This workshop has been cancelled
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Dance in your golden shadow
welcome home your hidden gifts 

a 2-Day Core Dharma workshop in Olympia, WA 
with interning Trillium Awakening teachers
JOANNE LEE  &  MARGIT BANTOWSKY
Open Sitting

​Friday, Feb 16

6:00 - 9:00 pm 

$20
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​WEEKEND WORKSHOP

Sat-Sun, Feb 17-18, 2018
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10:00 am - 5:30 pm

$245

Your gifts are part of your awakened wholeness!

Golden shadows are those invaluable aspects of ourSelves that have been exiled during the course of life. These shadows may be our gifts, our brilliance, or any disowned aspects of ourselves that we can admire in others but are unable to find in ourselves.

Working with shadow - elements of our psyche hidden in our unconscious - is a psycho-spiritual practice that frees encapsulated energy to accelerate our whole being awakening. This is true whether the unconscious elements are deemed 'negative' or 'positive.'

Exploring golden shadow entails a journey of first identifying our disowned 'positive' aspects, embracing them, and finally occupying them and finding ways to express them to the world. This process supports embodied awakening into the Totality of what we are, and liberates our precious uniqueness to express its purpose and dance with Life.

In this workshop you will:
• bring your own (and others’) golden shadow(s) to the light
• embrace your gifts and the gifts of your peers / community
• release suffering caused by denial and exile of parts of ourselves
• commit to the inclusion and expression of these valuable aspects of yourself

We will use creative activities that will engage you:
• individual, dyad and large group work
• deep sharing in small groups
• seeing and being seen
• shadow play through sound, movement, and writing 
• "soul collage" golden shadow card creation
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Joanne Lee
Interning Teacher

A lifetime of seeking and decades of personal work left Joanne seriously mired in the rot when she discovered this spiritual path. Her exploration of Trillium dharma (then known as Waking Down in Mutuality) quickly culminated in her embodied awakening as love in 2013. With unbounded gratitude for the gifts received, she enthusiastically began to contribute to the building of a local Trillium community in Olympia, as well as to move into mentoring others on this path. Becoming a teacher in the fall of 2016 was a natural next step.

Joanne has had a private practice as a business and personal coach since 1998. She has offered many workshops over the years in areas of personal and organizational growth. She is a high creative (artist, dancer, writer) and recently published a how-to manual called CREATE! Accessing Depth Creativity, Divine Guidance and Universal Wisdom at Will. She teaches the CREATE! process and runs groups. 

Some of the activities that keep her healthy and happy include yoga, dance, gardening, cooking, hiking, camping, kayaking, and paddle boarding.
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Margit Bantowsky, MA
Interning Trillium Awakening Teacher

Margit began exploring Trillium Awakening (formerly Waking Down) in 2011. Her spiritual journey evolved out of graduate work in Imaginal Psychology, and as juicy as that was, she still felt there was something missing. Landing in conscious embodiment in 2012 finally gave Margit the sense of "coming home" she longed for.

As a sensitive, creative person who struggled with debilitating self-hatred, Margit is passionate about supporting people to find peace in themselves, and ultimately delight in and express their unique gifts and brilliance. She has found that embodied awakening, especially in community, really helps this process.

Margit has a private practice of Transformative Coaching, and has taught many workshops and courses on creativity, leadership, and personal growth.  Along with a deep environmental sensitivity (she was an environmental engineer for ~ 20 years) Margit is passionate about what she calls the social dimensions of awakening and mutuality - deeply encountering the suffering of others and allowing oneself to be transformed by it.   
​REGISTER 
​To reserve your spot in this special event, please contact Margit Bantowsky
PREREQUISITES
It is helpful for participants to have some familiarity with Trillium Awakening before attending this event. If you are new to this work, please contact Margit Bantowsky for a free conversation to help you get oriented.