Applying Nondual Consciousness to Personal and Relational Healing

This teacher training program teaches participants how to apply the Realization Process exercises to personal healing, relational healing, and nondual realization. It also teaches specific exercises for recognizing and releasing the emotional wounds, defenses, and compensatory attitudes in the body that conceal our authentic nature. These exercises are easy, gentle attunements to the internal space of the body, the subtle core of the body, and the essential qualities of being.

In conjunction with psychological healing, the Realization Process exercises help individuals discover a dimension of themselves that has never been injured, one that is deeper or more subtle than even the most strongly held negative beliefs, depression, or anxiety. 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 and helped to elevate mood.

This training includes the relational aspect of Realization Process. Participants will learn how to remain in nondual consciousness while listening to each other's psychological process, how to attune more precisely to that process, and how to discern subtle patterns of openness and defense in the body. The realization of self-other unity deepens the capacity for empathy and intimacy, helping individuals connect more fully in relationship, without losing inward contact with themselves.

The Realization Process exercises uncover the clear light of subtle, unified consciousness in the whole body.  This subtle consciousness is the basis of our individual authentic being, and our oneness with all life.  By inhabiting the whole body, we can enter into the unified (nondual) consciousness that pervades our body and environment as a unified whole.

The Embodiment training includes the main Realization Process attunement exercises, as well as a sequence for contacting and moving through unified consciousness in the internal space of the body. The exercises can help you experience internal unity, self-possession, increased vitality, increased contact with yourself and others, and the integration of awareness, emotion and sensation.  They can also help you release defensive constrictions from your body and reclaim dissociated parts of yourself.

The training also teaches how to apply unified consciousness to healing physical injuries. 

This training is appropriate for anyone who wants to become more whole and open.  It can be of particular use to psychotherapists and bodyworkers who want to refine their healing abilities.  When we embody unified consciousness, we perceive, understand, touch, move and express ourselves with the whole breadth of our being.

Wherever you are in contact with the internal space of your body, you are also open to the world around you.  When you inhabit your whole body at once, you uncover a level of transparency, of unified consciousness, pervading your body and environment as a whole.

This workshop will teach the Realization Process movement exercises for inhabiting the body, attuning to and moving through the “subtle circuitry” of energy channels and chakras, and integrating the body, breath and unified consciousness.  These exercises develop fluidity, balance, presence and expressiveness.  They can help open you to the most subtle, fundamental dimension of your being.

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; The Intimate Life; The Empathic Ground.
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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, sensory processing issues and autism.  The work also helps with anger management. 

Kathleen is the first person that I have authorized to lead a teacher training in the Realization Process.  She has developed a wonderful, innovative approach to teaching the work to children.  Judith