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Let yourself relax into yourself through this guided meditation inspired by Judith Blackstone's book, Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person. Presented by Bill Epperly, this technique enables you to pull yourself back into a witnessing stance where you can be at ease in your body when it feels like you're trying too hard to accomplish something.

Sometimes we can go long periods of time feeling like we're not growing or changing. And sometimes, seemingly out of nowhere, a rush of passion for this work comes back in, and things will start to happen. We can explore this through meditation with interning Trillium teacher Victor Antillon, invoking the energy of passion in order to energize our personal engagement with awakening. 

Join Trillium teacher Bill Miller in this simple guided meditation. This is not to prescribe a practice for you, but rather to nurture your own ability to come up with the practice that is best for you. Ultimately, meditation is a very personal way of becoming more intimate with yourself. 

Using the process of exploring the breath to get inside of ourselves is a huge step towards wholeness. In this podcast, Trillium teacher Jim Troffater uses a modification of the Judith Blackstone method of inhabiting the body. This is a tried and true, very effective way of integrating the embodiment aspect of awakening. This helps unify our body, mind and spirit into the one whole being that we are.  

Bringing our attention into our body and heart can bring us into the sacred "now" moment. In that moment, the heart can taste what is actually here. In order to participate in this beautiful meditation by Cielle Backstrom, one needs to only come home to what is true in this moment. Happiness but also worry, peace yet anxiety, relaxation and frustration, wonder yet also boredom - the heart makes room for everything. Whether you are in a place of ease or discomfort, there is space for all of this here.

This meditation by Trillium Teacher Bill Epperly is focused on sending out loving energy from the heart to others as a way to practice sending out good will. Calling forth the essence of our most loved ones has a way of connecting us deeply to the unlimited loving energy that we hold within. From this place, we may open our hearts in ever widening circles to encompass not only our own friends and family, but also the entirety of the cosmos. 

Trillium teacher Jim Trofatter leads us in a meditation inspired by Judith Blackstone titled "attuning to your fundamental consciousness." We will then work on three areas in the body - the head, belly, and heart, to help us return deeper into our center - the natural state of our being.

In the Trillium teaching, we emphasize these three aspects: opening to infinite consciousness, embodiment of this consciousness, and our connection with each other in mutuality. This enlivening meditation by interning teacher Bill Epperly invites us to tap into the first aspect: The vast, primordial consciousness that always resides within, for the intention of bringing awakening, healing, and integration to each part of us.

Breathing is the central element in this meditation by Bill Miller. Looking outward as well as inward are both examples of seeking, and can indicate an anxious mind. Once noticed, they can be an invitation to come back to your breath and let the desire for experience just be. From this place, we can notice the endless pleasures and pains of being human, and connect with the contrast and duality of life.

On our path of awakening, we endeavor to free ourselves from the prison of non-separateness. By widening our circle of compassion to embrace all of life, we can begin to sense our non-separateness from all living creatures - not only those few that we have become close to in our lifetime but to all of the natural world. This larger sense of connection is a reality that's been held by indigenous people since the beginning of time. Join Trillium Awakening teacher Cielle Backstrom in this meditation as she demonstrates an easy doorway to the sense of non-separateness.

What do you do when you can't figure out what's coming down the road? The simple answer is trust. The unknown is not the great barrier that we usually perceive it to be, but rather an empty container in which to house new openings, new explanations, and new points of view. Join interning Trillium teacher Victor Antillon as he shows us the value of coming to peace with not knowing. 

In this meditation by Trillium teacher June Konopka, we inquire into our own awareness - the silent, open emptiness that is unchanging and unbounded. Through deeper inquiry, we may also paradoxically discover frequencies arising from, and finding life in, this emptiness, frequencies such as ecstatic movement, love and compassion. These frequencies are available to feed and nourish us in our human daily lives.