On the belly, the sternum, and the female voice
Some 30 years ago, while riding my bike through the city, I caught up at a stoplight with a car in which one of my young nieces was riding. It...
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On Privilege, Truckers and Freedom
Embodied Present · On - Privilege - Truckers - And - Freedom When I was much younger I coined a word to describe myself: eleutheromaniac. It literally means “someone with...
Where Language and Embodiment Come Together
Philip was asked a question in our TEPP membership group about the intersection of embodiment and language. This is his response. We thought you'd enjoy it!
The spaciousness of Being, the activation of purpose
Listen to Philip read this blog post: Embodied Present · The - Spaciousness - Of - Being Your body takes up space in the world. Everyone's does. But think about...
COVID is Us
Listen to Philip reading this piece: Embodied Present · Covid Is Us by Philip Shepherd As the economic engines that propel civilization have reluctantly, suddenly, astonishingly been brought almost to...
Quieting the Mind
People talk a lot about needing to “quiet the mind”, and I get it, but I’ve just got a really different take on it. When people talk about “the mind”...
What is embodiment anyway?
The word 'embodiment' is appearing everywhere these days so I thought I'd share my definition, excerpted from Radical Wholeness: So the undoing begins with the basics. If it doesn’t, we...
An Antidote for The Age of Anxiety
Humans are arguably the most adaptable of animals. We live in arid deserts, frozen tundra, overpopulated cities and outer space. Adaptability has been the cornerstone of our survival; but it...
The Seed of Populism
As a surge of populism is altering the face of politics around the world, a puzzling irony hangs in the air: populism wins approval and votes from a generally hard-working...
Our longing for embodiment
We inherited a view of the body as something without intelligence: as something ‘beneath us’; as a tool for getting things done; as machinery operated by the brain; as a...
So What’s Your Workshop Like?
People who haven't taken my workshop are often curious about it, and I am always eager to describe it. But in trying to do so I frequently feel as though...