FULL MOON RITUAL - PART II_ KRIYA YOGA_ PRANIC INVOCATION + SOUND JOURNEY WITH AFRICAN HARP

November 9, 2022 • 8:00 pm - 10:15 pm
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Green Grove Room
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

This FULL MOON we welcome Gish Singh-Kular, Pranic Healer and meditation lead, and Kadialy Kouyate, African Harpist with Sound Archive, Royal Shakespeare Company, Afro-Celt Soundsystem.

The ritual will begin with a powerful Pranic Invocation to Angel-forms, led by Gish, and a Kriya / cleansing movement and mindfulness, with Basia, and then leads on to a sound journey with Kadialy as he plays the Kora. Through the invocation, you are invited to participate in creating the energies of the ritual as you speak to the unseen.

Gish has 35 years experience in working with energies, sensing and healing. And Kadialy comes from an 800 year lineage of Griots (wondering musicians) in West Africa.

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When we think of "practicing yoga", what are we practicing for? Feeling into and participating in moments of deep connection?

Come and participate as we use the natural energy of the full moon to enhance our living experience.