Mari Crook

Somatic Counselor & Bodywork Practitioner

What is Somatic Bodywork Using the Pantarei Approach?

The Pantarei Approach is a somatic bodywork method that brings conversation and hands-on work together in a single session. "Pantarei" means "everything flows" in ancient Greek, reflecting the approach's core belief that we are always capable of change and adaptation.

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. The Pantarei Approach assumes you already hold the wisdom you need. The practitioner's role is to help you access it.

What Sessions Look Like

Each session begins with a conversation about what is currently present for you, a situation, an emotion, a pattern you keep encountering, or simply a sense that something wants attention. This dialogue helps clarify the focus of the session and begins to activate what the body is holding.

For in-person sessions in Berlin, we then move to a massage table where the conversation continues alongside hands-on bodywork. Through conscious touch, breath, and guided attention to sensation, we work directly with what has surfaced, giving it a way to be felt, understood, and processed. Sessions close with integration time to allow the experience to settle.

Online sessions follow the same structure but work through verbal exploration, breathwork, self-directed touch, and guided body awareness. Many people find they can feel themselves particularly clearly in their own space, and online is also an effective way to do this work.

Rates & Booking

In-person sessions: 90€ for 90 minutes 

Online sessions: 65€ / $75 USD for 60-75 minutes

Sliding scale pricing is available, please reach out if needed.

Book a session or schedule a free discovery call at www.maricrook.com

or contact mari.crook@gmail.com.

About me

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. Somatic work changed what was possible for me, and training as a practitioner felt like a natural continuation of that journey.

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 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 I am a core member of Regenerative Activism, a Community of Practice for collective care and social justice with Citizens Lab. I have trained in futures thinking, network facilitation, and creative tools for social change through programs with Future Serious School, Ulex Project, and Greater Than, and have founded and facilitated peer learning spaces at the intersection of education, embodiment, and the metacrisis.

Qualifications

  • Pantarei Approach Somatic Bodywork, Pantarei Approach School Berlin (2024-2025)

  • C.A.R.E. Somatic Pedagogy for Children, Somatische Akademie Berlin (2025) Development of Child's Movement | Moving, Playing and Interacting with Kids

  • Arbeitskreis Kritische Somatik (AKS): Collective Trauma & Critical Somatics for Sustainable Activism (2025)

  • Power of Awareness, Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach (2022)

  • Samadhi Training, Igor Kufayev (2022)

  • Shamanic, Usui, and Tibetan Reiki Level I & II (2022)