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About us

The Realization Process Teacher Community is a peer network for people who have graduated from at least one Realization Process teacher training. We started the community in late 2023, and we now have over 160 members.

See "News & Articles" for the latest developments -- or, better yet, join us by filling out a simple form.

 

For the main Realization Process website, see https://realizationprocess.org/

Gathering together, growing together

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Meet our volunteers

Bonnie (she/her) been teaching yoga and meditation for more than 15 years, studying various modalities for 25+. In her teaching, she blends technical know-how with humor and compassion to support each student’s own unique practice. Adults of all experience levels, ages, backgrounds, body sizes, and genders are welcome.
Bonnie holds a BA from Yale (Humanities, summa cum laude) and PhD from UCLA (English Literature with a focus on stories about the environment). She also has experience in environmental and housing nonprofits. Since late 2023, Bonnie has worked with other RP teachers to establish this Teacher Community.

Website: bonniefoote.com

Fully Certified Realization Process teacher, with Stillness Moving, Advanced Trauma Repair, RP Therapy, and Empathic Ground trainings.
Washington, DC and Online

Director

Bonnie Foote, PhD, E-RYT 500

Candace has actively explored embodiment since finding yoga and meditation in 1973. She experienced a spontaneous embodied nondual awakening in 1983 as her 35’ sailing vessel, Avaiki, carried her 2800 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Amidst constant chaotic movement, a feeling/seeing of being centered in/as still spaciousness immanent in sky, ocean, boat, and beings, unexpectedly became constant. The lived experience evaporated whenever returning to land. She sold her boat in 2007. In 2010 she discovered Judith Blackstone’s Realization Process, and that at-sea-like-lived experience. Candace’s passion is using RP to help people stabilize as/in an on-going lived experience of fundamental consciousness. For more information, go to embodied-nonduality.com.

Realization Process Senior Teacher / Teacher Trainer

Newsletter, Senior Teacher advisor

Candace Cave

Dea has long been a dancer, community creator, collaborator, healer, nature lover, performer, teacher and therapist. She loves how sharing the Realization Process with others opens opportunities to share all of these ways of being. She works with groups and individuals in therapeutic and didactic modes.
Dea is cultivating an approach to sharing RP with a focus on Embodiment through movement, as movement has been her entryway into Fundamental Consciousness. Dea holds a BA from Bard College in Contemporary Dance, and an MSW from the University of Central Florida.
MovingintoAliveness.com
Dealuvon@gmail.com

Certified Meditation, Embodiment and Empathic Ground Teacher
Somatic Therapist
Washington State and Online

Communications

Dea Luvon, LSWAIC

I joined Judith Blackstone’s weekly meditation class in 2000 and immediately felt different. Before that, I had been meditating and going to retreats to help me stay even as a Massage Therapist in NYC. The Realization Process also helped me with movement and I could tell my Sifu for taijiquan noticed. I felt more confident and became certified in “T’ai Chi Chih, Joy Thru Movement”. I taught at senior centers (2002 to early 2020) and shared RP for grounding. From 2017-Jan. 2020 I led Realization Process class Monday nights. RP is a gift and I am grateful to share it.

Senior Teacher, Realization Process Trauma Repair Therapist, and Healing Through Embodiment Teacher

Newsletter, Practice teaching

Diana Bahn

Gina is a licensed professional counselor in the United States and Canada. She has worked in the education and helping profession for over 25 years. Gina integrates Eastern and Western holistic somatic and energy healing practices such as Polyvagal Theory and Realization Process to help her clients find safety, stillness, and wholeness. Gina works with clients who are struggling with issues related to symptoms of trauma, family relationships, cultural/ racial identity, and spirituality. She invites her clients to see how working with their nervous systems and their own intergenerational trauma histories can help to facilitate their individual and communal healing.
gold.counsel19@gmail.com
https://ginakiem-goldcounsel.com/

Fully Certified Realization Process Teacher
Canada, United States and Online

General support, (Past: RP Communities of Color)

Gina Kiem, M.Ed, MA, LPC

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.” As a Realization Process, Somatic Experiencing, trauma-focused psychotherapist, Jennifer holds over two decades of frontline healthcare experience, and conducts workshops and trainings around the globe. She brings a sincere and profound bio-psycho-social-spiritual application to help instill transformative change so you can find out who you truly are and live confidently in this world. For more information on public speaking engagements, private sessions, courses, and retreats: www.beherenowmindfulness.com; jencfinch@gmail.com

Fully Certified Realization Process Teacher
Atlanta, GA and Online

Email group

Jennifer Finch, LPC, SEP

Jocelyn has explored the body as a path to healing through connection with our deeper Self for over twenty years. She began practicing energy healing modalities professionally in 1991. In 2010 she became a certified Focusing trainer. Her Focusing classes and guided sessions utilize the remarkable clarity of the Realization Process practices. She works with students and clients through video conference, phone and in person in Northern New Jersey. www.jocelynjackskahn.com

Fully Certified Realization Process Teacher, Empathic Ground Teacher and Healing Through Embodiment Teacher

Newsletter

Jocelyn Kahn

Joe offers embodied leadership coaching that integrates the Realization Process with Aletheia Integral Unfoldment. His approach honors the paradox of having no agenda to fix or change anything while creating conditions for natural transformation to emerge. Clients uncover clarity around their thought patterns and beliefs, develop greater ease working with emotions, and expand their access to the wisdom and intelligence of the body. This relational approach to inner work makes integration into daily life more natural, and supports clients in unfolding as unique expressions of who they truly are. https://www.joereifer.com, jreifer@gmail.com

Certified Embodiment and Healing Ground Teacher

Online discussions, Practice teaching

Joe Reifer

Hi all, I'm Judit from Hungary. In 2011, at age 19, I met Tibetan Buddhism where I was introduced to the concepts of true refuge, the preciousness of human life and the privilege to meditate for the benefit of all.

Since then I've been on a journey exploring various spiritual systems and healing modalities. I've also been inspired by the possibilities of peer exchange.

I've been involved with the Realization Process since 2020. For me it unites many aspects dear to my heart: the space, the body, emotional healing, individuation, Earth connection and so much more to be uncovered. https://rpwithjudit.blogspot.com,
nagyjudit0525[at]gmail[dot]com

Realization Process Healing Ground Teacher & Practitioner

Practice exchanges, Practice teaching

Judit Nagy

Katie offers meditations and movement for tension & trauma release, deep healing and self discovery through Realization Process, TRE and Yin Yoga.
Along with her RP training, she has been a yoga teacher since 2005, a yoga nidra guide since 2016, and has advanced trainings in TRE for chronic illness, back issues, and first responders. Katie has personal experience in the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Chemical Sensitivities journey and offers personalized guidance and support through these challenges. Katie creates a comfortable space for individuals to utilize the modalities that resonate with them for self-directed healing and awakening.

katie@ktdwellness.com
ktdwellness.com

Certified Meditation, Embodiment, and Empathic Ground Teacher Arlington, MA and Online

Member engagement, Online gatherings, (Past: Associate Director)

Katie DiChiara

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Certified Meditation and Healing Ground Teacher

Annual gatherings

Lisa Lindsay

Thomas (he/him) is an experienced coach and learning facilitator, currently training as an intermodal expressive arts therapist. As the founder of Lifted Being, he helps individuals from diverse backgrounds cultivate love, resilience, and belonging in uncertain times through embodied practices. Integrating meditation with creative expression, his work aims to foster self-discovery and a sense of community that heals divisions. As a queer immigrant of Asian descent, Thomas continues to explore how our multi-layered identities shape our relationships, harvesting insights that can help guide people towards deep transformation. Learn more about his work on his website, www.liftedbeing.ca

Fully Certified Realization Process Teacher
Toronto and Online

General support, (Past: In person gatherings, RP Communities of Color)

Thomas Lai

Travis’s primary focus when guiding RP is to show the everyday practicality of RP to bring relief from the friction of modern life. With an emphasis on making RP accessible for everyone, Travis facilitates the RP experience with an emphasis on gentleness and ease. He teaches Realization Process practice to individuals and groups, both in-person and online, as well as in retreat settings in nature. Connect with him or view upcoming offerings at www.travisrumsey.com

Fully Certified Realization Process Teacher
Denver, CO and Online

Email group

Travis Rumsey

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Who does what

This team does the day-to-day work.

Admin team

Email group

This team moderates our email group, the Realization Process Teacher Network (RPTN).

In person gatherings

This team organizes annual in person gatherings.

LGBTQ+ RP teacher community

This team is in the planning stages to form an LGBTQ+ discussion group.

Member engagement

This team reaches out to new members and works to support member engagement.

Newsletter

Our newsletter launched in March 2025. See here for back issues; live links are only in your email.

Practice exchanges 

This group created an online directory and WhatsApp for finding practice exchange partners.

  • Judit Nagy

  • Katie DiChiara

  • Melea Britt Alexander

Practice teaching

Members of this team organize and/or facilitate weekly online practice teaching.

RP Communities of Color

This team organizes and facilitates the RP Communities of Color group.

General support

These volunteers are available to the admin team for general advice and support.

  • Gina Kiem

  • Thomas Lai

  • Becca Houghton

  • Dave Boynton

Senior Teacher advisors

Thanks to these Senior Realization Process Teachers for their support and advice:

  • Candace Cave

  • Cindy Cunningham

  • Ezra Maurer

  • Jennifer Finch

  • Joy Collins

  • Roma Hammel

  • Sono Hashisaki

  • Theresa Scott

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