The Realization Process by Judith Blackstone
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About Judith
Judith is an innovative, experienced teacher in the contemporary fields of nondual realization and spiritual, relational and somatic psychotherapy. She developed the Realization Process, a direct path for realizing fundamental (nondual) consciousness, as well as the application of nondual realization for psychological, relational and physical healing. She currently has six books in publication and has taught the Realization Process for over thirty-five years throughout the United States and Europe. Her newest book is Trauma and the Unbound Body: the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness.
Judith studied with many teachers in the Hindu traditions (Advaita Vedanta, Bhakti and Kashmir Shaivism), and the Zen Buddhist and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. She was in residence at a Zen monastery for a year and has received teachings, over the past three decades, in the Mahamudra and Dzog-chen paths of Tibetan Buddhism. However, the Realization Process practices for embodied nondual awakening emerged outside of any traditional lineage. The practices arose in response to her own needs for healing and realization, and the needs of the people in her classes and private practice. Her main teacher has been nature–the subtle emanations from all living forms, the challenges presented by a severe back injury, the natural unwinding, in meditation, of the body, heart and mind toward openness, and the spontaneous emergence of fundamental consciousness.
She has a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology and a Ph.D. in Psychology, Eastern Religion and Embodiment. She trained at the Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy in New York City. She has thirty-five years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and is now retired from private practice.
Judith is the author of Trauma and the Unbound Body: the Healing Power of Fundamental Consciousness, Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person; The Enlightenment Process; The Intimate Life; The Subtle Self and The Empathic Ground: Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in the Psychotherapeutic Process. Her essays have been published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, the International Journal of Self Psychology, the USA Body Psychotherapy Journal, Undivided, Inner Directions Journal and the anthologies, Listening from the Heart of Silence, Finding a Way, Being Called, and The Self-Acceptance Project. A six-CD audio series of Judith explaining and teaching the Realization Process is available from Sounds True.
She has presented the Realization Process and papers on the interface of psychotherapy and nondual spirituality at Psychology of the Self conferences, the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology conference at Oxford University, UK, the USA Body Psychotherapy conference, the Science and Nonduality conference (SAND), the Society for Consciousness Studies conference and the Conference on Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy.
With her husband, Zoran Josipovic, Judith founded the Nonduality Institute, dedicated to the practice and scientific study of nonduality. For more information on Zoran’s scientific research, visit www.nondualityinstitute.org
I feel so grateful to have been able to be part of your training – it was an immensely deep experience as I felt my own sense of self open and be seen, most importantly by me, that was so integrally supported by you, and your work there with all of us. I love watching you work with others. I loved getting to imbibe that daily. I’m so grateful for the exercises you have put together with such attention to the effect of each and every word.
Media & Writing
Brooke Thomas interviews Judith about Realization Process and healing from trauma
Brooke says: In [this] conversation we’re talking about “the issues in the tissues”, or how emotional pain gets bound in the body- and also how it can be released, what fundamental consciousness is and why it’s useful to attune to it, how your experience of gravity and your fluidity of movement changes with this embodiment work, what happens when people bypass their stuck emotional pain, and how this work can help what I call the “sensies” of the world- the empaths- to do their work and to live fully without feeling overwhelmed much of the time.
Judith speaking at the Science and Nonduality conference
Judith Blackstone speaks about the Realization Process and teaches a practice for realizing fundamental consciousness.
Embodied Nonduality
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.
In this paper I describe an approach to embodied nonduality called the Realization Process. By embodied, I do not mean just the ability to walk around in our daily life, recognizing nonduality. I mean the nondual transparency of the body itself. This is an experience (I will talk more about this word “experience” later in the paper) that we are made of transparent, space-like presence, that this is our basic or true nature, and that everything that we perceive around us is also made of transparent, space-like presence.
Context for the Healing Ground
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.
In this paper, I present some of the context, within the field of psychotherapy, for utilizing the experience of a fundamental ground of consciousness as both the instrument and the goal of psychological healing and personal maturity.
Do We Exist? And Why it Matters
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.
This paper looks at how the Buddhist concept of non-findability is often confused with the concept of non-existence, and the problems that result from this confusion for both personal well-being and nondual realization.
A Somatic Approach to Recovering from Sexual Abuse
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.
This paper presents a series of somatic attunement exercises, developed by the author, called Realization Process, and describes their application to the treatment of the symptoms of childhood sexual abuse in adults. It illustrates, through case studies, how inhabiting the internal space of the body, and attuning to qualities of being, such as gender, power and love within the body, can foster self-possession, selfcohesion, and self-love, as well as the ability to remain in possession of oneself while connecting with other people.
Meditation and the Cohesive Self
Judith Blackstone, Ph.D.
In this paper, I look at the dialogue between some relational and intra-psychic models of psychoanalysis, regarding the autonomy of the self. I also describe how certain types of meditation, in particular, Realization Process, can facilitate both the experience of internal cohesion, the sense of oneself as a separate being, and the experience of participating in a fluidly reciprocal self/world matrix. I discuss how the experience of interiority that can be cultivated through meditation leads to the emergence of a subtle, qualitative sense of self and other, enables creativity, and increases one’s openness to other people.
The Relational Body: an Interview with Judith Blackstone
In this interview with body psychotherapist Serge Prengel, Judith explains how embodying fundamental consciousness helps us experience deep contact with other people without losing inward contact with ourselves. Wherever we inhabit the internal space of our body, we are open and responsive to the world around us.
Trauma and the Unbound Body: Judith speaking at the Science and Nonduality conference
Judith Blackstone speaks about the Realization Process approach to healing from trauma.
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