Meditation with a Book – Mindfulness Workshop

Magdalena Prokopowicz – holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Wrocław, senior librarian at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology library, bibliotherapist, member of the Polish Bibliotherapy Society and chair of its Wrocław Chapter; author of bibliotherapy scenarios for teenagers and adults, and leads bibliotherapy workshops, the "Meditation with a Book" workshop series for women, and classical yoga classes (at the Nirmala Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda in Wrocław).

A graduate of Postgraduate Studies in Bibliotherapy (Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław), a Bibliotherapy course (3rd degree, Institute of Information Science, Pedagogical University of Kraków), and a year-long professional course in Holistic Therapy for Body and Mind (Nirmala Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda in Wrocław). For a year and a half she taught Fairy-tale Therapy, bibliotherapy, and Reading Animation classes at the "SKiBA" Post-Secondary School for Culture Animators in Wrocław.

She runs the "Przejrzyj się w książce" Facebook fan page and an Instagram profile, where under the hashtag #przejrzyjsięwksiążce she shares meaningful quotes from the books she reads, especially those with bibliotherapeutic potential.

Piyush Mittal is a yoga and Ayurveda teacher, lecturer, and the founder and president of the Nirmala Institute of Yoga and Ayurveda. He is the initiator, author, and co-author of numerous workshops and instructor courses preparing people to work as, among others, a classical yoga instructor, Ayurveda consultant and therapist, holistic body-and-mind therapist, Marma therapy specialist, and workplace wellbeing lead — a yoga ambassador. He graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Management.

He has consciously practised yoga for more than four decades. The foundations of this path were laid much earlier, when as a child he attended a school operating in the Vedic tradition of Saraswati Shishu Mandir. His first formal yoga teacher was Chandra Mohan Bhandari, who organised and deepened his knowledge of yoga, pranayama, and meditation.

He gained experience passing on the Indian art of working with the body, mind, and consciousness as, among other things, the organiser of more than 180 workshops and courses in 2012–2024, and four International Scientific Conferences of Yoga and Ayurveda in 2013–2017, held in cooperation with the AYUSH Ministry of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Naturopathy in India.

He completed certified training with teachers of yoga, Ayurveda, and related sciences, including Sadhguru and Swami Sarvapriyananda. He studied Marma therapy and Ayurveda especially under dr Sunil Kumar Joshi and dr Vasant Lad, and further deepened his knowledge of the classical Marma points as the author of the Polish translation of the book "Marma Chikitsa". He deepens his knowledge of the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Yoga Sutras in contact with teachers of the Vedanta tradition. He holds Yoga Alliance RYT® 500 and E-RYT® 200 certifications and serves as a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider (YACEP®).

In his work he combines the language of modern science with the wisdom of classical texts, passing on knowledge in a way that is simple and understandable even for people without prior preparation. He continually deepens his own practice and learning, treating this process as a personal svadhyaya — ongoing learning and self-knowledge.