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A contemplative education and practice ecosystem exploring awareness, perception and lived experience.

Healing Institute is an interdisciplinary space for consciousness education, contemplative practice, embodied inquiry and human development.

Awareness Attunement is one of the original frameworks developed within Healing Institute, exploring how consciousness, body, relationship and everyday life continually shape one another.

Through retreats, education, practice spaces, writing and future community spaces, the Institute supports a more conscious relationship with lived experience.

What The Institute Holds

Healing Institute is not organized around a single modality or a fixed path of self-improvement.

It is an ecosystem for contemplative practice and education, bringing together embodiment, inquiry, ritual, philosophy, energetic awareness, relational practice and lived integration.

The work is rooted in the understanding that healing, awareness and transformation do not happen separately from life. They unfold through the ways we perceive, relate, create, feel, choose and participate in reality.

How The Work Emerged

Healing Institute emerged from a long-standing inquiry into the relationship between consciousness, body, healing, creativity and everyday life.

The work has grown through years of practice, teaching, facilitating, learning, retreat spaces, group processes and direct experience with the subtle ways people meet themselves and one another.

Over time, this inquiry began to take the shape of Awareness Attunement: one of the original frameworks developed within the Institute for exploring how perception, embodiment and awareness influence the ways we inhabit life.

Pauli Kulikowska

Pauli Kulikowska

Pauli Kulikowska

Founder · Contemplative Educator · Consciousness & Embodiment Guide

Pauli Kulikowska is the founder of Healing Institute - a space devoted to consciousness education, contemplative practice and embodied inquiry.

Her work began in the body: through practice, pain, healing, discipline, ritual, study and years of guiding people through processes of inner transformation. Over time, this work became less about "healing" as a separate project and more about understanding how consciousness moves through the body, perception, relationship and ordinary life.

Pauli's approach brings together traditional Tantra, psychology, meditation, yoga, somatic awareness, ritual, emotional integration and philosophical inquiry. She is interested in what becomes possible when practice is not used to improve the self, but to see more clearly how experience is organised - and how awareness can mature.

She holds a Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology and has more than 16 years of experience in therapeutic, energetic, yogic and embodied practice. Over the years, she has led hundreds of workshops, retreats, yoga and meditation sessions, individual programs and group processes for more than 4,800 people in Poland and internationally, including Japan, Bali, India, the United Kingdom, Spain, Croatia, Turkey and the Czech Republic.

At Healing Institute, Pauli develops Awareness Attunement as one of the Institute's original educational frameworks and creates spaces for long-form education, retreat, practice and inquiry. Her work is devoted to cultivating awareness, discernment, relational maturity and a deeper participation in life.

Training & Credentials

  • Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology
  • 200h Kundalini Yoga
  • 500h Multistyle Yoga — Yoga Alliance accredited
  • 100h Yin & Aerial Yoga
  • 85h Pre- and Post-Natal Yoga
  • 100h Meditation Teacher Training
  • e-RYT 500 — Yoga Alliance registered
  • Certified Gene Keys Guide

Advisory & Operations Team

Healing Institute is supported by a team and network of collaborators who help hold the practical, educational and organizational dimensions of the work.

Magdalena Szpyruk
Operations Director

Magdalena Szpyruk

Magdalena combines extensive experience in project management and operations with a deep interest in personal development and contemplative practice. Her background in architecture and international project coordination brings both structure and strategic thinking to the organisation. At Healing Institute she oversees operational systems, supports educational programs and helps ensure that projects are delivered with care, consistency and attention to detail.

Filip Czuchwicki
Legal Support

Filip Czuchwicki

Filip provides legal guidance and strategic support to Healing Institute. With extensive experience in legal practice, management and academic teaching, he brings a thoughtful and practical approach to organisational development. His work helps ensure that the Institute's activities are supported by clear legal foundations and aligned with the highest standards of professional responsibility.

Renata Malewska
Operations & Administration Coordinator

Renata Malewska

Renata brings over twenty years of experience in administration, project coordination and organisational support across international environments. At Healing Institute she supports the day-to-day functioning of the organisation, helping coordinate communications, events and operational processes. Her attention to detail, reliability and organisational clarity contribute to creating a stable foundation for the Institute's work.

Values

1 Depth over Performance

Practice is not used to create a more impressive identity, but to deepen attention, perception and relationship with experience.

2 Embodiment over Abstraction

The work returns insight to the body, where awareness becomes felt, integrated and lived.

3 Relationship over Isolation

Consciousness is explored as relational: shaped through contact with self, others, community, the world and the unknown.

4 Inquiry over Certainty

The Institute holds practice as an evolving inquiry rather than a closed system of answers.

5 Integration over Escape

The intention is not to leave life behind, but to participate in it with greater presence, clarity and care.

Voices From The Field

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Pauli is a teacher who not only imparts knowledge, but creates a space where a person can come face to face with themselves — with their potential and their shadow.

— Paulos
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Pauli combines knowledge, wisdom and unique energy with tenderness, understanding and firmness when needed.

— Marta
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She is not afraid of difficult questions, and gives you time to find your own answers.

— Andrzej

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