Accelerate your personal journey to embodiment
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.
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".
If you're looking for more meaning in your lives, less anxiety, or easier, deeper relationships, what you're actually looking for is to become more embodied.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ways TEPP can support you
Try a free practice
Listen to this simple, short audio practice and experience a shift into calm presence. Once you've experienced it, you can recreate it for yourself at any time.
Build a foundation for embodiment
These eight practices are essential for anyone wanting to establish a foundation of embodiment in their lives. That's why we call them the 8 Essential Embodiment Practices.
Experience TEPP Live
There's no substitute for personal guidance in helping us establish new choices in our lives. We offer that personal connection in workshops, trainings, virtual workshops, and one-on-one coaching.
Go Deeper
In navigating your personal path to embodiment, it's invaluable to understand the context from which disembodiment emerged and the landmarks of your journey back to the body. That's exactly what is provided by Philip's books: Radical Wholeness and New Self, New World, and Deep Fitness.
In the words of our participants ...
"To be in my body, particularly as someone who is a writer, has just been this profound experience. I felt safe the entire time."
"Philip's advice on embodiment is the best around and the practices he has evolved are matchlessly effective."
"This workshop felt more practical, less abstract and more useful to my awareness than all of the other workshops I have attended."
"After the workshop I felt a reconnection to wholeness, an invitation to a deeper, richer, more felt life."
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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.