Accelerate your personal journey to embodiment
If you're looking for more meaning in your life, less anxiety, or easier, deeper relationships, what you're actually looking for is to become more embodied.
It's not you. It's the culture.
Anxiety. Stress. Sleeplessness. Disconnection.
These are all hallmarks of disembodiment. Coming back to your body can transform your relationships and your life.
What is The Embodied Present Process?
Created by embodiment specialist Philip Shepherd, The Embodied Present Process™ (TEPP) helps people reunite the thinking of their heads with the intelligence of their bodies, healing a wound of separation they've lived with for most of their lives.
It has been described as "the missing piece" or the thing "that makes sense of everything else I've done".
Embodiment is a challenge, though. Not because there’s anything wrong with you, but because there’s something deeply amiss with our culture. By telling us to live in our heads it disconnects us from our deepest sense of self. You cannot reverse that effect without healing yourself from the way it's patterned you.
That transformation is what TEPP offers. Practices, courses, books, workshops and trainings that reconnect you with the presence, aliveness and intelligence of your own body.
Ways TEPP can support you
Try a free embodiment practice
Listen to this simple, short audio practice and experience a shift into calm presence.
Build a foundation for embodiment
These eight practices are essential for anyone wanting to establish a foundation of embodiment in their lives.
What is embodiment and how can it help?
What is embodiment?
Embodiment is much more than listening to the body – it puts you in touch with your most reliable intelligence. Unlike the thinking of the head, which churns endlessly through its abstractions, the body’s intelligence grounds you in the present, underpinning your life with a foundation of clarity and calm. Put simply, embodiment is what we recognize as ‘presence’ in others.
Is embodiment a feeling, a skill, a state, or a practice?
Embodiment is best understood as a state of wholeness you return to, supported by practice. It isn't a fixed trait or a one-time achievement; it's a way of being — thinking and body attuned as one to the present. It is a grounded sensitivity to what is around you that you recover over time. TEPP offers practices that focus on that process of recovery and take you through it, step by step.
Why do I feel anxious, restless and disconnected?
If you’re feeling this way, it’s through no fault of your own. It’s our culture. We’ve been conditioned to silence the energies and intelligence of the body, treating them like 'noise', and instead we live our lives from our heads, like a lighthouse keeper on his watch. When you come back into relationship with your body, you'll discover a deep security that will change your relationships with the world in wondrous new ways.
What are the signs you're living in your head?
Common signs you're living in your head include:
- a feeling that you are alone
- constant mental chatter or overthinking;
- feeling anxious, restless, or "not quite here";
- feeling out of alignment with your body or your emotions; difficulty relaxing even
when nothing is wrong; - relating to the world as an observer rather than a participant;
These experiences are the normalized default of our culture, not a personal failing.
Who can be helped by embodiment?
We live in a disembodied culture. It patterns our neurology before we are old enough to question it, disconnecting us from our deepest clarity and security. The problem is that we habituate to this state as a fish habituates to water, even as it makes us feel fretful, imbalanced, and restless. If you feel yourself living in your head, embodiment has everything to offer in becoming fully present to your life.
In the words of our participants...
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Meet the TEPP Co-directors
Philip Shepherd
Philip Shepherd is an author, actor and the creator of The Embodied Present Process. This work is the result of a life-long quest to transform our disconnected experience of self and world.
Allyson Woodrooffe
Co-director of The Embodied Present Process, Allyson specializes in helping people discover the life and grounding of the pelvic floor through one-on-one coaching, workshops and trainings.