Welcome to Trillium Olympia!
a vibrant spiritual community
Featuring Trillium Awakening™
educational offerings
supporting a three-fold path of
consciousness, embodiment, and mutuality
“The Trillium path is a fantastic means for awakening. It provides such a deep, holding, accepting container that it allows you to relax into ‘what is’ and awaken relatively quickly and make deep connections with others.”
— Bonita Williams, Trillium Teacher, Brooklyn, NY
— Bonita Williams, Trillium Teacher, Brooklyn, NY
Honoring our new mentor!
Jim Hutcheon recently completed all the training requirements and the lengthy application process to become a Trillium Awakening mentor, and was unanimously voted in by the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle in March 2021!
A warm and wide heart, generous nature, and commitment to serving others are among Jim's many gifts. His years as a college professor and service on the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op have honed his leadership skills. He has been serving the Olympia TA community as our Lead Link as well as in various other leadership roles. He has a deep capacity to be with others in a supportive way. We appreciate him stepping forward into this new role, and and look forward to watching him grow and flourish as a mentor.
A warm and wide heart, generous nature, and commitment to serving others are among Jim's many gifts. His years as a college professor and service on the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op have honed his leadership skills. He has been serving the Olympia TA community as our Lead Link as well as in various other leadership roles. He has a deep capacity to be with others in a supportive way. We appreciate him stepping forward into this new role, and and look forward to watching him grow and flourish as a mentor.
Upcoming Events:
All Hearts on Deck: Explorations in Awakened Activism
Virtual Sitting (Trillium Related Offering)
with Margit Bantowsky
Saturday, April 10, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, PDT
Topic: Hope & Despair
Hope and despair can be viewed as a polarity that we swing between daily, weekly, monthly or even annually. Hope can light up when we recognize our innate goodness and creativity, and the infinite field of possibility. Despair may sink our heart as we gaze into the breadth, depth, and complexity of the harm we're currently inflicting upon each other and the Earth and all her creatures.
In this shared inquiry we’ll explore hope and despair as they relate to awakened activism. Some questions we might consider include:
What if we joined together within this the divine, permeable field of inter-being-ness, and from our shared heart radiated a prayer into the very fabric of life?
Virtual Sitting (Trillium Related Offering)
with Margit Bantowsky
Saturday, April 10, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, PDT
Topic: Hope & Despair
Hope and despair can be viewed as a polarity that we swing between daily, weekly, monthly or even annually. Hope can light up when we recognize our innate goodness and creativity, and the infinite field of possibility. Despair may sink our heart as we gaze into the breadth, depth, and complexity of the harm we're currently inflicting upon each other and the Earth and all her creatures.
In this shared inquiry we’ll explore hope and despair as they relate to awakened activism. Some questions we might consider include:
- What are my tendencies in this polarity?
- In what ways do I avoid feeling both hope and despair?
- How can I activate hope in a healthy, productive way?
- What might help me access the important wisdom of despair?
What if we joined together within this the divine, permeable field of inter-being-ness, and from our shared heart radiated a prayer into the very fabric of life?
For more information including prerequisites for attendance, contact Margit at 360-358-5630 or email, or visit awakenedactivism.net/all-hearts-on-deck.html.
"In response to the killing of George Floyd, and the recognition that he is just the latest of hundreds of years of lives sacrificed on the altar of white supremacy, racism and violence, Olympia's Trillium Awakening teachers stand with Black Lives Matter. Our three fold path holds within it the intrinsic recognition of:
Consciousness — Our True Nature is One with all beings regardless of skin color, economic status, ability, and other marginalized qualities.
Embodiment — Our embodied hearts break for the ongoing pain and suffering inflicted upon all people of color and for our role in causing this pain. We acknowledge action must be taken to change how oppression operates within in ourselves and within our society.
Mutuality — Our deeply held value of mutuality compels us to devote our energy to continually educate our selves, listen deeply to people of color (and to members of other marginalized groups), and take action to create change as we are each uniquely moved.
We dedicate our actions to our continued awakening and the awakening of humanity. This inevitably includes awakening to our own and society’s racism and other categories of embedded oppression."
Written by Margit Bantowsky, Joanne Lee and Kirstin Eventyr
Consciousness — Our True Nature is One with all beings regardless of skin color, economic status, ability, and other marginalized qualities.
Embodiment — Our embodied hearts break for the ongoing pain and suffering inflicted upon all people of color and for our role in causing this pain. We acknowledge action must be taken to change how oppression operates within in ourselves and within our society.
Mutuality — Our deeply held value of mutuality compels us to devote our energy to continually educate our selves, listen deeply to people of color (and to members of other marginalized groups), and take action to create change as we are each uniquely moved.
We dedicate our actions to our continued awakening and the awakening of humanity. This inevitably includes awakening to our own and society’s racism and other categories of embedded oppression."
Written by Margit Bantowsky, Joanne Lee and Kirstin Eventyr
The international Trillium Awakening community has many online offerings every week. For more information:
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-events/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/ta-introduction/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-sittings/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-mutuality-groups/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-gazing/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-meditation/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-mutuality-cafe/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-events/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/ta-introduction/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-sittings/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-mutuality-groups/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-gazing/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-meditation/
https://www.trilliumawakening.org/virtual-mutuality-cafe/
Welcome to the Olympia Trillium Community!
The Trillium path honors and investigates not only the transcendent, but also the physical and the deep relatedness dimensions of the self.
This work offers simple yet potent practices through which we can lean into the spacious and 'divine' aspects of all that we are, even as we explore and embrace the difficult, estranged, and forgotten facets that tend to conceal our greatest gifts. In community, we "walk each other home."
The Trillium path honors and investigates not only the transcendent, but also the physical and the deep relatedness dimensions of the self.
This work offers simple yet potent practices through which we can lean into the spacious and 'divine' aspects of all that we are, even as we explore and embrace the difficult, estranged, and forgotten facets that tend to conceal our greatest gifts. In community, we "walk each other home."
In the company of a growing community of fellow practitioners from Olympia and the Northwest, and with the wider support and transmission from the international Trillium Awakening community, we engage with ourselves and one another through regular local gatherings in a context of mutual encouragement and exploration.
Our circles of practice help keep us focused on awakening to full recognition and acceptance of the challenging truth of being both divine and human—each as our own unique expression of Being. In this place of practice we can unfold in trust as we recognize with ever-expanding awareness the fullness of our authentic, embodied selves. As we become more established in that reality, we naturally become more completely available to ourselves and the world. We welcome your unique, divinely human expression!
"Your Being is one seamless event. To realize the depth of the boundless part, you must also permit the depth of the bounded, conditioned part."
~ Ted Strauss
~ Ted Strauss
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ps - we absolutely won't share your contact information with anyone!
Please say a little bit about yourself and what you'd like to know about us, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
If you feel comfortable doing so, please leave us your PHONE number, it's really helpful as a backup.
ps - we absolutely won't share your contact information with anyone!
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The Olympia Trillium Community is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to making this powerful work available to those who are hungy for deep, conscious embodiment.
Your donation can be applied to support administrative functions or to provide scholarship funds & financial assistance at events.
The Olympia Trillium Community is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to making this powerful work available to those who are hungy for deep, conscious embodiment.
Your donation can be applied to support administrative functions or to provide scholarship funds & financial assistance at events.