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Yoga, Meditation,
Psychosynthesis Coaching
& Trager Approach

Thank you for dropping by!
Interested in conscious methods and way of living? Meditation, Yoga, Psychosynthesis, Somatic Trager Approach experiences?
Based in Zeeland, Netherlands and time to time in Vaasa, Finland.

Currently on a half maternity leave, if you are interested in Psychosynthesis or meditation, then do not hesitate to contact.

Kristiina Riekerk (Peltoniemi)

Psychosynthesis Coaching and facilitating one on ones, groups and coaches (PLC)

Yogateacher (RYT), Trager®-therapist
Mail: kristiina.peltoniemi (at) gmail.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/krisseyoga
Insight Timer Meditation App

San Fransisco Psychosynthesis Coach training

Living Conscious Life (Kristiina & Vincent)
Mail: connect (at) livingconsciouslife.com
Web: www.livingconscious.life
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Teaching

Topics; Psychosynthesis, meditative practices (sitting, laying, walking), breathing practices (pranayama), yang-, yin yoga, seasonal yoga (taking into account the seasonal rythm by Chinese Medicine) and philosophy + Somatic Trager Approach.

Private classes (in person and online), workshops, retreats

Also:
At your work / at your home
In private groups

Ask for price

Online guidance:
Topics and guidance via video call from FaceBook or Zoom.
Tools for awareness, being conscious and to balance our system; physical, emotional, mind.

Topics / practices can be from these branches:
PSYCHOSYNTHESIS Coaching
“Assagioli (Founder of Psychosynthesis) invited us into a world that asks of us that we become, with each passing moment, more and more of who we truly are.” *

PLC (Psychosynthesis Life Coach) from San Francisco Sythesis Center.
Psychosynthesis belongs to the forth forse in Psychology
Transpersonal psychology that integrates the whole of being within the surrondings
Works in aspects of personality (traids, patterns, wounds, behaviour) and soul level (meaning values, purpose, calling)
Initiates forward movement that is ignited from the source, the call within the self/Self
Fires the journey that uniquelly and authentically own with a stand point of being a chooser and responsible for own actions

For Psychosynthesis Coaching there will be a free of charge online intake to see if the process would be good fit for you and me to work together at this point of your life. This will take around 20-30 minutes and it is an opportunity for you and the coach to ask questions and see what is needed.

Psychosynthesis online group:
If you are interested to join to a Psychosynthesis online group that is being planned, you can already let me know. Group sessions are about guided meditations and tools of reflections for the Psychosynthesis journey.

More about Psychosynthesis under the blog: Psychosynthesis

* Foreword lines by Dorothty (Didi) Firman in a book; The Act of Will by Roberto Assagioli, p. IV.

YOGA & MOVEMENT: ashtanga, yang-, yin yoga, yoga practices as therapy, Trager Approach. Depending your current situation & taking into account the natural flow of the season / seasonal yoga / principles from Chinese medicine.

MEDITATIVE still PRACTICES (from Buddhism, yoga branches and Psychosynthesis), breathing practices, philosophy, conscious body mind integration throug movement (Trager Approach).

Guidance In English or in Finnish

Contact to book the guidance and write down the topics that you are interested and what are your needs and what is the current situation if that feels relevant:
kristiina.peltoniemi (at) gmail.com
For Psychosynthesis there will be an intake to see if the process would be good fit for you and me to work together at this point of your life.

Holistic Treatments

Trager® Practitioner since 2013

Duration: 30-105min

60-105min for the whole body and shorter times for certain area (eg. back & legs, arms & shoulders & neck, back and neck, chest (breathing) & neck & shoulders). 30 min Trager is good for children.

Few minute video about Trager® approach

What is Trager®?
The Trager® Approach is a pleasurable, gentle and effective approach to movement education and mind/body integration. The Trager Approach helps release deep-seated physical and mental patterns and facilitates deep relaxation, increased physical mobility, and mental clarity. The benefits of a Trager session are long-lasting and cumulative, with subsequent sessions allowing for deeper and longer lasting changes.

At the beginning of your session, your Practitioner enters into a state of awareness that Dr. Milton Trager termed “Hook up,” a state similar to meditation. From this state of mind, your Practitioner uses touch and movement to communicate with your body and mind the feeling of a freer and easier way of being and moving.
There are two aspects of The Trager Approach. In one aspect of the work, usually referred to as the “table work,” you, the client, lie on a well-padded table in a safe, comfortable environment while your body is supported and gently moved within its pain-free range of movement and natural rhythm. You may choose to be fully clothed, or partially clothed and appropriately draped.

The quality of touch and movement is such that you experience the feeling of moving effortlessly and freely on your own. As your body and mind receive these soft movements, tensions disappear and new movement patterns become possible.

The other aspect of the Trager Approach, called Mentastics, involves instruction in the use of self-care movements. Mentastics is taught both in private sessions and in group classes.

Source: tragerus.org

Reiki:
Duration: approximately 60 min

In simplest form; ReiKi can be described as an energy healing practice which brings natural balance and awareness to our body-mind.

Kristiina

Yoga and meditation

I became interested in Indian culture when I visited the country at the age of 13. I read literature about India and found information about yoga, so that was how I got interested in yoga. I tried different styles of yoga but it took me awhile to it to become to my daily life.

In 2002 I had an opportunity to try a week-end long ashtanga course for the very first time. First I fall for the physical aspect of the practice and also for how positively it affected to body and mind. It did not take long to remember the systematic way of the poses and I could practice my own. Did not need to go anywhere; was enough just to have a mat under the feet (nowadays that is not nesessary ;) ).

I started instructing ashtanga in 2005, yin and meditative sitting practices in 2015.

My own practice on mat (formal practice) consists on sitting meditative practice and on some asana (postures). Mainly I practice on my own but I do spent time yearly to practice at Kadermo Conscious Living. Since March 2020 I have been attending to Deligt Yoga schools group mediations several times a week.

Weekly attending to Rolandjans silent sit
- Rolanjan Van Mulligen (meditation and breathwork)

Ongoing mentors:

- Stefan Engström, Kadermo Conscious Living, Finland
Attending to his retreat place since 2005
(ashtanga, pranayama, psychosynthesis, yoga nidra, yin yoga, anatomy of wholeness, meditative practices and teaching)
- Kim Richardson (Path of heart) www.sufiorderuk.org
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan

- Hariprem & Kaulika (Path of love) https://tantraislove.weebly.com

+ other significant mentors / teachers and branches:

- Psychosynthesis, head teachers: Dr. Dorothy (Didi) Firman & Susan Jewkes Allen

- Trager teachers

- Leonard Jacobson www.leonardjacobson.com
- Amir Jaan (Kundalini & Sufism) http://amirjaan.com
- Tibetan Budddhism, Shambhala, Helsinki, Finland https://helsinki.shambhala
- Marshall Rosenberg (NVC)

Bellow teachers / schools where I've been practicing:
- Sri K Pattabhi Jois, Ashtanga Yoga Institute, Mysore, India and Helsinki visits
- R Sharath Rangaswamy, Ashtanga Yoga Institute, Mysore, India and Helsinki visits
- Saraswathi Rangaswamy, Ashtanga Yoga Institute, Mysore, India and Helsinki visits
- Dr. M.A. Jayashree and Professor M. A. Narasimhan (Sanskrit, yoga sutra philosophy & mantra meditation) http://www.anantharesearch.org
- Lino Miele, Italy
- Stefan Engström, The Midnight Sun Ashtanga Yoga Retreat, Finland (ashtanga, pranayama, yoga nidra, yin yoga, psychosynthesis, anatomy of wholeness, meditative practices and teaching) www.kadermo.fi
- Astanga Yoga School Helsinki, Finland
- Cole Dano, Studio 8, Helsinki, Finland
- Chuck Miller and MatyEzraty, Usa
- Rolf Naujokat and Marci Ciu-Naujokat, Yogabones, Goa, India
- Louise Ellis, Rishikesh, India + retreats in Finland (ashtanga and yin)
- Brahmani Yoga Centre, Goa, India
- Ashtanga Yoga London, Uk
- Chad Herst and Devorah Sacks, Mission Ashtanga, San Francisco, Usa
- Anthony "Prem" Carlisi and Heather Duplex, Ashtanga World, Bali, Indonesia
- Clayton Horton & Mo-ching Yip; Greenpath Yoga 200h Teacher Training; RYT: Registered Yoga Teacher by Yoga Alliance (Ashtanga + pranayama, philosophy, anatomy kirtan/mantra meditation, teaching)
- Petri Räisänen ja Juha Javanainen, Houtskari Finland

- Petri Räisänen, Frantsila and Vaasa, Finland
- Astanga Yoga school Amsterdam & Delight Yoga Amsterdam

- Anandra George (Mantra meditation & sanskrit) http://truefreedomcoaching.com
- Rolanjan Van Mulligen (meditation and breathwork)

From Burning ART festivals 2017 introduction:

"Kristiina “Krisse” Peltoniemi / Yoga teacher (RYT) and Trager® therapist

Kristiina is interested in wholeness, life, living, loving, connecting, authenticity, openness - acts of the soul 💓 Times outside her “work” she enjoys spending time with family, friends and with her fluffy white dog, nature has a special meaning and a quick rooting effect to herself to drop into "just being", she also loves writing and dance; especially dance from within (authentic/somatic movement / contact improvisation).

Her first touch to yoga was over 20 years ago on a first trip to India. There was something that started bloom; how life can also be lived and experienced. She has been teaching the past 13 years and also works as a bodyworker. Her interest to different healing practices as a bodyworker came from yoga and from the wish to give to others and to herself an experience of this holistic, healing and connecting sensation in individual treatments as well as in her teaching.

She teaches yang (active) style of yoga (raja yoga, hatha yoga) in a forms of ashtanga and yang and yin yoga (hatha yoga). She has experience in different spiritual traditions as well; Tibetan Buddhism and japa meditation (bhakti yoga) and from kundalini and tantra branches. Yoga is yoga (oneness, union to self) - the tools and practices just varies. What is important that a practitioner can find a tool that is suitable to supports her/his lifestyle and current situation."

"To the fuller life from heart 💓 “ - Krisse

Holistic treatments

My intrest to different healing practices came from yoga; especially from prana (the universal energy) and from the wish to give (to others/to myself) an experience of this holistic and healing sensation in individual treatments as well as in yoga practice and in teachings and sharing.

Today I would not call sessions (meditation, yoga, mind/body"work") healing but rather holding and shining light to places of stiffness, pain, restriction (physical/mental) but also emphasising what is good, flowing, pleasurable, fun, peaceful, loving.. rooting more and more to the self on a soul/heart level that is pure and can hold space and compassion (the one that can observe and respond, rather than react); the place of inspiration and "knowing"/wisdom and from where the actions are clear and purposful.
And what comes to the word healing; Psychosynthesis and meditation emphasises this soul/heart perspective and when we get to be in touch with it we know what to do and that can give the feeling of healing. For some it might be a change of perspective from mind to heart and only by trying it out yourself you can see how it works for you.