TRILLIUM AWAKENING PRACTICES
compiled by TA Core Teaching Committee
Sandra Glickman, Cielle Backstrom, Fax Gilbert, Rod Taylor, 2025
~ To Support Whole Being Realization and Continuing Evolution ~
A. Trillium Awakening – Ways to Attend Within Oneself
B. Trillium Awakening – Forms of Participation Through Formalized Offerings
C. Trillium Awakening – Modes to Engage With Others
* Search trilliumawakening.org or talk with a teacher if you want to know more on any topic
* No two individuals are alike, and therefore our paths to awakening will be unique. We are alert to our particular way, and seek out the resources and support we need to progress.
A. Trillium Awakening – Ways to Attend Within Oneself
1. Greenlighting oneself as you are
2. Awareness of one’s Personal Core Issues and Existential Core Nature
3. Inner Mutuality (using mutuality within awareness of one’s inner nature)
4. Meeting the Core Paradox (perceiving, holding unresolved, living with)
5. Cultivating Whole Being Awareness
6. Engaging in supplementary practices as needed
a. ‘Meditating’ according to one’s nature
b. ‘Embodying Practice’ according to one’s nature
c. ‘Relational Practice’ according to one’s nature
d. Therapy, Healing, Ritual, Writing, Art, Prayer, Invoking, etc. according to one’s nature
7. Opening to the Sensual Delight of Being Alive
8. Passionate Commitment to Whole Being Realization (Daring and Persevering)
9. Being with Oscillations
10. Cooperating with Sacred (Awakened) Reconfiguration
11. Conscious Radical Embrace
12. Discovering the Sacred in All of Life
13. Engaging with Curiosity and Discernment
a. Core Conditioning
b. Unraveling of Fixing and Seeking Strategies
c. Transcendent Awareness (Consciousness)
d. Being
e. Trust in Being (open to prompts from Being)
f. Presence
g. Core Paradox
h. Conscious Embodiment
i. Flow of Emotion Within Oneself
j. Field of One’s Life (social, cultural, environmental, planetary, subtle sacred)
k. Relatedness / Interconnection / Love
l. Non-Separate Interconnection
m. Aspects of Awakening Realization
n. Wellness of Being
o. Advancing Evolution of Whole Being Realization
p. Additional terms and descriptions in Trillium Core Teaching Definitions
B. Trillium Awakening – Forms of Participation through Formalized Offerings
1. Teacher or Mentor Led:
a. Private Teacher Sessions (Teachers)
b. Private Mentor Sessions (Mentors)
c. Gazing (Teachers / Mentors)
d. Trillium Awakening Intros (Teachers)
e. Sittings (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
f. Workshops (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
g. Courses (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
h. Retreats (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
i. Special Interest Groups (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
j. Creative Expression Events (Teachers / Mentors)
k. Small Groups (Teachers / Mentor assistance)
l. Led Meditations (Teachers)
m. Mutuality Circles (Teachers or Mentors)
n. Mutuality Cafes (Mentors)
2. Peer Led:
a. Community Offerings
b. Mutuality Groups
c. Special Interest Groups
d. Virtual Gazing Groups
e. Mutual Support Forums
f. Other Community Initiatives
3. Self Study:
a. Resources – Self Study Courses, Videos, Podcasts, Books, Essays, Newsletter, etc.
b. Core Teaching Terms
c. Comparing one’s past or current teachings with Trillium Core Teachings
d. trilliumawakening.org content
C. Trillium Awakening – Modes to Engage with Others
1. Greenlighting Others
2. Holding Others
3. Radical Embrace of Others
4. Restorative Mutuality
5. Practice of Mutuality with Others
6. Gazing with Others
7. Emitting and Receiving Transmission
8. Conferring with Peers
9. Service Opportunities
10. Trillium Awakening Community Events
11. Social Events with Others in this Work
12. Creative Expression in Written, Recorded, and Live Forms
13. Serving and Participating with Others in Significant Life Transitions
14. Opening to the Subtle Other, to Divine Relationship
15. Engaging in Trillium Awakening Formalized Offerings