Psychedelic Breathwork, Nidra & Live Sound - WILL BE FILMED & PHOTOGRAPHED
August 20, 2024 •
7:00 pm - 8:30 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
After an unforgettable journey to Paradhis Festival this summer in Cornwall, joined live by an orchestra of incredible sound facilitators, musicians, and a wide array of instruments from archaic to synthetic, we tasted our own medicine and we're eager for more.
This will be an experimental session and will be accompanied by collaborating friends.
For marketing purposes, we will be offering this at NO CHARGE, in exchange for your willingness to be filmed, and photographed as well as providing us with a testimonial of your experience.
Inspired by her deep interest in the therapeutic impact of liminal spaces, and drawing on her three years of training as a Grof® Breathwork and Psychedelic Psychotherapist, along with other frameworks, Basia has been creatively curating an experience that weaves together various 'technologies of the sacred.' This 90-minute ritual, which she simply calls Psychedelic Breathwork, is the culmination of her explorations and passion for transformative practices that reunite us with our Whole Exquisite Selves.
A composite of 2 Greek root words,
Psyche: mind, soul, spirit
Delos: revealing, manifesting
Literally, psychedelic can be understood as "soul-revealing."
So, what might it look like to breathe with the intention of unveiling the emergence of your true, capital “S,” Self into your conscious awareness?
This brings us to the concept of Pneuma, an Ancient Greek term that fundamentally means "air in motion" or "breath"—something essential to life. In Greek tragedy, pneuma is often referred to as the "breath of life," and in the New Testament, it is synonymous with "Spirit." Early Greek philosophy frequently links pneuma with the soul itself.
In the ritual we call Spirit of Pneuma, we combine sacred technologies, with a central focus on breath practices. Through these practices, we gradually guide ourselves back to a more harmonious alignment with our Whole, Exquisite Self and heart space.
DISCLAIMER:
Psychedelic Breathwork is a powerful modality that can evoke intense feelings and strong physical and emotional releases.
This modality is NOT suitable for you if you have (or have a history of):
Epilepsy
Psychosis
Panic attacks
Seizure disorders
Cardiovascular issues
Recent injury or surgery
High blood pressure, or glaucoma
Any condition requiring regular medication
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or are up to 14 weeks postpartum
Additionally, please refrain from combining this practice with any other substances.
By registering for this event, you agree to take full responsibility for any outcomes resulting from your participation.
This will be an experimental session and will be accompanied by collaborating friends.
For marketing purposes, we will be offering this at NO CHARGE, in exchange for your willingness to be filmed, and photographed as well as providing us with a testimonial of your experience.
Inspired by her deep interest in the therapeutic impact of liminal spaces, and drawing on her three years of training as a Grof® Breathwork and Psychedelic Psychotherapist, along with other frameworks, Basia has been creatively curating an experience that weaves together various 'technologies of the sacred.' This 90-minute ritual, which she simply calls Psychedelic Breathwork, is the culmination of her explorations and passion for transformative practices that reunite us with our Whole Exquisite Selves.
A composite of 2 Greek root words,
Psyche: mind, soul, spirit
Delos: revealing, manifesting
Literally, psychedelic can be understood as "soul-revealing."
So, what might it look like to breathe with the intention of unveiling the emergence of your true, capital “S,” Self into your conscious awareness?
This brings us to the concept of Pneuma, an Ancient Greek term that fundamentally means "air in motion" or "breath"—something essential to life. In Greek tragedy, pneuma is often referred to as the "breath of life," and in the New Testament, it is synonymous with "Spirit." Early Greek philosophy frequently links pneuma with the soul itself.
In the ritual we call Spirit of Pneuma, we combine sacred technologies, with a central focus on breath practices. Through these practices, we gradually guide ourselves back to a more harmonious alignment with our Whole, Exquisite Self and heart space.
DISCLAIMER:
Psychedelic Breathwork is a powerful modality that can evoke intense feelings and strong physical and emotional releases.
This modality is NOT suitable for you if you have (or have a history of):
Epilepsy
Psychosis
Panic attacks
Seizure disorders
Cardiovascular issues
Recent injury or surgery
High blood pressure, or glaucoma
Any condition requiring regular medication
Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or are up to 14 weeks postpartum
Additionally, please refrain from combining this practice with any other substances.
By registering for this event, you agree to take full responsibility for any outcomes resulting from your participation.