
WRITE YOURSELF AWAKE (Olympia, in person sitting)
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, November 5, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Using CREATE! To activate, accelerate or integrate your awaking evolution
Tap into your deepest divine source through the simple CREATE! writing process to receive insight on the unfolding dance of consciousness, embodiment and mutuality showing up as YOU.
Sharing and discussion that follows this short write will illuminate your awakening
Registration: email joanne@createinstitute.com.
Suggested donation of $20 - $40 or what feels right for you.
If this is your first sitting, please contact Joanne for a brief orientation to our community and path.
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, November 5, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Using CREATE! To activate, accelerate or integrate your awaking evolution
Tap into your deepest divine source through the simple CREATE! writing process to receive insight on the unfolding dance of consciousness, embodiment and mutuality showing up as YOU.
Sharing and discussion that follows this short write will illuminate your awakening
Registration: email joanne@createinstitute.com.
Suggested donation of $20 - $40 or what feels right for you.
If this is your first sitting, please contact Joanne for a brief orientation to our community and path.

All Hearts on Deck with Margit Bantowsky
(a Virtual TA Related Teaching Event)
Saturday, October 14, 10:00 am - noon, PDT
Leverage the power of collective awakening to help us encounter life’s beauty and heartbreak, and to radiate our prayers of compassion into the fabric of life. Using an organic process of emergence, we’ll deepen our embodied consciousness as embedded in the Great Unfolding, sense into the “Prompts of Being,” and invite new evolutionary possibilities. Join like-hearted companions in an alchemical circle to transmute fear and grief, cultivate gratitude and celebration, and bring our sacred gifts into the Whole.
Suggested contribution: $20 - $30
(a Virtual TA Related Teaching Event)
Saturday, October 14, 10:00 am - noon, PDT
Leverage the power of collective awakening to help us encounter life’s beauty and heartbreak, and to radiate our prayers of compassion into the fabric of life. Using an organic process of emergence, we’ll deepen our embodied consciousness as embedded in the Great Unfolding, sense into the “Prompts of Being,” and invite new evolutionary possibilities. Join like-hearted companions in an alchemical circle to transmute fear and grief, cultivate gratitude and celebration, and bring our sacred gifts into the Whole.
Suggested contribution: $20 - $30
For more information, contact Margit at 360-358-5630 or email,
or visit https://www.awakenedactivism.net/all-hearts-on-deck.html
or https://trilliumawakening.org/event/all-hearts-on-deck-with-margit/2023-09-09/
or visit https://www.awakenedactivism.net/all-hearts-on-deck.html
or https://trilliumawakening.org/event/all-hearts-on-deck-with-margit/2023-09-09/

TA Introduction: Poetry of Awakening
with Margit Bantowsky and Joanne Lee
Friday, August 11, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, PDT
Harbor House, 217 Thurston Avenue NW
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE in-person introduction! Local teachers and practitioners will share poetry about awakening, embodiment and mutuality. Bring your friends and family!
Register with Joanne or Margit.
with Margit Bantowsky and Joanne Lee
Friday, August 11, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, PDT
Harbor House, 217 Thurston Avenue NW
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE in-person introduction! Local teachers and practitioners will share poetry about awakening, embodiment and mutuality. Bring your friends and family!
Register with Joanne or Margit.

TA Introduction: Stories of Awakening
with Margit Bantowsky and Joanne Lee
Friday, July 21, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, PDT
Harbor House, 217 Thurston Avenue NW
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE in-person Introduction! You will hear stories of whole being realization from local Olympians. Bring your friends and family!
Register with Joanne or Margit.
with Margit Bantowsky and Joanne Lee
Friday, July 21, from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, PDT
Harbor House, 217 Thurston Avenue NW
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE in-person Introduction! You will hear stories of whole being realization from local Olympians. Bring your friends and family!
Register with Joanne or Margit.

Trillium Sitting (in person, Olympia)
with Margit Bantowsky
Sunday, September 10, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: To Be Determined
Margit will use sound as a tool for illumination and integration throughout the sitting.
Suggested contribution: $20 - $40 (or what feels right to you)
To register, contact Margit at margit.bantowsky@gmail.com. If this is your first sitting, please contact Margit to introduce yourself and learn a bit about our practices.
with Margit Bantowsky
Sunday, September 10, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: To Be Determined
Margit will use sound as a tool for illumination and integration throughout the sitting.
Suggested contribution: $20 - $40 (or what feels right to you)
To register, contact Margit at margit.bantowsky@gmail.com. If this is your first sitting, please contact Margit to introduce yourself and learn a bit about our practices.

Silent WellSpring
In-person Trillium Awakening Silent Retreat
with teachers Joanne Lee and Margit Bantowsky
and mentors Debi Bailey and Jim Hutcheon
May 19-21, 2023
Visit our retreat web page for more information:
https://www.trilliumolympia.org/silentwellspring.html
In-person Trillium Awakening Silent Retreat
with teachers Joanne Lee and Margit Bantowsky
and mentors Debi Bailey and Jim Hutcheon
May 19-21, 2023
Visit our retreat web page for more information:
https://www.trilliumolympia.org/silentwellspring.html

Trillium Sitting (in person, Olympia)
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, June 5, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Slow, Deep & Easy
Join us in exploring what’s possible with embodied whole being awakening. Slow, deep & easy is an antidote to the hyper-masculine cultural imperative in our culture. What would it take for you to slow down, deepen into your awakening, into your body, into your soul and find the ease that awaits?
Registration: email joanne@createinstitute.com.
Suggested donation of $20 - $40 or what feels right for you.
If this is your first sitting, please contact Joanne for a brief orientation to our community and path.
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, June 5, from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Slow, Deep & Easy
Join us in exploring what’s possible with embodied whole being awakening. Slow, deep & easy is an antidote to the hyper-masculine cultural imperative in our culture. What would it take for you to slow down, deepen into your awakening, into your body, into your soul and find the ease that awaits?
Registration: email joanne@createinstitute.com.
Suggested donation of $20 - $40 or what feels right for you.
If this is your first sitting, please contact Joanne for a brief orientation to our community and path.
Honoring our new Lead Link!

Joy (Diane) Utter was recently elected as the Lead Link of the Trillium Olympia Community! This is the only elected role in our community and works closely with the other role holders. For more information on roles in the community, see our Local Governance Roles page.
A sampling of comments from community voters:
A sampling of comments from community voters:
- Yes, yes, yes, grateful to have Joy stepping forward.
- I wholeheartedly vote for Joy.
- Yes to Joy. Appreciate her stepping in.
- Yes, I believe Joy would be an awesome Lead Link! Thanks Joy.
- I vote yes! Ten thumbs up!
- I vote wholeheartedly for Joy as Lead Link.
- I believe that Diane's perspicacity, competence, spelling skills, astuteness, hygiene, resourcefulness, resilience, capacity, humor, and dancing ability will make her a fantastic lead link.

All Hearts on Deck: A Sacred-World-Witness Circle
with Margit Bantowsky
(a Virtual TA Related Teaching Event)
Saturday, December 11, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, PDT
Love is the greatest medicine we can offer ourselves,
each other, and the world.
All Hearts on Deck is a deep witness-prayer circle where we join together in sacred space to acknowledge current events and hold intention for the wellness of all beings.
Join like-hearted companions in a co-creative, sacred, and alchemical circle to:
with Margit Bantowsky
(a Virtual TA Related Teaching Event)
Saturday, December 11, 9:00 am - 10:30 am, PDT
Love is the greatest medicine we can offer ourselves,
each other, and the world.
All Hearts on Deck is a deep witness-prayer circle where we join together in sacred space to acknowledge current events and hold intention for the wellness of all beings.
Join like-hearted companions in a co-creative, sacred, and alchemical circle to:
- connect our hearts to the Great World Heart
- bear witness to suffering and transmute our fear and grief
- cultivate gratitude, joy, and celebration
- allow love and trust to en-courage our actions
www.awakenedactivism.net/groups.htmlFor more information including prerequisites for attendance, contact Margit at 360-358-5630 or email, or visit https://www.awakenedactivism.net/groups.html or https://www.trilliumawakening.org/event/all-hearts-on-deck-a-sacred-world-witness-circle-with-margit/all/

Awakening Creative Transformation: Embodying Collective Taboos of Sex and Sexualities With Joanne Lee, Kirstin Eventyr and Subhaga Crystal Bacon
~ POSTPONED - NEW DATES TBD ~
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
~ POSTPONED - NEW DATES TBD ~
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
For more information and registration, visit: https://www.trilliumawakening.org/event/awakening-creative-transformation-embodying-collective-taboos-of-sex-and-sexualities/

Awakening Creative Transformation: Embodying Collective Taboos of Sex and Sexualities With Joanne Lee, Kirstin Eventyr and Subhaga Crystal Bacon
~ POSTPONED ~ NEW DATES TBD ~
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
~ POSTPONED ~ NEW DATES TBD ~
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
For more information and registration, visit: https://www.trilliumawakening.org/event/awakening-creative-transformation-embodying-collective-taboos-of-sex-and-sexualities/
Celebrating our new Interning Teacher!

Kirstin Eventyr was "ordained" in June, 2019 through unanimous vote by the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle, and we are so lucky to have even more of her brilliance and skill available to serve our collective awakening!
Kirstin, a long-time counselor, teacher, and energy healer, and one of the founding members of Trillium Olympia, brings exceptional depth and breadth to everything she does. She is skillful at holding space, supporting nuanced inquiry, and creating transformative learning environments. Her embodied, full-hearted, full-on, nature is grounded and real, yet fluid and responsive and balanced with a robust sense of humor and humility.
Kirstin is a fierce advocate for the tender, messy, dignified magnificence of being one's Self, and is a true gift to all who choose to work with her.
Kirstin, a long-time counselor, teacher, and energy healer, and one of the founding members of Trillium Olympia, brings exceptional depth and breadth to everything she does. She is skillful at holding space, supporting nuanced inquiry, and creating transformative learning environments. Her embodied, full-hearted, full-on, nature is grounded and real, yet fluid and responsive and balanced with a robust sense of humor and humility.
Kirstin is a fierce advocate for the tender, messy, dignified magnificence of being one's Self, and is a true gift to all who choose to work with her.
2014
March 29-30 Two-Day workshop with Rod Taylor: "Heart & Relationship in Whole Being Awakening"
April 12 Special Sitting with senior teachers Ted Strauss & Hillary Davis
Sept 20-21 Two-Day workshop with Geri Portnoy and Susanne West: "Greenlighting Your Wholeness"
Nov 1-2 Two-Day workshop with senior teacher Krishna Gauci Awakening & Mutuality
March 29-30 Two-Day workshop with Rod Taylor: "Heart & Relationship in Whole Being Awakening"
April 12 Special Sitting with senior teachers Ted Strauss & Hillary Davis
Sept 20-21 Two-Day workshop with Geri Portnoy and Susanne West: "Greenlighting Your Wholeness"
Nov 1-2 Two-Day workshop with senior teacher Krishna Gauci Awakening & Mutuality
2015
March 21-22 Two-day workshop with Allan Morelock & Gena Netten "Discovering Freedom Within Our Limits"
June 5-7 Two-day workshop with Fax & Sharon Gilbert "Everyday Creative Expression"
Aug 22 1-day workshop with Krishna Gauci & Vivian Coles "Resting in Consciousness, Steeping in Love"
Sept 26-27 2-day retreat with Saniel & Linda Bonder "Living the Heart of the Mystery"
Nov 7-8 2-day workshop with Steve Boggs & Don Freas "Living the Divinity of Ordinary Life"
March 21-22 Two-day workshop with Allan Morelock & Gena Netten "Discovering Freedom Within Our Limits"
June 5-7 Two-day workshop with Fax & Sharon Gilbert "Everyday Creative Expression"
Aug 22 1-day workshop with Krishna Gauci & Vivian Coles "Resting in Consciousness, Steeping in Love"
Sept 26-27 2-day retreat with Saniel & Linda Bonder "Living the Heart of the Mystery"
Nov 7-8 2-day workshop with Steve Boggs & Don Freas "Living the Divinity of Ordinary Life"
2016
Feb 20-21 Two-day workshop with Rod Taylor "Realizing the Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Dimensions of Love"
Feb 20-21 Two-day workshop with Rod Taylor "Realizing the Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Dimensions of Love"

Awakening Leadership Lab (TA Related Course)
with Margit Bantowsky
February 8 - June 28, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, PDT
(2nd and 4th Mondays)
If this describes you, the leadership lab might be just the ticket!
with Margit Bantowsky
February 8 - June 28, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, PDT
(2nd and 4th Mondays)
If this describes you, the leadership lab might be just the ticket!
- You find yourself being called into leadership roles, perhaps even reluctantly, or
- You have a special project or idea that won’t let go of you, or
- Life, your awakening process, or your sense of integrity insisting you step forward in a daring way, or
- You would love a small group of committed leaders to share support, inspiration, and accountability to help you grow into your vision and/or capacities, or
- You already in a leadership position and are being challenged to be more conscious, effective, and/or take it to the next level.
For more information including prerequisites for attendance, contact Margit by email, or visit trilliumawakning.org/event/awakening-leadership-lab-with-margit.

Virtual Trillium Sitting
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, December 13, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Radically Embracing the Unwanted
Radical Embrace is a practice of accepting what is. In our awakening journey we learn to apply the practice to emotions that arise in us — with ease for those that are familiar and welcome and with a bit more rigor with those we would rather dismiss, deny or discount. Turning Radical Embrace inward is a way to love parts of ourselves that may have been rejected or found unacceptable. That inner “yes” can ease long held tension and make room for wholeness. But what happens when we turn our awareness out to the world and radically embrace that which seems unacceptable, unwanted or intolerable? Can we radially embrace Covid-19, for instance? How would we radically embrace a pandemic and what would that mean?
Come explore how these questions land in our bodies and discover the gifts Radical Embrace can deliver.
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, December 13, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Radically Embracing the Unwanted
Radical Embrace is a practice of accepting what is. In our awakening journey we learn to apply the practice to emotions that arise in us — with ease for those that are familiar and welcome and with a bit more rigor with those we would rather dismiss, deny or discount. Turning Radical Embrace inward is a way to love parts of ourselves that may have been rejected or found unacceptable. That inner “yes” can ease long held tension and make room for wholeness. But what happens when we turn our awareness out to the world and radically embrace that which seems unacceptable, unwanted or intolerable? Can we radially embrace Covid-19, for instance? How would we radically embrace a pandemic and what would that mean?
Come explore how these questions land in our bodies and discover the gifts Radical Embrace can deliver.
For information and registration, visit: https://www.trilliumawakening.org/event/sitting-with-joanne-7.

Awakening Creative Transformation: Embodying Collective Taboos of Sex and Sexualities With Joanne Lee, Kirstin Eventyr and Subhaga Crystal Bacon
December 3 - 7, 2020
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
December 3 - 7, 2020
This workshop, the first in a series on taboo, will focus on sex, sexuality, sexualities. We will be exploring and embodying taboo topics through the vehicles of creative expression: art, poetry, movement, sound. Morning sessions will be engagement in experiential creative expression and afternoons will be an opportunity to process and integrate in small groups. Thursday evening will start with the creation of a safe ritual container for our time together. Monday evening will be integration and ritual closing.
For more information and registration, visit: https://www.trilliumawakening.org/event/awakening-creative-transformation-embodying-collective-taboos-of-sex-and-sexualities/
2017
March 19 One-day workshop with Krishna Gauci "Resting in Being, Diving into Life"
May 14 One-day workshop with Joanne Lee and Margit Bantowsky "Honoring the Divine Feminine: Timely Medicine for a Hyper-masculine Culture"
June 3-4 Two-day workshop with Max and Tatini Goler "Trillium Awakening Immersion: Surrendering into Present Moment Awareness"
Sept 16-17 Two-day workshop with Cielle and Jeffrey Backstrom "Navigating Your Awakening"
Oct 21 A Trillium-Related evening workshop with Marla Drury "Coming Home to Ourselves: Awakening Through the Crucible of Story"
March 19 One-day workshop with Krishna Gauci "Resting in Being, Diving into Life"
May 14 One-day workshop with Joanne Lee and Margit Bantowsky "Honoring the Divine Feminine: Timely Medicine for a Hyper-masculine Culture"
June 3-4 Two-day workshop with Max and Tatini Goler "Trillium Awakening Immersion: Surrendering into Present Moment Awareness"
Sept 16-17 Two-day workshop with Cielle and Jeffrey Backstrom "Navigating Your Awakening"
Oct 21 A Trillium-Related evening workshop with Marla Drury "Coming Home to Ourselves: Awakening Through the Crucible of Story"

Trillium Awakening Introduction
with Joanne Lee
Saturday, September 26, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, PDT
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE online Introduction!
Register with Joanne by calling her at 360-352-6224 or by e-mail.
with Joanne Lee
Saturday, September 26, from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, PDT
Curious about Trillium Awakening?? Join us for a FREE online Introduction!
Register with Joanne by calling her at 360-352-6224 or by e-mail.

Virtual Trillium Sitting
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, August 1, from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, PDT
Topic: Awakening as Creators
The path of awakening is a path of creation. In our time together we will look at the the tantric cycle of life which includes creation, maintenance, dissolution, forgetting and remembering. We will focus our awareness on where we are in those cycles in different areas of our lives.
Register with Joanne. If this is your first Trillium Awakening sitting, please contact Joanne about a free consultation before the sitting.
with Joanne Lee
Sunday, August 1, from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, PDT
Topic: Awakening as Creators
The path of awakening is a path of creation. In our time together we will look at the the tantric cycle of life which includes creation, maintenance, dissolution, forgetting and remembering. We will focus our awareness on where we are in those cycles in different areas of our lives.
Register with Joanne. If this is your first Trillium Awakening sitting, please contact Joanne about a free consultation before the sitting.
A Special "Awakening to Racism" event

RIDING THE WAVE
5-week group with Kirstin Eventyr
Thursday evenings, 5:30 - 7:30 pm PDT, starting July 16th
For more information, visit our Event Page
5-week group with Kirstin Eventyr
Thursday evenings, 5:30 - 7:30 pm PDT, starting July 16th
For more information, visit our Event Page
Two Special "Awakening to Racism" Groups starting soon!
CREATE! our Mutual Liberation
6-week group with Margit Bantowsky & Joanne Lee Monday evenings, 6:00 - 8:30 pm PDT starting July 6 More info: Event Page |
RIDING THE WAVE
5-week group with Kirstin Eventyr Thursday evenings, 5:30 - 7:30 pm PDT starting July 16th More info: Event Page |

Virtual Trillium Sitting
with Margit Bantowsky
Saturday, July 5, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, PDT
Topic: To be announced
Stay tuned for more information about this sitting.
We'll be using the online Zoom platform with personal shares...
with Margit Bantowsky
Saturday, July 5, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, PDT
Topic: To be announced
Stay tuned for more information about this sitting.
We'll be using the online Zoom platform with personal shares...
To register, contact at Margit at 360-358-5630 or email. If this is your first Trillium sitting, please read Your First Trillium Sitting and arrange for a brief orientation conversation (free of charge) with Margit beforehand.

Virtual Trillium Sitting
with Kirstin Eventyr
Saturday, June 6, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Being With What IS
What is carries with it the living edge of our personal growth. What is Life bringing forward for you to be with? As we deepen our trust in Being, being with what is can become a path to the sacred in ourselves and in life.
We'll be using the online Zoom platform with personal shares...
with Kirstin Eventyr
Saturday, June 6, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, PDT
Topic: Being With What IS
What is carries with it the living edge of our personal growth. What is Life bringing forward for you to be with? As we deepen our trust in Being, being with what is can become a path to the sacred in ourselves and in life.
We'll be using the online Zoom platform with personal shares...