Body, Experience, and Consciousness: Embodied Expanding
Do., 19. Sept.
|MQ Learning Academy
Explore how body, experience, and consciousness form the intricate tapestry of human existence.


Time & Location
19. Sept. 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
About the event
The body is life’s pure desire to live, an organ that drinks the nectar of reality with its delicate senses open to the outside and inside.
The body forms unpredictable experiences we often imagine are never possible. Consciousness is what makes it all possible.
The body is both a vessel and an active participant in creating our experiences. Through the body, we truly live and learn, here and now, as part of the interconnected whole. The body's natural inclination is to flow with the experience, much like an artist actively participates in creating their work.
Our bodies serve as a canvas for the boundless possibilities connected to our unconscious. Like skilled artists, we channel these possibilities into individual and collective consciousness, using our bodies to express our innermost thoughts and feelings.
I invite you to join me in the cycle of experimental gatherings in collaboration with MQ Academy. Each part will start with the visual poetic journey to engage our subconscious, followed by insights from current scientific research, mystical teachings, and personal experience, complete with embodied free-flow togetherness.
About Embodied Expanding Cycle
... to the world, we always remain as children...
In Embodied Expanding, we explore how to navigate the infinite rhythmic process of evolution, defragmentation, and creation intimately bound to living inside the body.
We are all part of nature, intricately woven into its cycles and physical laws. Yet, our highly developed conscious mind, a marvel of evolution, gives us a unique perspective on life. We feel like we stand on the top of a mountain, gazing down at all the creation.
In our lives, we endure moments of pain, upheaval and rapture - both spontaneous and induced - that shatter our illusions and cast us into the deep chasms of our bodily existence with nowhere to go. These cycles of disarray and rebirth are as inescapable as the physical laws governing our flesh. In these moments of profound transformation, we often recognise the thread that binds us to all of existence. This thread, this profound interconnectivity, I refer to as love.
WHY ATTEND:
In this workshop, you will:
o Learn about the body's consciousness from scientific and mystical perspectives.
o Explore the interconnectedness of body, consciousness, and experience.
o Engage your subconscious through art.
The seats are limited to 24, so reserve early! We would request a recommended space donation of CHF 20-25.
PRESENTERS:
Dr. Kasia Kopanska strives to bridge the experiential, scientific and mystical spaces. She is passionate about exploring the relationship between the body and altered states of consciousness. With a wide-open heart, she guides individuals and groups to experience nature within and find belonging, aliveness, and authenticity.
She is a scientist (PhD from the University of Cambridge), somatic and sexological bodywork practitioner, and psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) facilitator. Kasia is a scholar of feminine mysticism and oracular arts. She has extensive experience working with various tools and methodologies, including bodywork, touch, breathwork, sound, movement, parts inquiry, ritual and psychedelic states. On the scientific side, she has worked as a cell and tissue biologist at prestigious research institutions for over twenty years.
SCHEDULE:
18:45 – 19:00 – Mindful Arrival
19:00 – 20:30 – Workshop
20:30 – 20:45+ – Networking & Departure