Trillium Awakening Podcasts

A look at how spiritual awakenings define our identity and the evolving effects these transformations can have on the personality.

Big traumas in life can throw us out of synchrony with space and time. Be aware of your surroundings, your environment, objects, and locate yourself in space. Consciously regulate your breath and reign yourself into time, the cycle of everything. Noticing the difference between “I” and “I am.” Making the distinction between our interpretation of...

Use mindful awareness of the breath and sensations in the body to drop into the space of you: your self as you always already are. Whatever you are experiencing in this moment can be a gateway to deeper awareness of your formless, limitless self.

In this meditation you will be led through a simple self-inquiry process toward a deepening recognition of your fundamental nature. A powerful way to connect as the Being that registers and embodies everything else we are.

We existed in spirit prior to becoming human. When we entered this reality, there was an initiation, the rooting of the intellect. The intellect for most people becomes relegated to a conceptual mind, the matrix of identity. This meditation focuses on the possibility of accessing that consciousness which exists prior to the intellect.

The Core Paradox, that fundamental existential angst that resides deep within each human, which arises from the recognition of a split between our infinite nature and our finite beingness, does not seem present in animals, it seems to be exclusively a consequence of self-awareness in humans. This talk explores how this split might have arisen...

Let yourself relax into yourself through this guided meditation inspired by Judith Blackstone’s book, Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person. Presented by Bill Epperly, this technique enables you to pull yourself back into a witnessing stance where you can be at ease in your body when it feels like you’re trying too...

Sometimes we can go long periods of time feeling like we’re not growing or changing. And sometimes, seemingly out of nowhere, a rush of passion for this work comes back in, and things will start to happen. We can explore this through meditation with interning Trillium teacher Victor Antillon, invoking the energy of passion in...

Join Trillium teacher Bill Miller in this simple guided meditation. This is not to prescribe a practice for you, but rather to nurture your own ability to come up with the practice that is best for you. Ultimately, meditation is a very personal way of becoming more intimate with yourself. 

Using the process of exploring the breath to get inside of ourselves is a huge step towards wholeness. In this podcast, Trillium teacher Jim Troffater uses a modification of the Judith Blackstone method of inhabiting the body. This is a tried and true, very effective way of integrating the embodiment aspect of awakening. This helps...