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Michigan
Realization Process Teacher/Certification Training In the Spiritual Psychotherapy (Subtle Self Work) aspect of Realization Process With Judith Blackstone Ann Arbor, Michigan Part Two (required for teacher certification) will be September 25-29, 2010 Cost - $650 for each part (does not include lodging) To register, send a deposit of $200 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498 or pay your deposit online: The deposit will be refunded, minus $50, if you cancel by September 15. A certificate is awarded at the completion of Part Two authorizing you to teach the Subtle Self Work aspect of Realization Process.	The training program in Subtle Self Work teaches the application of the Realization Process exercises to personal healing, integration, and development. It also teaches specific exercises for recognizing and releasing the emotional wounds, defenses and compensatory attitudes that are held in the body and that conceal our authentic nature. Emphasis is given to helping people remain connected with themselves while experiencing deep connection with other people. Subtle Self Work helps accomplish the main tasks of personal healing by developing authenticity and self-possession, by cultivating the essential qualities of being, and by deepening the capacity for intimacy. Our spiritual essence is beyond injury. By connecting to it, even deeply rooted effects of trauma can be alleviated. At New York University Medical School, two pilot studies showed that the Realization Process exercises reduced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This training includes the relational aspect of Realization Process. Participants learn how to remain in unified consciousness while relating to clients. This deepens the capacity for empathy, and refines perception so that you can discern subtle energetic holding patterns within the body. Participants also learn how to help people release defensive organizations from the body, and maintain that release by inhabiting the subtle internal space of the body. They will also learn how to help couples attune more effectively to each other. Above all, this is an opportunity to deepen and stabilize your realization of nondual reality.
California:

Realization Process One-Day Workshop

Led by Judith Blackstone

December 4, 2010 - 10:00-5:00

In Santa Rosa

Cost - $150

To register, send a check for $150 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498

Or pay by credit card:

This workshop teaches a series of attunement exercises, called Realization Process, for directly experiencing one’s own being as nondual consciousness, and for maintaining nondual realization in relationships with other people. In this approach, the radical openness of nondual realization is based on deep contact with the internal space of one’s body and access to the “wisdom channel” in the subtle core of the body. We therefore uncover a qualitative, authentic experience of ourselves as individuals at the same time as we transcend our individuality. When two people attune to nondual awareness together, they experience mutual transparency: a single expanse of awareness pervading them both as a unity. The workshop will also explore the relationship between psychological healing and nondual realization. Two pilot studies at New York University Medical School showed that Realization Process reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress and enhances positive mood.

Realization Process Teacher/Certification Training

In the Meditation aspect of Realization Process

With Judith Blackstone

In Santa Rosa (an hour drive from San Francisco)

Part One: December 4-8, 2010

Saturday, December 4, can be taken as a one-day workshop .

Part Two: March 5-9, 2011

A certificate is awarded at the completion of Part Two authorizing you to teach the Meditation aspect of Realization Process.

Cost for each part: $650 (does not include lodging. Inexpensive lodging - $50-$75 per night - is available at the nearby Sonoma Mountain Zen Center, as well as at several hotels in the area.)

To register, send a deposit of $200 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498

Or pay deposit by credit card:

The deposit will be refunded, minus $50, if you cancel by November 15 or in emergency situations.

In Realization Process, the radical openness of nondual realization is based on deep contact with the internal space of one’s body and access to the “wisdom channel” in the subtle core of the body. We therefore uncover a qualitative, authentic experience of ourselves as individuals at the same time as we transcend our individuality. When two people attune to nondual awareness together, they experience mutual transparency: a single expanse of awareness pervading them both as a unity. They also experience resonant connection between the essential aspects of their being, such as intelligence, love, and physical sensation.

Most approaches to nonduality focus on breaking through fixed conceptual patterns. However, the fixations that obscure nonduality are not just conceptual. There are also rigid holding patterns throughout one’s body, limiting our capacity for emotional responsiveness and physical sensation. The subtle core of the body is disentangled from these rigidities. When we access it, we can let go of our fixed patterns of self and other, so that they actually dissolve. Then we are open to the present moment, effortlessly, throughout our whole body. This training focuses on the Meditation aspect of Realization Process. Participants will learn how to help people overcome specific obstacles to nondual realization, and how to accelerate results in meditation for both beginning and advanced students.

Along with the Realization Process attunement exercises, various forms of meditation, such as resting in nonduality, mindfulness, absorption, deity visualization, and one-pointed concentration will be taught, with discussion of their applications to personal and spiritual issues.

The training is an opportunity to deepen your own nondual realization, through intensive practice. The Realization Process exercises will be combined with periods of sitting, standing and walking meditation for cultivating stable nondual realization, subtle breath, subtle perception, and openness throughout the whole body.

USA Body Psychotherapy Conference

Pleasant Hill, California

October 22-24, 2010

To register: www.usabp.org

Science and Nonduality Conference

San Rafael, California

October 20-24, 2010

To register: www.scienceandnonduality.com

Judith will present a workshop in Realization Process at the USA Body Psychotherapy Conference on Friday, October, 22. She will be part of a panel on somatic approaches to healing trauma on Saturday, October 23.

Judith will speak about Realization Process at the Science and Nonduality Conference on Sunday, October 24.

Realization Process

Week-End Workshop

With Judith Blackstone

June 24-26, 2011

At Esalen in Big Sur, California

To register, go to www.esalen.org

All spiritual traditions refer to an essential dimension of existence, calling it fundamental consciousness, True Self, non-duality, and many other names. This dimension is not an abstract concept. It is the core of our own true nature and is accessible to everyone. Fundamental consciousness is experienced as clear, luminous space, pervading our body and our environment, transcending the duality of self and object. It is deeper than the physical and energetic levels of our being and beyond our psychological defenses, projections, images, and archetypes. Realization Process is a gentle, precise method of attuning to fundamental consciousness.

This workshop offers ways to: integrate fundamental consciousness with the body and breath/energy system; experience oneness with nature and people (while remaining grounded in your body); and see, hear, and touch on a subtler level. Realization Process attunement exercises will be combined with sitting and movement meditations, sound and breath work. We will also discuss how fundamental consciousness can facilitate psychological and physical healing. Please come prepared for deep, concentrated work.

There will also be time to enjoy the spectacular land and seascape, outdoor hot tubs and expert bodywork at Esalen. It is a powerful, healing environment.

Recommended reading: Blackstone, The Enlightenment Process; Living Intimately; The Empathic Ground.
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New York City

Realization Process Meditation Classes
Taught by
Judith Blackstone

80 E. 11Street (corner of Broadway and 11 Street), Room 516.

Next series: September 13, 20, October 4, 18.

Mondays, 6:00-7:15 PM

Cost - $100 for the series of four classes

For more information, call (845) 679-7005 or email realizationctr@aol.com

To register, send a check for $100 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498 or pay by credit card:

This class teaches the Realization Process meditation exercises for realizing fundamental (nondual) consciousness: the essence of our being and the basis of our oneness with all other life. The exercises integrate consciousness with the whole body, open the chakras and energy channels and refine perception so that you can see, hear and touch on a more subtle level. This gentle, precise work can deepen meditation for both beginning and advanced practitioners.

(Also, private sessions in Realization Process, Psychotherapy and EMDR (for releasing limiting beliefs and patterns of post-traumatic stress) for individuals or couples at 26 W. 9 Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), Suite 8 B on Mondays and Tuesdays

To register for the class or to make an appointment,
call (845) 679-7005

Nonduality and the Brain

A Workshop in the Science and Practice of Embodied Nondual Awakening

With Judith Blackstone and Zoran Josipovic

October 31, 2010

2:00-6:00 PM

At the Village Zendo, 588 Broadway (between Houston and Prince), suite 1108

Cost - $125

To register, send a check for $125 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498 or pay by credit card:

Spend the day with a contemporary spiritual teacher and a neuroscientist exploring the theory and experience of nondual awakening. Judith Blackstone will present a method for attuning to a subtle dimension of unified consciousness that heals and transcends the fragmentation of body and mind, and self and other. Zoran Josipovic will present the latest neuroscience research about the relationship between nondual awakening and an increase in the connectivity of neural networks.

Realization Process Teacher/Certification Training

In Subtle Self Work (Spiritual Psychotherapy)

Led by Judith Blackstone

One Saturday a month for ten months, September, 2010-June, 2011.

Begins September 11; then the third Saturday of each month October-June.

Cost - $1200

For more information,

call (845) 679-7005

or email realizationctr@aol.com

To register, send a deposit of $200 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498.

To pay your deposit of $200 by credit card:

For more information,

visit the training page

The training program in Subtle Self Work teaches the application of the

Realization Process exercises to personal healing. It also teaches specific exercises for recognizing and releasing the emotional wounds, defenses and compensatory attitudes that are held in the body and that conceal our authentic nature.

Subtle Self Work helps accomplish the main tasks of personal healing by developing authenticity and self-possession, by cultivating the essential qualities of being, and by deepening the capacity for intimacy. Our spiritual essence is beyond injury. By connecting to it, even deeply rooted effects of trauma can be alleviated. At New York University Medical School, two pilot studies showed that the Realization Process exercises reduced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

This training includes the relational aspect of Realization Process. Participants learn how to remain in unified consciousness while relating to clients. This deepens the capacity for empathy, and refines perception so that you can discern subtle energetic holding patterns within the body. Participants also learn how to help people release defensive organizations from the body, and maintain that release by inhabiting the subtle internal space of the body. They will also learn how to help couples attune more effectively to each other.

Above all, this is an opportunity to deepen and stabilize your realization of nondual reality.

Realization Process: Working with Children

Teacher/Certification Training

Led by Kathleen Donovan

Begins September 25, 2010

Meets one Saturday of each month for ten months.

80 E. 11 Street (corner of Broadway and 11 Street). Room 516.

Cost - $1200

To register, call (845) 684-5219.

www.KathleenDonovan.us

This training is for parents, teachers and therapists working with children.

Realization Process teaches children to find both calm and vitality within themselves. This training combines visual aids, music and movement with the Realization Process exercises to help children awaken their innate qualities of love, understanding and personal strength. Children learn how to interact with others from a secure, peaceful place. This work is especially helpful in times of stress or transition. In Kathleen's ten years of teaching Realization Process to children, she has had success in helping them alleviate anxiety, depression, the symptoms of ADHD and sensory processing issues. The work also helps with anger management.

Private Sessions with Judith Blackstone

In New York City and Woodstock, NY

Psychotherapy for individuals and couples

EMDR for releasing limiting beliefs and patterns of post-traumatic stress

Realization Process: for addressing individual issues in meditation and embodiment.

Realization Process for Couples: subtle attunements for deepening connection

Telephone sessions in psychotherapy and Realization Process

To schedule a session, call 845-679-7005 or email realizationctr@aol.com

Embodiment Process for Healing Trauma

With Judith Blackstone

Dates to be announced.

80 East 11 Street, Room 516

Cost - $20

Judith will teach the main embodiment attunement exercises of Realization Process and talk about their application to healing trauma and post-traumatic stress. Two pilot studies at NYU Medical School showed that Realization Process reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Woodstock, NY

Teacher Training/Certification Program in the Spiritual Psychology (Subtle Self Work) aspect of Realization Process

Led by Judith Blackstone

Part One of Two

July 11-15 , 2009

(Part Two will be held in July, 2010 and will be arranged to accommodate the schedules of the participants)

Cost - $650 for each part (does not include lodging)

The training program in Subtle Self Work teaches the application of the

Realization Process exercises to personal healing, integration, and development. It also teaches specific exercises for recognizing and releasing the emotional wounds, defenses and compensatory attitudes that are held in the body and that conceal our authentic nature. Emphasis is given to helping people remain connected with themselves while experiencing deep connection with other people.

UK & Scotland

Online/Telephone Course in Realization Process

Taught by Judith Blackstone

Three-Week course:

Dates: Three Fridays, October 8, 15, 29 at 2:00-3:30 PM, East coast time (EDT)

Cost - $150 (does not include the cost of your phone call)

For more information, email realizationctr@aol.com
or call (845) 679-7005.

To register, send a check for $150 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498.

Or pay by credit card:

You will be contacted with call-in information.

Telephone sessions in Realization Process with Judith are also available separate from the online course. Cost - $150 for an hour.

To schedule a phone session, call 845-679-7005 or email: realizationctr@aol.com

To pay for your session by credit card:

Realization Process is a direct approach to embodied nondual awakening. The Realization Process attunement exercises open your body, heart and mind to the all-pervasive reality of nondual consciousness.

This course will focus on the main attunement exercises of Realization Process for cultivating embodiment, and for unveiling the nondual essence-consciousness pervading your body and environment as a unity. This work can help both beginning and experienced practitioners deepen and stabilize their realization. Judith will also address the participants' individual questions and obstacles to embodied nondual realization.

Format: three ninety-minute teleconference sessions. You will also be emailed MP3 recordings of the exercises for home practice. At least twenty minutes of daily practice is recommended. Between teleconference sessions, there will be a group email for questions and comments that come up in your home practice.