Senior Teachers
Senior Teachers
Teacher Trainers
These Realization Process teachers have full certification (they are certified in all aspects of the Realization Process: Nondual Meditation, Embodiment and Healing Ground). They are qualified to offer supervision to Realization Process teachers. They also teach or assist with the Teacher Trainings. If you plan to train as a Realization Process teacher, you can choose among them for your pre-training Realization Process session.
Roma Hammel, PhD
Los Altos Hills, California
Teaches part one of the in-person certification trainings.
Embarking on a path to embrace and express the fullness of your being, both in individual experience and in relation to others, can be profoundly transformative. As a nondual teacher and mentor, I invite you to journey where powerful practices reveal the radiance of your true nature and dissolve obstacles to living joyously. Rooted in the inherent nondual wisdom of fundamental consciousness, I share the route I’ve traveled. A compassionate physician led me into deep meditative states following a life-altering spinal injury. Amid a mid-life crisis, a sage Taoist revealed the art of transmuting suffering into peace. With the guidance of Judith Blackstone, visionary founder of the Realization Process, I released unresolved traumas, allowing me to live within my whole body—substantive and secure, open and responsive to the world around me. With gratitude to my mentors, I invite you to awaken, embody your true self, and live joyously. Read more
Marcia Haarer
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Teaches part one of the in-person certification trainings and Realization Process Therapy training.
The Realization Process revolutionized my psychotherapy practice and enlivened my spiritual practices. Ever since my spirited exploration of Self during my early twenties, I knew that psychotherapy and meditation go hand in hand as tools of transformational change. After earning a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan, I incorporated the teaching of meditation into psychodynamic therapy, a specialty in trauma recovery techniques and somatic release. Read more
Christi Bemister, MEd, PsyD
North Carolina, Michigan, and Online
Teaches part one of the in-person certification trainings and Realization Process Therapy training.
As a spiritual mentor, esoteric bodyworker, and clinical psychologist with decades of experience, I offer you direction to discover deep healing and profound connection. Learn an embodied approach to integrate mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical aspects of your being, to the very core of your self. The journey we take together is a practical framework, with a focus on the Realization Process, to guide you on your personal path to healing. I invite you to experience the stillness within your own breath with the Realization Process. This transformative experience brings you to fully embody your own life, transcend duality, and discover the depths of your being for true healing from within. This process offers an opportunity to heal past wounds, release limiting beliefs, and live a profoundly fulfilling life. Read more
Roberta Tachi
San Jose, California
Teaches certification trainings in Brazil.
I joined the Realization Process after decades of experience practicing and teaching several healing modalities. Unlike any other, it is simple, yet deeply transformative. I am originally from Brazil, but I’ve also lived in Japan, New York, and California. This allowed me the opportunity to introduce this practice to hundreds of people across nations with various backgrounds. This experience has given me the precision and expertise to perceive the blocks in my client’s body and help them heal. Read more
Candace Cave
Ashland, Oregon
Primary assistant teacher for online certification trainings. Teaches the Summer online certification trainings.
The Realization Process guides each of us to be our own enlightenment guru. I don’t claim to be enlightened or a guru, but I am stable in my embodied experience of fundamental consciousness. I live and breathe in the subtle core of my body. My internal experience is settled within and as an unwavering pervasive unified spacious stillness. This ongoing feeling of me awake and conscious everywhere inside my body is because of Realization Process, a simple, elegant, clearly discernable, well-studied, and brilliantly practical method to reliably awaken and stabilize subtle nondual experience of embodied wholeness of being. Read more
Theresa Scott
Potsdam, New York
Assistant teacher for online certification trainings. Teaches the Summer online certification trainings.
I offer private sessions, workshops, and classes in the Realization Process, in-person, and online. In addition to my work with Realization Process, I am a Certified Imago™ Relationship Educator, and Leadership Consultant, with a graduate certificate in Executive Coaching, and a background in Psychosynthesis (Integral psychology). I am also a Sedona Method® Certified Coach, and have been working since 2004 with this set of emotional release tools that have, at their foundation, non-dual Inquiry.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist, a Stillness Moving Teacher, an Empathic Ground Teacher and a Healing Through Embodiment Teacher.
For more information, go to: www.theresascott.net or email me at [email protected].
Cindy Cunningham
Edinburgh, UK
Teaches Realization Process Therapy training, and Assistant teacher for online certification trainings.
I have run a private practice as a Massage Therapist and Bodyworker in Edinburgh since 1990. I began training as a dancer, until a period of illness turned my attention to my own healing journey and from there to studying Therapeutic Massage, Counseling and Psychotherapy (DTM, DHTC). My focus has been to enable people to come into their bodies, creating space for healing. When I met Judith in 2011 I felt immediately I had found an approach that made sense on every level of my being. I then trained in all three aspects of the Realization Process. The outcomes for my clients and myself have been profound. It has brought greater depth and precision to my Bodywork, and a language that facilitates deep release and integration. I offer private sessions in the Embodiment, Psycho-therapeutic and Meditation aspects of the Realization Process. It is such a privilege to see people becoming more their own person, disentangled from the past. This work is both gentle and profound, it inspires me continuously on my ongoing personal journey and in my support of others. I run twice weekly classes in the Realization Process, with wonderful committed people who teach me as much as I teach them!
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist and a Stillness Moving Teacher.
Assistant Teacher Trainers
Mary Cline, MA, LPCC
Albuquerque and Placitas, New Mexico
Assistant teacher for online certification trainings.
A licensed therapist and longtime educator with a background in subtle energy bodywork, somatic therapies, meditation and yoga, I offer in-person Realization Process sessions, group classes and workshops in Placitas, New Mexico. I also work with individuals online and by phone and have been teaching Realization Process since 2012. I will often interweave Realization Process and other mindfulness-based practices into psychotherapy sessions, helping clients disentangle and settle into their own natural, radiant coherence.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist.
505.697.1717 www.marycline.com
Michael Lydon, LCSW
Ipswich, MA (Boston North Shore area) and Online
Sally Schwager
Connecticut and New York City
Assistant Teacher for online certification trainings.
I am a body-oriented psychotherapist, spiritual counselor, consultant in the field of diversity and inclusion, and co-director of the Interspiritual Counseling Program at One Spirit Learning Alliance in NYC. As a fully certified Realization Process practitioner and a student of many paths, including Core Energetics, the Diamond Approach, Somatic Experiencing, Embodied Couples Work and Pranayama Breath Work, I weave a variety of modalities into my work with individuals, couples and groups as specific needs arise. I have been characterized as enthusiastic, humorous, eclectic and loving in my work as a counselor, teacher and minister. I am passionate about helping people create real and sustainable transformation in their lives and in their relationships through deeper contact with the truth of who they are. Cultivating a capacity for greater self-love is often at the heart of it. I am deeply interested in the interplay between psychology and spirituality, between “growing up” and “waking up,” and I strive to embody and teach a psychology infused with spirit and a spirituality grounded in psychological principles.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist, a Stillness Moving Teacher and an Empathic Ground Teacher.
Contact me at 203-917-2217 or [email protected]
Zeb Lancaster, PhD
Ashland, Oregon
Assistant teacher for online certification trainings.
I use the Realization Process to navigate life, and as a central part of individual and couples therapeutic counseling. Trained as a somatic psychotherapist (practicing since 1990), I have specialized in sex therapy and couple’s counseling, and am a life-long student of yoga philosophy and practice, including Tantra yoga. I was co-founder of Denver Ashtanga Yoga Center, a teacher in Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP), and extensively studied Hakomi with trauma therapist Pat Ogden. Twice weekly I guide online RP meditation Community Practice (see listing). I also use RP relationally and for trauma repair in individual counseling. I co-authored BodyMind Boundaries for Beginners, a self-health book that combines contemplation with common body-mind healing practices to cultivate emotional autonomy within our relationship to self and other. I currently am finishing writing a book entitled From Trauma to Wholeness: Embodied Nondual Meditation Yoga Therapy, combining RP, yoga therapy, somatic psychology, trauma therapy, and couples counseling. Central to my life is my ongoing practice of meditation and yoga which keeps my life grounded in the reality of contemplative experience. To read Zeb’s essay- TAMING THE DRAGON
541-292-9876 www.DrZeb.com
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist, a Stillness Moving Teacher and an Empathic Ground Teacher.
Sono Hashisaki
Seattle, Washington
Assistant Teacher for Online Certification Trainings
Studying with Judith since 2010, I have experienced a deep connection with myself that has wholly transformed my life. I teach the Meditation, Embodiment and Spiritual Psychotherapy aspects of the Realization Process to help people experience their own embodiment as a foundation for resilient engagement with the world around them. I offer private sessions and have been able to help clients experience healing and trauma repair as well as greater internal coherence and the cultivation of Joy.
My clients say about my work: “Sono appeared in my life at just the right moment. She is down-to-earth, kind, good-humored and tranquil. I’ve meditated for 30 years and explored many healing modalities in depth. Sono guided me to a place I’ve never been, where I can connect to the depth of my self with the subtle breath to work internally and also connect my deepest self with the world beyond me in a balanced flow. I’ve seen remarkable changes in just one session. She facilitated my energetic release of a chronically troublesome shoulder. Practicing on my own at the grocery store, I’ve found that I am more present. Practicing while in a group, I have increased comfort and ability singing. I look forward to working with Sono more and integrating this profound work.” -Anne A. And: “I had the good fortune to work with Sono over a period of a few months and in that brief time I dropped into a depth of self-connection that I had never before accessed in years of therapeutic engagement. I attribute this directly to Sono’s grounded, intuitive and imaginative embodiment of the Realization Process work. She listens from a luminous, playful and attentive heart allowing the process to unfold organically in the spirit of collaboration and curiosity. Sono is for me an insightful, warm and lucid guide whose recognition of our fundamental equality permeated every aspect of our engagement. I recommend her wholeheartedly to anyone interested in embodying a deeper intimacy with the self and with the world.” -Sayde P.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist and a Stillness Moving Teacher.
Fiona Ballmer
Online and Switzerland
Assistant Teacher for Online Certification Trainings
I am deeply committed to living my life from the ground of being, embodying the alive stillness that we are, while deeply embracing being human. In my work with others, it is my intention to open up a space where intimate contact and healing arise naturally. Radical transformation and healing are possible. My classes and sessions are an invitation to anchor ourselves in the stillness of consciousness, find healing in ourselves and deeply embrace and enjoy our humanness. I am a nondual meditation, embodiment and yoga teacher living in Switzerland in the countryside with my husband, our two girls and pets. Since my twenties I have devoted myself to meditation and inner spiritual work and explored realms of consciousness, embodiment and psychology. I am fascinated by the Realization Process as a direct, profound and powerful path to the realization of fundamental consciousness and the unfolding of our full human potential. The Realization Process supports me in becoming more and more connected to the richness of my being in my everyday life and in offering intimate contact and a loving presence to myself and other beings.
In private sessions (in English and German), I support people to deeply anchor in the depth of their being, and recognize and release limiting patterns and traumas from mind and body in order to experience their wholeness as well as the richness and joy of being. I am also happy to offer support in integrating spiritual awakening into everyday life.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Stillness Moving Teacher, Empathic Ground Teacher, Healing Through Embodiment Teacher and Trauma Repair Therapist.
Realization Process has revolutionized my psychotherapy practice, and transformed my spiritual path. After 30 years of learning skillful and compassionate therapy techniques, I trained with Judith Blackstone. Judith taught me with exquisite precision how to be in Core to Core contact with my clients, and sit in the information rich ground of being. Without moving away from myself, without leaving my Core, I’ve learned that all I need to know, to feel, or to sense is available in the ground that unifies everything. This process leaves room for all the useful therapy techniques I learned previously, but now they go deeper. Post traumatic Stress becomes Post traumatic Growth. Disentangling into Wholeness reveals the Beauty of being human; extraordinary and ordinary at the same time.
Senior Teachers
These Realization Process teachers have full certification (they are certified in all aspects of the Realization Process: Nondual Meditation, Embodiment and Healing Ground). They are qualified to offer supervision to Realization Process teachers. They were chosen by Judith Blackstone to be senior teachers, based on their skill and experience.
Jon Hansen
Portland, Oregon
Teaches part one of the in-person certification trainings.
A spiritual mentor, I recognized long ago that immersion in nature reveals the sacred aliveness of all life. When I first trekked into the wilderness decades ago, I was still entangled in the confusing swirl of my childhood. Fueled by an undeniable call to love my life, I embarked on vision quests into old growth forests. Attuning to the visible and invisible web of life, I discovered a profound stillness, the quiet vibrancy of my true nature. Three decades after awakening, I realized my body is a portal into that sacred aliveness. Read more
Zoran Josipovic, PhD
Woodstock, New York
I am a research associate at NYU Langone Medical Center, and adjunct assistant professor for cognitive and affective neuroscience in the Department of Psychology, New York University. Read more
Robert Kenny
Whidbey Island, Washington
The Realization Process is by far the most practical, efficient and effective change process I’ve ever experienced. It has transformed my life. I gratefully share this revolutionary process with those who wish to replace stress with calm and peace, dissolve conditioned behaviors, heal trauma, find joyful intimacy, discover loving power, and awaken their true nature.I help you build a sense of safety, discover resilience and confidence, and let go of self-harming beliefs. My students say:Robert is an extraordinary guide, who accurately discerns my state and coaches me in optimal practices to stabilize my awareness. He is a compassionate and skillful teacher, who has helped me develop tools to reliably access fundamental consciousness – enormously empowering! Robert creates a lovely, warm heart space: empathetic, very encouraging, deep listening. He tailors sessions to my needs, interests, questions and self-observations. He is very insightful and exudes a deep understanding and love of this work.
I have worked in for-profit and non-profit settings and taught in CIIS’ Transformative Leadership MA Program. I earned an MBA in organizational effectiveness and a PhD in collaborative creativity and transpersonal psychology.I teach individuals and groups via videoconferencing or, in the Seattle area, in person.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist.
360-579-3665
Liz Hartshorn, LMT, RCST
New York City
I am in private practice in NYC as a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and licensed massage therapist. I integrate the Realization Process and Somatic Experiencing into craniosacral sessions in my practice. My clinical practice is based on the concept that health is never lost as it becomes a therapeutic and healing experience through skilled touch, awareness, embodiment, relationship, and resonance with Fundamental Consciousness. My clientele ranges from those working with trauma, chronic pain and illness, and stress reduction. I offer individual classes in RP and hold weekly guided practices every Monday & Thursday 12:00-12:30 ET.
Visit my website for more information. www.lizhartshorn.com or email me [email protected]
Diana Bahn
New York City
I have been teaching the Realization Process meditation class in New York City once a week on Mondays from 7-8:15pm for the last seven years. I also use Realization Process indirectly to help my students do T’ai Chi Chih and Qigong.
Lately for me, the biggest insights I have had about Realization Process have come from actually teaching it on a regular basis. The “Space” that I so dutifully would find during my own exploration, is so much more available now that I teach others. At first, I struggled with that impulse to go outside myself. I felt I was stuck, I just wouldn’t budge. Teaching has given me the opportunity to let the Space un-fold. With this, the other people show up more, to me. This was such a huge revelation; and feels evolutionary because I do not have to work so hard.
My active mind can rest and with that comes less projection on my part; so I have more clarity; with that, comes peace.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist and Healing Through Embodiment Teacher.
Ezra Maurer, MA
Newport, Vermont and Online
I started studying martial arts and meditation in the early 90’s and eventually added psychotherapeutic inquiry into the mix. I benefited from many great teachers, peers, therapists and mentors along the way, but when I encountered Judith’s Realization Process, I encountered a path to a more subtle and yet embodied sense of self than I had previously realized was possible. I utilize RP healing ground work and meditation along with Tai Chi and Loving-Kindness Meditation for my own daily practice and for healing and enquiry with many clients. In the clinical realm, working as a licensed Psychologist-Masters in the state of Vermont, I have always found RP techniques especially valuable in healing from trauma, both single incident and complex, and for promoting subtle exploration of our moment to moment experience. In the realm of personal practice for health and wholeness I like to combine RP with non-judgmental group relatedness work (practicing speaking and listening as our unique selves from non-dual presence in a group), and with all of the many techniques I have learned through the years from Focusing to dream interpretation, that help us hone in on our own leading edge of inquiry and development.
It is a joy to work with those to whom Realization Process calls. Please visit me at ezramaurer.com or call 802-735-7138 for a consultation.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist.
Dalini Anaman
San Rafael, California
I met Judith Blackstone at an Esalen retreat, and her work filled a gap in my soul. For the first time in my life, I was able to be fully present in my whole body. I thought I’d been present all along, but this was beyond what I’d known before. Through Judith’s work, I’ve been able to create such deep connection to my Self that now I never lose the thread of me, even when I’m with other people. In the past I was consumed by fear, and now the realization process has allowed me to show up for myself and my clients with true compassion, presence, understanding and deep listening. I guide people to feel, know and experience the part of themselves that has always been whole and complete – the Self that has never been broken or wounded. I’m a fully certified realization process teacher, a Certified clinical hypnotherapist, a certified life coach, and an ordained spiritual clairvoyant minister. The purpose of my work is to help others to know themselves intimately, as Spirit in a body. I work one-on-one with people, guiding them through deeply transformative presence processes, and I also teach group classes in the Realization Process.
Joy Collins
Rochester, New York
I have worked with Judith Blackstone and other senior teachers since 2014. Judith’s Realization Process practices have been essential to my waking up to myself and feeling fully alive. Our human potential to drop into non-dual, abiding, tender consciousness continues to amaze me! I teach online classes twice a week and meet individually with clients. I am especially drawn to working with beginning meditators. I use readings, music, questions, and guided Realization Process exercises. My hope is to help students free themselves from the past and savor their present moment eternal inner radiance, as well as feel it permeating everywhere. Clients feel more peace, more connection, and more at home. I am also a certified Interfaith Spiritual Director (One Spirit Interfaith Seminary) and Executive Coach. Free time finds me with my first non-dual teachers: the trees, lakes, and mountains of the Northeastern US. I welcome hearing from you!
Additional certification as a Stillness Movement Teacher.
Ryan Oelke, MSED
Kansas City, MO and Online
I offer private sessions, multi-week courses, and retreats in The Realization Process, virtually online and in-person. As a teacher and a practitioner The Realization Process has offered me a clear and powerful way to seamlessly integrate awakening, healing, and embodiment both within the practice of The Realization Process, as well as offering a wonderful, open bridge and meeting point for multiple paths and modalities of being. In my work with students, we are able to go wherever is needed to disentangle and make deep contact with fundamental consciousness, ground of being, and nourishing contact with our self and all of our foundational capacities. In this spirit I take an approach of integral dharma that includes waking up, cleaning up, growing up, and showing up.
I have an MSEd in counseling psychology, 20+ years of experience in contemplative and meditation traditions, particularly Tibetan Buddhism and Dzogchen. I am a co-founder of Buddhist Geeks and founder of Awakening in Life.
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist.
Contact me on my website at www.ryanoelke.com.
Sebastian Wendéus
Lisbon, Europe and Online
Since I was 16 years old, I’ve had a deep hunger to become and feel real, be comfortable in my own skin, and be joyful in my own being. Over the last 18 years, I have intensively explored the worlds of personal development and spirituality. I learned how to still my overactive thinking mind through thousands of hours of Mindfulness and Vipassana meditations, how to create internal and external change through some of the world’s best coaching trainings, and how to be successful in business and lifestyle design through a combination of experimentation and great mentors. However, until I found the Realization Process, something crucial was always missing. After my first Realization Process retreat with Judith Blackstone, I knew in my bones that I had finally found a teacher and method that could guide me all the way home to myself (and reveal why I wasn’t already). To this day, I have never found anything close to the brilliance, directness, and potency of the Realization Process. Through this work, I’ve been able to uncover and reclaim my authentic self, heal from childhood traumas, experience life with deeper intimacy, and uncover the innate joy in my being I somehow always knew was hidden inside me.
As a teacher, I offer workshops, series, and courses in the Realization Process. I’m also offering groups and classes specifically for men interested in doing this work alongside other men. In my one-on-one work, I facilitate deep and lasting transformations by combining the Realization Process with my skills as a Professional Life & Leadership Coach. I invite you on an extraordinary journey, home to yourself. If you feel a resonance to work with me, I’m happy to be your guide.
Additional certifications as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist and Stillness Moving Teacher
Find my offerings and contacts at www.sebastianwendeus.com www.beingman.com
Kishore Bubna, PhD
San Francisco Bay Area, California and Online
I work in the tech industry, coach, and serve as a Realization Process Teacher. In personal life, I devote myself to my family, alongside a journey committed to personal and spiritual healing. The Realization Process has helped me seamlessly weave the threads of my life into an inclusive and harmonious whole – I am dedicated to living life as an embodied being, deeply connected to my humanness and immersed in the shared experience of fundamental consciousness that unites us in oneness. As a Realization Process teacher, I offer gentle and nourishing guidance to help you heal, embody the alive stillness that we are, and thrive in whatever you do. I interlace the embodiment, meditation, spiritual movement and the psychotherapy aspects of the Realization Process. When I started my doctoral program over three decades ago, I aspired to become a Computer Science Professor in academia. Life took me down a different path—one of Engineering Leadership, Executive Coaching, and teaching the Realization Process. In recent years, my work as a coach and teacher has been deeply shaped by my experience in leadership roles and my work with leaders striving for higher levels of success and fulfillment. I have been drawn to study the enduring impact of stress and anxiety in the corporate world, a phenomenon I term ‘corporate trauma.’ I find myself integrating trauma-informed somatic healing modalities along with the Realization Process in my private work with clients.
I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science and certifications in various contemporary approaches to growing leaders, strategic thinking, communication methodologies, coaching, somatics, mindfulness, and trauma work. I am also certified as a coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
“Kishore’s depth of personal experience in all he teaches gives him a true Master’s insight. I have always found him to be finely attuned to my process and precisely intuitive to what might be helpful in my growth.” – Travis Rumsey, Realization Process Teacher
Additional certification as a Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist.
Jennifer Finch, M.A., LPC, NCC, SEP, CBCT
Atlanta, Georgia and Metro Areas and Online
In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Since 2001, my professional path as a psychotherapist has deepened from Bowen Systems Theory to incorporating Somatic Experiencing™ and the Realization Process. Beyond psychology, I am an internationally certified meditation teacher in analytical, compassion, and somatic meditations.
Approaching each client with a “beginner’s mind,” my practice is enriched by an arsenal of over two decades of frontline healthcare experiences. From emergency rooms and ICUs to prestigious academic university settings, I have navigated diverse and challenging environments. I have encountered myriad expressions of human pain and resilience and was ceaselessly encountering the unknown where fear and courage meet. These experiences sharpened my intuitive skills, making me adept at navigating the intricate human condition from every angle—inside, outside, and in between. This is my specialty. What is required now?
I stepped out of acute crisis care in 2014 and founded Be Here Now Mindfulness, LLC—a boutique therapeutic practice and training center where I could explore the confluence of spirituality and psychology. My fascination has always been with the unseen, the layers of existence that lie beyond immediate comprehension. The Realization Process has significantly deepened this inquiry, enhancing my embodiment and capacity for trauma recovery. RP, beyond any other modality, has helped me unfurl this spiritual passion, and I now blatantly recognize that it was the missing piece in my own healing. When the therapy hat comes off, catch me reveling with my fun-loving family at music festivals, embodying the free spirit that infuses my work and life.
Additional certification in Realization Process Trauma Repair