Lunar Sunday Shakti Jam followed by a chai & chat Waitlist
September 11, 2022 •
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Heathcote & Star
Basia Zieniewicz
I am a fully qualified and insured yoga teacher, qualified psychedelic-assisted therapist, psychosynthesis coach, and Holotropic Breathwork trainee, currently completing my certification through the Grof Legacy Training. My work weaves together yoga, depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, somatic awareness, Yoga Nidra, breathwork, and the integration of expanded states of consciousness.
My first profession was as a special educational needs specialist pedagogue, working for over 11 years with disaffected and at-risk young people. This continues to shape the way I hold space, with a particular appreciation for highly sensitive people, burnout, existential questioning, spiritual emergence, and those tender moments when we no longer feel we fit neatly into the world.
I began practising yoga in 1999 and trained as a teacher with Sevanti at Unity Yoga in 2019, after almost 20 years of personal practice. Since then, I have completed over 600 hours of further training, including Traditional Vedic Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Katonah Yoga, children’s yoga, trauma-sensitive foundations, and Yin Yoga.
Alongside yoga, I am trained in Psychosynthesis coaching, Conscious Connected Breathwork, and Permaculture Design, and have studied Transpersonal Psychology and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness under Dr David Luke. Out of both professional commitment and deep personal curiosity, I continue to develop my studies in breathwork, expanded states, spiritual emergence, and the intelligence of the body and nature.
My facilitation style is inclusive, accessible, non-hierarchical, and post-lineage. I’m interested in slowing down, listening deeply, and creating conditions where the body, psyche, breath, and inner wisdom can speak in their own time. I often weave together tenderness and resilience, softness and strength, playfulness and devotion, what I sometimes call subtle activism.
I also work across multidisciplinary collaborations in Europe, including experiential facilitation with the University of Nottingham’s psychedelic programme for medical students through PsycEdu, medicine and breathwork retreats for doctors with Able Integrative Lifestyle Medicine, and harm reduction work with Kosmicare at Boom Festival & ZNA Gathering.
At the heart of my work is a sincere wish to support people back into relationship with their own inner compass. I am still very much a student of this path, allowing the many trainings, teachings, lived experiences, and creative threads to slowly assimilate into something simple, useful, and alive.
I am a humbled co-creator of Yoga In The Stars, our avant-garde yoga club in East London, a space for continuous learning, community, practice, and growth.
I offer group yoga, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, breathwork-informed practices, 1:1 coaching, psychedelic integration support, and guidance for spiritual emergence.
https://www.wholeexquisiteself.com/
Description
A cordial welcome to our opening event. A full moon ritual followed by a chai and a chat.
Expect to expand your state of consciousness, be nourished and feel connected. Five sisters are combining their toolboxes together to facilitate this event; an astrologer, an astral psychologist and shaman, a psychosynthesis coach, a sound therapist and a couple of yoga teachers. Combined you will be guided through cosmic insights, gentle yoga asana, pranayama (breathwork), energy clearing and a sound bath.
Following the event, stick around. We welcome you to grab your tea from the bar and join us for a chai and a chat, learn our plans and share your wish upon a star.
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Doors open at 5:30. Event starts promptly at 6 and will run for approximately 2.5 hours. Dress warm and bring your socks. Mats will be provided however do feel free to bring a pillow and blanket for extra comfort.
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Donations will be welcome. Post the event a link will be shared with you to contribute on a "you pay as you wish" basis toward the making of this event. We express our thanks in advance.
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Your guides:
★ Astrologer, Eliza Veretilo ★
Eliza is an artist, singer-songwriter, palm reader, tarot reader and astrologer based in London. Originally from Ecuador and Belarus, Eliza's interests in astrology, psychology and art have been a life-long affair, but she only started diving deep into Astrology in 2011 during her final year studying Philosophy at University, she discovered the many layers of her own natal chart and never looked back. She uses Astrology as a psychological tool to help people understand themselves and actualise their highest potential, working with the energy rather than against it. She has a deep interest in Jungian Psychology religion, esotericism and Philosophy, as well as self-development through art. She has a background in education and holds both art and astrology workshops.
★ Astral Psychologist & Shaman, Fernanda Baraybar ★
Fernanda Baraybar is a spiritual coach and Shaman working with the Quero community in Peru. She specialises on psychic research and energy archetypes doing transpersonal studies with the Alef Trust. As a Shaman, she provides path alignment therapy and frequency attunement. Her love for Pachamama and the psychedelic realms expands her connection to the astral planes, working as a channeller and guide through our dimensional awareness.
★ Sound Therapist, Maybe Laura ★
Maybe Laura; a Lithuanian-born London-based DJ and sound therapist deeply intertwined in the local electronic music scene both as an artist and curator, and well-loved for her genuine and warm energy behind the decks. She carefully selects music and weaves together worlds that allow for experimental, downtempo and dance music to effortlessly coexist.
★ Yoga Teacher, Personal Trainer & Nutritionalist, Lucy Krizan ★
Lucy's daily Yoga practice is her studying and teaching guidance, which she is also reflecting in her daily life. She calls her class Grace of Vinyasa. Lucy's guidance is very direct and precise during the class, whether encouraging through an anatomical understanding of our body - what we do and why, or spiritual acknowledgement of our existence along with the inseparable relationship with our mind. Lucy's classes are far away from what the posture looks like, but what your body feels like and mainly what experience you bring into that precious moment of practising on the mat and at the same time off the mat in your daily life.
★ Yoga Student & Psychosynthesis Coach, Basia Zieniewicz ★
Basia Zieniewicz is a certified yoga facilitator, arts educator, Psychosynthesis coach and Grofian Psychedelic Therapist in training with a background in Transpersonal Psychology, plant medicine, and Integrative Arts Therapy. Basia's current commitment is to align with, what she's called, her "Cosmic Constitution" thereby discovering her destiny. Her biggest undertaking is turning life itself into an art form and to share this process is her greatest privilege. Basia’s yoga journey has consisted of 20 years of learning followed by unlearning to now relearning, studying under three different teachers from three different continents and three different lineages including Integral, Traditional Vedic, and modern western scholarly and science-based technologies. Trauma-informed, Basia also hosts sharing circles, retreats and co-space-holds lunar women’s circles and is co-creator of Yoga In The Stars.
Location:
Yoga in the Stars is based above Heathcote & Star.
344 Grove Green Road
E11 4EA
Expect to expand your state of consciousness, be nourished and feel connected. Five sisters are combining their toolboxes together to facilitate this event; an astrologer, an astral psychologist and shaman, a psychosynthesis coach, a sound therapist and a couple of yoga teachers. Combined you will be guided through cosmic insights, gentle yoga asana, pranayama (breathwork), energy clearing and a sound bath.
Following the event, stick around. We welcome you to grab your tea from the bar and join us for a chai and a chat, learn our plans and share your wish upon a star.
★ ★ ★
Doors open at 5:30. Event starts promptly at 6 and will run for approximately 2.5 hours. Dress warm and bring your socks. Mats will be provided however do feel free to bring a pillow and blanket for extra comfort.
★ ★ ★
Donations will be welcome. Post the event a link will be shared with you to contribute on a "you pay as you wish" basis toward the making of this event. We express our thanks in advance.
★ ★ ★
Your guides:
★ Astrologer, Eliza Veretilo ★
Eliza is an artist, singer-songwriter, palm reader, tarot reader and astrologer based in London. Originally from Ecuador and Belarus, Eliza's interests in astrology, psychology and art have been a life-long affair, but she only started diving deep into Astrology in 2011 during her final year studying Philosophy at University, she discovered the many layers of her own natal chart and never looked back. She uses Astrology as a psychological tool to help people understand themselves and actualise their highest potential, working with the energy rather than against it. She has a deep interest in Jungian Psychology religion, esotericism and Philosophy, as well as self-development through art. She has a background in education and holds both art and astrology workshops.
★ Astral Psychologist & Shaman, Fernanda Baraybar ★
Fernanda Baraybar is a spiritual coach and Shaman working with the Quero community in Peru. She specialises on psychic research and energy archetypes doing transpersonal studies with the Alef Trust. As a Shaman, she provides path alignment therapy and frequency attunement. Her love for Pachamama and the psychedelic realms expands her connection to the astral planes, working as a channeller and guide through our dimensional awareness.
★ Sound Therapist, Maybe Laura ★
Maybe Laura; a Lithuanian-born London-based DJ and sound therapist deeply intertwined in the local electronic music scene both as an artist and curator, and well-loved for her genuine and warm energy behind the decks. She carefully selects music and weaves together worlds that allow for experimental, downtempo and dance music to effortlessly coexist.
★ Yoga Teacher, Personal Trainer & Nutritionalist, Lucy Krizan ★
Lucy's daily Yoga practice is her studying and teaching guidance, which she is also reflecting in her daily life. She calls her class Grace of Vinyasa. Lucy's guidance is very direct and precise during the class, whether encouraging through an anatomical understanding of our body - what we do and why, or spiritual acknowledgement of our existence along with the inseparable relationship with our mind. Lucy's classes are far away from what the posture looks like, but what your body feels like and mainly what experience you bring into that precious moment of practising on the mat and at the same time off the mat in your daily life.
★ Yoga Student & Psychosynthesis Coach, Basia Zieniewicz ★
Basia Zieniewicz is a certified yoga facilitator, arts educator, Psychosynthesis coach and Grofian Psychedelic Therapist in training with a background in Transpersonal Psychology, plant medicine, and Integrative Arts Therapy. Basia's current commitment is to align with, what she's called, her "Cosmic Constitution" thereby discovering her destiny. Her biggest undertaking is turning life itself into an art form and to share this process is her greatest privilege. Basia’s yoga journey has consisted of 20 years of learning followed by unlearning to now relearning, studying under three different teachers from three different continents and three different lineages including Integral, Traditional Vedic, and modern western scholarly and science-based technologies. Trauma-informed, Basia also hosts sharing circles, retreats and co-space-holds lunar women’s circles and is co-creator of Yoga In The Stars.
Location:
Yoga in the Stars is based above Heathcote & Star.
344 Grove Green Road
E11 4EA