GROF® HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK PREPARATION
November 8, 2024 •
7:00 pm - 10:00 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
This session is the first session of 3, Preparation for Sunday's experiential session.
Participants will have gone through a prerequisite screening process.
This is a ticketed experiential for deep personal exploration.
For more information or to apply please contact Basia@yogainthestars.com
more information here https://yogainthestars.com/holotropic-breathwork-london
booking link below.
THE METHOD
Grof® Breathwork is a highly experiential work recommended for those interested in their personal and spiritual growth through deep inner exploration. Stan Grof’s basic concept is that the wisdom of our 'inner healer' will direct us and bring to our consciousness what is best and most healing for us at any given moment.
The process itself combines accelerated breathing with evocative music which helps to amplify the experience and release stuck or unconscious material.
The sessions are done in pairs. During each breathwork session, the participants are lying on a mat with eyes closed, while using the power of their own breath and evocative music to enter an expanded state of consciousness (NOSC).
Such states are shown to activate our innate inner wisdom, bringing healing, release and/or insight
For this, we honor the main 3 guidelines of any work with holotropic states: the preparation, the experience and the integration of the experience.
Once the breathwork session is complete, the breather is invited to draw a mandala of their experience. This does not require drawing skills!
Additional elements of the process include focused energy release, when the body needs support releasing and healing.
The sessions are then followed by a sharing circle where people can share their experience + a practice of integration, to support the content of the breathwork session.
Format of the Workshop
Single workshop: 2 Grof (aka Holotropic) Breathwork sessions (1 as breather and 1 as sitter holding space).
The workshop consists of Grof® Breathwork sessions with evocative music, bodywork, mandala drawing, group sharing and a sequence of integration practices on the final evening.
Schedule
Participation in this experience requires to attend the full schedule.
YOUR LEAD FACILITATOR
Amy Burrell MFA, LMT, ACS Grof® / Holotropic Breathwork facilitator,
Tantra intimacy bodyworker and Transpersonal Therapist. She offers integration sessions to help those who want to integrate their experiences with Non Ordinary States of Consciousness (NOSC) and provides consultation for those training in Grof® / Holotropic Breathwork or who work with NOSC.
Amy has a MFA, a BS Dance/Psychology, is a LMT and has has extensive training in trauma-informed holistic healing modalities. Her additional certifications include Grof® Breathwork, Thriving Relationship Coach™, Authentic Tantra® teacher, Reiki Master and SET (structural energetic therapy). She has taught movement and dance at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil and at Indiana University.
She is pursuing Grof® Psychedelic Therapists training in Spain while continuing as a practicing massage therapist. She facilitates Grof® Breathwork workshops and is a Teacher of Grof Legacy Training® nationally and internationally.
Amy’s enthusiasm for learning, traveling, and experiencing cultures continues to inspired and enrich her life and work. It is her greatest honor to hold space for others in their transformational journey.
SUPPORTED BY
Yoga In the Stars co-creator & curator; Basia Zieniewicz.
Basia Zieniewicz, B.Ed., PGDip Integrative Art Therapy, PGCert Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology, EMCC PGC Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching Psychology, YTT 700(ish), Reiki Master is in her third and final year of training in Psychedelic Therapy and Grof® Breathwork through the Grof Legacy Training®.
Inspired by an interweaving of esoteric mysticism, sacred arts, and evidence based modalities Basia's speciality is in the liminal spaces, supporting individuals who seek inner and outer balance. She offers constructive guidance in both the preparation and integration of NOSC, with tender care. helping clients navigate their experiences into lasting transformation.
Participants will have gone through a prerequisite screening process.
This is a ticketed experiential for deep personal exploration.
For more information or to apply please contact Basia@yogainthestars.com
more information here https://yogainthestars.com/holotropic-breathwork-london
booking link below.
THE METHOD
Grof® Breathwork is a highly experiential work recommended for those interested in their personal and spiritual growth through deep inner exploration. Stan Grof’s basic concept is that the wisdom of our 'inner healer' will direct us and bring to our consciousness what is best and most healing for us at any given moment.
The process itself combines accelerated breathing with evocative music which helps to amplify the experience and release stuck or unconscious material.
The sessions are done in pairs. During each breathwork session, the participants are lying on a mat with eyes closed, while using the power of their own breath and evocative music to enter an expanded state of consciousness (NOSC).
Such states are shown to activate our innate inner wisdom, bringing healing, release and/or insight
For this, we honor the main 3 guidelines of any work with holotropic states: the preparation, the experience and the integration of the experience.
Once the breathwork session is complete, the breather is invited to draw a mandala of their experience. This does not require drawing skills!
Additional elements of the process include focused energy release, when the body needs support releasing and healing.
The sessions are then followed by a sharing circle where people can share their experience + a practice of integration, to support the content of the breathwork session.
Format of the Workshop
Single workshop: 2 Grof (aka Holotropic) Breathwork sessions (1 as breather and 1 as sitter holding space).
The workshop consists of Grof® Breathwork sessions with evocative music, bodywork, mandala drawing, group sharing and a sequence of integration practices on the final evening.
Schedule
Participation in this experience requires to attend the full schedule.
YOUR LEAD FACILITATOR
Amy Burrell MFA, LMT, ACS Grof® / Holotropic Breathwork facilitator,
Tantra intimacy bodyworker and Transpersonal Therapist. She offers integration sessions to help those who want to integrate their experiences with Non Ordinary States of Consciousness (NOSC) and provides consultation for those training in Grof® / Holotropic Breathwork or who work with NOSC.
Amy has a MFA, a BS Dance/Psychology, is a LMT and has has extensive training in trauma-informed holistic healing modalities. Her additional certifications include Grof® Breathwork, Thriving Relationship Coach™, Authentic Tantra® teacher, Reiki Master and SET (structural energetic therapy). She has taught movement and dance at the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil and at Indiana University.
She is pursuing Grof® Psychedelic Therapists training in Spain while continuing as a practicing massage therapist. She facilitates Grof® Breathwork workshops and is a Teacher of Grof Legacy Training® nationally and internationally.
Amy’s enthusiasm for learning, traveling, and experiencing cultures continues to inspired and enrich her life and work. It is her greatest honor to hold space for others in their transformational journey.
SUPPORTED BY
Yoga In the Stars co-creator & curator; Basia Zieniewicz.
Basia Zieniewicz, B.Ed., PGDip Integrative Art Therapy, PGCert Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology, EMCC PGC Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching Psychology, YTT 700(ish), Reiki Master is in her third and final year of training in Psychedelic Therapy and Grof® Breathwork through the Grof Legacy Training®.
Inspired by an interweaving of esoteric mysticism, sacred arts, and evidence based modalities Basia's speciality is in the liminal spaces, supporting individuals who seek inner and outer balance. She offers constructive guidance in both the preparation and integration of NOSC, with tender care. helping clients navigate their experiences into lasting transformation.