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Psychosynthesis Coaching & Training
Meditation, Yoga
& Somatic Trager Approach


Interested in conscious methods and way of living?
Meditation, Psychosynthesis, Yoga, Somatic Trager Approach experiences?

My work offerings are in general all connected to daily life, meaningfullness in it, fullfilment, presence and expanding consciousness.

Based in Zeeland, Netherlands and time to time in Vaasa, Finland.



More about online 1:1 and Group sessions HERE


Kristiina Riekerk (Peltoniemi)
Psychosynthesis Coach, facilitating one on ones, groups and teaching coaches (PLC)
Yogateacher (RYT), Trager®-therapist, Masters in Marketing and minor in Education
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: https://livingconscious.life/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/livingconsciouslife
FB: www.facebook.com/livingconsciouslife


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Introduction

Hi, my name is Kristiina.

I was born in Finland and currently living in the Netherlands together with my husband and a baby girl, Dino dog + 6 chickens. We are located in the province of Zeeland, on the islands in the southeast. We also spent some periods in a year in Vaasa, Finland too.
I’ve been on a quest of “self study” for over 20 years. Beginning with yoga, meditation, body works and Psychosynthesis which all also came my work.

My work focus currently goes into Psychosynthesis where I have dived in for over a decade.
For me Psychosynthesis created awareness of what is really needed for embracing wholeness and what it is to be really living a fulfilled life of meaning. It has shown me ways to really come home and to live more and more from deep within. Some ways yoga and meditation also did, but psychosynthesis integrated it.

Beside the passion for the work I’m offering, I love spending time with family, love nature, being connected, simple living and pretty much anything that touches my soul (music, beauty, a smile..). Qualities that are meaningful for me at the moment are love, union, beauty.


Credentials:
* Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) one on one
* Psychosynthesis facilitator for groups
* Facilitator for coaches at psychosynthesiscoachtraining.com
* Trager® therapist (somatic body mind integration)
* Yoga teacher (RYT)
* Master in Business (major in Marketing management and minor in Education) 


Languages: English and Finnish

Coaching / Facilitating fields of interest:
* Consciousness/mindfulness as a home base for self discovery
* Purpose and meaning coaching
* Conscious relationship dynamics (couples) – coaching and group work together with my 
husband, Vincent / our page is www.livinconscious.life 
and Instagram page @livingconsciouslife 
* Somatic approach (Trager®)


A favourite quotation at the moment: 
“The stunning paradox of human spiritual maturity is that, as we become one with Life, we also at the same time become completely and uniquely ourselves.” 
-Thomas Yeomans, Ph.D.

More about Psychosynthesis you can find on my Instagram page or here on my website.

Wishing you love and connection, 
Kristiina
 

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
At your work / at your home
In private groups
Zeeland Netherlands, Vaasa Finland

Online guidance is videocall through Zoom
Tools for awareness, being conscious and to balance our system; physical, emotional, mind.

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.


More about online 1:1 and Group sessions HERE



Holistic Treatments

TRAGER ®

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). Nowdays my interest lies much in daily living and how the lernings from the formal practice can be in day to day living; presence, unity, drive..


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
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.


Psychosynthesis

My love for Psychosynthesis was instant. This started around 15 years ago as I was introduced to it in Kadermo Conscious Living retreats. Attending to many week long retreats (for years) with morning yoga practice and afternoon Psychosynthesis expolorations.
In 2020 when pandemin started I wanted to dive deeper into studying Psychosynthesis and found Didi Firman and her led training. Since 2024 I've been teaching Psychosynthesis to groups and and coaches in training.
This journey has brought light to personality traids, understanding of current situations, integration of "spiritual" practices. This all expanding awareness and bringing stability, meaning and fulfilment into life.





Contact Details

Kristiina (Krisse) Riekerk (Peltoniemi)
kristiina.peltoniemi (at) gmail.com



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




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