ABOUT HANNA

Hi dear, Hanna here,

When I was little, I lived with my father and I had a lot of time on my own. First we lived in a small town near the river Tisza with playmates around in the neighbourhood and timely visits to the local ice cream parlour. Our situation suddenly changed when I was just about 6 years old, and we moved to a little cottage, where our neighbours were now 2km away, mostly older people and widows, whose grandchildren occasionally visited. That was the highlight of the week, seeing the old Lada drive through in the distance, creating a huge cloud of dirt behind. Apart from that, there were no other kids around.

So what did I do? I connected with all that was around me. I connected - through my body - with the wild flowers, the thorny acacia trees, walking around barefoot I tried to gain the trust of our little gooselings. How big was my pride when I suddenly realised they fell asleep around me, enjoying my company and calmness. I explored many ways of connection: singing with the wind, playing with the sand with my toes, running wild, and exploring with care the crickets and grasshoppers around me. I was in serious conversations with our goat, climbed tall trees to see afar, and felt strong knowing that I dare to get a scratch or two and that I am not afraid of getting hurt exploring.

Taking it all in

Whatever the situation I was in, I felt and sensed a lot. Excitement and joy, sadness and desperation, they were all present during these early years. Through my vivid imagination I played with the whole world wide and far, exploring life through this creative connection. And at the same time, in the harshness of my world I gained a serious, thoughtful, and cautious attitude balancing the adventurous explorer of who I am.

All the places I come from

Living on a cottage, having limited opportunities, allowed to me to connect with others who lived in similar circumstances.

There are many who have no access understanding what it means, for example, to live in poverty and seclusion, or the excitement and the constraints of Neurobiology lab.

It is now that I realise, that during my path I met many different people and lives, and by being part of their world, I got to know the lives of scientists, venture builders, people in corporate business environments, artists, yoga teachers and somatic practitioners.

Back at the cottage I had the time to take in everything that happened around me. Truly processing behaviours and personalities of people in my surroundings. Listening to their stories, their wisdom, and their truth.

It made me appreciate human uniqueness, and utterly curious for exploring who the person in front of me truly is.

My first study brought me to Biology, and more specifically molecular and cellular research. I did an internship in Immunology, in Budapest, and then another 9 months in Neuroscience, at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. Loving science is still something I do, all the intricate details that Life Sciences offer, our own complexity as living beings just mesmerises me.
At this point I realised, lab research is not something I’d enjoy on the long-run. It was a lot of solitary work, and I so much longed for working together with people. Studying Science and Business Management then brought me to another world. The start-ups and business. I loved the excitement of presenting new ideas, building MVPs for our potential start-up at the venture builder company I worked for. And yet it was not the place to stay to me, so I moved into the industry, explored corporate life and had a burn/bored-out.
I was looking for my place, where could I use all my talents, and how could I satisfy my curiosity? That's how I turned to visual arts, and became a full-time student at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. For a full 4 years I have been attending, I indulged in the creative atmosphere where all is possible, nothing is too strange and you are encouraged to explore.
What a fresh start this was, just after my burn-out, I tried to take it slow, step by step exploring what I actually loved to do, what made my heart tick. I returned to life-long love of yoga.
I started practicing yoga at the age of 11, when my eldest sister brought me to a class with her. That's when I immediately fell in love with yoga. I loved the concentration on the self that somehow becomes the whole world. Although I did not have the words for it back then, I definitely did have this experience. I soon started to teach my friends with curiosity and awe.
In 2019 I studied with Mark Whitwell and learnt how a yoga practice is adapted to the person. Mark was fortunate enough to have studied with T. Krishnamacharya and his son, T.K.V. Desikachar.
My previous intuition was now confirmed: for every person, there is a right yoga that is appropriate for them, regardless of age, health, body type or culture. Through my training, I gained the tools to share how yoga practice becomes the intimate embrace of life.
In the meantime I started my training in the Pantarei Approach, which I successfully completed after 3 years in Berlin, Germany.
By this time it had become clear that although biology and fine arts opened a window to a beautiful, diverse and exciting world, my path leads me to somatic bodywork.
Here I can satisfy all my curiosities, explore the wonder of our bodies, of our lives, with all my clients, and in doing so, help infinite people on their journey, so that each one of us can connect with and be able to tap into our own resources, unique qualities and abilities, as individuals.

When the forest is dense

Sometimes it simply seems impossible to see the forest for the trees. That’s when I appreciate so much having a session or joining a Pantarei workshop myself.

What I love about the Pantarei Approach is that it

allows me to understand who I am without wanting to change me,
allows me to embody all of me, my whole being, by working with the body,
supports me in embracing difficult emotions and experiences where I haven’t felt safe or ready to go before,
allows the exploration needed for gaining clarity
and finally allows me to see the forest, the trees and the bees, and the complexity and beauty of my own strengths.