Pantarei Approach

Join us at the Pantarei Approach Center to meet our community, enjoy a buffet, experience a short Pantarei session, and hear Claudia Glowik and Vered Manasse share the ideas and experiences that have shaped the Pantarei Approach over the past ten years.

You’ll meet students, practitioners, teachers, clients, and friends of the Pantarei Approach. Some have been with us for years, others will be visiting for the very first time. It is an afternoon for conversations, questions, new encounters, and getting to know our work.

Whether you’re interested in having sessions, studying with us, or simply discovering what the Pantarei Approach is about, you are warmly welcome.

Friday, July 17 | 2:30–6:00 PM
Doors open: 2:30 PM
Presentations begin: 3:00 PM

📍 Pantarei Approach Center
Winsstr. 60
10405 Berlin

Come on your own or bring a friend. We’d be happy to meet you.

One of these days, going through old photographs, I found myself traveling back through time. There I was at sixteen, at the beach during a family holiday.

My partner looked at the photo with me and said how happy, confident, and free in spirit I looked. I knew he was right. Yet I also knew that when the photo was taken, instead of enjoying my young self and being on holiday, I was busy counting what was wrong, cataloging every part of myself that didn't fit the image I thought I was supposed to be.

Looking at that photo today, I wanted to reach back through the years and say, "You are amazing. Feel yourself. Don't waste a single moment on those nonsense self-judgments."

Years passed. I became a practitioner, a mother, a partner, and eventually a co-founder of the Pantarei Approach. Yet when I look back at photographs from different periods of my life, I often have the same realization. In each one, I see someone who was carrying so much more life, strength, and beauty than she could recognize at the time.

This morning, when I opened my wardrobe to get ready for a hot day in Berlin, a familiar feeling returned. Choosing an outfit suddenly became much more complicated than it needed to be. For a moment, I could hear that old voice again, the one that was busy looking for what was not quite right.

Then I remembered that photograph and started laughing. I took a deep breath and allowed my whole life to speak to me. I remembered my friends, my family, my community, the challenges I have lived through, the things I have learned, the people I love, and the wishes I still carry for the future.

From that place, choosing a dress became easy.

Whatever body you live in and whatever history you carry, I hope you remember to take a deep breath and notice everything that is already part of your life. The challenges, the achievements, the people you love, the experiences that shaped you, and the qualities that make you who you are.

Sometimes all it takes is remembering the whole picture.

If reading this makes you curious about the Pantarei Approach and you are not yet a student or practitioner, I would love to invite you to join Vered's online introductory meeting on July 7 for anyone interested in our Practitioner Training Program beginning this October.

https://pantareiapproach.com/courses/chat-with-co-founder-vered-manasse-11

With love,
Claudia Glowik