Sunday (Inner) Sermon Breathwork - An Experiential Psychedelic Journey
April 6, 2025 •
10:30 am - 2:00 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
Let's call this Recreative Breathwork: A Playful Approach to Inner Transformation
The word Recreative; is inspired by the balance between play and transformation—honouring a recreational approach to breathwork while allowing space for profound emotional release. Rather than a solely heavy process, this is an invitation to explore creatively: to move what longs to shift within us, to re-create our personal narratives, and to reconnect with ourselves in new ways.
This is an opportunity to step beyond old identities and fixed beliefs, embracing a sense of curiosity about what is possible.
This is an advanced practice and also open for complete beginners. You will be encouraged and supported to explore within your comfort zone.
You may have seen promotions for, or heard of, the Grof/Holotropic Breathwork Intensives, where each participant experiences both roles—breathing for three hours while supported by a partner and then holding space as a sitter for another three hours. To support this journey, we are offering this as a one-hour preparatory breathwork session designed to help participants acclimate, integrate, or simply explore this deeply cathartic practice before the full immersion.
It can also be a stand-alone session for your own interest or mind, body, spirit clearing.
Why Join?
Even ten minutes of deep breathing can unlock emotions—joy, catharsis, unprocessed grief, or a novel sense of presence.
An hour can be a profoundly transformative experience, whether you're preparing for the intensive or simply curious about ways to use your breath as a tool to explore expanded states of consciousness.
This session allows you to:
• Familiarise yourself with the space and practice
• Connect with others attending the intensive
• Experience an expanded state of awareness in a safe, guided environment
• Process emotions and stuck or stagnant energy
• Create space for new emergent creative connections
• Enliven a fresh sense of vitality
Session Details:
📍 Arrivals at 10:30 AM for a prompt 10:45 AM start
• Opening: Meditation & Check-in
• Induction: Guidelines & Safety Considerations
• Gentle and grounding movement
• Breathwork Session: One-hour guided practice
• Yoga Nidra
• Sharing Circle: Small-group reflections
• Closing: Gentle breathwork & moments of stillness
**Complimentary for full-course participants. If you decide to book the immersive weekend, this fee will be deducted.**
***Important Considerations***
While this is not a Grof/ Holotropic Breathwork session, it closely aligns with Conscious Connected Breathing, a practice inspired by Holotropic Breathwork and known for deep emotional release. As an advanced breathwork experience, it shares the same contraindications:
**** Not suitable for individuals with:****
• Cardiovascular conditions (heart disease, high blood pressure, history of stroke)
• Severe psychiatric conditions (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorders)
• Epilepsy or a history of seizures
• Severe anxiety or depression (as symptoms may intensify)
• Recent surgery or serious injury
• Glaucoma or retinal detachment
• Aneurysms (or a family history of aneurysms)
• Pregnancy or postnatal recovery (up to 16 weeks postpartum)
• Use of strong psychoactive medications/substances
By registering, you take full responsibility for your well-being. If you have concerns, please consult a healthcare professional before attending.
Spaces are limited.
If you feel called to explore this work and face financial barriers, please email basia@yogainthestats.com and we can discuss what making this accessible to you would look like.
We look forward to welcoming you.
The word Recreative; is inspired by the balance between play and transformation—honouring a recreational approach to breathwork while allowing space for profound emotional release. Rather than a solely heavy process, this is an invitation to explore creatively: to move what longs to shift within us, to re-create our personal narratives, and to reconnect with ourselves in new ways.
This is an opportunity to step beyond old identities and fixed beliefs, embracing a sense of curiosity about what is possible.
This is an advanced practice and also open for complete beginners. You will be encouraged and supported to explore within your comfort zone.
You may have seen promotions for, or heard of, the Grof/Holotropic Breathwork Intensives, where each participant experiences both roles—breathing for three hours while supported by a partner and then holding space as a sitter for another three hours. To support this journey, we are offering this as a one-hour preparatory breathwork session designed to help participants acclimate, integrate, or simply explore this deeply cathartic practice before the full immersion.
It can also be a stand-alone session for your own interest or mind, body, spirit clearing.
Why Join?
Even ten minutes of deep breathing can unlock emotions—joy, catharsis, unprocessed grief, or a novel sense of presence.
An hour can be a profoundly transformative experience, whether you're preparing for the intensive or simply curious about ways to use your breath as a tool to explore expanded states of consciousness.
This session allows you to:
• Familiarise yourself with the space and practice
• Connect with others attending the intensive
• Experience an expanded state of awareness in a safe, guided environment
• Process emotions and stuck or stagnant energy
• Create space for new emergent creative connections
• Enliven a fresh sense of vitality
Session Details:
📍 Arrivals at 10:30 AM for a prompt 10:45 AM start
• Opening: Meditation & Check-in
• Induction: Guidelines & Safety Considerations
• Gentle and grounding movement
• Breathwork Session: One-hour guided practice
• Yoga Nidra
• Sharing Circle: Small-group reflections
• Closing: Gentle breathwork & moments of stillness
**Complimentary for full-course participants. If you decide to book the immersive weekend, this fee will be deducted.**
***Important Considerations***
While this is not a Grof/ Holotropic Breathwork session, it closely aligns with Conscious Connected Breathing, a practice inspired by Holotropic Breathwork and known for deep emotional release. As an advanced breathwork experience, it shares the same contraindications:
**** Not suitable for individuals with:****
• Cardiovascular conditions (heart disease, high blood pressure, history of stroke)
• Severe psychiatric conditions (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, dissociative disorders)
• Epilepsy or a history of seizures
• Severe anxiety or depression (as symptoms may intensify)
• Recent surgery or serious injury
• Glaucoma or retinal detachment
• Aneurysms (or a family history of aneurysms)
• Pregnancy or postnatal recovery (up to 16 weeks postpartum)
• Use of strong psychoactive medications/substances
By registering, you take full responsibility for your well-being. If you have concerns, please consult a healthcare professional before attending.
Spaces are limited.
If you feel called to explore this work and face financial barriers, please email basia@yogainthestats.com and we can discuss what making this accessible to you would look like.
We look forward to welcoming you.