Judith Blackstone

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. 

Judith Blackstone, Ph.D. developed Realization Process and has taught it throughout the United States and Europe, and at Esalen Institute since 1987. She has been a clinical psychotherapist for over twenty-five years, and is on the faculty of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is the author of The Subtle Self; The Enlightenment Process; Living Intimately; The Empathic Ground: Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in the Psychotherapeutic Process and “Intersubjectivity and Nonduality in the Psychotherapeutic Relationship” in Listening from the Heart of Silence (Paragon House, 2007) and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology (2006).