AWAKENING TO THE DIVINE
~ Discovering the Sacred in Whole Being Life ~
International Trillium Awakening Online Retreat
A Core Teaching Event
Thursday November 18 to November 21, 2021
Led by Trillium Awakening Teachers
Rod Taylor, Francesca Blackstock, Ralf Humphries, and Van Nguyen
With Support from Mentors Debi Bailey and Rebecca Reble
‘Divine is the sacred mystery of Source expressed in, as, and through creation’
Description:
As evolution unfolds after whole being realization, the sacred nature of existence becomes increasingly evident.
The three dimensions of whole being realization – consciousness, embodiment, and mutuality – shine forth as sacred awareness, sacred being, and sacred love.
As realization of the sacred essence of creation refines over time, the divine comes to be lived as the sacred singularity of pure consciousness—absolute being—infinite love-bliss.
During this retreat, we will investigate these dimensions of our self to discover, enliven, and express the divine in our daily lives.
Details:
Through knowledge, exercises, and discussions, as well as small group sharing and feedback, we will learn to distinguish, activate, and live the fullness of the divine available to us within our awakening nature.
We welcome you to bring your questions, contribute your awakening and awakened experience, and to share in co-creating a heartfelt, mutual environment of embodied spiritual evolution.
The Retreat will include morning large group sessions (gazing, teaching, breakout groups, large group discussion) as well as afternoon small groups with a teacher & mentor. Optional early morning, noon & evening sessions will also be offered.
We will be using the Zoom platform, which is simple & easy to navigate and offers the opportunity for gazing, large group, and small group sessions; in the same way we would during in-person events.
The retreat is designed to create an energy, a feeling, a quality that will mirror what you would expect at any in-person Trillium Awakening Retreat; together we will co-create that experience.
This 4-day Retreat will include:
. 4 large group knowledge & discussion sessions,
. 4 small group individual sharing sessions,
. optional early morning, nectar and evening sessions.
You will experience powerful levels of Transmission, Presence & Teaching as well as opportunities for questions & discussion with the teachers. There will be many opportunities to connect with the teaching group as well as the other participants during formal & optional sessions.
Given that the retreat involves considerable screen time, we have created a schedule designed for participants to have the breaks they need.
What do you need to participate?
A full screen device to allow for good visual connection
A quiet, private space to allow confidentiality for everyone
A commitment to attend every formal session (see schedule below)
We invite you to join us in an exploration of our whole being nature as a basis for discovering and living inspired expression in life.
Rod, Francesca, Ralf, Van, Debi, and Rebecca are looking forward to supporting you during this profound offering in the field of whole being realization. Their combined 150 years of experience in supporting people to explore their inner geography; the intensity of their loving & transformational transmissions, combined with their caring & nurturing natures will be generously experienced both during formal & optional sessions. (See teacher bios below)
Schedule:
All times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT)
Thursday November 18
1:00 to 4:00pm (MDT) – Opening Session (with break)
5:00 to 8:00pm (MDT) – Small Groups (with break)
Friday November 19
10:00 am to 1:00 pm (MDT) – Large group session (with break)
2:30 to 5:30 pm (MDT) – Small Groups (with break)
Optional Sessions
9:00 to 9:30 am (MDT) – Early morning offering
1:00 to 2:30 pm (MDT) – Eat lunch together, chat etc.
5:45 to 6:15 pm (MDT) – Nectar
8:00 to 9:15 pm (MDT) – Enrichment Discussion
Saturday November 20
10:00 am to 1:00 pm (MDT) – Large group session (with break)
2:30 to 5:30 pm (MDT) – Small Groups (with break)
Optional Sessions
9:00 to 9:30 am (MDT) – Early morning offering
1:00 to 2:30 pm (MDT) – Eat lunch together, chat etc.
5:45 to 6:15 pm (MDT) – Nectar
8:00 to 9:15 pm (MDT) – Creative Expression Evening
Sunday November 21
10:00 am to 1:00 pm (MDT) – Final Small Group Session (with break)
2:00 to 4:30 pm (MDT) – Closing Session (with break)
Optional Sessions
8:15 to 8:45am – Early morning offering
1:00 to 2: pm (MDT) – Eat lunch together, chat etc.
Course Fee & Registration:
$350 – if paid by Oct. 15, 2021
$395 – after Oct. 15, 2021
Due to the current worldwide situation, we understand that financial wellbeing may be compromised and therefore have a sliding scale available. If you need financial relief to attend, please contact Francesca. If you feel moved to make a donation to support the sliding scale, that would also be welcome & appreciated.
To register, contact Francesca (tantra@shaw.ca)
Prerequisites:
Prior attendance at Trillium Awakening sittings and longer events (or equivalent)
Retreat Teachers Bios:
Rod Taylor
ROD TAYLOR is an international teacher of conscious embodied non-dual awakening. He is the founder of the Whole-Being Evolution Path™, creator of the Whole-Being Evolution Map, and author of the book New Principles of Awakened Relationship.
For over 40 years he has been teaching spiritual awakening knowledge and techniques, and since 2007 has been offering workshops and coaching services as a member of the Trillium Awakening™ Teachers Circle.
Rod is a member of the Trillium Awakening Visionary Council and a certified Trillium Awakening Whole Being Realization Clarifier. He has a Master of Adult Education degree and post-secondary certification in Conflict Resolution.
Teaching and coaching in the field of whole being realization is Rod’s passion and his joy. He lives with his beloved wife Andrea on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
Francesca Blackstock
FRANCESCA BLACKSTOCK is a Registered Social Worker. She has been supporting individuals and families for almost 40 years through a variety of Child Protective Service positions, as well as in private practice.
In her private practice since 2001, she has focused on supporting people to live a more passionate & loving life though Tantra courses, Women’s Empowerment workshops, and private sessions with couples & individuals.
Francesca is a Trillium Awakening Interning Teacher, who is currently serving as chair of the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle monthly meetings. Since her Whole Being Realization in 2015, Francesca has been very involved in Trillium Awakening in a variety of roles, including hosting mutuality cafes, facilitating mutuality groups, and organizing & hosting Trillium Awakening retreats. She organized two in-person Retreats in Calgary, Canada in 2018 & 2019. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, she has envisioned and organized a series of Online Retreats. This upcoming Retreat will be the 5th in that series; designed to support people to live in deeper love and recognition of all aspects of themselves and others.
Francesca lives in Calgary, Canada with her husband Don and two canine fur babies; Gracie & Sadie.
Ralf Humphries
RALF HUMPHRIES is a midwife of awakening, supporting individuals in the birthing of their whole-being self. In this process, the subtle soul-nature is welcomed into full embodiment and increasing love-expression in the world. Ralf’s postnatal support continues to be valuable as these awakened individuals mature through further evolutionary stages of whole-being unfoldment.
Ralf first intuited a fundamental, irresolvable paradox at the heart of things in his teens. He mapped the contours and evoked the experience of this paradox throughout a distinguished career of transdisciplinary academic research, conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications, which was followed by five years living as a Buddhist monk in a Theravada forest monastery. In 2013, with the support of Trillium Awakening, he was delighted to discover the ever-present paradox of infinite-in-finite at the core of his embodied nature.
In the last eight years, Ralf has worked as a psychotherapy educator and a senior clinician in a residential addiction treatment facility. He currently has a private practice as a therapist, is an interning teacher with Trillium Awakening, and a teacher of the Whole-Being Evolution Path™. Ralf lives with his partner in Melbourne, Australia.
Van Nguyen
VAN NGUYEN has been a teacher of the Trillium Awakening path since 1996 and is a member of the Elders Council of the Trillium Awakening Teachers Circle.
Van contributed to the formulation of the dharma in the early days of this work, as well as, helped in the training of new teachers for serving the awakening process of many students who have come into this path over the years. Van is one of the original Whole Being Realization Clarifiers.
Van also has a keen interest and devotion towards the Feminine Face of Supreme Divine Being. As such, using the metaphor of the unified field of Totality being one “Cosmic Body of Existence”, he feels that Radiant Supreme Love is the Heart of the “Body”, the Divine Energy-Current is the primal Energy of the “Body”, and both of these are unified with Transcendental Consciousness, which is the fundamental Ground-field of the “Body”.
Van was a holistic dentist in San Francisco for 40 years, and in 2018, he retired from dentistry and now lives near beautiful Sedona, Arizona, with his beloved fiancée, Lynn.
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