Participants observing a guided brick-breaking exercise with Napkapu

About Napkapu · Doorway to the Sun · Since 2004

Development that begins with direct experience.

Napkapu brings together experiential self-development, authentic firewalking and progressive methods that help people meet themselves more fully.

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A doorway into possibility

Napkapu means “Doorway to the Sun.”

Since 2004, it has grown as both a professional practice and a living community: a meeting place for people who want to understand themselves more deeply, move beyond familiar limits and bring insight into action.

Founded by Bence László Tarr, Napkapu offers personal consultation, group programmes, organisational development and internationally rooted firewalking education. The methods may be unusual, but the intention is clear: to create meaningful experiences that support awareness, responsibility and lasting change.

People arrive from different professions, cultures and worldviews. No single belief system is required. Curiosity, personal choice and a willingness to engage honestly are enough.

Bence László Tarr welcoming a participant at an international gathering — Human connection is where every method begins.

A participant breaking a brick during a guided Napkapu exercise

Experience before explanation

Insight becomes memorable when it is felt, tested and reflected upon—not only discussed.

Two participants choosing their own movement across a ceremonial fire

Freedom and responsibility

Every meaningful step is voluntary. Choice, boundaries and personal agency remain central.

A group taking part together in an embodied development exercise

The whole person

Body, thought, emotion, relationship and meaning are invited into the same learning process.

An international executive team learning traditional archery with Napkapu

Tradition made relevant

Living lineages are approached with respect and translated carefully into contemporary settings.

Bence László Tarr presenting beside the VUCA pyramid to the audience at the first RBHH Leadership Day — Copresenting with Dr. Dénes Kemény: The legendary coach who led Hungary to three consecutive Olympic water polo gold medals at the 1st RBHH Leadership Day.

Founder and lead facilitator

Bence László Tarr

Cultural anthropologist, Grand Master of Firewalking, internationally recognised H.E.M.A.-ist fencing coach, knowledge and wisdom-keeper, certified organisational-development consultant, senior trainer and coach.

Bence has worked with personal and organisational development for more than twenty-five years and has accompanied more than five hundred people through individual coaching and consultation. His practice connects rigorous professional reflection with embodied, experiential learning.

His international firewalking education includes instructor training in Portugal and advanced Masters training in Costa Rica. In December 2024, The Firewalking Center recognised two decades of work by awarding him the title Grand Master of Firewalking.

Across a conference stage, a coaching conversation or a ceremonial fire, the aim remains the same: help people discover what is already alive within them and turn that discovery into a conscious next step.

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International lineage · Hungarian home

A tradition carried forward through relationship.

Napkapu’s approach stands in the modern firewalking lineage shaped by The Firewalking Center, founded by Tolly Burkan in the United States, and by Rolf and Åsa Beckman’s Eight Directions training in Sweden. Bence was trained and certified through teachers who carried this work internationally and made its professional transmission possible.

Today Napkapu carries that lineage in Hungary while remaining part of a wider international community. Both Bence and Napkapu helped found the Global Firewalking Alliance and the United Fires professional community. Through these relationships, Napkapu represents the international FIT™ community in Hungary and works to keep professional standards, cultural respect and open dialogue at the heart of contemporary firewalking.

Bence is a Director and a Board Member of the Global Firewalking Alliance.

Bence László Tarr holding a ceremonial drum beside the fire

Global Firewalking Alliance

International

The Firewalking Center

U.S.A.

Eight Directions

Sweden

NAPKAPU

Hungary

A participant standing with open arms between two ceremonial fires — “We create situations in which insight is not merely discussed—it is experienced.”

Professionally held · fully human

Scientific understanding and spiritual depth can belong in the same room.

Napkapu does not ask people to choose between evidence and meaning.

Firewalking and other progressive methods are approached with practical preparation, professional responsibility and clear safety standards. At the same time, the symbolic, cultural and spiritual dimensions of an experience are treated with respect.

There is no single universal firewalk. Napkapu adapts the form, language and preparation to the participants’ cultural context and worldview, recognising that firewalking is practised through many distinct and authentic traditions.

The result is not a search for spectacle or an extreme experience. It is a carefully structured opportunity for self-discovery—one that can serve an individual, a small community, a professional team or a large public gathering without losing its human centre.

Ways to work with Napkapu

Begin where your real question lives.

The format changes with the people and the purpose. The commitment to careful preparation, direct experience and useful integration does not.

For individuals

The next doorway

What becomes possible when you meet yourself directly?

Tell us what you are exploring. We will help you find the Napkapu programme, conversation or professional pathway that fits.

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