Gazing – Cielle
At the end of one of Fairfield’s Annual Fall Retreats. John Hoover, one of the participants, recorded videos of several of Fairfield’s Trillium Teachers. Here is the one, John made of me. Thank you John.
Testimonials & Appreciation
“Margit Bantowsky offers online group experiences for participants pursuing and integrating embodied awakening. She is a very skilled individual who side-steps the traditional role of teacher/instructor for the more artful role of “attuned facilitator.” She asks participants to explore intelligent and philosophically rich questions relevant to awakened life and then draws out each individual’s unique…
The core wellness is also endless
One of the concepts I most appreciate in this work is the core paradox (also sometimes known as the core wound/wellness paradox). It describes an aspect of reality clearly and in a way that I had not read about or experienced when I started this spiritual path. When exploring the core paradox as students and…
Conscious Growth in a World of Limits
One of the insights I have found to be most valuable within the Trillium Awakening (TA) dharma is that we are simultaneously both without limits and highly limited. Since this is a pretty standard part of our dharma, I won’t describe it further here. In my experience as a spiritual practitioner and TA teacher, there…
Poem: Icarus Reimagined
What if Icarus returned with the Sun? What if her wings carried her all the way there, beyond her imagination, and back? What if her heart could actually bear the Heat? And what if the Sun was generous, met her longing, and said “YES!”… what would that make possible?
Poem: Matter
Linger here. This body with its sagging skin and thinning hair. Milk it. Milk every precious moment of matter-ing. Let life matter. Matter yourself into this moment. Matter yourself into every single breath, blink, and sigh. Only your heart can give the blessing that makes every speck of dust sacred, every ant, fly,…