Berlin-based Pantarei Practitioner

Mari Crook

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Pantarei Approach Somatic Sessions in Berlin and Online

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Pantarei somatic bodywork offers an approach to personal change that integrates conversation with empathetic touch. Through Pantarei sessions, you can access your body's intelligence, work with patterns stored in your nervous system, and discover new ways of being that emerge from your own embodied experience.

I’m an English-speaking Pantarei Approach practitioner offering sessions both in-person in Neukölln, Berlin and online worldwide.

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What is the Pantarei Approach?

The Pantarei Approach is a somatic bodywork method founded in Berlin in 2016 by Vered Manasse and Claudia Glowik, both former practitioners of the Grinberg Method. "Pantarei" means "everything flows" in ancient Greek, reflecting that we are always changing and adaptation is possible.

Somatic work starts from the understanding that the body is not just a vessel for the mind but a site of knowing in its own right. Our nervous systems hold the history of our experiences, including the patterns, tensions, and defenses we developed in response to life's challenges. These patterns shape how we move, how we relate, and how we respond to stress, often without our conscious awareness. Somatic bodywork creates the conditions for these patterns to become visible and, when the time is right, to shift.

Sessions work with both contraction and expansion. This means exploring areas of tension, stored emotion, and survival patterns, but also connecting to your resources, your strengths, and the qualities that are uniquely yours.

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What does a Pantarei somatic bodywork session look like?

Pantarei bodywork sessions begin with conversation, bringing your personal history and current experience into the room, establishing what you want to explore, and activating what the body is holding.

The hands-on portion (for in-person Berlin sessions) involves conscious touch that communicates directly with your nervous system. Through touch, I can sense areas of tension, disconnection, or activation, and guide you toward feeling these patterns while supporting your system's natural capacity to shift when it feels ready.

Online Pantarei sessions focus on verbal exploration, nervous system awareness, and guided attention to sensation that helps you develop clearer internal sensing and emotional regulation skills from anywhere in the world. Learn more about online sessions here.

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What brings people to Pantarei somatic bodywork?

Processing trauma and its effects on the nervous system
Chronic pain, anxiety, depression, or emotional overwhelm
Grief, loss, and major life transitions
Relationship patterns rooted in early attachment experiences
Somatic symptoms without clear medical causes
Feeling disconnected from your body or emotions
Breaking cycles of stress, perfectionism, or burnout
Recovering from abuse or neglect
Integration after major life changes or spiritual experiences

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About

I'm Mari, a certified Pantarei Approach practitioner working in Neukölln, Berlin and online. I came to this work through my own process of reconnecting with my body after struggling with anxiety, depression, and burnout in my twenties.

I bring to sessions a background in education, community building, and facilitation, with seven years as a teacher and educational leader and extensive experience designing and holding spaces for groups.

My somatic practice is also informed by a long personal engagement with contemplative and body-based traditions, including studies in mindfulness, non-dual awareness, and the relationship between somatic intelligence and collective wellbeing. I co-founded and facilitate the Presence Circle, a somatically-grounded sharing circle focused on authentic communication and deep listening, and have founded and facilitated peer learning spaces at the intersection of education, embodiment, and the metacrisis

When I met Mari, I was in the darkest place in my life. My nervous system was completely shut down, and I couldn’t regulate my emotions at all. Just four sessions in, I started noticing real change. The shifts I’ve felt with her have been deeper and more impactful than anything I’ve experienced in other types of therapy or healing work. I’ve tried everything—from sports and sound healing to family constellations and antidepressants—and still, what I’ve been able to experience with Mari feels different. There’s a calm and safety in my body now that I hadn’t felt before.

Rawan El Masry
I’ve had a few sessions with Mari, and each time I’m reminded how rare it is to meet someone who can hold space the way she does. I’m genuinely in awe of her ability to stay so open and attuned while feeling alongside someone else. Not everyone is built for this kind of work. What stands out most to me is how she blends in her knowledge and techniques in a way that actually moves something. Her guidance through my body allows for the stuck energies to shift and loosen. Things I didn’t even realize I was holding start to flow again. After every session, I leave feeling lighter, more in flow, and a bit raw in the best way. I’m really grateful to have found her.

Iva Tomevska
Wow! I am really blown away by Mari’s skill and the effectiveness of the Pantarei approach - it was the right combination of gentle, non-invasive and very titrated, while also effectively taking me to my own internal edges and exploring them somatically, giving me plenty of good insights and skills to work through some feeling states on my own and providing some internal resolution towards some difficulty I was having. Most importantly, our session really resourced me before diving in and did not over do it. I cannot recommend enough!

Margaret Quail
I had an online somatic session with Mari, and I couldn't recommend it highly enough. Mari opened up a space for self exploration and profound processing for me on a bodily/somatic and emotional level. It was incredible and just what I had needed. She held the space with such clarity and grace. I'm really grateful. I'm back in Spain now, looking out over the mountains and feel much more resources to be holding a group thanks to the session with her which let me reconnect to joy and purpose.

Ruth Cross
The Pantarei Sessions with Mari felt very healing and supportive. I found more clarity in my emotions, thoughts and bodily sensing in a challenging time of my life and it was amazing to be accompanied and witnessed in that process of transformation. Through the questions, her presence and quality of touch I really felt seen and understood, without even having to name everything with words. The combination of bodywork and talking is so strong and Mari leads it in a very delicate and empowering way. I am looking forward to the next session.

Jana
I had a Pantarei Approach Session with Mari and do bodywork myself and the Session was beyond words. I could meet a very deep topic within myself about authority and how I keep searching for it outside of myself and with that could meet a very deep grief and wound of abandonment. The way of her intuition and how she is meeting you in your emotion and let them spread through your body is very powerful. I am doing the Pantarei Approach training myself now because I was so impressed from her work. Thank you Mari for your authenticity you are a rare diamond in the bodywork scene and I am looking forward to our next Session.

Franziska M.
Mari is incredibly intentional in the way she leads these sessions. From the moment it begins, you can feel she is truly there and present with you. She guides with a beautiful blend of somatic and breath techniques. This session was so helpful for me and I left it feeling really grounded, really present in my body, really in touch with my experience. Thank you Mari!

Maeve Downey
My sessions with Mari have been deeply transformative from the beginning. She is a natural with the pantarei approach, her intuition and empathy combining into sessions that often explore unexpected territory, allowing me to gently dig into parts of myself that I truly don’t think I would have uncovered otherwise. Unlike traditional talk therapy which is can be very heavy and loaded, while my sessions with Mari can certainly be challenging, I always leave them feeling both rested and energised. I’m extremely grateful of Mari’s ability to pick up on the invisible connections between my body and mind and I highly recommend her services.

Kathryn Syddall
My sessions with Mari felt incredibly supportive. You can sense her rare gift for deeply feeling her client and knowing just what is needed in the moment - whether it’s a quiet presence, a guiding hand, or a softer or stronger touch. I could always feel her immense empathy and compassion, her lack of judgment, and her clear intention to be there with me and for me in the session. This allowed me to fully relax and simply be, trusting her to guide me through whatever was coming up.

Maya
I had several sessions with Mari, online and in-person. Mari is a very empathic and compassionate person, which made it easy to open up and get vulnerable. When I was too much in my head she gently brought me back into my body and connected me with my breath and my bodily sensations. She also opened up the space for exploration and curiosity. It was really surprising to experience the shift both in sensations and emotions. We tapped into feelings like sadness but we also shared light moments where we laughed. I felt more grounded and connected with myself afterwards.

Antonia
Mari listens deeply with no judgement, bringing humour, lightness and depth to her sessions. Nothing needs to happen and everything can happen. In our sessions, I found that my body could trust the space she created. After my sessions with Mari, I came away with a different perspective on how I relate to my body, and on how my personal history has shaped the patterns I carry. If you're looking for someone to support you in connecting with your body and beginning to understand what it's holding, I'd encourage you to work with her.

Florencia Noriega
After working with Mari for the past few months, she's led me to new, impactful insights about myself that I hadn't realized before. She's helped me understand myself while also giving me tools to explore my emotions on my own time. If you're trying to understand yourself better through bodily sensations, she is amazing!

Raaj Aggarwal

Book Your Pantarei Approach Somatic Bodywork Session in Berlin or Online

I offer Pantarei somatic sessions both in-person in Neukölln, Berlin and online worldwide. When you're ready to explore somatic bodywork, we can start with a brief conversation to see if this feels like the right fit.

Pricing:

In-person sessions are 90 eur for a 90-minute session.
Online sessions are 65 eur / $75 USD for a 60-75 minute session.
Please reach out if you need sliding scale pricing.

Contact for Pantarei Bodywork Sessions:

Email: mari.crook@gmail.com
Phone: +49 15141393063

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