FULL MOON RITUAL / PACHAMAMA HARVEST MOON_ Yoga / Astrology / Guided Peruvian Shamanic Practice & Gong Bath Waitlist
September 29, 2023 •
7:30 pm - 10:00 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
September Full Moon Ritual_ Pachamama Harvest Moon
Gong Bath, Speaking with Stars and Shamanic Journeying
Fri 29 September
£22 / £0 for members
Yoga / Astrology / Guided Peruvian Shamanic Journey & Gong Bath
We gather together to mark the turning of the seasons, the creative spirit of the spring, and the blooming of the summer, now let’s pause to connect, before we carry on into harvest. We will work with Pachamama, the Earth Mother of Peru as part of the evening’s ritual.
Join Basia Zieniewicz, Eliza Veretilo, Fernanda Baraybar and Laura Klovaite for an evening of Yoga, Astrology, Shamanic practices with Gong Bath and connection.
You will be guided through cosmic insights though astrological perspectives, gentle yoga asana, pranayama (breathwork), energy clearing and a sound bath.
During this ceremony, Fernanda will lead us through an astral meditation where we will explore a deeper connection with the collective energy of the Earth, allowing us to open our hearts further, deepening our intuitive abilities and creating resonance with the energetic fields of Pachamama.
Fernanda is working with the Qero Paqo people of the Andes, and Pachamama is the Earth Mother, she is depicted in female form baring fruits of the earth. She is a deity and is also sometimes seen as the Virgin Mary after Catholicism into the region. The practice you will be guided through will be authentically led by Fer, through her own experiences as shaman, and in working with the Qero Paqo.
The invitation is to experience this ritual, as a way to reconnect with the land beneath our feet, finding connection in authentic self-reflective ways.
Together we will help each other to transmute our energy, allowing for full expansion with the surrounding, connecting to your inner guidance and reciprocity to the land we live in.
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Doors open 730pm
Ritual Starts 8pm
£22 / £0 Members / Full Moon Ritual ticket holders will be able to use their tickets from last season.
Stay late for chai and esoteric chats.
_
Open our hearts and minds together to see what happens.
★ ★ ★ Your guides:
★ Astral Psychologist & Shaman, Fernanda Baraybar ★ Fernanda is a transpersonal psychologist, writer, and practicing Shaman. Working with the Qero Paqo communities of The Andes in Peru, she’s helping keep her ancestors’ traditions alive by learning from their ancient practices. Currently, she works as a consultant for Synergetic Press, her passion moves her to work for organizations focused on the expansion of consciousness. She writes articles for the online magazine Psychic Garden and is pursuing an MSc in Spirituality, Consciousness, and Transpersonal Psychology at the Alef Trust with the aim of creating further research on parapsychological phenomena and shamanistic psychology.
★ 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.
★ Sound Therapist, Laura Klovaite ★ 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 & 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.
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All attendees will be given the opportunity to connect in 1-1 or small groups after the ritual, in casual chats to help integrate the evening.
Gong Bath, Speaking with Stars and Shamanic Journeying
Fri 29 September
£22 / £0 for members
Yoga / Astrology / Guided Peruvian Shamanic Journey & Gong Bath
We gather together to mark the turning of the seasons, the creative spirit of the spring, and the blooming of the summer, now let’s pause to connect, before we carry on into harvest. We will work with Pachamama, the Earth Mother of Peru as part of the evening’s ritual.
Join Basia Zieniewicz, Eliza Veretilo, Fernanda Baraybar and Laura Klovaite for an evening of Yoga, Astrology, Shamanic practices with Gong Bath and connection.
You will be guided through cosmic insights though astrological perspectives, gentle yoga asana, pranayama (breathwork), energy clearing and a sound bath.
During this ceremony, Fernanda will lead us through an astral meditation where we will explore a deeper connection with the collective energy of the Earth, allowing us to open our hearts further, deepening our intuitive abilities and creating resonance with the energetic fields of Pachamama.
Fernanda is working with the Qero Paqo people of the Andes, and Pachamama is the Earth Mother, she is depicted in female form baring fruits of the earth. She is a deity and is also sometimes seen as the Virgin Mary after Catholicism into the region. The practice you will be guided through will be authentically led by Fer, through her own experiences as shaman, and in working with the Qero Paqo.
The invitation is to experience this ritual, as a way to reconnect with the land beneath our feet, finding connection in authentic self-reflective ways.
Together we will help each other to transmute our energy, allowing for full expansion with the surrounding, connecting to your inner guidance and reciprocity to the land we live in.
___
Doors open 730pm
Ritual Starts 8pm
£22 / £0 Members / Full Moon Ritual ticket holders will be able to use their tickets from last season.
Stay late for chai and esoteric chats.
_
Open our hearts and minds together to see what happens.
★ ★ ★ Your guides:
★ Astral Psychologist & Shaman, Fernanda Baraybar ★ Fernanda is a transpersonal psychologist, writer, and practicing Shaman. Working with the Qero Paqo communities of The Andes in Peru, she’s helping keep her ancestors’ traditions alive by learning from their ancient practices. Currently, she works as a consultant for Synergetic Press, her passion moves her to work for organizations focused on the expansion of consciousness. She writes articles for the online magazine Psychic Garden and is pursuing an MSc in Spirituality, Consciousness, and Transpersonal Psychology at the Alef Trust with the aim of creating further research on parapsychological phenomena and shamanistic psychology.
★ 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.
★ Sound Therapist, Laura Klovaite ★ 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 & 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.
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All attendees will be given the opportunity to connect in 1-1 or small groups after the ritual, in casual chats to help integrate the evening.