Belonging Here: Realization Process practices for Spiritually Sensitive People

This 5-week class is based on the lessons in Judith Blackstone’s book Belonging Here: A Guide

for Spiritually Sensitive People.  (You will need to have a copy of Belonging Here in order to participate in this course.)

Cost: $199 

We will meet Wednesdays at 1 PM Eastern, for 80 to 90 minutes, and discuss concepts from the book, and practice exercises and meditations for living mindfully and compassionately with the most common challenges of the spiritually sensitive person, including: 

• Thin Skin—how to create strong but permeable boundaries between ourselves and the external environment

• Landing on Earth—staying grounded within the whole of one's body by mending inner fragmentation

• Hearing the Cries of the World—how to open to our own joy 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

This will be an experiential book group.  We will read 1 or 2 (or in one case 3) chapters a week as homework, so that we have read the whole book by the end of the 5 weeks.  I will read some short excerpts during each class, and ask if anyone was struck by any passage they have read, or was otherwise impacted, and would like to share or read aloud.  I plan to lead the entire class through 2 to 4 exercises each week, depending on time.  I will assign some exercises that cannot be done in class, as optional homework - for example: at least one exercise is supposed to be done outdoors.  Starting in week 3, we will do some partner exercises, where I will use the Zoom breakout room function, place participants 2 to a room to do the exercise, never more than 1 breakout room exercise per class. 

For more information about the Realization Process, visit realizationprocess.org