FULL MOON RITUAL - Himalayan Kriya Yoga Initiation with Swagatika Senapati / Nidra Induced Trance with Shamanic Journey with Basia Zieniewicz / Sound Journey with live Synths and Piano With David Franklyn Waitlist
October 29, 2023 •
7:45 pm - 10:00 pm
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road, Meet in The Pink Room (Downstairs)
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
Full Moon Ritual_ THE HUNTERS MOON
Cross-cultural ritual_ Himalayan Kriya Yoga Initiation / Nidra Induced Trance with Shamanic Journey accompanied by Sound Journey with Live Synths & Piano_
With Basia Zieniewicz / Swagatika Senapati / David Franklyn
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JOIN US FOR FULL MOON_
A cross-cultural ritual, celebrating and connecting with each other and self.
The Hunter’s Moon, the moon that follows the Harvest Moon, which is the moon that follows the Autumnal Equinox.
These names are not derived of folklore, as other Full Moons, but are tied to the tides of our solar cycles - the long cycle or full cycle. And the Hunter’s Moon is more than symbolic, it is the recognition of the coming winter. It is a direct and primal reminder to take care of what is needed to last out the cold months.
The Cree called this the Migration Moon, observing the time when birds start to fly south to warmer places.
The Hunter’s Moon is also in observance of the Wolf and Fox who become bolder and more active as the winter colds draw in.
We gather together for warmth and to take recognition of life on Earth, moved by cycles and tides, attuning to our circadian rhythms and larger migratory cycles, as a natural response to natural shifts - the seasons.
It is a time to gather your resources and make provisions for the coming season. Turning your attention to the coming months to make the most of your harvest. Shaping and taking this into your daily life.
Despite the streetlights, between the alarm clock and the thermostat, the electric light and the supermarket trips, can you feel into the shift -and pause into what it can mean for you?
A cross-cultural ritual and gathering to help remind us of the connection_
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The gathering_
Himalayan Kriya Yoga with Swagatika. The mystic and secret traditions of Kriya Yoga were passed by teacher to student through initiation, and even today Kriya yoga is seldom practiced in studio settings, and yet they have been central as the most potent aspects of yoga practices. The ancient seers of India (rishis) perceived these practices of spirit to be a powerful way to connect with source and the self-realisation of the godhead. Kriya was re-introduced after nearly 2,000 years by a Himalayan mystic known only as Babaji.
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Yoga Nidra with Basia. Yoga Nidra is the practice of going into yogic trance through a guided or self-guided portal within the body. Through the practice of Nidra the body can find deep rest, the recharge and repair and whilst in Trance, the mind or the spirit can go wander. The Nidra for the Hunter’s Moon will be written with shamanic symbolism and story journeying, for insight, direct inner connection and guidance.
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Sound Journey with David. David is a composer and producer and in 2022 produced a 50 minute semi-composed, semi-improvised sound journey for Yoga in the Stars community. David returns with the second part, using piano, synths and sound samples to create pathways to deep journeying in non-ordinary states.
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Sound / Trance / Kriya
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The space will be held through Reiki, invocation, intention and blessing to protect the gathering and allow you to open into yourself and connect however you need to. Go wander in the forest of your mind. Go hunting in the Otherworlds_ and see what you find...
This is not theatre_
Meet in the Pink Room between 715 - 730pm_
Cross-cultural ritual_ Himalayan Kriya Yoga Initiation / Nidra Induced Trance with Shamanic Journey accompanied by Sound Journey with Live Synths & Piano_
With Basia Zieniewicz / Swagatika Senapati / David Franklyn
_
JOIN US FOR FULL MOON_
A cross-cultural ritual, celebrating and connecting with each other and self.
The Hunter’s Moon, the moon that follows the Harvest Moon, which is the moon that follows the Autumnal Equinox.
These names are not derived of folklore, as other Full Moons, but are tied to the tides of our solar cycles - the long cycle or full cycle. And the Hunter’s Moon is more than symbolic, it is the recognition of the coming winter. It is a direct and primal reminder to take care of what is needed to last out the cold months.
The Cree called this the Migration Moon, observing the time when birds start to fly south to warmer places.
The Hunter’s Moon is also in observance of the Wolf and Fox who become bolder and more active as the winter colds draw in.
We gather together for warmth and to take recognition of life on Earth, moved by cycles and tides, attuning to our circadian rhythms and larger migratory cycles, as a natural response to natural shifts - the seasons.
It is a time to gather your resources and make provisions for the coming season. Turning your attention to the coming months to make the most of your harvest. Shaping and taking this into your daily life.
Despite the streetlights, between the alarm clock and the thermostat, the electric light and the supermarket trips, can you feel into the shift -and pause into what it can mean for you?
A cross-cultural ritual and gathering to help remind us of the connection_
__
The gathering_
Himalayan Kriya Yoga with Swagatika. The mystic and secret traditions of Kriya Yoga were passed by teacher to student through initiation, and even today Kriya yoga is seldom practiced in studio settings, and yet they have been central as the most potent aspects of yoga practices. The ancient seers of India (rishis) perceived these practices of spirit to be a powerful way to connect with source and the self-realisation of the godhead. Kriya was re-introduced after nearly 2,000 years by a Himalayan mystic known only as Babaji.
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Yoga Nidra with Basia. Yoga Nidra is the practice of going into yogic trance through a guided or self-guided portal within the body. Through the practice of Nidra the body can find deep rest, the recharge and repair and whilst in Trance, the mind or the spirit can go wander. The Nidra for the Hunter’s Moon will be written with shamanic symbolism and story journeying, for insight, direct inner connection and guidance.
_
Sound Journey with David. David is a composer and producer and in 2022 produced a 50 minute semi-composed, semi-improvised sound journey for Yoga in the Stars community. David returns with the second part, using piano, synths and sound samples to create pathways to deep journeying in non-ordinary states.
-
Sound / Trance / Kriya
-
The space will be held through Reiki, invocation, intention and blessing to protect the gathering and allow you to open into yourself and connect however you need to. Go wander in the forest of your mind. Go hunting in the Otherworlds_ and see what you find...
This is not theatre_
Meet in the Pink Room between 715 - 730pm_