About
Pauli
Pauli
Kulikowska
Contemplative practitioner, educator, writer and retreat guide exploring awareness, perception and lived experience.
Warsaw . 2024
My work explores awareness. Perception and lived experience through contemplative practice.
Rather than approaching consciousness as something separate from everyday life, I am interested in how perception, attention and relationship shape the ways we inhabit reality itself.
A different orientation toward practice.
Much of contemporary self-development is structured around improvement: becoming more successful, more optimized or achieving higher states of consciousness. Over time, my own work moved away from this orientation and toward a deeper interest in awareness, perception and lived experience.
Rather than approaching contemplative practice as performance or as a path to transcendence, I see it as an ongoing inquiry into how we perceive, relate and participate in reality. This work is less concerned with becoming someone else and more interested in developing a more conscious relationship with experience itself.
Through meditation, embodiment, ritual, writing and contemplative inquiry, I explore the relationship between awareness, perception, embodiment and lived reality.
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The work is not about escaping reality but inhabiting it more consciously.
Background and Training.
My path has unfolded through years of contemplative practice, retreat work, interdisciplinary study and guiding individuals and groups through spaces of inquiry, embodiment and transformation.
Education
Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology, SWPS University Warsaw
Meditation
100. hour Meditation Teacher Training. Multiple 10.day Vipassana retreat courses
Yoga Training
500hr E.RYT (Yoga Alliance), Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, Prenatal YTT, Yin and Aerial Yoga
Contemplative Traditions
Study in Śrī Vidyā, Kaula Tantra and Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra under guidance of Guru Yuganandanatha
Embodiment
Somatic inquiry, movement practices and embodied awareness across different cultural and philosophical contexts
Interdisciplinary Study
Phenomenology, contemplative psychology, ritual traditions and consciousness studies
The Work.
My work brings together contemplative practice, meditation, embodiment, ritual, writing and interdisciplinary reflection. Through retreats, private inquiry, contemplative education and longer form writing, I explore the relationship between awareness, perception, embodiment and lived reality.
I am particularly interested in the intersection between contemplative traditions, phenomenology, psychology, ritual practice and the ways perception shapes human experience. Over the years, my work has included facilitating retreats, meditation and embodiment trainings, immersive group spaces and long term private inquiry processes in Poland and internationally.
Writing as Practice.
Writing is an essential part of my work and practice, as a way of exploring awareness, perception and lived experience through language. Through essays, reflections and long-form work, I explore the relationship between contemplative practice, embodiment, conditioning, identity and consciousness.
I am the author of Life of Ultimate Freedom, a contemplative exploration of self.awareness, lived experience and the relationship between consciousness and reality. My writing moves between contemplative practice, embodiment, philosophy, ritual, psychology and lived experience.
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