Holotropic Series: The Psyche's Greatest Hits - The Grof COEX / online webinar experience Online
April 23, 2025 •
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Heathcote & Star, 344 Grove Green Road
Basia Zieniewicz
I am a fully qualified and insured Yoga Instructor. After almost 20 years of practice, I began an 18-month teaching diploma training under Sevanti at Unity Yoga in 2019 and completed more than 400 hours of various training since.
Beginning my yoga journey in 1999, I've found my practice to be an incredibly powerful tool for support and positive transformation in my life. I've practiced and studied with teachers from various styles and traditions but I consider my practice and sharing to be post-lineage. I endeavour to share yoga practices in an inclusive, accessible and non-hierarchical way which respects your own inner wisdom and natural rhythmic cycles.
I embrace the role of a guide in the realms of both tenderness and resilience, softness and strength, in what I like to call “subtle activism” and am inspired by embodiment practices. I like to slow things down and I encourage this at every opportunity. My approach emphasizes nurturing an inquisitive awareness of the body, mind, and spirit. I aim to be playful in my devotion and facilitation, interweaving my various yoga trainings, esoteric practices, and transpersonal psychology. I like to focus on honesty and introspection in practice, guiding yogis to connect deeply with themselves to discard the superficial and delve into the breath to clear the mind & steer it towards clarity. I am passionate to guide towards cultivating a more sensitive connection to the subtle cues within and outside the body in order to align you with your most unique compass code. It's my firm belief that our duty is to discover what inspires us so we can be bold and share our sparkle in this world.
In addition to my initial teacher training certificate, I see myself as an ongoing student of yoga, inspired by many brilliant teachers, and have trained under Dr Kumar in Traditional Vedic yoga, Uma Dinsmore Tuli in Yoga Nidra, WeEvolve and Katonah yoga under Selena Gareffino, as well as yoga for children with Zen Kids and Trauma-Sensitive Foundation with Centre for Trauma and Embodiment.
With a degree in arts education and an accredited and certified Therapeutic Depth Psychology Coach, my post-graduate therapeutic trainings include Integrative Arts, Psychosynthesis and Grofian Psychedelic and Breathwork psychological models, being an ongoing student of spiritual psychology since 2020. I specialise in supporting and integrating spiritual emergence and emergencies.
A humbled co-creator to our avant-garde yoga club in East London, Yoga In the Stars, where we embody the philosophy of being a "merging of the emerging," and space for continuous learning, community and growth.
I offer 121 coaching packages, yoga sessions, yoga nidra and am in the process of creating an online mentorship program - in due course
For a more in-depth understanding of my services and qualifications, please visit my website at https://www.wholeexquisiteself.com/
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The Grof COEX
Why your inner playlist keeps skipping to track 5 Some memories are like songs—you don’t know all the words, but your whole body remembers the chorus.
In this session, we delve into COEX systems—short for Systems of Condensed Experience—a foundational concept in Stan Grof’s cartography of the psyche. These are the deep, emotionally charged patterns that link memories and impressions across different times in our lives, often without our conscious awareness. They’re layered, thematic, and occasionally dramatic—like the psyche’s version of a greatest hits album that keeps pressing repeat.
You’ll discover how COEX systems live in the unconscious, shaping perception, emotion, and behaviour—until something (say, breathwork) cracks the surface and gives us a glimpse of what’s looping underneath. We’ll explore how these systems arise and unravel in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and why Holotropic Breathwork is particularly well-suited for working with them—not through talk, but through experience.
This session includes a blend of Grofian theory, real-world examples, and facilitator reflections from the field. It’ll be an illuminating look into the terrain you (or those you support) may be moving through in deep process work.
Expect a few ah-ha’s, and a much deeper understanding of why certain emotional themes just keep coming back—until they’re ready to move.
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The Holotropic Series: Psyche Snacks for Holotropic Hungry
What actually happens when we access non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC)? And why does it so often feel like the body knows the way, long before the mind catches up?
The Holotropic Series is a collection of bite-sized webinars exploring the fascinating terrain of Holotropic and Grof Breathwork (and psychedelic therapy?) and the revolutionary cartography of the psyche developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof—psychiatrist, LSD researcher, and quite possibly the Carl Jung of expanded states.
Whether you're completely new to this work or you've already hyperventilated your way into the cosmos and back, this series offers intelligent, experiential, and surprisingly down-to-earth insights into what makes Grof’s approach to NOSC so unique. We explore the principles, patterns, and poetic messiness of the deep psyche: from COEX systems to neurogenic tremors, energetic yawns, and the mysterious intelligence that moves us in non-ordinary states.
This isn’t therapy as you know it—it’s a reunion with your inner healer on its own terms. You’ll also meet some of the trusted facilitators, peers and fellow travellers who are bringing this work to life across the UK and Europe—each with their own unique lens on the mapless territory of expanded states.
The Grof COEX
Why your inner playlist keeps skipping to track 5 Some memories are like songs—you don’t know all the words, but your whole body remembers the chorus.
In this session, we delve into COEX systems—short for Systems of Condensed Experience—a foundational concept in Stan Grof’s cartography of the psyche. These are the deep, emotionally charged patterns that link memories and impressions across different times in our lives, often without our conscious awareness. They’re layered, thematic, and occasionally dramatic—like the psyche’s version of a greatest hits album that keeps pressing repeat.
You’ll discover how COEX systems live in the unconscious, shaping perception, emotion, and behaviour—until something (say, breathwork) cracks the surface and gives us a glimpse of what’s looping underneath. We’ll explore how these systems arise and unravel in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and why Holotropic Breathwork is particularly well-suited for working with them—not through talk, but through experience.
This session includes a blend of Grofian theory, real-world examples, and facilitator reflections from the field. It’ll be an illuminating look into the terrain you (or those you support) may be moving through in deep process work.
Expect a few ah-ha’s, and a much deeper understanding of why certain emotional themes just keep coming back—until they’re ready to move.
__
The Holotropic Series: Psyche Snacks for Holotropic Hungry
What actually happens when we access non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC)? And why does it so often feel like the body knows the way, long before the mind catches up?
The Holotropic Series is a collection of bite-sized webinars exploring the fascinating terrain of Holotropic and Grof Breathwork (and psychedelic therapy?) and the revolutionary cartography of the psyche developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof—psychiatrist, LSD researcher, and quite possibly the Carl Jung of expanded states.
Whether you're completely new to this work or you've already hyperventilated your way into the cosmos and back, this series offers intelligent, experiential, and surprisingly down-to-earth insights into what makes Grof’s approach to NOSC so unique. We explore the principles, patterns, and poetic messiness of the deep psyche: from COEX systems to neurogenic tremors, energetic yawns, and the mysterious intelligence that moves us in non-ordinary states.
This isn’t therapy as you know it—it’s a reunion with your inner healer on its own terms. You’ll also meet some of the trusted facilitators, peers and fellow travellers who are bringing this work to life across the UK and Europe—each with their own unique lens on the mapless territory of expanded states.