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 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/
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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.