Who I am
I was always the curious child asking the big questions and, as I grew up, I explored many spiritual traditions to find the answers. In my 20s, as I lived and traveled abroad, my view of life kept expanding. I came to see the truth in the old Sufi proverb:
‘There are as many paths to God as there are souls on earth.’
As I explored how we could live a deeply abundant and authentic life from the depths of our soul, and how we could feel happy and awake to life’s truth, I applied various beliefs, practices, and philosophies to my own journey.
My pivotal moment came when I experienced the powerful notion that I am not my thoughts:
‘I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.’
~ Eckhart Tolle
From this recognition, I immersed myself in meditation and eventually came to explore yoga, with an emphasis on the mind.
I loved my yoga training and working with the mind through practice. Around this time, I met my meditation teacher who helped me go directly to where meditation leads us. He saved me many years that I might have otherwise spent understanding meditation, its purpose
For seven years, I applied my teachings
I was privileged to teach around 30 retreat visitors each week and I got to witness how powerful the tools of yoga are in transforming one’s state in a short span of time. After each class, I would see people softening, connecting, slowing down, and returning to the essence of who they truly are. I could clearly see that, at our core, we are all love, but life experiences lead us to build an
Curious about how I could go deeper in helping people access their inner truth and answers, I began to study transpersonal coaching. I
Nature has also been a bountiful teacher. I grew up camping with my family, and later hiking solo in the Torres del Paine in Patagonia and on the Overland Hike in Tasmania. I actively seek time in nature, particularly nights out under the stars. My relationship with Mother Earth continues to strengthen, and I know just how richly nature can add to one’s personal growth.
From this beautiful lifelong journey, I have discovered there are many paths that lead a soul ‘home’—and so I offer you many ways of working with me.
I see my work as a braid … I weave together individual ‘strands’ of modalities and practices to create a strong support—a combined approach that is stronger than any of its individual parts.
With every ‘strand’, I weave a single message:
Let us go on an inward journey to where we will find our true selves. And let us live a life that is richly present and awake with understanding, from a place of truth and not conditioning.
It would be my honor to join you on your journey.
With kindness
Basia
What I believe
- We can all return to our true self
- We can all lead a life embodied in truth
- We can all cultivate stillness, peace
and clarity
What I offer you…
- Personal learning and unfolding
- A path to presence and truth
- A deeper connection with nature
- A deeper connection to Source, Spirit, the Universe … something greater than yourself
- The realisation that you are not your thoughts, and an awareness beyond your conditioning
Let us go on an inward journey to where we will find our true selves. And let us live a life that is richly present and awake with understanding, from a place of truth and not conditioning
Professional Bio
Basia Nowacki is a qualified yoga and meditation teacher, known for her down-to-earth kindness and warm and calming spirit. She teachers and inspires acceptance of what is, living in the present moment, connecting to one’s essence and higher self, and integrating yoga into daily life.
Basia studied classical yoga in the Desikachar tradition with Dr Michael de Manincor at the Yoga Institute and is the senior yoga teacher at the award-winning eco retreat, Billabong Retreat, where she has taught for the last eight years.
A qualified transpersonal coach through Nature Care College, Basia helps facilitate higher awareness and body–mind wisdom, to support people in finding clarity and reclaiming the life they deserve and desire to live.
Basia is also an extraordinary artist who uses meditation to guide her creativity, thus revealing intuitive works that are themselves vessels for inner enquiry.
Basia has won awards for her art since childhood and most recently exhibited as a solo artist at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery. She has also been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize 2019 and finalist in the Blacktown Art Prize 2019.
Artist Bio
Beyond a yoga and meditation teacher, I am a university qualified mixed media artist living in the magnificent Blue Mountains.
I began my career in graphic design but changed directions artistically when my inner journey led me to explore the powerful transformative power of yoga and meditation. My art is now more fluid, mirroring my practice, and my creations are themselves vessels for inner enquiry.
I use the organic medium of alcohol-based inks and illustration, creating abstract works with unexpected forms and vibrant earth colours. My process is itself a form of meditation, with each layer teaching me a new lesson through creation, whether that be letting go or practicing presence and awareness.
I hope my work brings joy to others and a feeling of connection to the beauty and mystery of nature and to one’s own inner world.