Judith Blackstone Blog

Practices and insights for the unique challenges that often accompany spiritual sensitivity.
Chapters include:
· Thin Skin—how to find our true, permeable boundaries between ourselves and the environment

· Landing on Earth—staying grounded within the whole of our body by mending inner fragmentation

· Hearing the Cries of the World—how to open to our own happiness even as we respond to the suffering in the world around us

· Shape Shifters—removing the protective masks of the false personality

· The Stranger—how to make the return from self-exile to self-acceptance

Praise for Belonging Here:
“Belonging Here is a superbly written, wonderfully profound, and helpful book—the distillation of a lifetime’s wisdom and practice. It is the clearest guide to embodiment that I have ever read and its truths will illumine anyone who comes to it. With this book, your experience of yourself and the universe will be transformed.”
—Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“Writing with compassion and using engaging case studies, Judith Blackstone presents a powerful system of practices to help us move toward embodiment while at the same time remaining connected to all of life. I recommend this book to all who are spiritually sensitive and who feel discomfort in living in this world. Brilliant work!”
—Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self

“I am excited by the clarity and power of Judith Blackstone’s approach to embodied meditation. This book offers practical wisdom that will be of great value to anyone with a spiritual practice. Highly recommended.”
—Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It

“This book lucidly reveals the most profound insight known to humankind: that we are made of the luminosity of awareness itself. Drawing on a lifelong spiritual journey and decades of teaching experience, Dr. Blackstone is uniquely qualified to illumine the healing power of non-dual awareness. She gives special emphasis to the work involved in repairing the injuries that often happen on the journey into self-realization—especially those that befall us in childhood as open, defenseless, and sensitive beings. Dr. Blackstone shows us how to explore all the subtle dimensions of what it is to be an embodied human being who lives in meaningful relationship with others, while remaining fully immersed in the state of pure awareness. I highly recommend this book as a path to realization in its own right.”
—Peter Fenner, PhD, author of Radiant Mind, The Edge of Certainty, and Essential Wisdom Teachings

“I love this book. Embodiment is the next frontier in terms of our Western understanding and evolution of consciousness, and Judith Blackstone escorts us into this new wave with brilliance, radiance, and wisdom. Rare is a book on embodiment that integrates deep non-dual wisdom with a gentle and powerful knowledge of how to awaken consciousness in the body.”
—Mariana Caplan, PhD, author of Eyes Wide Open and The Guru Question

Belonging Here is available from www.soundstrue.com and www.realizationcenter.com and at online and local bookstores.

Nonduality Institute Presents
A Five-Class Series and One-Day Workshop
At Tibet House, 22 W. 15 Street, NYC
With Judith Blackstone and Zoran Josipovic
Wednesdays, February 29, March 7, 14, 28 – 7:00-9:00 PM
Saturday, March 31, 10:30-4:30
February 29 – Nonduality and the Brain with Zoran
March 7 – The Realization Process, An Embodied Approach to Nonduality with Judith
March 14 – Nonduality and Relationships with Judith
March 21 – What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Meditation? with Zoran
March 28 – Nonduality and Psychotherapy with Judith
March 31 – A Nondual Meditation Retreat with Judith and Zoran
For more information or to register, please go to www.tibethouse.us

A Five-day Movement/Embodiment Workshop
Based on the Realization Process
Taught by Judith Blackstone

June 23-27, 2012

Wildcat Studio, 8th Street in Berkeley, California

This workshop will teach the Realization Process embodiment and 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 consciousness.

These practices develop fluidity, balance, presence and expressiveness. They can help heal imbalances and release tensions from the body. They integrate physical sensation, emotion and awareness so that you can move with the full breadth of your being.

They can also help you open to the most subtle, fundamental dimension of your 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 subtle consciousness, pervading your body and environment as a unity.

Cost – $600 (does not include lodging)

To register, send a check for $200 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498. Please include your email address and phone number.

Or pay online at www.realizationcenter.com (the events page).

http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/57909/intimacy-and-awakening

A new Sounds True six-CD audio series titled The Realization Process: A Step-by-Step Guide to Embodied Spiritual Awakening is now available. Judith teaches the meditation, embodiment, psychology and relationship attunement exercises and speaks about some of the theory underlying the work. You can order it from Sounds True, Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Led by Judith Blackstone

Friday, September 9, 2011

10:00-4:00 (with an hour break for lunch)

At the Jeffrey Bihr Studio, 5390 Miles Avenue, Oakland (Rockridge, near Bart)

This workshop will include the meditation, embodiment, psychological and relational aspects of the Realization Process.

Cost – $125

For more information, email realizationctr@aol.com. 

To register for the workshop, go to www.realizationcenter.com/events.htm or send a check for $125 to Judith Blackstone, PO Box 1209, Woodstock, NY 12498 (please include your email or phone number).

Here is a beautiful poem, written by Tom Neilson, a Realization Process teacher and psychotherapist in Nashville, TN.

Love

Sometimes dark things happen.  The young woman

With children gets cancer, dies.  A good man

Gets lost, jumps off a bridge.

Darfur happens. 

Despite all this, despair has vacated my life.  It is

Because of the background.  Words fail

But I will try to explain. 

The background glows.  It is open.  It is

Warm and sweet and loving.  It is

Everywhere.  Words aren’t adequate,

But I will try to explain.  It is

Tender intelligence.  It can hold you,

But its purpose is greater.  It

Doesn’t care if you marry the right

Person or get the job you want, but

Nonetheless, it is in your favor.

Its vistas are large. 

It is like an endless ocean, teeming

With life, and you can play in it.  You

Can do joyful underwater ballet.  You can

Help the others who live in the water. 

 I live for the ocean now. 

What it wants, I try to do.

New Series: 

Fridays, June 3, 10, 17 at 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern; 2:00-3:30 Central; 1:00-2:30 Mountain; 12:00-1:30 Pacific. 

This is a Level One Course, open to everyone.  We will practice the main Realization Process exercises for opening the body, heart and mind.

To register, go to www.realizationcenter.com/events.htm.

Zoran and I have founded a new organization, the Nonduality Institute, and Jolie Gorchov has joined us as the Institute’s executive director.

We hope to have a space for the Nonduality Institute in New York City within the year.  When we do, it will be the home of the Realization Process.   Along with some of the certified Realization Process teachers, I will give classes, workshops and teacher trainings there.  Zoran will conduct some of his research on nondual consciousness at the Institute (he will still be associated with the Center for Neural Science at NYU) and give workshops and lectures on his findings.  We will also invite other nonduality teachers and researchers to present classes, lectures and workshops.

We are just developing the programming and would love to get your input. You can contact me at realizationctr@aol.com and let me know what you would like to see happen at the Nonduality Institute.   I will keep you posted on our progress.