just *breathe, experience and connect to your body*, e.g. during a physical mindful activity such as a guided body scan, where you are *touched* by someone following a specific technique, e.g. massage, or where you only *talk* with someone about how to overcome the challenges of your life, e.g. life coaching.
Or maybe you are familiar with the situation, when you talked with a person you know well about something that was personally challenging or intimate to you, and this person put their hand on your shoulder and/or hugged you. How was that experience for you – have you ever paid attention to how you felt and what you thought?
Some of my clients describe her experience with my work with the Pantarei Approach as follows:
“I consider Pantarei as a sort of sensual body work, an alternative approach for exploring my moods, thoughts, and emotional condition, rather than thinking about it in rational ways. Pantarei sessions help me a lot to structure topics, feelings, impressions I am carrying around with me. This is affecting my daily life in a positive way, and I generally feel strengthened and emotionally more settled after sessions. I enjoy working with Milena especially because she is never intruding or pushing towards solutions or outcomes. I do see her and Pantarei as a kind of midwife work in a Socratic way, giving my guidance and support for my personal development.”
— A.P., editor
“Before meeting Milena and trying out Pantarei for the first time I saw my tensions and chronic diseases of my body as a problem that needs solving and I was fighting it. Through this I created a lot of resistance within myself. Milena opened my eyes for the possibility that every symptom can be seen as a form of communication of my body. That through diseases and tensions my body is communicating with me. This helped me see that me and my body are a team and I need to stop and listen to the messages it has for me. Since doing Pantarei I am feeling self-love towards myself. Thank you so much Milena for guiding me in my process with a very professional and warm attitude.”
— A.P., coach
Listen to your thoughts and feelings.
Seek inspiration in harmony and dissonance.
Which (other people’s) challenges and wishes has the work with the Pantarei Approach already benefited?
* I miss something in my life.
I wish to start a project that is meaningful to me.
* I struggle with my high expectations in any aspect of my life.
I wish to find out how I can live my life aligned with my energy and at ease.
* I suffer from a chronic disease, a broken bone, or menstruation pain.
I wish to explore how to find comfort in my skin.
* If I am honest, I feel empty and burnt out.
I wish to know how I can recharge.
* I truly miss a beloved one who passed away some time ago.
I wish (I could still allow myself) to grief.
* I suspect I suppress my emotions and I don't know access them.
I wish to learn how I can integrate them.
* The study program | job I chose does not feel right any more.
I wish to find my professional vocation and to seek courage to follow it.
How do I and my work with the Pantarei Approach accompany you?
We start each session with a verbal dialogue, talking about your challenge and/or wish that brought you to this session. Then, we transfer to the hands-on part, where we will actively involve your body, be it laying down on your back or belly, seated, or standing. According to your individual needs, we will combine your breath, your experience and connection with your body, my touch and our words. We close a session by talking about your somatic experience and your associated thoughts and insights and relating them back to the request for a session. The first session takes 60-90 minutes; the following sessions last approximately 75 minutes.
Have you got less question marks buzzing around in your head and are (even more) interested in my work the Pantarei Approach? Let’s arrange a 90 minute trial session. Or are you curious about my work with the Pantarei Approach despite (even more) question marks buzzing around in your mind? Or stuck with the question: does that really work? Get in touch with me and I will do my best to turn your question marks into bullet points or exclamation marks.
As a Pantarei Approach practitioner, I respect and adhere to the core values of the approach, including its code of ethics and its professional conduct.
