Kayaking in the Salish Sea

Paddle boarding at Lake Quinault

Jewel Green Cicada (Costa Rican) painting

What is your passion?

How do you express your creativity?

How do you re-create?

What brings you joy?

When and where
do you feel most true to yourself?

What stops you
from having a life you love?

MEET JOANNE

​Welcome seekers, skeptics, wanderers, wonderers ~

We meet here in this virtual reality, some curious, some hopeful, some weary, some wise. You, seeking a guide, a teacher, a coach. Seeking more of yourself through the mirror of me. Me, seeking more of myself through the mirror of you. Infinite possibility awaits us should we choose to dance this dance.

My road home was long and rutted. More Central American jungle track than North American super highway. I definitely identified as a seeker until I finally called a preemptive strike. I obviously wasn't going to "make it" in this lifetime. I didn't work hard enough at it. I didn't have a disciplined spiritual practice.
I kept trying to solve the mystery rather than be it.

Despite my efforts I always found myself back where I started from - very human, very limited, very alone, very dissatisfied.

My introduction to this unique spiritual path was in the spring of 2012 through a small group of friends. My initial reaction was weary resistance. Not another cosmology. Not another spiritual vocabulary. Not another round of empty promises. I’d been round and round the spiritual block for decades.

Then quite quickly two of my peers awakened. I saw with my own eyes, heard with my own ears, felt with my own heart and was stirred in my own Being.

Still skeptical but also by then already deep in my own decomposition (rot, as its affectionately called here), I started quickly sliding down. Down into my life, my body, my awakening. Miraculously I made it to a week-long intensive in 2013 and experienced my awakening on our "free" day.

I awoke as Love.

Although I had voiced no expectations, I assumed I was in line for a consciousness awakening since my predisposition was to the mental, the up, the white light. But Being had another plan.

I was melted and forged in the fires of love.

The pole shift was from my mind to my heart. I walked around blushing for several months in whole Being bliss. The intensity eased over time or, more accurately, this way of Being became the new normal.
 
Since then I've been an explorer in a familiar yet totally new world. My slowly, carefully constructed, mostly invisible to me identity continues to dissolve.

Yet I am left clothed resplendently in light and love.

Awakening. Embodiment. Enlightenment. Mutuality. We space. Terms I hear and see a lot these days. Many people describe themselves as “awakened.” And the more, the better, I say. The world needs more awakened humans.

However, this particular type of awakening – an embodied awakening with mutuality is truly a new evolution on the human horizon. This is not only a transcendental conscious awakening. It’s not the blinding white light that lifts you out of the mire of humanity.

It’s awakening to the irresolvable paradox of being both divine and human. Right here, right now, in this body, in this life.

Trillium Awakening is a mystery school teaching and catalyzing embodied awakenings in mutuality. The school has a 25-year history – I know, I know, nothing on the scale of Buddhism, Hinduism, even Christianity. However, there are clear, demonstrable criteria for stepping into this embodied awakening.  And while aspirants do need to claim their own awakening, there are senior teachers who conduct interviews, are masters at recognizing and confirming this potent transition.

So, while we are all always awakening, it’s immeasurably helpful to have someone who can validate this important transition. Others will notice, too, just as I noticed my two friends who awakened early in my experience. The change was evident on their faces, in their eyes, in what they said and did.

As your teacher, you will find I am a high creative. I paint, I write, I dance, I garden, I cook, I coach, I teach. I bring a lot of experience and useful tools (see education, training and certifications) with me but mostly I humbly stand at this threshold without knowing where Being is taking me, surrendering to however Being wants to use me. I'm excited. I'm willing. I trust my path and yours.

I offer myself to you if you feel so inclined.
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My ears now have eyes.
My heart now a secret decoder.
My gut digests the morsels of each moment in your presence.
Listening, from the simplest nod of acknowledgment to the deepest axis shift, is the coin of the this realm.
When I listen to you, I am listening to me.
I am listening to Being excavating the archeological layers of Itself.
I am listening to the songs of humanity, the dirges, the reels, the operas, the kirtans.
May my Being silently witness the unraveling of all that is not true, that is not you.
May my Being invite forth all that is truly you to welcome you home.

My latest passions include:

• Paddle boarding
• Kayaking in the Pigmy kayak that I built.
• Art including Macro paintings of insects
• Gardening with a permaculture bent
• Dancing - contra, clogging, couples
• Helping my community transition to a sustainably, just, vibrant economy and culture

What's your passion?

Education, Training and Certifications: 
2015    Trillium Awakening™ Mentor
2014    The Transformative Coaching Method Certification
2012    Yoga Teacher Training and National Certification
2008    Enterprise for Equity Lead Trainer          
2008    Celtic Shamanic Certificate
2006    Certified Shamanic Healer
            Ordained Minister
2003    International Coach Federation
            Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
2002    Invited to serve on the CoachU Faculty
2002    CoachU Professional Coaching Certification (CCG)
1998    Certified Facilitator of The Coaching Clinic
1991    University of Oklahoma/ASTD
            Organizational Training and Development Certificate
1985    Master of Liberal Studies-U of OK
            Creativity: Psychology, Education, Microcomputers
1980    Bachelor of Arts, U of Ca, Irvine: Social Ecology
1980    Bachelor of Arts, Flaming Rainbow University: Fine Art: Fiber Art

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