What is RP, and is it Right for you?
RP—short for the Realization Process—opens a doorway to an entirely different dimension of living. It’s not about abandoning your life; it’s about inhabiting it more fully. It’s a map, a compass, and a guidebook written by Dr. Judith Blackstone, who has walked the territory herself. She knows the path, she warns of the missteps, and tells us what to look for.
She can’t make the journey for you; in fact, she will urge you that it is your destiny as human beings to make the journey yourself. Everything else is secondary.
The people who find RP aren’t always “spiritual seekers” in the traditional sense. They’re often people who have hit the edges and limitations of life as they know it. People who can’t shake the restlessness that comes from knowing there’s more out there, and in here, there is something unknown just beyond their reach. RP informs us that there is more to life than the everyday experience of our senses. They are just a base camp. We can go further and beyond to a more subtle dimension within ourselves.
Some people just have to see what lies outside the routine of daily life. The way George Mallory said of Everest, “because it’s there.”
What I love about RP is that it’s not abstract philosophy or mystical riddles. It’s grounded. It asks the questions real life throws at us: How do I live with more ease in the middle of a challenge? How do I stop contracting under stress? How do I stay open and steady when the world tilts? And then it offers something rare: embodied, repeatable practices that show you.
It asks and answers the questions that you or I might ask—questions not about philosophy or mysticism, but about how to live effectively in a world of challenge and change.
RP gives us a systematic overview of the territory. It shows various approaches to the summit with benefits and pitfalls. Dr. Blackstone offers recommendations, tells us what to pack and what to leave behind. More than either of the other approaches I have trained in, it gives the sense of a personal guide to navigate life more openly, more receptively, more confidently.
The attunement exercises are like postcards from a place that is both deeply personal and completely universal. They tune you to qualities—spaciousness, stillness, wholeness—that aren’t just “spiritual ideas,” but actual, felt experiences in your own body. And as you explore, you start to recognize the same landscape of consciousness described by teachers and mystics for thousands of years.
The qualities that Dr. Blackstone has us attuning to are passionately human and speak directly to you and me. They also describe the topography of consciousness itself, which belongs as much to us today as to these largely anonymous seers thousands of years ago who influenced Dr. Blackstone’s work.
There will not be descriptions of said qualities; much of the landscape you have to verify for yourself. You won’t get a paint-by-numbers picture. This is a path you must confirm for yourself. At first, that can feel frustrating, especially if you like cause-and-effect certainty. But if you stay with it, something shifts. You begin to feel that this wider field of consciousness isn’t a foreign place—it’s who you are, and it’s home.
The world of the known senses is our starting point. But, you were meant to roam farther, to something more multi-dimensional.
Step by step, little by little, gradually, and safely, we learn to inhabit ourselves with reverence for what the body remembers. Through trauma-informed attunement, we begin to build the internal capacity for true embodiment—not as an idea, but as a felt experience. As our interoceptive awareness grows, so does our ability to meet the places inside that have felt distant or defended. And in that contact, something begins to loosen. Constrictions soften, and what once felt like a limit becomes more permeable.
From there, space opens—not only within us but outside of us.
And we realize we were never separate from this spacious, stillness Blackstone refers to as Fundamental Consciousness, to begin with.
Our somatic experience becomes known and blueprinted into our body-mind awareness, and that becomes a very personal record of a landscape that is both real and universal. There is a wider field of consciousness that is our native land. We are not born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a starting point: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.
If this idea excites or even thrills you, or if something in you is already leaning forward, then yes, RP is for you. This work is for the ones who want to live awake, who want to bring the full measure of their humanity into the world. Of all the philosophies and psychologies I have studied, RP has been my own personal guidebook, and I hope it becomes yours too.
This work is for such kindred spirits, and deserves an audience today as much as ever. Even if it only reaches a handful of people, it will have done its job. And if you’re reading this, you might be one of them.
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What others are saying
I found this to be an important foundational course for finding a connection to the body and connecting it to our consciousness. I wish I had had had this connection 30 or 40 years ago when I had started this path in earnest. This ties into everything I have done in life and makes everything else I have learned as a therapist make better sense, both for me and I believe it will for my clients.
This work has been life-changing. I only wish I had discovered it earlier! My main takeaway is a growing understanding of how I learned to organize myself in relation to the world around me. Understanding this allows me to then choose to learn how to organize myself differently, in a way that serves me. I'll continue this work the rest of my life. Jen brings an easy, gracious manner to the teachings, and shares the impact that this work has made in her own life. It's apparent that she has studied the work deeply, but delivers the teachings in easily understood "bites". She allows plenty of time for one to process the work, ask questions, and checks in to see how everyone is understanding the teachings. Mike
Healing Ground provides a wonderful entrance point into the Realization Process. Jen Finch's expertise, competence and professionalism create a safe, vibrant environment where growth and transformation transpire. I highly recommend this course to anyone desiring to take next steps in their healing journey. Heather Hancock
The experience was very eye opening for me. It really helped me understand HOW to be present in my body, mind, and spirit. I have a new felt sense of my body and my being as a whole. It also helped me with seeing other people as individuals in their own space verses as a person intruding my space. This retreat taught me how to honor the space we all share in our own right. Thank you Jen for your thoughtful way of teaching and being with the group.
This retreat was, for me , a combination of delicate, finite, subtle shifts that created a positive, powerful surge in the way that I view myself in and through the world.
I really enjoyed this training. It was taught in a way that my experience here could answer the questions about life that I I had coming into the training.
