EQUINOX CELEBRATIONS: First Day of Spring / Pranayama / Nidra and Gong Bath - Basia / Kiran & Fatuma (Soul Sanctuary)

March 21, 2024 • 7:45 pm - 9:45 pm
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
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

Equinox Celebrations /

This Equinox we invite you to bring your glowing spirit to explore community, connection and magic - together at Yoga in the Stars, with friends.

To mark the end of winter and the natural cycles, we celebrate together. Seasonal rituals take place across many days, weaving together connection and celebration whether drawing from ancient festivals and ceremonies or modern equivalents.

Within the ritual there will be ways to celebrate but also find connection, either with each other or with source. And and expression of that larger connection is to give, whether to Earth, deity or fellow humankind.


The First Day of Spring / 21st March / Opening Ritual & Offering of Love / with Pranayama breathwork, Nidra and Sound Bath will be woven together as part of a collaborative evening of ritual for connection, with Basia, Kiran SKG & Fatuma (Sunday Sanctuary).

LIVE Dance / 22nd March / Live music with Alex Akal & the Wolves with Support from Kaya Ori and afterparty dance till late / with collective prayer for peace / all funds go to Save the Children Gaza Appeal / this is a barefoot dance at Yoga in the Stars, creating energy and celebration as we raise funds for those less fortunate than ourselves. Book separately.

Full Moon Ritual Ēostre / 25th March / the closing ritual for the Equinox Celebrations. The evening will uncoil itself as we take the natural energy of the transition, as a medicine together with the power of the Full Moon, to work with the unseen, lifting the sex energies upwards towards the heart and mind and beyond. Book separately.


£22 Standard
£0 Members

OR

EQUINOX TICKETS £25 - Equinox Ritual / Full Moon Ritual & 7 days of yoga (unlimited sessions for 7 days)

Connect with each other here:

Basia - https://www.instagram.com/wholeexquisiteself/
Fatuma - https://www.instagram.com/heart_centred_wellbeing/
Kiran SKG - https://www.instagram.com/skg.kiran/
Kiran - https://www.instagram.com/holi.kene/

ALL EQUINOX CELEBRATIONS stay for chai and chats until late.