Margit Bantowsky

Teacher

Welcome Message

Do you feel stuck, confined, confused, restless, hopeless, or lost?

Are you longing to feel more liberated yet also more fully engaged?

Do you desire to give yourself and your unique gifts into the world?

Have you already awakened, but still feel there’s something “more?”

These desires and longings are sacred, and sourced from a soulful place deep inside of you that senses “There’s must be something more than this…”

And there is! There is always so much more that lies just beyond reach and imagination – that’s the nature of an infinite universe. However, there is also “so much more” that can be attained in this lifetime. It is possible, to awaken into your conscious, embodied, non-separate wholeness.

What Trillium calls whole-being realization happens on this path quite reliably and predictably – many hundreds of practitioners have come here for this kind of “landing” and have achieved it within a relatively short amount of time.

But wait…there’s even more! Whole-being realization is just a beginning – it’s the first step in a process that radically reconfigures your entire being which, after a number of years of “shadow work,” can culminate in yet another level of realization which some call singularity.

At this point, you are liberated to express your no-longer-ego-centric uniqueness in a flow of action that’s completely embedded within, and naked to, the Flow of Life itself. Here, you can enjoy the fulfillment of being lived.

Okay, that all sounds fine and nice, right? Of course we’re seeking personal liberation, it’s hard to be human and it’s hard to be here!

But wait… there’s even more! I think there’s also a trans-personal answer to the question “Why Bother Awakening?”

After decades of doing environmental engineering, I believe we’re at a point where humanity needs to “adapt or die”, so to speak. Our separation-based mythos has taken us as far as it can go, and it is time for us to release the mechanistic worldview and grow up into a humanity that is deeply imbedded in, and responsive to, the web of life and the unified field that penetrates it.

Whole-being realization — an embodied consciousness awakening — is the starting point for this critical transformation. Awakening into fundamental non-separation gives us the capacity to heal and integrate a significant amount of our old trauma and conditioning. And this personal awakening and healing naturally contributes to collective awakening and healing, even if in unseen ways.

But while this awakening healing is a big accomplishment — and big relief! — I believe this is not the end goal.

What I’m experiencing in myself and my colleagues is that as conditioning falls away post-awakening, we are becoming increasingly liberated to bring our unique gifts to the world, in deeply authentic and organic ways. 

What I’m seeing is that each one of us becomes an increasingly nimble, responsive, and alive node in a global web of interbeing and inter-sensing.

Of course, there’s no “right way” to participate! There’s just each one of us following and trusting what we’re uniquely moved to do and offering our particular “song” into the great, mysterious, evolving Symphony of Life, moment by moment.

This will look different for each person…. simple acts of kindness and care and connection, growing a garden, helping your neighbor after they’ve had surgery, making music, spending time with children or grandchildren, living a simpler life, writing a book of poetry, organizing a community celebration, looking for deeper truths beyond polarization, helping restore a watershed, loving an old tree, helping someone have a beautiful death transition, learning about medicinal herbs and plants, mending a hole in your trousers. (Of course, traditional forms of activism are still available, but our actions need to be sourced in trust,  love, compassion, and clarity instead of an “us-vs-them” mentality. )

Ultimately, I believe we are awakening so we can consciously become part of what the great spiritual leader and activist, Joanna Macy, calls The Great Turning — to trust Mystery while participating in our collective evolution in whatever small or large ways we genuinely feel moved to do so.

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As a Trillium Awakening teacher, I offer you my hand and my heart as ballast as you navigate and relax into the full spectrum of who and what you are. My own path has been quite challenging, and I offer you the steady comfort of knowing that it’s possible to come out the other side, even when sometimes it feels like you can’t or won’t.

I welcome you to be exactly as you are, moment by moment, and for your awakening journey to be unique to you, along with any skepticism and doubt, or brilliant revelations you might have along the way. There’s room for your story, laughter, ego, tears, pain, secrets, genius, and delights as you gently relax your way home – home into your Self, and home into Life.

I offer my love of life’s terrifying and magnificent spectrum, my ever-deepening sensitivity to suffering in all forms, my unshakable delight in being incarnated, and my absolute trust in it All. I support you into, through, and beyond your whole-being realization towards the liberation of living in flow on an evolving planet.

I also offer an opportunity to explore how you are authentically moved to respond to the suffering and joys of the world, and to be of service in ways that honor your uniqueness, passions, skills, and limitations, and which are fundamentally sourced in Trust in Being.

Being of service in alignment with the Flow of Life can bring a sense of purpose and meaning like nothing else can. It can also be a profound spiritual practice, deepening your awakening on all levels.

In addition to the beautiful, catalytic Trillium Awakening teachings, I draw from my PhD-level studies in depth psychology, Level 4 training in Inner Relationship Focusing developed by Ann Weiser Cornell, training in Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process, and various expressive arts practices using images, writing, and/or movement.

If you feel curious, I’d be delighted to have an exploratory conversation to see if we’re a good fit for one another. May you follow what you are drawn to, and I wish you well wherever your path leads you.

Love and blessings, Margit

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Feel free to use my convenient online scheduling service if you want to quickly and easily set up an introductory session with me:  http://margitbantowsky.schedulista.com

I offer in-person sessions in Olympia, WA, as well as sessions via Zoom or phone if you’re out-of-town. My sliding scale rate starts at $80/hour.

I offer a nominal fee reduction as reparation to people who are assigned minoritized rank due to age, disability, religion, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin (immigrant), and gender. My Reparations sliding scale starts at $60/hr.

If you want to check me out further:

TESTIMONIALS

“Margit is very gifted in joining people in their self-exploration and quickly hones in on the most important issues. Her discernment is laser-like as she helps catalyze people’s growth and unfolding.” ~~ Kirstin Eventyr, MA, Interning Trillium Teacher, Counselor, Healer

“Thank you so much Margit for offering and holding this intimate, potent and clear space for us to gather. I found your presence so gracious and felt a big invitation for us as a group to really meet and create together. What is still resonating for me is the gift of  being seen in a kind of tender, fledgling state and a deep gratitude for your care and spaciousness.”  ~~ S.M.

“Margit meets me in the exquisite embrace of gentle witness.  As a profound listener, she brings deep insights into my unique combination of divine and all-to-human self, as we explore in complete safety the essential vulnerability inherent in this journey as a human being.  As “light holder” on this Awakening journey, Margit provides expert guidance, by being with all aspects of this embodiment process, engaging with the felt perceptions of an emotional, sometimes irrational, extremely sensitive, wounded animal…me.

Before Margit, I realized there was a spiritual dimension to this journey on Earth.  With Margit’s guidance, I am now deeply connected to Divine Consciousness, and at the same time, connecting to myself as a fully-awake participant in the journey to Wholeness.” ~~Sherri Dysart, WA

“Dear Margit,
​I wanted to share an appreciation with you. I was saying this to to a friend a couple weeks ago and felt it again last night. I think you have an amazing gift for honing in on just the right words for feedback.  Like a laser.”

“I benefitted immensely from the flawless structure Margit created, and from her beautiful leadership qualities. From a compassionate ground of awakened intelligence, Margit welcomed our human nature, conditioning, and aspirations, and offered her own. The result was a novel, emergent, integrative approach to activism. I deeply look forward to more!” ~~ Deborah Boyar, Trillium Awakening teacher

Member of Association for Spiritual Integrity