The Holotropic Series The Soul's Earthquakes: Tremors & Somatic Liberation Online
May 6, 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/
Description
**You will recieve a zoom link from momoyoga to the session 30 minutes before the session begins. Please check your hidden folders from 7:30 pm on the day of the webinar. **
This session is experiential, and the exercise will not be distributed as we need to be present with you.
Earthquakes of the Soul: Tremors & Somatic Liberation
There are moments when words fall short—and the body starts to speak.
This session explores the spontaneous, often surprising language of neurogenic tremors and bioenergetic release, particularly as they appear in Holotropic states and related somatic practices.
Long before we put trauma into words, the body holds it. And sometimes, the most profound healing comes not from analysis, but from a subtle, involuntary shudder.
Guided by an experienced facilitator, this session includes a live, online practice—offering participants a safe, accessible introduction to neurogenic trembling, without force, manipulation, or intense activation.
We'll start with a short theoretical overview followed by gentle preparatory stretching and an experiential session designed to softly invite psoas-based release and subtle energetic unlocking.
These tremors are not something we “do”—they’re something we allow. As Grof observed, in non-ordinary states of consciousness, the psyche has its own self-regulating wisdom. This work honours that wisdom through the body.
We’ll explore how tremors arise in Holotropic Breathwork, why they’re often misunderstood or suppressed, and how they can support deeper integration, especially when working with COEX systems, birth matrices, or energetic discharge.
No previous experience needed—just curiosity, a bit of floor space, and the willingness to shake loose what no longer serves.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
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.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Edward Sellman, BA (Ed), PGDip, PhD works as an academic in the field of education, with a focus on mental wellbeing and human flourishing, a topic he has written many journal articles about. He is a trained Mindfulness Teacher, Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor and Grofian Psychedelic Psychotherapist. He is an expert in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, an approach to understanding human experience as psychospiritual, which respects the innate intelligence of the psyche and how the subconscious interplays with health and daily life. Edward is experienced in supporting client’s holistic development. He is also a trained facilitator in TRE® (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) and SoulCollage®, which integrates creativity with learning about the Self.
Francesc Guinart is a facilitator of self-discovery, inner healing, and deep personal connection. Based in Spain, his journey began through yoga and breathwork, later deepened by training in Caycedian Sophrology, Holotropic Breathwork®, non-dual philosophy, and sacred plant therapies. Since 2008, he has supported therapeutic processes using both micro- and macrodoses of sacred plants, alongside the MindDetox Method to address deep-rooted stress and anxiety.
Francesc organises and leads workshops and silent retreats, offering spaces for deep rest, healing, and reconnection with the authentic self. His work draws on integral attention to the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of being. Grounded in the power of silence and reflection, his retreats create a sacred pause—supporting participants to release what no longer serves and move toward greater wholeness.
Basia Zieniewicz, Co-founder of Yoga in The Stars, B.Ed., PGDip Integrative Art Therapy, PGCert Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology, EMCC PGC Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching Psychology, Reiki Master, IYN RYT, certified Grof® Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist, and in her final year of 4 as a trainee of Grof® Breathwork through the Grof Legacy Training®
Inspired by an interweaving of esoteric mysticism, sacred arts, and evidence-based modalities, Basia's special interest is in the liminal spaces, supporting individuals who seek inner and outer balance to resource their heart's desire. She offers constructive guidance in both the preparation and integration of NOSC, with tender care, helping clients navigate their experiences into lasting transformation.
This session is experiential, and the exercise will not be distributed as we need to be present with you.
Earthquakes of the Soul: Tremors & Somatic Liberation
There are moments when words fall short—and the body starts to speak.
This session explores the spontaneous, often surprising language of neurogenic tremors and bioenergetic release, particularly as they appear in Holotropic states and related somatic practices.
Long before we put trauma into words, the body holds it. And sometimes, the most profound healing comes not from analysis, but from a subtle, involuntary shudder.
Guided by an experienced facilitator, this session includes a live, online practice—offering participants a safe, accessible introduction to neurogenic trembling, without force, manipulation, or intense activation.
We'll start with a short theoretical overview followed by gentle preparatory stretching and an experiential session designed to softly invite psoas-based release and subtle energetic unlocking.
These tremors are not something we “do”—they’re something we allow. As Grof observed, in non-ordinary states of consciousness, the psyche has its own self-regulating wisdom. This work honours that wisdom through the body.
We’ll explore how tremors arise in Holotropic Breathwork, why they’re often misunderstood or suppressed, and how they can support deeper integration, especially when working with COEX systems, birth matrices, or energetic discharge.
No previous experience needed—just curiosity, a bit of floor space, and the willingness to shake loose what no longer serves.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
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.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Edward Sellman, BA (Ed), PGDip, PhD works as an academic in the field of education, with a focus on mental wellbeing and human flourishing, a topic he has written many journal articles about. He is a trained Mindfulness Teacher, Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor and Grofian Psychedelic Psychotherapist. He is an expert in humanistic and transpersonal psychology, an approach to understanding human experience as psychospiritual, which respects the innate intelligence of the psyche and how the subconscious interplays with health and daily life. Edward is experienced in supporting client’s holistic development. He is also a trained facilitator in TRE® (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) and SoulCollage®, which integrates creativity with learning about the Self.
Francesc Guinart is a facilitator of self-discovery, inner healing, and deep personal connection. Based in Spain, his journey began through yoga and breathwork, later deepened by training in Caycedian Sophrology, Holotropic Breathwork®, non-dual philosophy, and sacred plant therapies. Since 2008, he has supported therapeutic processes using both micro- and macrodoses of sacred plants, alongside the MindDetox Method to address deep-rooted stress and anxiety.
Francesc organises and leads workshops and silent retreats, offering spaces for deep rest, healing, and reconnection with the authentic self. His work draws on integral attention to the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of being. Grounded in the power of silence and reflection, his retreats create a sacred pause—supporting participants to release what no longer serves and move toward greater wholeness.
Basia Zieniewicz, Co-founder of Yoga in The Stars, B.Ed., PGDip Integrative Art Therapy, PGCert Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology, EMCC PGC Psychosynthesis Leadership Coaching Psychology, Reiki Master, IYN RYT, certified Grof® Psychedelic-Assisted Therapist, and in her final year of 4 as a trainee of Grof® Breathwork through the Grof Legacy Training®
Inspired by an interweaving of esoteric mysticism, sacred arts, and evidence-based modalities, Basia's special interest is in the liminal spaces, supporting individuals who seek inner and outer balance to resource their heart's desire. She offers constructive guidance in both the preparation and integration of NOSC, with tender care, helping clients navigate their experiences into lasting transformation.