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Exploring the Cycles of Life in Times of Change and Loss

September 6, 2025 @ 9:00 am - September 7, 2025 @ 4:00 pm PDT

Online Core Teaching Event
Each day we are confronted with life handing us changes and losses in relationships, health, work, personal identities, living situations, climate, collective tragedies.…etc. Join Trillium Awakening teachers, Cielle Backstrom and June Konopka as we experientially explore this topic together.
Day One: The Art of Grounding in Presence/Awareness as a Resource in Times of Change and Loss in Life.
September 6: 9:00 – 11:30am PT / 12:00pm – 2:30pm ET and 1:00 – 4:00pm PT / 4:00 – 7:00pm ET
We’ll be creating a group field that will allow us to more deeply connect with the resource of our own awareness and presence. Grounded in our awareness, we’ll be given an opportunity to speak from, and radically embrace, these experiences of change and loss. Time will be made for acknowledging individual transformations and new understandings which give us renewed freedom to be or act.
—Ground yourself more deeply into your resource of awareness/presence, so you have a strong base to greenlight your reactions (of pain, fear, grief, helplessness, and/or resistance) arising during times of change and loss?
— Practice Inviting your reactions to losses (or anticipated losses) into your awareness to be acknowledged, given a voice, embodied, and naturally transformed by loving presence.
—Share individual transformations and insights from this process which have brought you more space or freedom.
Day Two: The Art of Embodying Into the Earth as a Resource in Times of Change and Loss in Life.
September 7: 9:00 – 11:30am PT / 12:00pm – 2:30pm ET and 1:00 – 4:00pm PT / 4:00 – 7:00pm ET
We”ll explore our bodies as deeply connected to the body of the Earth. The life within us is the same life within Nature. When we relax into this deeper embodiment, it brings us another resource for riding the changes that are innate within the cycles of life. And if the timing is right, we may even be shown what is being born out of our losses.
— Ground into the Earth as the body of the Earth.
— Relax into the cycles of life in the same way all of Nature does. Regain trust in being a creature of Earth and this creation.
— Find your place in the cycle of life.
This event will include group discussions and individual focused work with a teacher in small groups of 4-7 participants.

PREREQUISITES: Previous attendance at TA events and/or sessions with a TA teacher.

REGISTRATION:

Please use this link to register: https://forms.gle/iEkAMxnKDMCf1sbL8
Payment:
$210 if paid by August 23rd
$225 August 24th or later
PayPal: cielle.cindy@gmail.com
or
Venmo: @Cielle-Backstrom
Cancellation fee:
$25 cancellation fee through Aug 23rd.
$50 cancellation fee from Aug 24. – Sept 3rd. No refunds after Sept 3rd

Facilitator(s)

  • Cielle Backstrom (teacher)

    Cielle Backstrom is a well-loved teacher within the Trillium Awakening community, guiding individuals on their psycho-spiritual journeys. Her spiritual path spans over five decades, beginning in 1972 when she became a Transcendental Meditation teacher. In 1985, Cielle played a pivotal role in establishing the Liberal Catholic Church in Fairfield, Iowa. By 2002, she had joined Trillium Awakening and advanced to the role of teacher in 2006. Cielle is also trained in various modalities, including Inner Relationship Focusing, energy healing through the Four Winds Society, and Holotropic Breathwork. She offers private sessions and has co-led more than 50 weekend intensives and retreats including more than 10 retreats in Peru. She is deeply committed to supporting people in awakening to their true and total nature. When Cielle's time is not taken up with supporting people on the path of awakening, she loves dabbling in symbolic art, which she feels is the language of the soul.

  • June Konopka (teacher)

    June Konopka June Konopka  has been involved in spiritual teachings since 1971, first as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation for 20 years, then as a teacher of Waking Down in Mutuality starting in 2005. She’s currently a teacher of Trillium Awakening (TA), and sits on the Elders’ Council within the TA Teachers’ Circle. In addition, June has completed apprenticeships with Oscar Miro-Quesada in Peruvian Shamanism, and with her Irish shamanic teacher, Amantha Murphy. She is also a certified practitioner of Hakomi (a body-centered psychotherapy), and has received trauma training at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She’s currently studying and practicing VortexHealing. 

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