I’m André.

I committed to learning everything I could about healing, body, mind and soul. First for my own healing journey and later to understand how lasting change actually happens. What drives us? How do we connect? What helps us come home to ourselves?

Over the years, I worked with many teachers from different traditions and explored a wide range of approaches. From Western psychology and psychopharmacological treatment to breathwork, meditation, fasting and retreats in India. I worked with plant medicines, studied nutrition, supplements and learned practices such as pranayama in the Himalayan mountains. All of this supported me to some degree and I am grateful for the tools and knowledge I gained. Yet something still felt stuck beneath the surface.

Through my own process with somatic therapy, it felt like everything came together. My knowledge, my pain and my life experience began to make sense as one whole.

What deepened it further was studying the Pantarei Approach itself. I had expected to learn a method. What happened instead was a second process of my own, one that ran alongside the training, kept going long after it and is still unfolding. Every module asked something of me before I could offer it to anyone else. By then I could explain myself well enough. I knew how I wanted to respond to things. Some of that had shifted how I felt, but mostly the change stayed in my thinking. Here it finally landed in my body.

One session during the training became a marker for me. There was no layer of separation between myself and everything around me, the room, the people in it, the whole atmosphere, and nothing in me needed to judge it or change it. I would not have believed that words and touch alone could open something like that. Somewhere in those years Pantarei stopped being something I practiced and became a philosophy I live by, one that shapes how I meet myself, how I meet difficulty and how I sit with the people who come to me.

That was what changed how I saw myself. I felt both my strength and my softness. For a long time, I had believed my sensitivity was a weakness, something to overcome. In time, I realized it was the opposite.

This is my strength. This is who I am. Not something to leave behind, but something to learn from and work with. It’s also what allows me to listen deeply, sense subtle shifts and work with people in the way I do today.

Because of what I’ve lived through and the path I’ve walked, I feel a deep calling to share this work with others. This work has supported my own healing, both as a client and as a practitioner, and it continues to shape how I meet people in my sessions and life. I want to support others in reconnecting with their inner strength, clarity and truth.

Often, the difficulties people come with are not obstacles, but doorways. I believe healing looks different for each person. There is no one right way to be. Each of us carries something unique, and honoring that uniqueness is an essential part of healing. When we cut off parts of ourselves to fit into rigid systems or ideals, we lose contact with what makes us whole.

I believe that embracing diversity, within ourselves and with others, is not only healing on a personal level, but deeply necessary in the world we live in today.